Political science and theory

While the Arab Uprisings presented new opportunities for the empowerment of women, the sidelining of women remains a constant risk in the post-revolutionist MENA countries.

This book explores the struggle and differences between the current governmental power, the AKP, and the Gulen movement, the leading civic Islamic movement, in Turkey.

This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes's political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations.

This book explores the transformation of the Tunisian space of mobility after the Arab Uprisings, looking at the country's emerging profile as a migratory "e;destination"e; and focusing on refugees from Syria, Libya, and Sub-Saharan countries; Tunisian migrants in Europe who return home; and young undocumented European migrants living in Tunis.

This book considers new developments in Critical Race Theory (CRT) in times of austerity and assesses both the impact of British CRT or 'BritCrit', and CRT's continuing growth in the US.

This book offers a historical presentation of how international criminal law has evolved from a national setting to embodying a truly international outlook.

This book focuses on helping readers to fill the gap of the little known history between Western Europe and its most important trading partner: the People's Republic of China.

This book explores the world of Nigerian universities to offer an innovative perspective on the history of development and decolonisation from the 1930s to the 1960s.

This edited collection explores the role of Euroscepticism in the European Parliament (EP) elections of 2014 both in particular EU Member States and across broader regions.

In this groundbreaking new work, Matthew Mancini tells the surprising story of Alexis de Tocquevilles reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century.

Using the Cyprus conflict as a case study, this book examines how the securitization process in protracted conflict environments changes, as it becomes routinized and potentially even institutionalized.

This book provides an introduction to, and analysis of, the English School's views on International Relations as they developed from the somewhat vague state/society distinction to the present focus on foundation institutions, regional organisation and the globalization of international society.

This book argues that the modern state, from the nineteenth century to the contemporary period, has consistently been used as a means to measure civilizational engagement and attainment.

This pioneering book offers the first account of the work of the photographers, both official and freelance, who contributed to the forging of Mussolini's image.

This book addresses the ways in which the figure of the intellectuals and their relationship to the public has been theorized through the conceptualizations of bureaucracy, democracy, and communism as universal processes from the 19th century to the present.

This book explores citizenship education and democracy in the Netherlands.

This proceedings book addresses the main issues of contemporary political geography and international relations, providing a platform for discussion and collaboration of experts in the fields of Political Geography, Geopolitics, International Relations, and International Law.

The book provides the historical setting of Turkey related to the development of democracy, human rights issues, the treatment of cultural and ethnic minorities, and the short- and long-term consequences of the crackdown including impacts on individuals, institutions like education and the media, the criminal justice system, the economy, and Turkey's standing in the international community.

This book examines Britain and Norway in Europe from 1945 through to the former's departure from the European Union in 2020.

This book is a historical narrative covering various periods in Sierra Leone's history from the fifteenth century to the end of its civil war in 2002.

This book examines the crossroads of quantum and critical approaches to International Relations and argues that these approaches share a common project of uncovering complexity and uncertainty.

This book considers the key issue of Turkey's treatment of minorities in relation to its complex paths of both European integration and domestic and international reorientation.

This book explores the relationship between the food culture of Israel and the creation of its national identity.

This book considers the radical effects the emergence of social media and digital politics have had on the way that advocacy organisations mobilise and organise citizens into political participation.

This cutting edge collection focuses on the nature of civil society and its role in facilitating governance in Central Asia, considering local implications related to the concept of social capital and civil society in the Uzbek context.

Examining the rise of the field of imperial history in Britain and wider webs of advocacy, this book demonstrates how intellectuals and politicians promoted settler colonialism, excluded the subject empire, and laid a precarious framework for decolonization.

This book focuses on popular struggles in Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1700-2015, and how popular struggle in the form of hunger riots, tax rebellions, petition drives, strikes, demonstrations, public meetings and social movements paved the way for the introduction and development of civil liberties and political rights.

This book examines how people cannot escape being tainted, whether actively engaged or not, by violence in its countless manifestations.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another.

This book looks at the different ways in which Russian historians and authors have thought about their country's first Antarctic expedition (1819-21) over the past 200 years.

Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto ';Che' Guevara remains a compelling and controversial figure.

The third edition of this popular, innovative and engaging textbook introduces students to the various methods of modern social science, explaining how these have emerged, their strengths and limitations for understanding the world in which we live, and how it is possible to combine methodological pluralism with intellectual rigour.

As the world experiences social unrest, polarization, and faces complex challenges, citizens are taking to the squares and streets to demand change.

Based on in-depth interviews conducted with British politicians, this book analyses the different impacts of leaving political office.

What happens in a tradition that links citizenship with soldiering when women become citizens?

The third edition of this highly-regarded core textbook offers an accessible and impressively comprehensive account of Western political thought over the last two millennia.

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context.

This book explains how the Greens went from obscurity to England's third largest party in just one year, quadrupling their vote share and securing their place in Britain's refigured party system on the way.

Dieser Band betrachtet Zeitdiagnose als eine notwendige wissenschaftliche Aufgabe und als eine entscheidende Möglichkeit, gegenwartsrelevante Forschung voranzutreiben und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu entwickeln.

This handbook unites leading scholars from around the world in exploring anarchism as a political ideology, from an examination of its core principles, an analysis of its history, and an assessment of its contribution to the struggles that face humanity today.

This book is a comprehensive guide to qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) using R.

This book re-examines the Nixon administration's attitude and approach to the European integration project.

Across Europe, there is an intense search for new and sustainable approaches to providing welfare.

This book explains why more Jewish people survived in some German-occupied countries compared to others during World War II.

This edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict.

This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election.

The contributors to this book critically examine the performance of new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood, drawing on a range of in-depth case studies on issues of climate change, biodiversity, and health.

Ausgehend von allgemeinen stilistischen Regeln werden die verschiedenen journalistischen Gattungen (Meldung, Bericht, Reportage, Portrait, Kommentar, Feature, Glosse) in diesem Buch kritisch geprüft und die Charakteristika ausführlich dargestellt.

​Der vorliegende Beitrag zeigt Unterschiede zwischen neoliberalen und wohlfahrtsstaatlichen Strategien im Umgang mit sozialer Unsicherheit auf und argumentiert, dass die Entwicklung in Deutschland nicht angemessen verstanden werden kann, wenn Ähnlichkeiten zu den USA betont, Unterschiede nivelliert werden.

Divided into five discrete sections, this book examines the issue of Holocaust denial, and in some cases "e;Holocaust inversion"e; in North America, Europe, and the Middle East and its relationship to the history of antisemitism before and since the Holocaust.