Intimate access to the mind of Francis Fukuyama and his reflections on world politics, his life and career, and the evolution of his thoughtIn his 1992 best-selling book The End of History and the Last Man, American political scientist Francis Fukuyama argued that the dominance of liberal democracy marked the end of humanitys political and ideological development.
Heightened tensions in the South China Sea have raised serious concerns about the dangers of conflict in this region as a result of unresolved, complex territorial disputes.
Este libro rompedor revisa, a contracorriente de la opinión establecida, lo que se creía saber de las primeras civilizaciones en la llanura aluvial mesopotámica y en otros lugares.
This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia's provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.
This book reveals how the critique of the domination of capitalism inaugurated by the Frankfurt School becomes pluriversal, motivating the historical Critical Theory of Coloniality (CTC) dialogue between the Global South and the Global North.
This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia's provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory.
Die »Zeitenwende« und ihre AuswirkungenAufgrund des zeitnahen vollständigen Verkaufs der Vorauflage haben sich Autor und Verlag auch mit Blick auf die dramatischen weltpolitischen Entwicklungen für eine Neuauflage dieses Klassikers entschieden.
How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes.
Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused approach to understanding citizen disaffection with politicians.
This work positions Arendt as a political writer attempting to find a way in which humanity, poised between the Holocaust and the atom bomb, might reclaim its position as the creators of a world fit for human habitation.
This collection argues that although constitutionalism has traditionally been the primary mechanism for facilitating the mutual accommodation of sub-state and state national societies in plurinational states.
The first study to examine psychological warfare in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this book presents a rational analysis of the Arab and Israeli struggles to gain the world's sympathy and support, tracing these struggles from the British Mandate to the more recent HAMAS abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
Here is a witty and learned literary excursion into the world of humour and comic literature as revealed inter alia by the works of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Oliver Goldsmith and Henry Fielding - leading in the second half to some glorious insights and observations provided by author's life experience in the world of diplomacy.
In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias-societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence-have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day.
In this volume, John Farrell shows that political utopias-societies with laws and customs designed to short-circuit the foibles of human nature for the benefit of our collective existence-have a perennial opponent, the honor-based culture of aristocracy that dominated most of the world from ancient times into early modernity and whose status-based competitive psychology persists to the present day.
This book, by noted German sociologist Wilhelm Heitmeyer, analyses capitalist development in Western Europe, with a focus on Germany, since the 1990s and its consequences for open society and liberal democracy.
It covers the history of the formation and progression of political theories, beginning with its emergence among the Greeks in the time of their ancient civilization, tracing its influence among the Romans and in the Middle Ages, and examining it in the era of the scientific renaissance and religious reform.
Un quart de siècle s’est écoulé depuis les « transitions démocratiques » qui, au début des années 1990, ont ramené le pluralisme politique et médiatique en Afrique subsaharienne.
With contributions from experts on democracy promotion, this volume examines civil society development and external civil society promotion in post-socialist Europe.
The abolition of slavery across large parts of the world was one of the most significant transformations in the nineteenth century, shaping economies, societies, and political institutions.
First published in 1985, Ethnic Groups and the State examines the effects of the state, its official ideologies, its structural forms and its specific policies upon the formation of ethnic identity.
First published in 1981, Capitalism in the UK clearly states the Marxist position arguing that capitalism dominates the world economy, and that the world's trade and multinational enterprises favour the capitalist system.
First published in 1981, Capitalism in the UK clearly states the Marxist position arguing that capitalism dominates the world economy, and that the world's trade and multinational enterprises favour the capitalist system.
First published in 1985, Ethnic Groups and the State examines the effects of the state, its official ideologies, its structural forms and its specific policies upon the formation of ethnic identity.
In this collection, leading international scholars provide their perspectives on the continuing role of the liberal paradigm, both as a theoretical approach to international relations, and as an ordering principle of international politics.
Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.
"Según Aristóteles, la justicia es una virtud que se pone en práctica en relación con otros y John Rawls en A theory of justice nos recuerda que ella es la primera virtud de las instituciones sociales.
