Political Science - General

A detailed case study of the government policymaking process, this volume takes one key issue--the strategic minerals problem--and examines each stage of decision-making from the acquisition of raw data through the promulgation of foreign policy. By focusing on a single issue, the author is...

This volume's coverage includes international agreements, both bilateral and multi-lateral, affecting shipping. The work includes: full texts of reservations or declarations made by bound countries; texts of draft treaties; texts of average adjusting rules for key jurisdictions; and texts of salvage agreements. Texts of...

The Noise War: How to Find the Truth When Everything Is Lying to You is a field manual for a world where facts are under siege and lies travel faster than light. Written by veteran national security correspondent J.J. Green, it distills two decades...

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This book looks at the worlding of the Global South in the process of assembling conflict resolution expertise. Anna Leander, Ole Waever and their contributors pursue this ambition by following the experts, institutions, databases and creative expressions that are assembled into conflict resolution expertise...

This book is intended as a comprehensive text for an introductory course in research methods for the social sciences, including sociology, economics, and psychology and is designed for students of Political Science.Author: Alan MonroeISBN-10: 0813368669ISBN-13: 9780813368665Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2000Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 8.52h x...

This book analyses how domestic and European structures impact on national actors' identities, interests and foreign policy practices. Employing Norway as the case study area, the author uses this nation as an example to assess Europeanization and identity politics across the European Union.Author: Gamze...

The contributions to this book discuss how the European Union has implemented its policies aimed at governance reform in its partner countries in the South. The contributors adopt a critical perspective in relation to the interests and ideas driving EU strategies on governance reform....

Set against the debates over the transformation of sovereignty, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the concept of sovereignty as responsibility and features case studies on Kosovo, Darfur and Afghanistan.Author: Theresa ReinoldISBN-10: 0415626293ISBN-13: 9780415626293Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2012Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w...

Until the early 1990s the Japanese education system was often commended for achieving outstanding outcomes. However, this book reveals growing educational inequality, with an increasing gap in the attainment and aspirations of students from different social backgrounds. By looking at class in close conjunction...

By examining how NGOs operate in Southern India in the early 2000's, this book discusses the challenges faced by small, local NGOs in the uncertain times of changing aid dynamics. The key findings focus on what empowerment means for Indian women, and how NGO...

Building on observations, documentary analysis and over seventy interviews with both torture victims and transitional justice workers this book explores how torture was used, suffered and resisted in Timor-Leste. Author: Elizabeth StanleyISBN-10: 0415478073ISBN-13: 9780415478076Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2009Pages: 240Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.30w x...

Broad in scope and carefully balanced in emphasis, this book is a major treatise on the theory and practice of public financeAuthor: Carl ShoupISBN-10: 0202307859ISBN-13: 9780202307855Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/31/2005Pages: 676Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.39lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.80w x 1.67d

People around the world face grave crises of wars, climate change, genocides, rising sea levels, human rights violations, and inequitable distribution of natural resources. These problems are transcontinental, interconnected, and create immense human suffering, which require collective efforts toward just and sustainable global solutions....

Author: Mark LipmanISBN-10: 1958307084ISBN-13: 9781958307083Publisher: VAGABONDLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2025Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d

Beyond the Fascist Curtain is an essay collection which loosely explores the ideological battleground between social democracy and fascism. Through incisive analysis and sharp critique, Anthony David Vernon dissects the mechanisms of fascism including its abuse of postmodernism, its nationalist fervor, and its reliance...

This book argues that hostility toward Iran is not simply the result of strategic calculations or historical grievances, but is deeply shaped by an internalized understanding of what it means to be "pro-Israel" in Washington-a stance increasingly tied to American political identity itself. Author:...

Inspired by the courage and conviction of young leaders like Greta Thunberg, Walter Leslie Christman has made it his life's mission to empower the next generation to take bold steps toward reshaping global resilience. As co-founder of the One Million Youth Leaders for Sustainable...

This volume presents the complete text of "The Constitution Of The State Of Georgia," offering readers a detailed look into the foundational legal framework of the state. Enhanced with full marginal notes and an extensive analytical index, this edition facilitates a deeper understanding of...

What if you realized that every facet of your life-from your relationships to your success-is fundamentally shaped by the thoughts you entertain?James Allen's insightful exploration highlights the pivotal role mindset plays in determining our outcomes. Adapted for the contemporary reader, this volume uncovers how...

This book presents a thorough examination of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social life across four major European countries--France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Drawing on high-quality longitudinal data, it investigates how personal, work, and political lives evolved during and after the pandemic, with...

The Economic Consequences of the Peace was written and published by John Maynard Keynes. After World War I Keynes attended the Versailles Conference as a delegate of the British Treasury and argued for a much more generous peace. It was a best seller throughout...

Issue Areas and Political Time: The Multiple Presidencies and Congresses of American Foreign and Domestic Policy Construction explores the complexities of executive-legislative relations in American policy construction. Anchored in empirical political science, the book scrutinizes the differing dynamics between the presidency and Congress across...

This book looks at the development of this wave of protests, with an eye on protests against austerity and neoliberal economic policies, and offers a global view, covering events in Turkey, Brazil, Venezuela, South Africa, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and other locations.Author: Donatella Della PortaISBN-10:...

A fresh light falls on a distant economy. An Essay On Medi val Economic Teaching invites modern readers to walk the corridors of medieval Europe and witness how wealth, power, and daily life intertwined. This is more than a history book. It is a...

Bodies in Protest reveals how hunger strikes and music ranging from gospel songs to rock anthems can efficiently convey political messages and mobilize the masses.Author: Johanna Siméant,Christophe Traïni,James JasperISBN-10: 9089649336ISBN-13: 9789089649331Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2016Pages: 180Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.60d

Players and Arenas brings together a diverse group of experts to examine the interactions between political protestors and the many strategic players they encounter, such as cultural institutions, religious organizations, and the mass mediaas well as potential allies, competitors, recruits, and funders. Discussing protestors...

Ripples of Hope tells the stories of those who courageously and non-violently stood up for freedom and human rights against repressive rulers.Author: Robert PressISBN-10: 9089647481ISBN-13: 9789089647481Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2015Pages: 328Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.00dReview Citation(s): Choice 07/01/2016

This study unravels the real dynamics at stake within the Lebanese Madame/Sri Lankan housemaid relationship. Unraveled in this book are the real dynamics at stake in the Madame/housemaid relationship. While cases of extreme physical abuse by the Lebanese women who hire housemaids - Madames...

Making illegal residence unattractive is a way for Western governments to limit migration from non-Western countries. Focusing on Dutch neighbourhoods with substantial levels of unauthorised migrants, Illegal Residence and Public Safety in the Netherlands examines how restrictive immigration policy influences immigrant crime and perceived...

Presently the world is undergoing tremendous social, cultural and economic transformation. For sociologists, the challenge is arriving at a sound mapping of this tumultuous world stage. In this book, the contributing authors consider solidarity as a cognitive problem of basic science. They examine how...

The Hunger Report 1995 highlights progress during the past five years on the problems of food shortage, poverty-related hunger, maternal-child nutrition and health, and micronutrient malnutrition. It is constructed from papers and discussions presented at the five-year-follow-up to the Bellagio Declaration, 'Overcoming Hunger in...

This book covers various aspects of New Chinese Migration in Suriname in the 1990s and early 2000s. It is an ethnography of New Chinese Migrants in the context of South- South migration, but also a first ethnography of Chinese in Suriname, as well as...

In 2000 and 2001, twelve northern states of the Federal Republic of Nigeria introduced Islamic criminal law as one of a number of measures aiming at "reintroducing the shari'a." Immediately after its adoption, defendants were sentenced to death by stoning or to amputation of...

This title is available in Open Access thanks to the support of Université de Genève. Factional Struggles explores the dynamics of conflicts among ruling elites within cities, dynastic courts, rural areas and regional noble lineages during the early modern period. Building on case studies...

Prince, Pen, and Sword offers a synoptic interpretation of rulers and elites in Eurasia from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. Four core chapters zoom in on the tensions and connections at court, on the nexus between rulers and religious authority, on the status,...

What is European Union and who are its citizens? Is a continent-wide community just a dream or a realistic political project? This research shows how the European top-politicians perceive the institutions and the goals of the European Union. By analysing concepts such as sovereignty,...

The main purpose of the book is to create a model of the presidential election campaign in South Korea. The research questions included both those regarding the content of the campaign itself and, more broadly, its organization. The collected materials, posted on Facebook and...

In order to articulate contemporary biopolitics the author examines Foucault's, Hardt's and Negri's theories. Phenomena of military interventions, terrorism and wars against terrorism are presented as contemporary biopolitics. The events such as the Arab Spring, OWS movement and the gap between EU forms and...

By contrasting Poland and Hungary, this volume assesses the impact of rightwing political traditions, religion and Communist rule, of historical consciousness and social stratification on contemporary antisemitic prejudice. Both leading and emerging scholars also debate similarities with and connections to anti-Roma agitation.Author: François GuesnetISBN-10:...

If you're feeling lost, unappreciated, or like you should have accomplished more in life, take a step back and appreciate yourself for the way you are. That's the overriding message in this book by Robert Paul Gwynne, who was a certified public accountant for...

Today, trust seems harder to find than ever before.It's hardly surprising we feel that way. Our politics is polarised, our online world is awash with misinformation, and we've lost faith in our bedrock institutions. Yet, without trust, we cannot work together to solve the...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Paul Spicker's new book takes the three founding principles of the French Revolution - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity - and examines how they relate to social policy today. The book considers the political and moral dimensions of a wide...

This text originated from a critique of a liberal understanding of property relation as one between a person and a "thing". States are perceived to be fundamental obstacles on the way to an individual's appropriation of the "thing". State intervention is often considered to...

Since 1950, there has been almost continuous military unrest in Africa. This study offers an overview of warfare in this period, examining a military tradition that ranges from the highly sophisticated electronic, air and armour fighting between South Africa and Angola-Cuban forces, to the...

This book of essays, written in honour of Professor David Trubek, explores many of the themes which he has himself written about, most notably the emergence of a global critical discourse on law and its application to global governance. As law becomes ever more...

During the last two decades Europe has experienced a rise in transnational contention. Citizens are crossing borders to advance alternative visions of Europe. They spread protest concepts and tactics and explore new ways of organizing dissent. Far from being a recent phenomenon, transnational protest...

German migration policy now stands at a major crossroad, caught between a fifty-year history of missed opportunities and serious new challenges. Focusing on these new challenges that German policy makers face, the authors, both internationally recognized in this field, use historical argument, theoretical analysis,...

Bringing together original, contemporary ethnographic research on the Northeast African state of Eritrea, this book shows how biopolitics - the state-led deployment of disciplinary technologies on individuals and population groups - is assuming particular forms in the twenty-first century. Once hailed as the "African...

When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge...