Political science and theory

This book provides a critical survey of Western political philosophy from a classical liberal perspective, paying particular attention to knowledge problems and the problem of political authority.

This book describes how American international policy alternates between engagement and disengagement cycles in world affairs.

This book critiques mainstream beliefs about cyberwarfare and forges a new path in the way of defining this largely misunderstood concept.

This book offers novel insights about the ability of a democracy to accommodate violence.

This book explores the activism and solidarity movements formed by contemporary European citizens in opposition to populism, which has risen significantly in reaction to globalization, European integration and migration.

This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services.

Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes beschreiben die Besonderheiten und die Gemeinsamkeiten der Fachdidaktiken für das gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Aufgabenfeld (Geographie, Geschichte, Politik, Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik).

This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration.

This book brings together multiple critical assessments of the current state and future visions of global development studies.

This is a unique and definitive study to reassess the complex dynamics of US-Korea diplomatic relations during the Reagan presidency.

This book examines the antecedents and consequences of citizens' confidence in different political institutions and authorities.

This book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad 'Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya.

This book explores the causes and consequences of the discursive and legal construction of the Hungarian transborder nation through the institutionalization of non-resident citizenship and voting.

This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its limits.

This book analyses the history of international law to reveal the significant role utopianism has played in developing the international legal system.

The Politics of Horror features contributions from scholars in a variety of fields-political science, English, communication studies, and others-that explore the connections between horror and politics.

This book offers a radical new interpretation of Georg Lukacs's History and Class Consciousness, showing for the first time how the philosophical framework for his analysis of society was laid in the drafts of a philosophy of art that he planned but never completed before he converted to Marxism.

This edited volume builds and expands on the groundbreaking work of Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood on the origins of capitalism.

This book analyses the development of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) as an outstanding Marxist thinker and socialist politician in the era of imperialism and revolution.

This book examines public oath taking as an anti-corruption strategy that has been implemented with successful results in Nigeria and that has applications for other countries struggling with similar problems.

Noch nie ging es so vielen Menschen so gut.

This book studies civic organizations in Miami's Cuban community.

This book aims to shift the limited and often negative popular understanding of the Middle East's place in the world by chronicling the region's contributions to the international order rather than disorder, and to the development of the international human rights system.

This comparative study explores the impact of populist majoritarianism on Greek and Turkish democratic transition.

This project addresses recurring questions about Armenian-Turkish relations, the legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915, and relations between the Armenian diaspora and the Republic of Armenia.

This book intends to analyze Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of the state in his Christian Realism.

This edited collection draws together new historical writing on the Commonwealth.

This book presents cutting-edge concepts on the question of trust.

This book is a study of British official attitudes towards the Danubian countries (Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia) from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the year 1941, a period that marked serious but fruitless British political and economic efforts to unite this unruly part of Europe against Nazi ascendancy.

This book explores the governance of the UK, and the process of constitutional change, between Scotland's independence referendum in September 2014 and the UK general election in May 2015.

This book aims to provide an overview of Italian foreign policy from the moment of unification to the establishment of the European Union.

Immigration has become one of the central issues dominating the agenda of political parties, and has also played a crucial role in the rise of right-wing populism in Western Europe.

Drawing on a Marxist concept of world literature, this book is a study of the manipulations of time in contemporary anglophone fiction from Africa and South Asia.

This book looks at the fundamental components of national identity as understood by ordinary nation members, and the way in which it is mobilised by political elites.

This book investigates the geopolitics and strategic dimensions of US-American foreign policy during George W.

Die Corona-Krise zwingt uns zu gewaltigen Veränderungen unserer privaten Lebensführung und erfordert höchst umstrittene politische Maßnahmen zum Schutz der Gesundheit und zur Verteilung knapper Ressourcen.

This book argues for the abolition of the employment system in favor of workplace democracy and thus escapes the usual capitalism-versus-socialism binary choice by reframing the basic issue as the employment contract, not private property or a market economy.

This book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period.

This book is a reception study of Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' ideas in Britain during the late nineteenth century and a revisionist account of the emergence of modern British socialism.

This book synthesizes psychoanalytic and Marxist techniques in order to illuminate the resistance to a socialization of the American economy, the protectionist discourses of anomalous American capitalism, and the suppression of the capitalist welfare state.

This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time.

This book takes radical aim at the conventional conduct of international relations analysis.

This book offers a systematic guide to the allocation of American taxpayer dollars used to provide for the common defense.

This book addresses the question: "e;What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?

This book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought.