Political science and theory

This edited collection brings together international leading scholars to explore why the education of Muslim students is globally associated with radicalisation, extremism and securitisation.

This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to analyze it.

From bans on religious symbols in public spaces, to the provision of abortion by doctors, recent cases across Europe have highlighted acute dilemmas about how best to respond to the claims of individuals or groups feeling that their values or beliefs are not treated fairly by the law.

This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach.

This book constitutes the first comprehensive retrospective on one hundred years of post-dynastic China and compares enduring challenges of governance in the period around the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911 to those of contemporary China.

Hemingway has been labeled a 'communist sympathizer,' 'elitist', and a 'rugged individualist.

This book delves into the philosophical presuppositions of modern political agency.

This Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a seminal work by British economist, sociologist and academic John A.

This book presents a cogent but comprehensive review of Taiwan's socio-economic transformation from a Japanese colony to a thriving East Asian mini-state.

The years between the American Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789 and the European Revolutions of 1848 saw fundamental shifts from autocracy to emerging democracy.

This book argues that the need for music, and the ability to produce and enjoy it, is an essential element in human nature.

A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics.

This timely publication offers a fresh scholarly assessment of political advertising across the EU, as well as an insight into differing political and regulatory systems related to political advertising in the individual member states.

This book traces the word 'progressive' through modern British history, from the Enlightenment to Brexit.

This new Handbook gathers together state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and empirical research by a group of leading international scholars in the subdiscipline of Critical Security Studies.

Social power, defined as "e;the ability to set standards, create norms and values that are deemed legitimate and desirable, without resorting to coercion or payment"e;, is a central part of contemporary international politics.

The book chronicles the evolution of the church's political power throughout Poland's unique history.

First published in 1920, Paul Miliukov's book concerns the international nature of Bolshevism, both in terms of its ideologically internationalist doctrine of World Revolution and in terms of the attempts to spread Bolshevism in the period immediately preceding and following the First World War and the Russian revolution of October 1917.

This book investigates the role of society groups in the making of the Arab Spring and under which conditions they attained their goals.

This book suggests how the internationalisation of teaching and learning for sustainability can be a vehicle for a two-way flow of knowledge across national, cultural and theoretical boundaries.

Following Barrington Moore Jr.

This book examines the history of Bosnia and post-conflict Bosnian education in the setting of a society very much still politically divided.

In many respects this book, first published in 1961, marked a somewhat radical departure from contemporary historical writings.

This book empirically discusses recent struggles over land and mining, exploring state-society relations conflicts on various scales.

Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises.

Princeton Readings in American Politics offers an exciting and challenging new way to learn about American politics.

Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory.

The acceptance of human rights and minority rights, the increasing role of international financial institutions, and globalization have led many observers to question the continued viability of the sovereign state.

Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought.

This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics.

Offering an unparalleled, sweeping survey of the political ideologies that have shaped our world, the seventh edition of Andrew Heywood's seminal undergraduate textbook continues to lead the way in guiding students through the political creeds and doctrines that have dominated politics past and present.

Pradeep Chhibber and Ken Kollman rely on historical data spanning back to the eighteenth century from Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States to revise our understanding of why a country's party system consists of national or regional parties.

The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics.

This book is an exploration of Plato's Republic that bypasses arcane scholarly debates.

Realism, the dominant theory of international relations, particularly regarding security, seems compelling in part because of its claim to embody so much of Western political thought from the ancient Greeks to the present.

Why did the language of contract become the dominant metaphor for the relationship between subject and sovereign in mid-seventeenth-century England?

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values.

The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson.

The story of modern conservatism through the lives of six leading figuresThe Rise and Fall of Modern American Conservatism tells the gripping story of perhaps the most significant political force of our time through the lives and careers of six leading figures at the heart of the movement.

Democracy is not naturally plausible.

Liberty and the News is Walter Lippman's classic account of how the press threatens democracy whenever it has an agenda other than the free flow of ideas.

The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties.

On November 4, 1979, when students occupied the American Embassy in Tehran and subsequently demanded that the United States return the Shah in exchange for hostages, the deposed Iranian ruler's regime became the focus of worldwide scrutiny and controversy.

China's rise and stepped-up involvement in Southeast Asia have prompted a blend of anticipation and unease among its smaller neighbors.

Davide Panagia's Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.

In the current political climate it is impossible not to speculate about the correlation between American national identity and religious beliefs.

A World in Chaos: Social Crisis and the Rise of Postmodern Cinema traces the evolution of postmodern cinema through its multiple and overlapping expressions.

This book examines the recent migration phenomenon in the Arab Gulf states for work and residence.

Americas premier female Illusionist, Lyn Dillies, adds another DIMENSION to her sparkling career: YOUR VOTE IS MAGIC!