“Operation Calipso” was the CIA’s name for the dirty war conducted against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua in the 1980s. It was a war that involved the secret use by Washington of surrogate for
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This book offers an original account of a distinctly republican theory of social and global justice. The book starts by exploring the nature and value of Hegelian recognition theory. It shows the imp
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This book explores the morality of compromising. The author argues that peace and public justification are values that provide moral reasons to make compromises in politics, including compromises that
The book examines the future deployment of renewable power from a normative point of view. It identifies properties characterizing the cost-optimal transition towards a renewable power system and anal
