Political Science - General

Embedded in the evolving comparative regionalism literature, this book offers a systematic analysis of the factors positively and negatively influencing regional institution-building.The ruptures caused by the Eurozone crises, the coronavirus pandemic and by Brexit have renewed the interest in the impact of crises and...

This book, first published in 1988, analyses the interests and activities of the Soviet Union in the northern Atlantic. It gives particular attention to the growth in exploration and exploitation of resources and to the problems presented by jurisdictional disputes. The responses of NATO,...

This book studies the exclusion and discrimination that is meted out to Scheduled Caste (SC) students in the Indian Higher Education system, and the psychosocial consequences of such practices. It foregrounds the conceptual debates around caste, exclusion, and reservations in Indian academia, discussing the...

This study analyzes history as performance: as the interaction of actors, plays, stages and enactments. By this, it examines women's politics in Habsburg Galicia around 1900: a Polish woman active in the peasant movement, a Ukrainian feminist, and a Jewish Zionist. It shows how...

This book explores postcolonial myths and histories within colonially structured narratives which persist and are carried in culture, language, and history in various parts of the world. It analyzes constructions of identities, stereotypes, and mythical fantasies in postcolonial society. Exploring a wide range of...

This book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers. Many leading accounts of apology say much about what apologies do and why they are important. They stop...

Originally published in 1985, this book surveys how NATO policy sought to come to terms with the revolution in thinking about war which was brought about by the advent of nuclear weapons. It also examines the logic of deterrence. The book assesses the ethical...

A broadly liberal politics requires political compassion, not simply in the sense of compassion for the victims of injustice but also for opponents confronted through political protest and (more broadly) dissent. There are times when, out of a sense of compassion, a just cause...

James Tully is one of the world's most influential political philosophers at work today. Over the past thirty years - first with Strange Multiplicity (1995), and more fully with Public Philosophy in a New Key (2008) and On Global Citizenship (2014) - Tully has...

Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India. It consists of lectures that Raja Sir T. Madhava Rao delivered in 1881 to Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III, the young Maharaja of Baroda. Universally considered the...

The Tsarist forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was not the first conspiracy theory about Jews, but it is perhaps the most famous one. It described specific steps that the Jewish cabal was said to use to take over the world and...

Senator Paul Simon is warning that clean water is in short supply and that we must do something about it. He proposed that every nation in the world on an ocean build many desalinization plants and that we preserve our fresh water supply.Author: Paul...

About the Book: It is to the outstanding great credit of the Communist Party of the Philippines that it is one of the proletarian revolutionary parties of the world successfully leading the people's democratic revolution through protracted people's war under the theoretical guidance of...

A profound plunge into the existence of one of the Most Remarkable and savage man to at any point live throughout the entire existence of humankindIn this newly released book, the author; Alexander Jackson, who is a well respected Military Analyst seeks to uncover...

About the Book: The Sison Reader Series Book 6 covers the period of 2000 to 2021 in continuity with Book 5 which covers the period of 1969 to 1999. The two books manifest the outstanding role of the Communist Party of the Philippines as...

Will Morrisey again considers the political dimensions of literary classics, as previously seen in Melville's Ship of State (2019). His attention to Shakespeare's comedies is a reader's and playgoer's delight. INTRODUCTORY NOTE: The Politic Character of Shakespeare's Comedy PART ONE: THREE REGIMES: OLIGARCHY, ARISTOCRACY,...

What does it mean to be in the middle of a pandemic--for us, for our country, or for the world? How do our current inequalities and injustices become amplified by the demands of the pandemic and what, if anything, can be done? Who is...

"For readers interested in international relations, politics, and global issues." -Library Journal, Starred Review The Historical Dictionary of Modern Coups d'騁at surveys the history of coups d'騁at in the post-World War II period. The term "modern" in the title therefore demarcates the period since...

Exchange Ideologies documents the social world of Aleppo's traders before the destruction of the city, exploring changing conceptions of commerce in Syria. Syria's traders have been seen as embodying a timeless culture of "the bazaar," or an ahistorical Islamic culture of trade. Other accounts...

Exchange Ideologies documents the social world of Aleppo's traders before the destruction of the city, exploring changing conceptions of commerce in Syria. Syria's traders have been seen as embodying a timeless culture of "the bazaar," or an ahistorical Islamic culture of trade. Other accounts...

What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts,...

Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with the geopolitical realities of the present, the contributors consider sovereignty from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it...

In Death's Futurity Sampada Aranke examines the importance of representations of death to Black liberation. Aranke analyzes posters, photographs, journalism, and films that focus on the murders of Black Panther Party members Lil' Bobby Hutton, Fred Hampton, and George Jackson to construct a visual...

Sovereignty Unhinged theorizes sovereignty beyond the typical understandings of action, control, and the nation-state. Rather than engaging with the geopolitical realities of the present, the contributors consider sovereignty from the perspective of how it is lived and enacted in everyday practice and how it...

Gonzalez shows that this reflects the pessimism and demoralization underlying the Trump phenomenon, and the rise of anti-democratic, virulent nationalism. Author: George GonzalezISBN-10: 1433197707ISBN-13: 9781433197703Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2022Pages: 124Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 10.60h x 6.40w x 0.40d

Clive Pearson takes us on an engaging whirlwind tour of the fifty-three men and three women who have so far held the office of Prime Minister. We discover how they got to the top of the greasy pole and assess their performance once in...

Media and Everyday Life offers an accessible overview for students of media, communication and cultural studies looking to explore how modern-day media practices impact on the experience of everyday life, making this the essential companion to introductory media studies courses. This innovative introduction to...

This book tells an overlooked story in the history of ideas, a drama of cut-throat politics and philosophy of mind. For it is Cicero, statesman and philosopher, who gives shape to the notion of will in Western thought, from criminal will to moral willpower...

Transitional justice - the act of reckoning with a former authoritarian regime after it has ceased to exist - has direct implications for democratic processes. Mechanisms of transitional justice have the power to influence who decides to go into politics, can shape politicians' behavior...

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Politics in the U.S. provides a broad, inclusive, and rich range of chapters, in the study of religion and politics. Arranged in their historical context, chapters address themes of history, law, social and religious movements, policy and...

- Do we work for social media?- Why do we go into debt?- How is desire manufactured in fast fashion? - How are our diets governed?- Who owns what in the sharing economy? I-PEEL: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life provides a new...

In the contrary of the forties, fifties, sixties and seventies eras were the mainstream media try to discredits all the sightings and information about extraterrestrials, unidentified flight objects, for years now and for a future ones, you see and you'll see mainstream media talks...

Elections and Governance - Jamaica on the Global Frontier is presented in two books: The Colonial Years, 1663 to 1962 and The Independence Years, 1962 to 2016. Together, they sketch elections and governance in Jamaica as a colony within the British Empire and as...

Seminar paper in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, University for Development studies, language: English, abstract: Stereotypes and prejudices of Fulani pastoralists go beyond just discourses of examining the stereotypes and prejudices vis-à-vis the Fulani in Ghana, particularly the pastoral Fulani. This paper argues...

The simple fabric face mask is a key agent in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19. However, beyond its role as a protective covering against coronavirus infection, the face mask is the bearer of powerful symbolic and political power and arouses intense...

This book explores the relationship between the food culture of Israel and the creation of its national identity. It is an effort to research what the mundane, everyday behaviours such as cooking and feeding ourselves and others, can tell us about the places we...

This book presents research on mediated scandals and substantiates the understanding of such forms of scandals and their impact on societies. Additionally, it connects the study of scandals with the broader fields of political communication research, organizational communication, journalism studies, and digital communication research.The...

Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It's all in the execution. Schiller's political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of British history's famous rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots. Written in verse and based on historical sources, Schiller's play...

This book is written to help readers get an understanding of how important selecting a political leader is. The decisions political leaders make affect every citizen of the country. When one is presented with the opportunity to select a political leader, one has to...

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. It follows in the tradition of 18th-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and...

The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. It follows in the tradition of 18th-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and...

This book is the Manorial Society of England and Wales' 2020 register publication. The societies register is published annually to maintain its relevance. Further information can be found at https: //msoew.weebly.com/Author: The Manorial Socie Of England and WalesISBN-10: 1471016846ISBN-13: 9781471016844Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2022Pages: 106Format:...

Question: How to resist a large Empire as it grabs new territory? (No, not Ukraine and Russia.)1898-1902: The British Army is at war in Africa. They fight the Boers, Dutch descended farmers who have been there for centuries. They kill the men, burn farms,...

Mandela's speeches from 1990 through 1993 recount the course of struggle that put an end to apartheid and opened the fight for a deep-going political, economic, and social transformation in South Africa.Author: Nelson MandelaISBN-10: 0873487745ISBN-13: 9780873487740Publisher: PathfinderLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 323Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 8.26h x...

The twentieth century was dominated by war and by preparations for war in a way that is unparalleled in history. Originally published in 1988, this textbook highlights key themes of warfare throughout the world and emphasizes the gulf between the theory of war and...

In this book, you will learn how political correctness has greatly underestimated climate change impacts and overestimated the benefits of new technologies. This is a recipe for disaster. There is still hope if we eliminate political correctness from climate policy, as many options are...

From the MouthBy: Erik R. LehmkuhleToday's America is fraught with a dangerous social agenda. The far-left agencies, from politicians to corporate leaders to educators, are turning American democracy on its head. As an average American from Ohio, Erik R. Lehmkuhle dives deep into the...

My Mind's Eye in the Face of a PandemicBy: Shirley Ann Christian KylesMy Mind's Eye in the Face of A Pandemic is about the past, the present, and the future of the world we live in, and how we as individuals view that world....

The second installment of politically charged satire, scrutiny, and social commentary from John Yates' Stealworks graphics compound.Whereas his first anthology of work, Stealworks, was a retrospective that gathered together in a single archival collection previously published material, this latest edition comprises an entirely unpublished...

The 'mirror for princes' genre of literature offers advice to a ruler, or ruler-to-be, concerning the exercise of royal power and the wellbeing of the body politic. This anthology presents selections from the 'mirror literature' produced in the Islamic Early Middle Period (roughly the...