Political science and theory

Self-interest is an important human motive and this book explores its evolution in the United States and its consequences for politics, business, and personal relationships.

This book aims to present a coherent picture of Germany's European policy during Merkel's chancellorship.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This edited volume presents an interdisciplinary and international revaluation of Friedrich Engels as much more than "e;junior partner"e; to Karl Marx or "e;second fiddle"e; in the Marxist orchestra.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of political and economic developments as well as security issues in the Korean Peninsula during 2008-2020 from a Russian perspective.

This book delves into the diffuse relationship between states, citizens, and non-citizens.

This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective.

This book examines the post-9/11 God debate in the West.

This book explains why there is a pronounced disjuncture between R2P's habitual invocation and its actual influence, and why it will not make the transformative progress its proponents claim.

This book investigates the narrative of nationhood during the Italian Risorgimento and its ability to reach a new and wider audience.

This book suggests that more can be said about cosmopolitanism than either the bold endorsement of a world state or the humble recognition of the equal moral worth of individuals, which makes everybody cosmopolitan.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the role of cinema in the communication strategy of the Italian Communist party (the PCI).

This book provides solid empirical evidence into the role that countries and communities of origin play in the migrant integration processes at destination.

This book contributes to better recognition and comprehension of the interconnection between archaeology and political pressure, especially imposed by the totalitarian communist regimes.

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The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies.

This book is the first comprehensive study of the setting up and early development of the NATO Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), or the alliance's environmental programme.

This book investigates early modern women's interventions in politics and the public sphere during times of civil war in England and France.

Raya Dunayevskaya is one of the twentieth century's great but underappreciated Marxist and feminist thinkers.

This book addresses the fate of intellectuals in modern culture and politics.

This book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory.

This book reflects on the new histories emerging from the exhumation of mass graves that contain the corpses of the Republicans killed in extrajudicial executions during and after the conflict, nearly eighty years after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

This book explores the conflict between the Catalan project to become independent and the Spanish state's opposition to any attempt of secessionism.

This book offers a timely, and fresh historical perspective on the politics of independent Ireland.

This book argues that the primary function of human thinking in language is to make judgments, which are logical-normative connections of concepts.

"e;Generation"e; has become a central concept of cultural, historical and social studies.

This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts.

This book clarifies the quantitative relationship between time, money, and labor productivity from the perspective of Marxian labor theory of value.

This book presents a set of original and innovative contributions on state, institutions and democracy in the field of political economy.

Historically, segments of white Americans have let racist paranoia supersede judicious reasoning throughout our history.

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations.

This book offers the first realist reconstruction of Marx's critique of capitalism.

This book aims to gather the insight of leading experts on corruption and anti-corruption studies working at the scientific frontier of this phenomenon using the multidisciplinary tools of data and network science, in order to present current theoretical, empirical, and operational efforts being performed in order to curb this problem.

Drawing on data from the Scottish Referendum Study and subsequent Scottish Election Studies, this book provides the first in depth analysis of how voters engaged with the independence referendum in 2014 and what impact this has had on vote choice, polarisation and engagement in Scotland since then.

The original essays in this book address the influential writings of Peter A.

This book explores the crisis of the British state.

This book traces the development of the international society tradition from its origins in Grotius' On the Law of War and Peace to its crystallization in Bull's The Anarchical Society.

This book examines the theoretical and practical relevance and challenges of the consociationalist model of democracy.

This book explores the Falklands War from an Argentinian perspective, taking into consideration three aspects.

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project.

This book examines the relationship between corruption scandals and transitional processes in post-Milosevic Serbia after 2000.

This book illustrates how Arab women have been engaging in three ongoing, parallel struggles, before, during, and after the Arab Spring, on three levels, namely: the political struggle to pave the road for democracy, freedom, and reform; the social struggle to achieve gender equality and fight all forms of injustice and discrimination against women; and the legal struggle to chart new laws which can safeguard both the political and the social gains.

This volume explores how the process of European integration has influenced collective memory in the countries of the Western Balkans.

This book considers whether critical theory is up to the task of addressing our contemporary crises, including the question of 'post-truth' discourse, psycho-social pathologies, the rise of right-wing populism, the Covid-19 pandemic, the anticolonial deficit in critical theory, and the neo-liberal management of the academy.

This volume brings together innovative work from emerging and leading scholars in international law and political science to critically examine the impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS).

This book reveals the nature and level of British engagement with controversial and lethal nerve agent weapons from the end of the Second World War to Britain's submission of a draft Chemical Weapons Convention.

Moving from the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to the present day, this book traces the trajectory of the six East Central European former satellites of the Soviet Union (Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria) that have joined the European Union.

This book presents a comprehensive framework, six pathways of connection, which explains the impact of public diplomacy on achieving foreign policy goals.

In this book, translated into English for the first time, Lelio Demichelis takes on a modern perspective of the concept/process of alienation.