Political science and theory

Marx, Spinoza and Darwin presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors-certainly with differences among themselves-consolidated a field of investigation that does not resort to transcendent or religious premises in approaching the phenomena they analyze.

Secessionism perseveres as a complex political phenomenon in Africa, yet often a more in-depth analysis is overshadowed by the aspirational simplicity of pursuing a new state.

This book analyzes non-democratic legitimacy during the Arab Spring.

This book focuses on the language of two unions (the United Kingdom and the European Union), tracing the emergence of divisive discourses from indyref to Brexit.

This book explores why and how Thomas  Hobbes - the 17th century founder of political science -- contributed to the modern marginalisation of 'friendship', a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought  and that is  currently undergoing a revival.

This book examines the radical reform that occurred during the final two decades of British rule in Ireland when William Starkie (1860-1920) presided as Resident Commissioner for the Board.

This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech.

This book examines how the United States government, through the lens of presidential leadership, has tried to come to grips with the many and complex issues pertaining to relations with Indigenous peoples, who occupied the land long before the Europeans arrived.

This edited volume concerns childhood throughout South America after the 1990s, a period and territory of special complexity marked by the beginning-or intensification of-political neoliberalisation throughout the region.

The past two decades have witnessed an intensifying rise of populist movements globally, and their impact has been felt in both more and less developed countries.

There is an emerging consensus that what is projected as democratic governance and justice in Africa requires a re-calibration, in particular, in relation to the constitutive demos, human rights, the realisation of commitments at various governance levels and the convergence between these ideations.

This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War.

This book explores the changing nature of social movements and economic elites in post-Second World War Europe.

This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs.

Europeans are being replaced by foreign invaders, aided by cultural Marxists who are plotting an Islamist subversion of the continent.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and development of political communication in Africa.

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically disrupted instruction across higher education.

This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the 'people's martyrology', raising issues of class, community, religion and authority.

This book describes what an "e;art of multiculturalism"e; could be and how in turn multiculturalism could be conceived as a form of art.

This book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland.

This book interrogates the nature and state of African American citizenship through the prism of Social Contract Theory.

What are the political economic conditions that have given rise to increasing numbers of social environmental conflicts in Mexico?

This book examines the many ways in which the Communist Party in China is still revolutionary by focusing on how, in recent years, it has attempted to mobilize Party members to become ethical subjects.

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives.

In this book, Gerard J.

This book explores the thirty-year border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, specifically around the former autonomous republic of Nagorno Karabakh, and shows how Russia is the only winner in this conflict: fighting on both sides, supplying arms to both sides, and acting as the arbiter between the two sides.

This book investigates the impact of internet use on anti-government protesting under authoritarian rule.

This book critically examines the study of International Relations in Poland, looking at the pre-academic origins of the discipline, its development after WWII, under communism, and after the transformation of 1989.

This book presents an accessible overview of the seven key concepts of city diplomacy (development cooperation, peacekeeping, economy, innovation, environment, culture, and migration).

In Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America, decades after the fall of authoritarian regimes in the 1970s, transitional justice has proven to be anything but transitional-it has become a cornerstone of state policy and a powerful tool of state formation.

This book presents an interpretive analysis of the major themes and purpose of Alexis de Tocqueville's and Gustave de Beaumont's first work, On the Penitentiary System, thereby offering new insights into Tocqueville as a moderate liberal statesman.

This volume is intended to serve as a review of the "e;next generation"e; of political economy scholars in what can be called the "e;Wagnerian"e; tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules.

This book describes and analyzes the conceptual ambiguity of vulnerability, in an effort to understand its particular applications for legal and political protection when relating to groups.

This book recovers the history of realist theorization on nationalism and the nation-state.

This book examines the global circulation of Marxism seen from one of its most highly charged sites: Calcutta in India.

This book presents a cultural history of European integration.

This book analyzes the transformation of the Mexican political system during the last four decades, focusing on its presidential elections.

This book discusses the relationship between law and memory and explores the ways in which memory can be thought of as contributing to legal socialization and legal meaning-making.

The book analyzes the various legal and political concepts to resolve the problem of the existing space debris in outer space and which measures have been taken to avoid space debris or to reduce potential space debris in the course of future space missions.

The book sheds new lights on the evolution of Russian space activities with a focus on their strategy of international cooperation.

This book examines the slide into a new Cold War in the Caribbean.

This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria.

The diagnosis of social pathologies has long been a central concern for social researchers working within, and on the peripheries of, Critical Theory.

This book critically analyzes the current historical conjuncture of neoliberal capitalism with an eye to its emergent alternatives.

This book is an anthology of the writings of Jean Jaures, a central figure of French socialism in the period leading up to World War I, who was born in 1859 and died in 1914, a few days before the outbreak of the conflict.

This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citizens' support.

This book explores the meaning of life for Israelis from communities bordering the Gaza Strip, whose lives are bound to the intractable conflict between Israel and the Hamas regime.

This book studies how established political parties react to the far left and far right parties that have surged in many democracies worldwide.

This book analyses the processes and factors that contributed to the emergence and eventual consolidation of the Greek Cypriot Right in the era of British colonialism.

The Art and Craft of Policy Analysis is a classic work of the Public Policy discipline.