Political science and theory

In recent years the modern world has developed a brave new concept: 'soft power'.

Whereas many writers and scholars interested in the field of social democracy have focused on factors such as the role of economic globalization and electoral pressures, Ashley Lavelle explores the importance of the collapse of the post-war economic boom and lower growth rates since then.

The collapse of communism in 1989 paved the way for the reunification of the continent.

This book examines new member states' problems with the absorption of EU funds.

This book explores the political and ideological developments that resulted in the establishment of two separate states on the island of Ireland: the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.

The Eighteenth Brumaire in the United States, Germany, and France, 1852-1933 is the first extended political history of Karl Marx's seminal text.

This book brings together leading academics and activists to address the possibilities for qualitative social change beyond neoliberalism, providing introductory essays on alternative societies, transition, and resistance.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Sure to be controversial and spur debate, this book presents a powerful analysis of rural change to marketization and globalization.

The mostcritical factor explaining the disjuncture between empathy s revolutionarypotential and today s empathically-impaired society is the interaction betweenthe brain and our dominant political culture.

Neoliberal globalization is in deep crisis.

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The capabilities approach is a widely influential alternative theory of justice, popularized by Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen and also by Martha Nussbaum.

Drawing on his writing on philosophy, history, religion and politics, this is the first in-depth analysis of R.

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

​Barbara Saerbeck erfasst theoretisch und empirisch das Wechselspiel zwischen politischen und administrativen Akteuren im Allgemeinen und zwischen den drei Organen der Europäischen Union – Rat, Kommission und Parlament – sowie der Europäischen Umweltagentur (EEA) im Speziellen.

Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them they matter.

High oil prices are bound to undermine the U.

This edited volume questions the widespread resort to illiberal security practices by contemporary liberal regimes since 9/11, and argues that counter-terrorism is embedded into the very logic of the fields of politics and security.

This Companion presents a detailed assessment of Nozick''s Anarchy, State, and Utopia and analyses its contribution to political philosophy.

To what extent does the constitution-making process matter?

With Beyond Rationality, Kenneth R.

La pandemia de la Covid-19 ha supuesto para los Estados democráticos de Derecho un auténtico stress test sobre la capacidad de ofrecer respuestas rápidas, oportunas y flexibles a retos sociales y económicos sin precedentes, sin poner en peligro el equilibrio de la separación de poderes.

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary critique of the new economic orthodoxy as represented by the Washington Consensus.

In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P.

In the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience.

The election of Barack Obama marked a critical point in American political and social history.

This book tackles questions related to democracy, populism and truth, with results that are sure to inform pressing academic and popular debates.

This book documents the influence of nongovernmental organizations on the rise of the sustainable development movement in international politics.

Honor is misunderstood in the social sciences.

This is the first detailed assessment of the life and work of Felix Guattari--"Mr.

To Try Men's Souls: Loyalty Tests in American History offers the first comprehensive narrative of how governments in the United States have used oaths and other tests to define, demand, and police allegiance.

A multidisciplinary analysis of the role of values and virtue in public administration, this book calls for a rediscovery of virtue.

This volume explores how international organizations became involved in the making of global development policy, and looks at the driving forces and dynamics behind that process, critically assessing the consequences their policies have had around the world.

This book sheds new light on the life and times of Theodore Roosevelt, drawing on a remarkable set of oral histories gathered in the 1950s from those who knew him.

WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHORHarry V.

This book mainly seeks to explain, define and update the recurring forms of populism in the 21st century.

This book examines why countries copy the military systems of one another.

Die Warnsignale sind unübersehbar: Die Wahlbeteiligung sinkt auf allen Ebenen, Parteien und Verbände verlieren ihre Mitglieder.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "e;have-nots"e; can use to remove the power of the "e;haves.

Marx, the Body, and Human Nature shows that the body and the broader material world played a far more significant role in Marx's theory than previously recognised.

Considering the history of workers' and socialist movements in Europe, Frontier Socialism focuses on unconventional forms of anti-capitalist thought, particularly by examining several militant-intellectuals whose legacy is of particular interest for those aiming for a radical critique of capitalism.