The French Communist Party during the Fifth Republic

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Nicholas Atkin and Frank Tallett

"This revised and updated work shows how the resurgence of the French Far Right has a long pedigree and has entered into all areas of political, social, cultural and religious life, flourishing on concepts of race and nationhood. While the French Right, like most political movements and sets of ideas, may not have a coherent, consistent and dogmatic structure with a single ideology, there are powerful connecting links throughout modern French history. These stretch from Legitimatist support for the Bourbon monarchy, a nostalgia for imperialism, the occasional craving for a 'man of order', to the kind of rabid anti-semitism that produced the Dreyfus affair, and support for Petain's pro Nazi Vichy regime or the right-wing zealotry over Algeria which challenged de Gaulle. Le Pen's Front National is just the latest incarnation of a familiar demon. The Right in France is vital reading for anyone concerned with its re-emergence."--BOOK JACKET.

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Avner Cohen

Cohen focuses on a two-decade period from about 1950 until 1970, during which David Ben-Gurion's vision of making Israel a nuclear-weapon state was realized. He weaves together the story of the formative years of Israel's nuclear program, from the founding of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission in 1952, to the alliance with France that gave Israel the sophisticated technology it needed, to the failure of American intelligence to identify the Dimona Project for what it was, to the negotiations between President Nixon and Prime Minister Meir that led to the current policy of secrecy. Cohen also analyzes the complex reasons Israel concealed its nuclear program - from concerns over the Arab reaction and the negative effect of the debate at home to consideration of America's commitment to nonproliferation.

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Rida Lamrini

S’adressant aux jeunes et moins jeunes qui rêvent d’horizons lumineux, l’auteur livre les réflexions d’un père soucieux de l’avenir du Maroc. Il témoigne sans complaisance de la souffrance sociale de son époque, met en question nos attitudes de citoyens et s’interroge comment en sommes-nous arrivés là et par quels moyens nous en sortir ? Ce livre est un message d’espoir, une invitation à l’expression courageuse sur les affaires publiques et l’implication dynamique dans la vie politique. L’espoir est toujours permis à condition que gouvernants et gouvernés s’investissent résolument et avec abnégation dans la construction du Maroc dans lequel pourront s’épanouir nos enfants.

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Prof Erik O. Eriksen

The widening and deepening of the European Union have brought to the fore the question of democracy at the European level. This book contributes to democratic theory under conditions of globalization and complex interdependence as well as to the understanding of the EU from a democratic point of view.