Political science and theory

This volume has been designed as a key resource in the field of international political leadership research.

Trudeau, the most intellectual of Canadian prime ministers, turned to Cook, an illustrious historian and a speech-writer during the 1968 election campaign, for his trusted views.

A collection of essays on the politics of boundaries, this book addresses a broad range of cases, some geographical, some legal, and some involving less tangible practices of inclusion and exclusion.

Barnett presents the first in-depth analysis in English of the pioneer of long cycle analysis, N.

This book fleshes out activities and initiatives in the field of education from across areas of European Union competence in order to highlight the extent to which education and training have penetrated the European Community's policymaking since its creation.

This book advances an original conception of the relationship between state and corporate power in the United States.

In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking.

The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the concept of Russia's uniqueness.

European integration is an open-ended, ongoing process which has been deeply challenged by integral world capitalism.

This book examines the twin phenomena of radicalization and de-radicalization in a global context of political extremism and violent conflict, focusing on the approaches of governments in how they use counterterrorism to respond to radicalization and extremism.

This book advances an ecologically grounded approach to International Political Economy (IPE).

THE HANDBOOK FOR LEADERS The Prince is often regarded as the first true leadership book.

During the next few years, most European and World cities will be developing urban agendas.

Well-known scholars present the arguments of individual political philosophers they know and admire.

This book provides a unique insight into the research and recent developments undertaken among the African Remote Sensing community in regard to the environment.

In crisis management operations, strategic errors can cost lives.

The authors examine the relationship between social science and philosophy and ask what sort of work social science and an accompanying philosophy should do.

To what extent should government be permitted to intervene in personal choices?

« Chaque matin, le secrétaire général arrive à la préfecture à huit heures.

Technocrats claim to know how to solve the social and economic problems of complex modern societies.

European states and international organizations have established multiple policies and mechanisms to deal with various risks, crises and disasters.

This Oxford Handbook is the definitive volume on the state of international security and the academic field of security studies.

A History of Western Political Thought is an energetic and lucid account of the most important political thinkers and the enduring themes of the last two and a half millennia.

Now in its fifth edition, Politics: The Basics explores the systems, movements and issues at the cutting edge of modern politics.

This book traces how Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, during their respective years as Conservative Opposition Leaders (1965-70 and 1975-79), managed their Party's attempts to ensure a return to government, each after two electoral defeats.

Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia is widely recognized as one of the most influential works of modern political philosophy.

Using Thai-language archival material, this book examines a crucial element in the dismantling of the traditional government structure and the installation of a Western-style administration - the creation of a modern Ministry of Finance.

Since the 1940s, Marxist thought has blossomed in Nigeria.

Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?

The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, and the ensuing trial of Derek Chauvin for murder a year later has rubbed raw the bloodiest stain on the United States' history and its world reputation.

Securing Europe takes a novel approach to Europeanization among EU member states by employing a sociological institutionalist approach.

This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.

This book provides a comparative study of fascisms and reactionary nationalisms.

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy.

In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful that this term, public, must be re-read as politically paralyzing.

Christian theology has been complicit in justifying the war on women, but it also has resources to help finally declare peace in the war on women.

A critical examination of Canadian regulatory governance and politics over the past fifty years, Rules and Unruliness builds on the theory and practice of rule-making to show why government "e;unruliness"e; - the inability to form rules and implement structures for compliance - is endemic and increasing.

This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty.

Psychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II.

The book explores the role of new modes of governance in helping future member states to cope with their accession to the EU.

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought.

In our highly globalized and networked society, even our most seemingly local actions can have far-reaching social, political, economic, and environmental consequences.

This Element presents data-driven approach that evaluates the performance of the administration of a democratic election.

This unique collection of original essays describes preferential trade agreements, explains why they have spread and explores their effects.

The world contains over 6000 languages and less than 200 states to accommodate them.

This is a collection of essays (with contributors from Britain, Continental Europe and the USA) dealing with the character and aftermath of Stalinism in the USSR.

A compilation of essays which examine the response of the new Right to health policy issues.