Political Science - General

Rammohun Roy (c.1772-1833) is counted amongst the most influential intellectuals of Modern India. But even after a century of debate and enquiry, scholars are still not quite sure whether he was a consistent and articulate political thinker, or a man of intellectual compromise and...

Examining the interplay between the domestic, regional and global aspects of the crisis of legitimacy of global governance, this book theoretically questions and empirically analyses the "crises of legitimacy" in global governance with respect to various mechanisms, actors, and issues.It expertly sheds lights on...

The Capitol Riots maps out the events of the January 6, 2021 insurrectionary riots at the United States Capitol building, providing context for understanding the contributing factors and ongoing implications of the uprising. This definitive text explores the rise of populism, disinformation, conspiracy theories,...

Drawing upon a rich selection of documents, this text provides a detailed account of McCarthyism, a period which spanned from the late 1940s to the mid 1960s. It discusses the turbulent years during which Americans were routinely persecuted because they were suspected of being...

The book 'Strategists and Strategy' was outcome from observations of functioning and conceptualisation of strategy at the level of junior and senior management, at unit and organisational level. What prompted the author in highlighting the issues as discussed in the book, were reluctance and...

In Up to Date, Tong and Van Der Heide explore the spicy, unsettling-and sometimes just exhausting-universe of online romance.Author: Howie Giles, Stephanie Tom Tong, Brandon Van Der HeideISBN-10: 1433146541ISBN-13: 9781433146541Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/13/2022Pages: 254Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

This book addresses political knowledge of climate change and its relation to labelling people affected by climate change, either as 'climate refugees' or as 'climate change-induced displaced people or migrants'. By questioning the knowledge of climate change and subsequent labelling of people, this book...

In a world gripped by an ever-worsening ecological crisis there are present and increasing genocidal pressures on many culturally distinct social groups, such as indigenous peoples. This is where the genocide-ecocide nexus presents itself.The destruction of ecosystems, ecocide, can be a method of genocide...

Nations and Capital: The Missing Link in Global Expansion is a groundbreaking analysis of the ultimate reasons for the emergence of nations and nationalism, as a socio-political and geopolitical instrument in the global expansion of capitalism. The author provides the missing link in the...

This book, first published in 1991, analyses the role of women in the Eritrean struggle for independence. Emerging from a semi-feudal world, these women - peasants and pastoralists, student activists and workers from the cities - participated fully in the Eritrean revolution. They have...

This book, first published in 1972, is an analysis of popular movements, political convulsions and settlements that led to and resulted from the climax of the First World War and its aftermath. It considers the aims, achievements and failures of both the Allied and...

This book, first published in 1977, traces the origins of the left-wing Portuguese army rebellion of 1974 that overthrew the 50-year-old authoritarian regime of Prime Ministers Salazar and Caetano to the traditional political independence of the armed forces, their increasingly strained relations with the...

This book, first published in 1973, examines the period when wars, famines and epidemics bred widespread conflicts, culminating in the revolutionary years of 1378-82 with the Florentine 'Ciompi', revolts in Flanders and France and the risings among English labourers. The analysis ends with the...

This book, first published in 1982, examines the reality of the so-called revolution in Afghanistan. It focuses on the career of Hafizullah Amin, considered in the West as a near-genocidal mass murderer, intent on establishing a personal fiefdom in Afghanistan. However, this book argues...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed...

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed...

This book analyses the root and proximate causes of the Bahr el Ghazal famine in 1998 as a chain of political, environmental, economic and social factors, as well as a failure of public action and early warning systems. It is estimated about 70,000 persons...

This volume contains all of the official documents that have formed the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Three basic documents led to the creation of the United Kingdom. They are the Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights, as well as the...

This book, first published in 2000, uses interpretations of the French Revolution as a model to ask what history meant to Victorian Britain, how events became enshrined with the authority of history, and how such cultural assumptions might help us to read nineteenth-century British...

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good. Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab...

Experiments are a central methodology in the social sciences. Scholars from every discipline regularly turn to experiments. Practitioners rely on experimental evidence in evaluating social programs, policies, and institutions. This book is about how to "think" about experiments. It argues that designing a good...

George Alfred Henty (1832-1902), referred to as G. A. Henty, was a prolific English novelist, special correspondent, and Imperialist born in Trumpington, England. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include: Out...

Listen to the New Books Network Podcast! The phrase, "state of nature", has been used over centuries to describe the uncultivated state of lands and animals, nudity, innocence, heaven and hell, interstate relations, and the locus of pre- and supra-political rights, such as the...

Guide to Stoicism," though small, is a clear, and thoughtful classic by St. George Stock. Considered to be a concise primer on Stoicism, "Guide to Stoicism" explains the ancient philosophy that maintained that the universe is governed entirely by fate and that humans can...

Author: Robert J. C. YoungISBN-10: 1405120940ISBN-13: 9781405120944Publisher: Wiley-BlackwellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2016Pages: 530Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.07d

This book discusses a range of interventions that can be implemented in schools to prevent radicalization and violent extremism. The book advocates for primary prevention by strengthening social and citizenship competences of youth. It combines perspectives of citizenship education, school psychology, positive psychology, peace...

This is the second issue of Contemporary China Review (Quarterly Journal) published by Bouden House in New York. We are very excited to include in this issue many in-depth commentaries by various scholars and experts on current affairs in China and America.Author: W. Luo,...

This edited volume sheds light on the lives of young people in various central and peripheral regions of Russia, including youth belonging to different ethnic and religious groups and who have differing views on contemporary politics. While the literature continues to grow regarding the...

"The answer [Eugenio Colorni's, to a question of Ursula Hirschman's on the existence of "concentric circles" in explanations of reality] is this: that the philosophical illness is more difficult to eradicate than you think, and that it lurks in the most unimaginable places and...

This book provides a wide-ranging exploration of the legacy of Lebanon's peace agreement in the 30 years since it was signed. The chapters in this edited volume have been written by leading scholars and provide in-depth analyses of key issues in postwar Lebanon, including...

Focusing on East Asia, this collection explores the paradox of functional regional cooperation in the areas of humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and UN Peacekeeping operations, in a context of increasing regional tensions and threats. East Asia - comprising the states of the Association of...

This book examines everyday artefacts of world politics: the things that everyday people make that tell stories about how the world works.The author argues that people engage in a unique form of multimodal storytelling about the world, their place in the world, and the...

Widely considered a classic of modern philosophical literature, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is David Hume's delineation of his theory of knowledge, a work that would influence thinkers both in his time and for generations to come. Proceeding in incremental steps, Hume discusses the...

Place, Race and Politics presents an integrated analysis of the social and political processes that combined to construct a media-driven 'crisis' concerning African youth crime in the city of Melbourne, Australia.Author: Leanne Weber, Jarrett Blaustein, Kathryn BenierISBN-10: 1800430469ISBN-13: 9781800430464Publisher: Emerald Publishing LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/19/2021Pages:...

The conjunction of climate, food, and financial crises in the late 2000s triggered renewed interest in farmland and agribusiness investments around the world. This phenomenon became known as the "global land grab", and sparked vibrant debates among social movements, NGOs, international development agencies and...

CONTENTS Acknowledgements 1 Introduction 1 2 The Roots of Dialogue 31 3 Understanding (as) Dialogue 65 4 Defining Dialogue 111 5 The Power of Dialogue 167 6 The Virtues of Dialogue &nbsAuthor: Lauren Swayne BartholdISBN-10: 3030455882ISBN-13: 9783030455880Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/24/2021Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize:...

This book is coming from Project II U.S. Strategy to the Korean Peninsula of IKUPD PROJECT: U.S. Security Strategy to Asia. This project is mainly dealing with issues of Korea-U.S. relations, Korea's vision and North Korean matters in variable aspects and its prospects in...

Author: Shivaji MukherjeeISBN-10: 1108844995ISBN-13: 9781108844994Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2021Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

The book 'Military Intervention in Bangladesh' discovers untold facts about Bangladeshi governance and politics. It reveals hard reality on the event of the Bangladeshi military coup that occurred on 11 January 2007. The purpose of this study is to examine and analyse the cause...

Integrating the international pressures emanating from the Washington Consensus with an analysis of domestic interest representation, this book explores the political consequences of privatization and the progress of democracy in Eastern Europe.Author: Chris HasselmannISBN-10: 1138620173ISBN-13: 9781138620179Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2022Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.21h x...

This volume presents the best writings on the origins, development, success and failure of fascism outside Germany. By treating the problem in a global context, these essays together add tremendous complexity to our understanding of one of history's most destructive political movements. The collection...

This book analyzes the role of cultural autonomy in minority rights protection on the national and global level. It assesses the legal limits of the right to self-determination and autonomy and draws on Marxist internationalism, liberal nationalism and EU integrationist studies to examine the...

Drawing from decades of street art for change, a compilation of practical "How To's." Learn how to make a banner, paint a street mural, create flat puppets, and many more. A Better World is Paintable draws from the writings of David Solnit - who...

Explores the psychological insights needed to establish successful poverty-alleviation programs in developing countries without destructive conflict.Author: William AscherISBN-10: 1108794572ISBN-13: 9781108794572Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/10/2021Pages: 269Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d

This is the rambunctious story of how America came to declare independence in Philadelphia in 1776. As late as that May, the Continental Congress had no plans to break away from England. Troops under General George Washington had been fighting the British for nearly...

Claudia Larrain's "The Forgotten Ones" provides the latest research findings and observations of the homelessness crisis around the world. She summarizes the history of how many individuals ended up living in squalor. Many are mentally ill, who were thrown out of mental asylums due...

Combining theoretical reflections and empirical insights from paradigmatic case studies in the area of external energy governance, pipeline politics, Liquefied Natural Gas development and offshore petroleum policy and politics, this ground-breaking study demonstrates that a distinctive and new politics of energy security is definitively...

Can security automata (robots and AIs) make moral decisions to apply force on humans correctly? If they can make such decisions, ought they be used to do so? Will security automata increase or decrease aggregate risk to humans? What regulation is appropriate? Addressing these...

From Slovenia to Turkey, social movements and protests have shaken the political systems of Southeast Europe. Confronting issues such as austerity, the provision and privatisation of welfare, public utilities and public space, corruption, bureaucratic inefficiency, environmental concerns and authoritarian tendencies, these revolts have also...

The March 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan plunged the country into a state of crisis. As the nation struggled to recover from a record breaking magnitude 9 earthquake and a tsunami that was as high as thirty-eight meters in some places, news trickled...