Political Science - General

The Social Contract in the Boardroom: Bridging Politics, Society, and ProfitIn today's volatile world, the boardroom is no longer just a place for financial decisions-it's a crucible where ethics, equity, and enterprise collide.The Social Contract in the Boardroom is a powerful call to reimagine...

A country's stature in global politics is often determined by its popular image and public perceptions, as reflected in global media. While 'nation branding' as a term and a tool of analysis in Social Sciences has emerged prominently since the 1990s, the practice of...

Blueprint of Influence: Navigating the Intersection of Politics, Culture, and CommerceInfluence isn't accidental-it's engineered.In a world where politics, culture, and commerce collide, Blueprint of Influence offers a masterclass in shaping perception, driving transformation, and leading with purpose. This book is your strategic guide to...

The Marketplace of Ideas: How Politics and Society Shape Global BusinessBusiness doesn't operate in a vacuum-it thrives, stumbles, and evolves within the pulse of politics and the heartbeat of society.The Marketplace of Ideas is a powerful exploration of the forces that shape global commerce....

In a world where the loudest voices often dominate, there exists a select group of billionaires who quietly transform industries and shape our future. "The Quiet Titans: Billionaires Who Redraw Maps and Rewrite the Story of Industries" delves into the lives and achievements of...

The Third Pillar: How Social Science Informs Political and Business StrategyPower, profit, and people-three forces that shape our world, yet rarely move in harmony.The Third Pillar is a bold and illuminating exploration of how social science bridges the gap between politics and business, offering...

The Silent Architects: How Billionaires Shape Industries, Redraw Maps, and Rewrite HistoryIn a world where wealth wields unprecedented influence, a select few individuals stand as the silent architects of our time. These modern titans, often shrouded in mystery, shape entire industries, redraw national boundaries,...

The changes in post-socialist Central and Eastern European countries have been affected by external influences more than any preceding wave of democratization. The contributions in this volume reflect the wide variety of Europeanization processes taking place in Central and Eastern Europe. They not only...

How do factors such as small size, insularity, vulnerability and remoteness influence a small state's behaviour in international relations? What are the major problems and events shaping Malta-EU relations? How can Malta's position in the EU be described? In which way can this small...

Azerbaijan's parliamentary elections in November 2005 became an arena where domestic and international actors jostled for influence and control. This book highlights the role of international observers in the election process, and presents in-depth assessments of the pre- and post-election situation in Azerbaijan. The...

Jorgen Johansen (Peace Activist, Trainer and Researcher, with expertise in the conflicts in Colombia, India, Congo, Cameron, China, Palestine, Israel, Indonesia, and other areas) writes on this book: "The international peace movement changed its strategy in the early nineties. From mainly working in their...

Can the Western dream of planetary democracy come true when the existence of fundamental cultural differences is denied? This book proposes keys for improving our understanding of the fundamental differences between democracies and other societies, in particular those receiving foreign aid or assistance from...

Contributors originally presented their ideas for this book at the IV International Congress on the Intercultural Philosophy, held in Bangalore, India in September 2001. Participants from Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America make the case that only by creating conditions of social justice and...

This is the first analysis of the publishing industry in South Africa. It provides a social, historical, and strategic look at its importance for the further development of society. The contributors ask important questions about the politics of ownership and participation in the publishing...

In the past decade, trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation has become an issue of increasing attention in many countries, international organizations and non-governmental organizations. The debates and campaigns, advocating a global prohibition regime on human trafficking, have been shaped by discourses on...

This dissertation argues that there is an ideological antagonism between the Islamic reformists and the Islamic fundamentalists, pertaining to the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The claim of this work is that the same elements of liberalism, the ideas of individualism and...

The saying "we eat to live" is a clear testimony on how food is at the core of humanity and development. Realizing the right to food of the world's population is thus an urgent obligation that may be unique from other human rights and...

The Soeharto government which ruled Indonesia from 1966 to 1998 was an interventionist state. Its intervention was felt elsewhere in the country, including in remote areas in Maluku (Moluccas) Province in Eastern Indonesia. The study focusses on relationships between adat (customary law), religion, and...

Migration and Political Behavior is an account of the impact migration has on the political behavior of individual migrants both abroad and in their society of origin. It analyzes how migrants adapt to a political system that may be distinct and which may result...

Decentralized Relief: How Cryptocurrency is Transforming International Aid MissionsIn a world where crises are becoming more frequent and complex, the traditional systems of delivering humanitarian aid are struggling to keep up. Bureaucratic delays, corruption, and inefficiencies often prevent life-saving resources from reaching those who...

Strategic Justice: Military and ICC's Dance with GeopoliticsIn "Strategic Justice: Military and ICC's Dance with Geopolitics," dive into the intricate and often tumultuous relationship between the military, international justice, and the geopolitical landscape. This book unravels the complex dynamics that shape the International Criminal...

Regional tourism development is no more an isolated process. It encompasses the whole system and its subsystems in which it functions. Therefore, tourism development planning needs an integrated planning approach encompassing all the subsystems of the system, such as, socio-economic, physical, infrastructure, institution, ecology...

The Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), created in 1968, has assumed a significant status in the formulation of India's foreign policies and strategies. Working directly under the Prime Minister, it has over the years become and effective instrument of India's national power. In consonance...

This book analyze China's changing foreign policy towards the United Nations Peacekeeping Operation (UNPKO). In 1950s, China rejected any forms of intervention towards internal affairs of one country. In 1949-1971, China even condemned the establishment of the UNPKO. But in the subsequent years, China...

Ongoing developments in the Arctic have attracted the attention of the five Arctic coastal states; Canada, the U.S., Russia, Denmark and Norway. However, they have also caught the attention of external stakeholders such as China, South Korea, Japan, NATO and the European Union. Considering...

The U.S. Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) was the first piece of legislation designed to combat human trafficking on all fronts, both domestically and internationally, and was upheld as a model worldwide. Although human trafficking as an issue seemed to appear out...

This book presents a comparative view of two powerful political leaders of our time, former President of the United States, George W. Bush and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair. Although the two leaders held different office positions in two culturally...

This monograph studies the implications that institutions of direct democracy have on the happiness of a society, in a framework where the authority is interested both in implementing its ideal policy and in its re-election. It is shown that, in cases where authorities have...

Although Australia is a constitutional monarchy, the move to a republic is gathering momentum. Such momentum requires conceptual clarity. Peter Nugus maps the ideological and discursive contours of the contemporary Australian debate to their ancient lineage of Aristotle, Cicero, Plato, Polybius, Harrington, Montesquieu, Machiavelli...

In the last two decades the concept of citizenship and the increase in cases of dual nationality have gained significant importance. Therefore the objective of this book is to put citizenship and contemporary problematic of dual nationality cases in the center of political and...

2001, in Southern Lebanese village of Rashaya, at one of two last potteries there, the old man stumped the mould of clay with his bare feet ahead of the manual formation process on the rotator. His wife spoke about a forgotten history and a...

Jeremiah John Rawlings, Ghanaian air force pilot and populist politician ruled Ghana for almost two decades between December 1981 and September 2000. Rawlings, who began his leadership career as a military ruler, later went on to become a democratically elected president through a successful...

Seventeen years after the Taef Summit, which was held in Saudi Arabia in October 1989, the reconciliation agreement remains a debatable issue among the Lebanese people, basically among the major Lebanese political parties. Some have opposed this agreement and others, particularly the Lebanese Forces,...

The present inquiry has two dimensions: first it is concerned with the changing concept of citizenship in the liberal polities with respect to increasing diversity within these societies -with special reference to the impact of immigration on diversity. Second, it tries to explore the...

The challenge in early warning of displacement crises comes not in predicting individual behavior, but in predicting the collective behavior of thousands of people fleeing from violence, oppression, and disaster, while each retains individual autonomy and social identity. This book is intended to reorient...

This book is a compendium of various papers, studies, and essays on subjects ranging from the politics of ethnicity and specific country profiles, cultural studies with regard to minority issues in the United States of America (primarily black politics), and analyses of research in...

This book deals with political institutions and their effect on democracy in the Dominican Republic since 1966. It provides a new analysis of the Dominican democracy, and uses case-study methods to generate new and improve existing theories and concepts. The book develops new measurements...

Trafficking in people is often approached as an issue of crime or immigration control, with international bodies taking a state centered approach. Internationally, legislation finds unsanctioned migration to be a security threat to national borders. In practice, this not only criminalises traffickers, but trafficked...

In the last decades across many parts of Europe a regional level of governance has been emerging, a trend which has not been observed in Turkey despite its extreme regional disparities. Since the Helsinki summit of the EU leaders in 1999 when Turkey was...

Since the early 1980s, there has been a drastic increase in commemorative activities dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust and its victims. This book investigates the influence of the history of the Holocaust and the politics of memory on German democracy and national...

This work presents the case of the American economy as a repudiation of the two-stage theory of capitalist development advanced by theorists like Hilferding, Steindl and Baran and Sweezy. Various cases from the American economy are presented to contradict the argument that with the...

The number of regional organizations in Africa has increased substantially over the past thirty years even though their success has been dismal. In addition to poor performance, traditional theories of economics cooperation are no longer relevant in explaining the existence of these organizations because...

How to achieve favorable integration outcomes has become a pressing and contentious issue in Germany. Some see cultural distance as the main impediment to integration. The more immigrants' culture and value systems differ from those of the host society, they contend, the more immigrants...

There has been renewed interest in the history of second wave feminism, as it is forty years since the political upheavals of 1968 which prompted this new movement for women's liberation. A key feature of that move-ment was its challenge to liberal democracy, tackling...

The research on relations between Turkey and the European Union usually focuses on the Turkish state's relations with European institutions. As the boundaries between international and domestic politics blur, there is need for a new approach. Based on the transnational model in international relations...

Nations must often take stock of their achievements and forge ahead with new directions to confront the changing realities in economics and politics. This imposes new demands and burdens on leadership. What should be the approach and the new role of leadership in fostering...

Dr. Yayla presents that terrorism is a social phenomenon with criminal consequences which needs to be dealt by means of two dimensional approaches, the social dimension of terrorism and the criminal dimension of terrorism. This book offers a conceptual model which addresses both of...

The main objective of this work is to examine how the free markets' superior agent, the transnational corporation (TNC) affects economic development and human rights' conditions in the developing world. The book expands on an emerging tradition that highlights the importance of context and...

The issue of honour crime is much debated in contemporary Turkey as well as in the Middle East. Honour crime can be perceived as the murder of a woman by one of her family members in the name of 'redeeming honour of the family.'...

This book examines the factors that affect work performance of Ghanaian bureaucrats. Three decades ago Robert Price (1975) examined the impact that kinship ties had on the motivation of Ghanaian bureaucrats. This study followed the work of Price by replicating his mix of interviews...