Comparative politics

Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them?

For two decades, militant jihadism has been one of the world's most pressing security crises.

Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico.

For two decades, militant jihadism has been one of the world's most pressing security crises.

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia.

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges -- from both the left and the right.

Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world.

With the end of the Cold War has come an upsurge in humanitarian interventions-military campaigns aimed at ending mass atrocities.

China's reform era is ending.

From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, and from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts in very different settings.

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia.

Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico.

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think.

The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so.

Political races in the United States rely heavily on highly paid political consultants.

The loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt.

China's reform era is ending.

From the deserts of Sudan to the jungles of Colombia, and from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of Kurdistan, paramilitaries have appeared in violent conflicts in very different settings.

How we feel is as vital to our survival as how we think.

Recent elections in the advanced western democracies have undermined the basic foundations of political systems that had previously beaten back all challenges -- from both the left and the right.

Since 1980, China has evolved from a poor and mostly rural society into one of the largest economies in the world.

Are Supreme Court justices swayed by the political environment that surrounds them?

In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "e;end of history.

This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region.

This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region.

Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies.

In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad uses one of the greatest oddities of modern history--the broad diffusion throughout the Western world of alcohol-control legislation in the early twentieth century--to make a powerful argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

The word "e;jihad"e; is everywhere in the global media.

Now revised and updated with new aphorisms!

An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century.

The political ambitions of the movement behind Bernie Sanders have never been limited to winning the White House.

The purpose of the book is to revive the spirit of real Christianity in the United States, stand against our Adversary and turn from our collective moral drift.

Fully updated from the original edition.

The resurgence of the far right across Europe and the emergence of the "e;alt-right"e; in the US have put the question of fascism urgently back on the agenda.

The purpose of the book is to revive the spirit of real Christianity in the United States, stand against our Adversary and turn from our collective moral drift.

In An Appeal to the World, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet illuminates the way to peace in our time, arguing for a form of universal ethics that goes beyond religion - values we all share as humans that can help us create unity and peace to heal our world.

Like two roosters in a fighting arena, Haiti and the Dominican Republic are encircled by barriers of geography and poverty.

An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "e;fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination"e; (The New York Times)At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason.