Political science and theory

Complex and profound changes have been taking place in the Latin American Catholic Church in the 20th century which have often been misunderstood and misrepresented.

This collection of chapters explores the often-overlooked concept of fraternity, positioning it alongside freedom and equality as a vital pillar of political discourse from its ancient origins to contemporary practice.

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As American Indian tribes seek to overcome centuries of political and social marginalization, they face daunting obstacles.

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This book advances a coherent statement of defensive realism as a theory of strategy for our time and adds to our understanding of defensive realism as a grand theory of IR in particular and our understanding of IR in general and contributes to the ongoing debates among major paradigms of international relations.

Political disillusionment is widespread in contemporary society.

The balance of power is one of the most influential ideas in international relations, yet it has never been comprehensively examined in pre-modern or non-European contexts.

This book examines the Israel-Palestine conflict from a constructivist perspective.

Offering fresh interpretations of Aristotle''s key work, this collection opens new paths for students and scholars to explore.

This book offers a detailed account, based on primary source materials from Britain, Canada, and Australia, of the process by which the Empire settlement programme and the Ottawa Agreements were devised.

This book examines Foucault's political framework for connecting political authority with practices of freedom.

Protest and political violence are concerns of global importance in the twenty-first century.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

In the last two decades, the rise of global health studies at universities across the world reflects the interest of a growing generation of students motivated to be involved in progressive global change.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

Regional cooperation has become a distinctive feature of the Balkans, an area known for its turbulent politics.

An accessible and annotated edition of Burke''s Reflections on the Revolution in France with the first Letter on a Regicide Peace.

A new account of Augustine''s political thought and ethics in relation to his theology.

After decades of intense interest and rivalry with the USA, the end of the Cold War and the dismantling of the USSR officially marked a period of significant retreat of Russia from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

Nearly half a century after his death, Ernesto "e;Che"e; Guevara remains a compelling and controversial figure.

When this book was first published in 1990, there were massive economic changes in the East and significant economic challenges to the West.

Previous ways of conceiving the universal emancipation of humanity have in practice ended in failure.

The Handbook of Asian Criminology aims to be a key reference for international scholars with an interest in the broad theme of international criminology in general, and the Asian region in particular.

The role of the senate has changed much in recent years and-judging by the amount of recent public discussion on its role-might change even more in the future.

This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Humans have been uttering profane words and incurring the consequences for millennia.

This book analyzes the interaction between nationalism, feminism and socialism in Indonesia since the beginning of the twentieth century until the New Order State of President Suharto.

Who were the Progressive reformers arguing with?

From the "e;preeminent historian of Reconstruction"e; (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.

Explores the need for political science to pay more attention to complex interactions involving politically relevant groups.

In Democracy's Reconstruction, the latest addition to Cathy Cohen and Fredrick Harris's Transgressing Boundaries series, noted political theorist Lawrie Balfour challenges a longstanding tendency in political theory: the disciplinary division that separates political theory proper from the study of black politics.

This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised.

The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.

The Austrian School has made some of the most significant contributions to the social sciences in recent times but attempts to understand it have remained locked in a polemical frame.

The Oxford Handbook of Italian Politics provides a comprehensive look at the political life of one of Europe's most exciting and turbulent democracies.

Gale explains why international negotiations have not produced a sustainable solution to tropical rainforest degradation.

Does fair political representation for historically disadvantaged groups require their presence in legislative bodies?

This book, first published in 1982, is an in-depth study of the process of 're-education' undergone by those who had opposed the Communist revolution in China.

This collection examines the work of the Italian economist and social theorist Vilfredo Pareto, highlighting the extraordinary scope of his thought, which covers a vast range of academic disciplines.

Is a strong cosmopolitan stance irretrievably arrogant?

The renewed interest in the works of the great classical economists reflects in part a recognition that there is still much to be learned from them about the operation of the economy.

Classical liberalism has wrongly been regarded as an ideology that rejects the welfare state.

We fear that the growing threat of violent attack has upset the balance between existential concepts of political power, which emphasize security, and traditional notions of constitutional limits meant to protect civil liberties.