...J. Fred Rippy Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 THE GREAT DECISION J. FRED RIPPY AFTER winning their independence, the Thirteen Col­ onies of English America moved steadily and with com­ paratively little hesitation toward a democracy. The liberated colonies of Spain and Portugal...

...William R. Rock The British Guarantee to Poland, March, 1939: A Problem in Diplomatic Decision-Making William R. Rock In an article appearing several years ago in a major journal on foreign affairs, an eminent American historian turned presidential assistant cast serious doubt upon...

...W. B. Hamilton The Time for Decision . By Welles Sumner . New York : Harper & Brothers , 1944 . Pp. viii , 431 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 BOOKS The Time for Decision. By Sumner Welles. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1944. Pp. viii, 431. $3.00...

...Warren Lerner Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 Poland in 1920 A Case Study in Foreign-Policy Decision Making Under Lenin Warren Lerner The Soviet-Polish War of 1920 suffered an era of unexplained neglect by historians for almost half a century. Soviet historians simply preferred...

...Paul Wallace Gates Tin Horns and Calico. A Decisive Episode in the Emergence of Democracy . By Christman Henry . Introduction by Carmer Carl . New York : Henry Holt and Co. , 1945 . Pp. xvii , 377 . $3.75 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 252 The South...

... examine the decision of mainstream Opposition parties to keep away from these protests and the consequences of this decision. It will argue that this decision cost the political parties and the nation dearly. It shifted the political discourse within the majoritarian spectrum and led to these parties...

...Jennifer L. Culbert; Austin Sarat The essays in this issue, “Killing States: Lethal Decisions/Final Judgments,” reflect on the exercise of state violence and the decisions taken to employ its lethal force. In so doing, these essays raise questions about our “state” in the broadest sense of the word...

...Gordon Christie As the Arctic “opens up” to exploration and economic development, a new stage in colonization looms. This essay builds toward a vision of Arctic nation-states meeting with the Inuit to work out how they might together come to an understanding of how decisions about the future...

... and excessive attempts at overregulation, and has been subject to more restrictions than most fields of medicine. The June 2022 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization , essentially overturning the federal constitutional protections of the legal right to access abortion afforded...

...Massimiliano Tomba This article analyzes the current crisis in terms of a conflict of temporalities, arguing that the pace of the economic temporality and its speed in decision making clashes with the temporality of the state and the slowness of the democratic process of decision making...

... of these decisions. The court has been criticized as adopting a militantly secular approach to the presence of Islamic religious symbols in the public sphere, one seemingly inconsistent with its decision in the Lautsi case permitting the display of crucifixes in Italian classrooms. Bhuta’s essay argues...

...Naomi Braine In June 2022, the Supreme Court overturned the long-standing Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion throughout the United States. Since then, almost half of states have imposed restrictions or outright bans on the procedure, while other states have expanded access and even...

..., then reprinted with a long, discursive preface in 1832. Hugo makes the strange decision to tell this story of the last day of a man sentenced to die on the guillotine—at four o'clock in the afternoon—in the first person. The implausibility of the narrative technique is a problem, as are Hugo's decisions never...

... politics” has to be developed in order to counter recurring fantasies of “grand politics,” that is, of an ultimate revolutionary break or a decisive political act. For that reason, conditions—such as collectivity, strategy, organization, and conflictuality—are described that allow us to decipher given...

..., we shall see how they were decisive for understanding how something like this was possible. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 A G A I N S T the D A Y Raúl Sánchez Cedillo 15M: Something Constituent This Way Comes Any attempt to understand...

... discredited in eyes of society. However, paradoxically, the desire for a return to full-fledged parliamentary politics and representative democracy proved decisive for the emergence of nonparliamentary grassroots politics. This conjuncture is very different from that which exists in Western Europe...

... spatial transformations. Starting with a few genealogical and theoretical vignettes, we argue that logistics plays a decisive role in contemporary processes of both the establishment of new and mobile forms of territoriality and the production of subjectivity. We hypothesize that these two productive...

...Dale T. McKinley The decision by the National Union of Metalworkers (NUMSA) in late 2013 to break its long-standing alliance with the ruling African National Congress (ANC) and its political partner, the South African Communist Party (SACP), represents a watershed moment for left and progressive...

..., and thereby higher electricity rates for everyone else with no choice but to remain on the grid. In response to such growing inequality, decision-makers searched for innovative business models, appealing to green loans as ways of expanding this class of solar consumers. As a result, while a select few have...

... and quotidian. It challenged the prerogative of a few men and women of a certain social status and ethnic background to rule and decide the fate and fortune of all others. Hundreds of collective actions of deliberation and decision making, community organizing, the construction of reciprocal trust...