Political science and theory

"e;Contesting Peace in the Postwar City is key reading for urban and peace and conflict scholars.

This book explains a perspective on the system of justice that emerges in Islam if rules are followed and how the Islamic system is differentiated from the conventional thinking on justice.

This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi'i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in Lebanon, Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din.

Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring, Spain's Indignados and the wider Occupy movement.

This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution.

This book explores the meaning of peace according to (some of) the people who make it.

This book traces the impact of exile in the formation of independent republics in Chile and the Rio de la Plata in the decades after independence.

This volume focuses on the relationship between the media and European democracy, as important factors of EU legitimacy.

This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised.

This book characterizes South Korea's pre-neoliberal regime of social governance as developmental liberalism and analyzes the turbulent processes and complex outcomes of its neoliberal degeneration since the mid-1990s.

Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is one of a handful of classic works of political philosophy deserving a fresh reading every generation.

This book examines the remaking of women's citizenship in the aftermath of conflict and international intervention.

In this important new book, Diana Coole shows how existential phenomenology illuminates and enlivens our understanding of politics.

As with many spheres of public life, public diplomatic communication is being transformed by the boom of social media.

This book offers a prospective analysis of the anticipated security consequences of climate change in relation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

This book investigates the science of electricity in the long eighteenth century and its textual life in literary and political writings.

This book proposes a theory of the legitimation crisis of neoliberalism.

By examining Libya's security architecture before and after the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intervention in 2011, this book aims to answer three questions.

This book explores the complex ways in which people lived and worked within the confines of Benito Mussolini's regime in Italy, variously embracing, appropriating, accommodating and avoiding the regime's incursions into everyday life.

Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith's Moral Rights and Political Freedom offers a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights.

Published in 1945, Nationalism and After was a best-selling classic in its own time which sparked intense debate when it first appeared and has continued to do so ever since.

This book examines the post-Cold War Polish-German relationship and the puzzling rise of foreign and security policy differences between the two states during the 2000s.

This book tackles the 2014 European Parliamentary election as an event, phenomenon and process from an interdisciplinary but coherent perspective.

The Levellers sought to restructure the state in 1647-9 around popular consent and liberty for conscience, especially in their Agreement of the People.

This book is based on a comparative study of regionalisms in Croatia's regions of Dalmatia and Istria as well as Serbia's Vojvodina.

More clearly than any previous work on the subject, Michael Palmer's Love of Glory and the Common Good defines the relationship between Periclean democracy and the decline in Athenian political life that followed the death of Pericles.

This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course.

This book explores the significance of rhetoric from the perspective of its complex relationship with philosophy.

This book assesses the concept of religious liberty in the United States according to the political theory of John Locke.

This book explores Cicero's moral and political philosophy with great attention to his life and thought as a whole.

This book is the first study to engage with the relationship between cosmopolitan political thought and the history of global conflicts.

This book analyzes George Orwell's politics and their reception across both sides of the Atlantic.

This handbook aims to challenge 'gender blindness' in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political power.

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization.

This handbook constitutes a single collection of well researched articles and essays on African politics, governance and development from the pre-colonial through colonial to the post-colonial eras.

This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women's experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability.

This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America.

This book discusses the current tendencies in women's representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives.

This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals.

This book throws light on the relevance and role played by translations and translators at times of serious discontinuity throughout history.

This volume aims to question, challenge, supplement, and revise current understandings of the relationship between aesthetic and political operations.

This collection examines the relationships between a globalising neoliberal capitalism, a post-GFC environment of recession and austerity, and the moral economies of young people's health and well-being.

This volume explores contemporary political developments in various parts of Africa in the age of democracy, constitutionalism, the securitization of development, and global terrorism.

The Quadruple Innovation Helix concept is the synthesis of top-down policies and practices from Government, University and Industry balanced and shaped by bottom-up initiatives and actions by Civil Society.

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of established and emerging scholars from the disciplines of history, political science and communication studies, to provide a historical reappraisal of Cambodia's relationships with the West.

This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philippines as case studies.

This volume explores how France's 'modernising mission' unfolded during the post-war period and its reverberations in the decades after empire.

This book charts the role played by conceptions of truth in the development of a critical tradition of International Relations theory.

This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War.

Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century.