Political science and theory

This book argues for computer-aided collaborative country research based on the science of complex and dynamic systems.

This book brings together writing from activists and scholars that examine leftist and decolonial forms of resistance that have emerged from Hong Kong's contemporary era of protests.

This book focuses squarely on the problem of saving local government in the context of extraordinary financial challenges being faced across the globe.

This book traces the history of China's administrative reform in the past 35 years, focusing on the three phases of development, four guidelines and five major tasks of the reform since it is of great value to depict the entire process of China's administrative system reform, analyzing the achievements, problems and prospects of the reform, and exploring experiences and lessons from the relationship between the administrative system reform and China's economic, social and government transformation.

This book defines Eurasianism, a political idea with a long tradition, for a new century.

This book focuses on historical and current data to examine racism in Australia.

This book explores the history and development of modern Chinese politics.

This book propounds the thesis that it was the dysfunction of globalization and liberalism that prompted the rise of nationalism and populism.

This book uniquely recovers and assesses Stoic political thought by tracking its uptake into Western modernity and exploring the extent of its impact.

Analyses why is it that the different actors hold different views about the CHT Peace Agreement and the question of its implementation Is based on a qualitative research study using methodological triangulation of both primary and secondary data Scrutinises the underlying facts regarding the implementation politics (or interest) of the CHT Peace Agreement

This book offers the assessment of Myanmar's societal changes, development aspects, and political situation over the course of the nation's short lived democratic transition disrupted by the coup d'etat on 1 February 2021.

This book looks at how young people get attracted to the Far Right, especially young white men.

This book first presents an overview of the history of a national character survey by the Institute of Statistical Mathematics that has been conducted for more than 65 years.

This study focuses on Empires, from an economic historical perspective.

This book focuses on the ethical demands of extreme poverty and develops a political theory of practical change.

The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past.

This book brings together three recent talks given by John Dunn in China: two full lectures, and one shorter talk followed by the transcription of an extended Q&A session with some eminent Chinese political philosophers and historians of political thought.

This book presents a unique effort to apply political philosophy to realities of the world.

This book represents the first critical edition and scholarly annotated translation of a pioneering report on the predicament of cross-cultural understanding at the dawn of globalization, titled "e;A Brief Response on the Controversies over Shangdi, Tianshen and Linghun"e; ("e;Resposta breve sobre as Controversias do Xamty, Tien Xin, Lim hoen"e;), which was written in China by the Sicilian Jesuit missionary Niccolo Longobardo (1565-1654) in the 1620s and profoundly influenced Enlightenment understandings of Asian philosophy.

Answering the calls made to overcome methodological nationalism, this volume is the first examination of the links between corruption and imperial rule in the modern world.

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities.

Ein Knacken in der Telefonleitung, ein grauer Schlapphut, ein Trenchcoat, eine Miniaturkamera im Knopfloch und Wanzen unter dem Schreibtisch – die Stereotype über Geheimdienste, Spione, Agenten, verdeckte Ermittler und Spitzel sind allgemein bekannt.

This book looks at the Southern question in Antonio Gramsci.

This book provides a concise, critical analysis of the key themes, theories, and controversies in nationalism studies.

This book presents the results of a large-scale experiment into interpretations of the metaphor "e;the Nation as a Body"e; among 1,800+ respondents from 30 linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

This book makes a new departure from others on the subject.

This book explores how formal-legalism, as the dominant paradigm of explanation, has sought to explain the phenomenon of secessionism among its practitioners as a problem for the modern state.

This book examines the impact of Australian public opinion towards defence and foreign policy from the mid-twentieth century to the present day.

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the functions of the government in contemporary China.

This edited volume examines cultural criticism in the digital age.

This book shows that Hong Kong's protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China's effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory.

This book is a bold prescription for local government reform that moves well beyond the old arguments regarding consolidations (also referred to as amalgamations) and co-operation (sometimes referred to as shared services) to paint a picture of an efficient, effective tier of government that strikes a balance between the right of persons to pursue their existential ends and the need to promote the common good.

This book engages the diverse meanings and interpretations of Islamic and Western law which have affected people and societies across the globe, past and present, in correlation to the epistemological groundings of those meanings and interpretations.

This book focuses on how diverse developments are reflected in the rise of the security groups in Bali, Indonesia.

This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan.

This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill's truism that history is written by the victors.

This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values.

This book examines the history of the Palestinian Left by focusing on the trajectory of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) during its declining phase.

Written by a team of international scholars from China, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK, this book provides interdisciplinary studies on the construction and transformation of Chinese national identity in the age of globalisation.

This book offers a fresh analysis of constitutional, economic, demographic and cultural developments in the overseas territories of Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

This book focuses on the practice and experience of urban delicacy governance in Xuhui District, Shanghai.

This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies.

This book analyzes decades of immigration-population growth and rapid urbanization as political-demography and urban-governance issues in French Guyana.

This book analyses democratization and democracy in South Korea since 1960.

The central argument of this book explores the disillusionment that Australians feel with regard to the way politics is conducted.

This book explores the reception of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W.

This volume discusses a range of key domestic forces driving the current Chinese growth ranging from economic reforms to governance practices to analyze their impact and influence at home as well as on China's foreign and security policies in its near and extended neighbourhood.

This book is a study of the key components and contradictions of the escalating global crisis and their impact on modern Australia.

This book explores the change and continuity in the idea of the nation state.

This book describes how the Systems Engineering (SE) methodology can be used to harness technology and enhance democracy within any political system.