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How democracies compete with autocracies to bias international order in their favor--and why democracies are losing

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This volume includes three classic works by John Owen on sin, temptation, and repentance in the Christian life. The editors have made this difficult-to-read Puritan accessible for the modern reader without sacrificing Owen's work.

How should the Western world today respond to the challenges of political Islam? Taking an original approach to answer this question, Confronting Political Islam compares Islamism's struggle with secularism to other prolonged ideological clashes in Western history. By examining the past conflicts that have torn Europe and the Americas--and been supported by underground networks, fomented radicalism and revolution, and triggered foreign interve...

Several analysts have offered theories to explain liberal peace, but here the author focuses on the state. He explores the chain of events linking peace with democracies and emphasizes that peace is constructed by democratic ideas - he asserts that peace should be understood as a strong tendency built on historically contingent perceptions and institutions. He tests his theory against ten cases drawn from over a century of US diplomatic histor...

This edited work of John Owen helps modern-day believers understand the timeless truths of the Trinity.

Program Evaluation, Third Edition, " provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizational, and social service settings. Using an issues-driven perspective, Owen helps students and practitioners compare and select from an array of evaluation approaches by providing an original conceptual framework for the five major forms of evaluative inquiry: proactive, clarificative, interactive, mo...

Program Evaluation, Third Edition, " provides a conceptual and practical overview of the evaluation process in real-world educational, organizational, and social service settings. Using an issues-driven perspective, Owen helps students and practitioners compare and select from an array of evaluation approaches by providing an original conceptual framework for the five major forms of evaluative inquiry: proactive, clarificative, interactive, mo...

Sin and Temptation helps us recover the concepts of sin and individual responsibility our world has all but destroyed. John Owen, an English theologian of vast learning, has dealt with the nature of sinful humanity as no writer has done as keenly or thoroughly, arguing that sin is always a self-deceiving, blinding folly. Owen embodied the best of Puritan devotion: the awe of God, humility, wisdom, and an awareness of God's grace. J.I. Packer's...