Political Science - General

Securing Red is an after-action report written by the former North Carolina State Strategic Initiatives Director during the 2020 reelection campaign for Donald J. Trump.Author: Matthew DulaISBN-10: 1034284622ISBN-13: 9781034284628Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2022Pages: 58Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

This book presents a critical and empirically informed examination of Islamophobia and related issues of racism and nationalism in Germany today, with particular attention to the East/West distinction. The authors, representing several disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, and media and literary studies, situate the...

Exploring the concepts of collaboration, resistance, and postwar retribution and focusing on the Chetnik movement, this book analyses the politics of memory.Since the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, memory politics in Serbia has undergone drastic changes in the way in which the Second...

Cultural Nationhood and Political Statehood explores the development of the idea that every nation - most commonly understood as a linguistic community - is entitled to its own state. Following several contemporary studies of nationalism, this book provides a critical examination of the peculiarly...

Weaving together political, sociological, psychological, and epidemiological analyses, Social and Political Representations of the COVID-19 Crisis provides revealing insights into the transformations wrought by the pandemic and the social divisions it has exposed. Accounting for the realities of the pandemic across the globe, with...

In this book, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the 'homosexual propaganda' laws to the Sochi Olympics and the Ukraine war, and explores the role of visibility in the production and contestation of belonging to a political community....

The Broken Promise of Global Advocacy addresses two key normative debates associated with the rise of transnational advocacy: whether global interest communities are biased in favor of wealthier countries; and whether the growth of global advocacy implies the emergence of a global civil society...

James Tully's scholarship has profoundly transformed the study of political thought by reconstructing the practice of political theory as a democratising and diversifying dialogue between scholars and citizens. Across his writings on topics ranging from the historical origins of property, constitutionalism in diverse societies,...

International and Local Actors in Disaster Response uses the Beirut explosion in August 2020 to explore disaster prevention and response in developing states. Disasters, whether man-made or natural, have always tested governments and their bureaucracies. Despite numerous research efforts, existing empirical literature does not...

Young People and the Struggle for Participation rethinks dominant concepts and meanings of participation by exploring what young people do in public spaces and what these spaces mean to them, individually and collectively. This book discusses how different spaces and places structure and are...

This book addresses the conceptual lapse in the literature regarding the relationship between cultural production and participatory politics by examining their connections in a range of national and political contexts.Each chapter examines how youth engage cultural production as part of their political participation, and...

The politics of the body is often highly contested, culturally specific, and controlled, and this book calls our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity.With governments regulating bodies in ways that mark the political boundaries of who is a citizen,...

This book explores how the structures of international organizations have become increasingly complex and considers why states choose to become part of networks of international organizations alongside non-state actors. While granting participation rights to non-state actors, states have been actively involved in establishing complex...

The Russia Scare assesses the scope, character and extent of Russian interference in the affairs of liberal democratic states. This book examines the 'Russia scare' in a dynamic manner, stressing the interaction between threat perception, responses and subsequent policies. What forms did this threat...

Author: Ana Catalano WeeksISBN-10: 1009167839ISBN-13: 9781009167833Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dReview Citation(s): Choice 08/01/2023

Author: Adnan NaseemullahISBN-10: 1009158414ISBN-13: 9781009158411Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2022Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73dReview Citation(s): Choice 03/01/2023

In politics, money is often the name of the game. Politicians enrich themselves while in office, spend campaign money to finance their re-election, and accept lucrative 'golden parachute' jobs after leaving office. Money in Politics argues that these different forms of capital are part...

In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life. Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern's longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not follow the trade rules set by the leading powers of the...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

Fred A. Reed's fifth book on the Middle East and "the wars of the Ottoman succession" traces the roots of Islamic fundamentalism, as currently enacted by Hezbollah and other Islamic fundamentalist organizations, to the iconoclasts of sixth- and seventh-century Damascus. The emergence of Iconoclasm,...

Why have particular systems of government come into being? How do they succeed? What makes them fail? What effect does government have on the way in which society is structured, and how does a governmental system affect the economic and cultural life of its...

Fly in the Ointment chronicles the history of two school districts in the Upper Mill Creek (Ohio) Valley of the Greater Cincinnati Metropolitan area. The creation of both the black Lincoln Heights School District and the predominately white Princeton School District in the 1950s...

Authoritarianism has emerged as a prominent theme in popular and academic discussions of politics since the 2016 US presidential election and the coinciding expansion of authoritarian rhetoric and ideals across Europe, Asia, and beyond. Until recently, however, academic geographers have not focused squarely on...

Series Editors: Joseph M. Hawes, University of Memphis and N. Ray Hiner, University of KansasThis series examines the history of American children from colonial times to the present. It includes chronological volumes which survey the experience of children over specific historical periods as well...

Before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis, Germany was undergoing convulsive socioeconomic and political change. With unification as a nation state under Bismarck in 1871, Germany experienced the advent of mass politics, based on the principle of one man, one vote. The dynamic,...

After four years of unspeakable horror and sacrifice on both sides, the Civil War was about to end. On March 4, 1865, at his second inauguration, President Lincoln did not offer the North the victory speech it yearned for; nor did he blame the...

This book looks at the role played throughout history by translators and interpreters in international relations. It considers how political linguistics function and have functioned throughout history. It fills a gap left by political historians, who seldom ask themselves in what language the political...

The Eureka Stockade laid the foundation for many aspects of the democratic system that Australia has today - freedom of speech, the right to vote, and political equality. Marji Hill, author of more than 70 publications, in Shadows of Gold, tells how: The discovery...

This book studies the relationship between collective rituals and three key issues of public space, discursive contexts, and normative orders, over the course of three different periods of Iranian political systems: the Qajar Dynasty (beginning in 1848 with the founding of Naseredin Shah's Kingdom),...

This volume provides an overview of political and socioeconomic developments in Niger during the last ten years. Besides demonstrating the structural continuities in the politics of Niger, its society and economy, it goes into some of the fundamental changes that the country experienced in...

The United Nations Security Council has, since 1945, formed the core of an international security regime devoted to maintaining or restoring international peace and security. During and since the Cold War, the world has seen a progressive reduction in inter-state warfare, an evolution in...

This book provides both an introduction to utopianism and a general perspective on radical political thought. Vigorously disputing the widespread conviction that utopianism is a fantasy with no relevance to modern political life and thought, the authors argue that it is a concept whose...

The First World War showed the vital importance of oil. Use of oil fuelled aircraft, tanks, motor vehicles and especially warships increased greatly during the war. The war made it clear that major powers had to have secure oil supplies. Britain and its allies...

The billboards of Bristol have long been a playground for a quick-witted group of political activists and anarchists who, undercover of darkness, subvert the corporate messages with their own slogans. Although the subvertisers' work is often quickly removed, Don Pedro has taken hundreds of...

With the demise of apartheid in South Africa and the movement towards a post-apartheid society in South Africa, questions concerning the nature of apartheid and the identities it fostered are inevitably raised. Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse addresses these issues by revealing both their historical specificity...

This volume represents the 30 years' aftershocks of the cataclysmic battles of the 1960s, as recorded by one of the major journalists of that generation. A chronicle of political and cultural life from 1965 until Andrew Kopkind's death in October of 1994, it tracks...

A valuable and relevant insight into the youngest world religion. The youngest of the world religions and the second most widespread after Christianity, the Baha'i Faith is well known for its belief in the oneness of all religions. In this clear, readable, and informative...

A concise review of the major events, social movements, politics, and economics of the seven countries that comprise Central America. Given the strategic location of Central America, its importance to US foreign policy, and the migration from the region to other parts of the...

A BOLD PEOPLE - A DIFFERENT KIND OF STRENGTH A freelance journalist on her second trip to Nicaragua reports the unbiased truth of a people's war. Heartbreaking and occasionally even funny, this first-hand account will broaden even the broadest perspective. If you believe the...

Freedom is a fundamental good. But it can only be experienced in a context of meaning, and exists in a state of tension with other values. Freedom is not a natural given but rather results from the interplay of socialization and constraints. Rules and...

A compelling chronicle of the Labour Party's perpetual internal divisions. The biblical adage that "if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand" remains sound theological advice. It is also essential counsel for any political party that aspires to win elections. When...

Democratic Situations places the making and doing of democratic politics at the centre of relational research. The book turns the well-known sites of contemporary Euro-American democracy - elections, bureaucracies, public debates and citizen participation - into fluctuating democratic situations where supposedly untouchable democratic ideals...

This book is an exploration of the occult dimensions of Marxism, Bolshevism and the historical influences of Russian Cosmism on these ideologies. Occultism, magic, Bolshevism and Cosmism are defined at the outset. Chapter one explores Federov's Cosmism and the theory of Marxism as an...

In the Matter of Black Lives: Womanist Prose by Arica L. Coleman is a brilliant, energetic, and energizing meditation on Black history, American History, and the past decade of tumultuous, inspiring, radical and marginal change in this country we call America. Coleman is a...

The technology of Artificial Intelligence is here, and moving fast, without ethical standards in place. A Blueprint for the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Technologies leans on classical western philosophy for its ethical grounding. Values such as conscience, rights, equity, and discrimination, establish a basis...

A multifaceted series of reflections on the nature of reality, each exposing the common root of human experience. Original accounts of art, metaphysics, gender, madness, technological slavery, moral philosophy and the nature and origins of the simulation we are fused to, but which is...