Political science and theory

This book considers the state of Czech democracy, following the rise of authoritarian regimes in Poland and Hungary and the ascent of billionaire oligarch Andrej Babis to the office of prime minister of the Czech Republic, leading to concerns about conflict of interest.

American politics seems to grow more contentious and complicated by the day, and whether American democracy works well is hotly debated.

This book-along with its companion volume Writing Mary I: History, Historiography, and Fiction-centers on representations of Queen Mary I in writing, broadly construed, and the process of writing that queen into literature and other textual sources.

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.

This book shares first-hand insights into the implementation of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians, written by a high-ranking Israeli military intelligence officer and former foreign policy advisor to Israel's fifth prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin.

In this engaging book, Maria Chiara D'Argenio delineates a turn in recent Latin American filmmaking towards inter/cultural feature films made by non-Indigenous directors.

This book discusses the central role education and research play in generating both value and comparative advantages in the (imageries of) global competition, competitiveness and transnational value chains.

This book explores the interplay between liberalism and imperialism in Second Empire France.

This book assesses the impacts of the right within the US and UK, forty years on from their initial effects upon economic and social orthodoxies.

This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge analysis of ethnicity through diverse multidisciplinary lenses.

This book provides an advanced introduction to the Cold War, assessing its origins, development and conclusion as a dynamic interaction between superpower confrontation and complex regional and local situations.

Is liberal democracy a universal ideal?

This book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic researchers, civil society organizations and the state to frame human mobility issues; second, it investigates migrants' agency under conditions of crisis; and third, it discusses whether "e;migration crisis"e; is a conjunctural or structural phenomenon in the region.

This volume explores the implications of pluralism for international order.

This book takes an interest in the collapse and formation of the state and is primarily concerned with exploring and comparing the emergence of Kosovo and South Sudan.

Marx's masterpiece Capital (Das Kapital) ignored or misread as well as selectively and creatively interpreted by the generation of social scientists that came after him.

This book explores the transformation of the political organization of the world as manifest in different spheres of world politics, in particular, in world politics, regional studies, interaction of MNCs and government agencies, and state responses to biogenic challenges.

The COVID-19 pandemic is an international event whose impact has been acutely felt by almost everyone across the globe.

This book demonstrates the evolution of resilience and recovery as a concept by applying it to a new context, that of courts and monarchies.

This book puts forward a new perspective, the historical dynamics of Chinese politics, for better understanding China's politics, which is from the vertical history of China and the dimension of horizontal world politics, combining the historical analysis of how Chinese politics has come along the way and the comparative analysis of China's governance achievements in world politics.

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The book examines the dynamic processes of the various social, political, and cultural negotiations that representatives of Christian groups engage in within authoritarian societies in Greater China, where Christianity is deemed a foreign religious system brought to China by colonial rulers.

A history of global secularism and political feeling through colonial blasphemy law.

This book examines the process, policies, and politics of urban development in China, with particular attention to city region governance, urban redevelopment, and urban-rural interaction through intensive theoretical discussions and extensive case studies.

This book identifies the main factors shaping the fortunes of democracy globally.

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Since the dawn of civilisation philosophers and sages alike have been concerned about the potential for government to become a Leviathan-like monster.

Offering a fresh take on a crucial phase of European history, this book explores the years between the 1980s and 1990s when the European Union took shape.

This book challenges existing accounts of the role of religion in early-nineteenth-century British socialism.

The book provides a fresh and innovative interpretation of the new government of Zimbabwe led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, which emerged in late 2017 after the downfall of Robert Mugabe.

This book seeks to better understand the meaning and implications of the UKs calamitous encounter with the COVID-19 global pandemic for the future of British neoliberalism.

The book is devoted to the subject of Venezuela's politics and the different dimensions of its longstanding crisis, with various researchers exchanging ideas on the current problems affecting the country.

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This Handbook aims to provide a unique and convenient one-volume reference work, exhibiting the latest interdisciplinary explorations in this urgently burgeoning field of intellectual and practical importance.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how the course, content and outcome of policy making is affected by big data.

US Environmental Policy in Action provides a comprehensive look at the creation, implementation, and evaluation of environmental policy, which is of particular importance in our current era of congressional gridlock, partisanship and polarization, and escalating debates about federal/state relations.

This book analyzes how AKP's embedded intellectuals operate as media spin doctors, exploring their transformation from passionately engaged intellectuals into apparatchiks.

Through the history of this housing complex, this book illuminates Salvador Allende's dedication to the imperative of the right to the city for Chile's marginalized people.

Foundations in the United States have long exerted considerable power over education and scholarly production.

This book focuses on the written heritage of Muslims in the Philippines, the historical constitution of chancelleries within the Islamic sultanates, and the production of official letters to conduct local and international diplomacy.

This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, "e;nomadity of being.

In "Macht und Politik in Amerika" entführt Henry F.

Un recorrido por la historia del proyecto de unidad europea desde  sus orígenes hasta la actualidad, con sus éxitos, sus fracasos, y sus desafíos futuros.

This groundbreaking work tells the true story behind Franklin D.