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EUDEBA (a leading Argentine academic publisher) has brought out of Marc's Politics as a Science: A Prolegomenon (coauthored with Philippe Schmitter, Emeritus Professor at the European Universities Institute). Translations into Arabic and Chinese are in the works.

On February 25, Routledge published Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies Marc Blecher¡¯s two newest books: ; and .

Blecher coauthored the books with colleagues from Harvard, Sciences Po, the University of Sydney, and Xi¡¯an Jiaotong Liwupu University (in Suzhou, China). To mark the Chinese Communist Party¡¯s 100th anniversary, the scholars put together this project of research, writing, and conferences on its century-long encounter with the question of class. 

On November 30, James Monroe Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies Marc Blecher addressed the Chinese Studies Association of Australia 17th Biennial Conference on ¡°Changing China: Then and Now ×ƒßwÖЇø£ºß^È¥Åc¬FÔÚ.¡± He presented three chapters from his two forthcoming books Class and the Communist Party of China, 1921¨C1978 and Class and the Communist Party of China, 1978-2021: Reform and Market Socialism.

Marc Blecher, James Monroe Professor of Politics and of East Asian Studies, published ¡°The Political Economy of Working Class Re-formation¡± in Lowell Dittmer, ed., , World Scientific, 2021. 

James Monroe Professor of Politics and Professor of East Asian Studies Marc Blecher¡¯s new book Politics as a Science: A Prolegomenon, coauthored with European University Institute Emeritus Professor Philippe Schmitter, was recently published by Routledge. It provides an overview of the core, eternal, universal issues of political science¡ªor, as we argue it should be known, ¡°politology.¡± It argues that politics is the most fundamental social activity because it involves the peaceful resolution of conflict without which all others would be impossible. The book includes chapters on politics¡¯ (and politology¡¯s) subject matter, foundations (concepts, agents, cleavages, motives, processes, mechanisms, temporalities, units and r¨¦gimes), consequences (order, production and distribution, recognition and respect, externalities, and legitimacy), the discipline, research design, and its purpose and promise. It is available  to make it affordable for students, scholars and citizens/subjects the world over. Portuguese and Spanish translations are in process, with more foreign language editions intended.