Political Science - General

Originally published in 1976, this book explores the relationship between European society and the military institutions it fostered from 1815-1918. In the period from the fall of Napoleonic imperialism to the outbreak of the First World War armies and navies grew in complexity, cost...

2017 marked the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome and the starting point for today's European Union. Since then, the project has indisputably come a very long way and has undergone major changes in direction. However, one constant throughout has...

German-American relations have become interesting again. U.S. President Donald Trump's lukewarm policy toward Europe has ensured that the relationship between Berlin and Washington is once again regarded as an important field of scholarship within global politics. And yet it was only a few years...

In the wake of health and economic crises across the world, solidarity is emerging as both a moral imperative and urgent social goal. This book approaches solidarity as a political good, both a framework of power structures and grounds for moral motivation. The distinct...

This book explores the geopolitics of the global cyber space to analyse India's cyber security landscape. As conflicts go more online, nation-states are manipulating the cyber space to exploit each other's dependence on information, communication and digital technologies. All the major powers have dedicated...

This book explores the concept and practice of resilience that has generated much debate among both scholars and practitioners. The contributions propose a new understanding of resilience, both as a quality and a way of thinking, taking it to the level of 'the person'...

This edited volume brings together some of the most important scholarly perspectives - in the form of both journal article reprints and original contributions - on the structure and dynamics of the EU's multi-layered relations with its Eastern neighbours within the Eastern Partnership (EaP)...

This book interrogates the idea of equity in the context of India's Northeast region. The region comprises of diverse ethnicities heralding different socio-political and historical contexts. The present volume attempts to bring to the fore, the ever-widening socio-economic gap between dominant and marginalized groups...

The Crown and Constitutional Reform is an innovative, interdisciplinary exchange between experts in law, anthropology and politics about the Crown, constitutional monarchy and the potential for constitutional reform in Commonwealth common law countries. The constitutional foundation of many Commonwealth countries is the Crown, an...

Commemorating the 150th anniversary of W. E. B. Du Bois's birth, the chapters in this book reflect on the local, national, and international significance of his remarkable life and legacy in relation to his specific commitments to socialism and democracy.Written with contemporary conditions in...

This original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses and understanding of the nature and form of inequality, and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal, intergroup, and intrapersonal inequalities...

The European Parliament in the Contested Union provides a systematic assessment of the real influence of the European Parliament (EP) in policy-making. Ten years after the coming into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, which significantly empowered Europe's only directly elected institution, the contributions...

This volume brings together an international array of scholars to reconsider the meaning and place of poststructuralism historically and demonstrate some of the ways in which it continues to be relevant, especially for debates in aesthetics, ethics, and politics.The book's chapters focus on the...

After Hitler's death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader - two of the most important of these documents were Hitler's Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler. This ground-breaking book provides the first...

Christianity and the Alt-Right: Exploring the Relationship looks back at the 2016 presidential election and the support President Trump enjoyed among white Evangelicals. This cutting-edge volume offers insights into the role of race and racism in shaping both the Trump candidacy and presidency and...

This book examines the relationship between exile and activism. Drawing on interviews with activists exiled to England following the military coup d'état in Egypt as an illustrative case, it considers whether exile presents any barrier to meaningful political participation. Through a comparison of activism...

This book provides a thorough and engaging analysis of inequality in Britain, including its long-term development and transformation since the beginning of the 20th century.The author argues that inequality is not what it used to be - no longer can policy-makers consider it just...

Most readers of this book will have had at most a fleeting acquaintancewith the music of some of the groups described in this book. Groupssuch as Laibach (from Slovenia), Borghesia (Slovenia), Pankow (theGDR), and Gorky Park (USSR) have concentrated on the Western marketand have...

First published in 1987. Our understanding of the nature of power in western societies is currently undergoing a major reassessment. The significance of this reassessment emerges forcefully through comparing the writings of the principal exponents of Critical Theory - Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and...

First published in 1973. Few concepts in the modern age have created more controversy in the discussion of social, moral, and political issues than that of ideology. Ever since the term was coined by Destutt de Tracy to refer to a scientific study of...

First published in 1987. The theory that political obligation and authority are derived from the consent of citizens is commonly accepted in the history of Western political thought. It is expressed in the famous assertion of the American Declaration of Independence that governments derive...

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the present.It takes up the story of Nicholaos Charalambou Kanaris,...

Originally published in 1973, Origins of English Feudalism suggests that English feudalism has, for a long time, been the most controversial and thereby the most highly technical aspect of English medieval history. The book contains relevant sources that will be of use to readers...

Focusing on the crucial discipline of the law, Failed Revolutions casts light on the many forces working against meaningful social change. It is a valuable reading for any citizen concerned with the possibility of social reform.Author: Richard DelgadoISBN-10: 0367157632ISBN-13: 9780367157630Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/07/2020Pages: 228Format:...

This book introduces readers to the personalities as well as the systems of rightist repression. It shows how radical right groups have made electoral headway in France, Germany, and Israel while increasingly making headlines in the United States, Great Britain, and other points East...

This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come. The study of the interrelationship between contemporary religious practice and modern politics...

After his Liberal Party's surprise victory in the 2015 federal Canadian election, Justin Trudeau declared that "Canada was back" on the world stage. This comprehensive volume highlights issues in the relationship between articulated visions of Canada as a global actor, nation branding and domestic...

What is the relationship between being political and citizenship? What might it mean to be marginalised through both the practices and knowledge of citizenship? What might citizenship look like from a position of social, political and cultural exclusion? This book responds to these questions...

This book seeks to explain the causes of Haiti's underdevelopment since the end of the seventeenth century. During the 1960s and 1970s several original paradigms emerged to explain the causes and persistence of underdevelopment in Latin America and the Caribbean. In the renewed effort...

This hard-hitting critique of US policy toward Latin America includes a historical sketch of US relations with individual countries. Black argues persuasively that the US has been the major oppponent of needed reforms in Latin American countries and the major proponent of predatory military...

The author, taking as his theme a J. S. Mill statement that their lot was cast in the 10 years of inevitable reaction, ' analyzes political developments after the Reform Act of 1832 as they affected the monarchy, the House of Lords, the established...

This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass's correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley,...

From their limited use in China during World War II, for example, to their often clandestine use in Vietnam ferrying supplies before the war escalated in 1964 and 1965 when their role became more prominent-and public-private military contractors (PMCs) have played made essential contributions...

Preparing for the Worst details the best practices in antiterrorism tactics and preparing for disaster. This book is for typical American families, business travelers, corporate executive management personnel, emergency first responders, school administrators, and local government officials responsible for public safety and emergency management....

Productivity and Value takes a critical look at the generic concepts of productivity as they are used in most of the conventional literature. In this compelling book, the author challenges the concept of total-factor productivity as a valid indicator of successes or failures in...

Careful followers of reform movements within Communist bloc countries will profit from this new work by a specialist on Hungarian politics. Twenty years after introduction of the New Economic Mechanism (NEM), both the Hungarian elite and the mass population have had mixed experiences with...

Based on years of fieldwork in both rural and urban Greece, The Last Word explores women's cultural resistance as they weave together diverse social practices: improvised antiphonic laments, divinatory dreaming, the care and tending of olive trees and the dead, and the inscription of...

"Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," thus ended Darwin's Origin of SpeciesAuthor: Laura L. BetzigISBN-10: 0202362019ISBN-13: 9780202362014Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2008Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.48w x 0.53d

First published in 2004. For the Muslim the foundation from which all discussion of government starts is the law of God, the shar?'a. Theoretically pre-existing and eternal, it represents absolute good. It is prior to the community and the state.' Part of London Oriental...

First Published in 1988. This is a collection of essays in honor of Alec Nove and covers such topics as Leon Trotsky, Navrozov, Soviet Investment criteria, Soviet Agricultural, and economic politics under Andropov and Chernenko.Author: P. J. D. WilesISBN-10: 0043350631ISBN-13: 9780043350638Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/28/1988Pages:...

Contemporary Political Theory: A Reader provides an accessible introduction to the key works of major contemporary political theorists. Key theorists and writers include John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Walzer, Michael Sandel, Susan Okin, Will Kymlicka, Iris Marion Young, Charles Taylor, Nancy Fraser and John...

In the four decades or so since its invention, the internet has become pivotal to how many societies function, influencing how individual citizens interact with and respond to their governments. Within Southeast Asia, while most governments subscribe to the belief that new media technological...

Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative.Border Mapping: A Participatory Community-Mapping Design of the Mexico-USA Borderlands responds to the global state of the "border crisis" from a localized perspective with its focus on one of the most...

Author: Shealeigh VoitlISBN-13: 9798999804907Publisher: Censored PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/26/2025Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.58d

Author: Neema ParviniISBN-10: 1923478400ISBN-13: 9781923478404Publisher: Imperium PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/20/2025Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d

Author: Leanne C. PownerISBN-10: 1009651943ISBN-13: 9781009651943Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2026Pages: 442Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.90d

A new, intelligent novelty title that delivers a range of political and historical questions followed by their solutions. For any sharp brain that likes a challenge!Following the success of their debut quiz book, The Ultimate Politics and History Quiz, authors William Scally and Tim...

In the last century, our "mother earth" has seen many remarkable changes that Homo sapiens in the 19th century could never have imagined. The 20th century raised the curtain on an entirely new and different planet. The 21st will totally eclipse everything that has...

"Times of trouble prompt us to recall the ideals by which we live."Michael J. Sandel, Harvard UniversityThe Everyday Patriot is a rousing call to action based on the values that have made America a nation of great power and promise. In these pages, Tom...

This sociological study explores how Ukrainian political elites think, act, and adapt in moments of profound transformation--from the authoritarian drift of the Yanukovych era to the national redefinition under Zelensky during the full-scale war. Using Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice, the book uncovers in...