Political science and theory

Why isn't the Baltic region like the Balkans?

One hundred and fifty years ago, Abraham Lincoln stressed the pressing need for a new definition of 'freedom.

Cleopatra-a brave, astute, and charming woman who spoke many languages, entertained lavishly, hunted, went into battle, eliminated siblings to consolidate her power, and held off the threat of Imperial Rome to protect her country as long as she could-continues to fascinate centuries after she ruled Egypt.

This provocative and unique work reveals the remarkably influential role of futuristic literature on contemporary political power in America.

An argument for the classical realist approach to world politics An Unwritten Future offers a fresh reassessment of classical realism, an enduring approach to understanding crucial events in the international political arena.

Why does democracy-as a word and as an idea-loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood?

An authoritative introduction to ISIS-now expanded and revised to bring events up to the presentThe Islamic State stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes.

A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constitution-making.

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'.

This book explores comparative political theory through the study of a range of places and periods with contributions from a diverse group of scholars.

This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci's term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through coercive tactics to establishing capitalist hegemony.

A comprehensive introduction to contemporary political ethicsWhat is the relationship between politics and morality?

This fascinating cultural and intellectual history focuses on education as practiced by the imperial age Romans, looking at what they considered the value of education and its effect on children.

This book explores the work of the European Ombudsman and her or his contribution to holding the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to account, through examination of complaints on maladministration, own-initiative inquiries and other proactive efforts.

American Exceptionalism Revisited provides a broad overview of the various features that signify American politics.

Giorgio Agamben: Power, Law and the Uses of Criticism is a thorough engagement with the thought of the influential Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

This book features a lively debate between two prominent scholars-Michael A.

The sociology of Erving Goffman has inspired generations of sociologists throughout the world.

This edited volume examines malaise with democracy within three middle-income Latin American countries - Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.

First published in 1965, this work studies the House of Lords and the various proposals for its reform, abolition or limitation of its powers which have been made in the light o f prevailing theories of the nature and characteristics of the English government.

The present international system, composed for the most part of sovereign, territorial states, is often viewed as the inevitable outcome of historical development.

In his Birkbeck Lectures, first published in 1969, Professor Ullmann throws new light on a familiar subject.

Upon its original publication in 1946, this work represented a new approach to medieval studies, offering indispensable analysis to the historian of legal, political and social ideas.

Conformity is a common coping strategy for dealing with stresses in political situations, as well a strategy for dealing with the lack of agreed foundations.

Law, Ethics and the Biopolitical explores the idea that legal authority is no longer related to national sovereignty, but to the 'moral' attempt to nurture life.

International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states.

This book posits that national education systems are enhancing socioeconomic inequalities in political engagement.

This book provides an original, international and multidisciplinary perspective on the recent and extensive political and constitutional changes in Europe.

This book aims to restore Marx's original emancipatory idea of socialism, conceived as an association of free individuals centered on working people's self- emancipation after the demise of capitalism.

This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century.

The History and Theory of Fetishism, the expanded version of Iacono's enduring classic Teorie del feticismo and available for the first time in English, aims to provide the historical context necessary to understanding the concept of "e;fetishism"e; and offers an overview of the ideologies, prejudices, and critical senses that shaped the Western observer's view of otherness and of his own world.

We know from the cost of the 2007-09 crisis that transnational finance does not operate in a realm removed from our everyday lives.

As part of the emerging new research on civic innovation, this book explores how sexual politics and gender relations play out in feminist struggles around body politics in Brazil, Colombia, India, Iran, Mexico, Nepal, Turkey, Nicaragua, as well as in East Africa, Latin America and global institutions and networks.

In this important new text, Martin Smith reassesses traditional debates about power and how they understand the nature and impact of the state.

This book offers critical analysis of everyday narratives of Iranian middle class migrants who use their social class and careers to "e;fit in"e; with British society.

This book approaches the Scottish women's suffrage campaign from the point of view of the popular press.

Examining questions of statehood, biopolitics, sovereignty, neoliberal reason and the economy, Governmentality explores the advantages and limitations of adopting Michel Foucault's concept of governmentality as an analytical framework.

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Counterterrorism Policy examines a comprehensive range of counterterrorism policies, strategies, and practices across dozens of states and actors around the world.

This book analyses the various ways and the extent to which young people participate in politics, focusing primarily on the UK and including cross-national comparisons where relevant.

This book traces how Edward Heath and Margaret Thatcher, during their respective years as Conservative Opposition Leaders (1965-70 and 1975-79), managed their Party's attempts to ensure a return to government, each after two electoral defeats.

This book is a comparative analysis of the post-communist East European radical right, both in party and non-party formation, using the West European radical right as a baseline.

This book offers a detailed account of the life and career of William Armstrong, the most influential civil servant in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, and one of the most powerful and significant Whitehall officials in the post-1945 period.

This book examines under what scope conditions foreign policy actors adopt media logic.

This book considers Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the social and political context in which he lived and wrote.

This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life.

This book explicates how debates and documents can be understood, interpreted and analysed as political action.

This book examines Shakespeare's depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics.

An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society.

This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives.

Globality, Democracy and Civil Society explores the relationship between the concepts of democracy and civil society through a comparison of their meaning and function in different historical and cultural contexts.