Political science and theory

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

This book examines Argentine foreign policy under the military dictatorship from 1976-1983, also known as the National Reorganization Process.

Each of Africa's countries has a different constitutional design, is characterized by a unique culture and history, and faces different stresses that threaten to undermine political stability.

This book proposes that the European Union should craft a grand strategy to navigate the new world order based on a four-pronged approach.

Bureaucracy is a much-maligned feature of contemporary government.

This is the second of three volumes in an important collection that recounts the sweeping history of law in Canada.

This collection studies the rise of neutral bodies as a challenge to the constitutional paradigm of the nation state.

"e;At the hands of a minor talent, profiles are often flat, two-dimensional outlines of a thinker s intellectual physiognomy.

We are currently in a period of rapid global change that is of profound importance, but the nature of which is difficult to comprehend.

The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage.

A political sociology textbook which examines the impact of political thought on a society's culture, and theorizes on the attitudes a post-revolutionary society would adopt towards such subjects as feminism, the arts and ideology.

Analysis of how to prevent war and reinforce UN systems by imposing accountability on individuals and states for the unlawful use of force.

This text offers an authoritative historiography of German socialist theorist Karl Kautsky and his impact on debates about the Russian Revolution and the contemporary left.

This book provides a comprehensive study of the notion of responsibility in environmental governance.

This volume examines the views of seven prominent ethical traditions on the making and unmaking of boundaries.

Performing Governance sets out a new framework to assess the performance of partnerships and examines what these actually deliver.

Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought traditions, connecting to what it argues is a new global moment in the reconstitution of theory.

This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.

In diesem Sammelband werden aus unterschiedlichen fachspezifischen, wissenschaftlichen und praktischen Perspektiven vielfältige Aspekte des Themas „Dekolonialität in der Politischen Bildung“ beleuchtet und kritisch reflektiert.

This volume represents an important new step forward in the fields of conflict resolution and peace studies.

Since decolonization began in the late 1940s, a series of often lengthy and destructive separatist insurgencies have imposed severe financial, economic and human costs upon the states of South Asia.

Climate change, financial crises, and other issues of global scale no longer concern only the developed world.

Struggling for Recognition posits that the drive for personal recognition is a prime motivation behind the pursuit of democracy.

This book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day.

John Gray is now established as one of the UK's leading political thinkers.

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people.

This multidisciplinary book introduces readers to original perspectives on crimmigration that foster holistic, contextual, and critical appreciation of the concept in Australia and its individual consequences and broader effects.

This book argues that early European Commission officials envisaged an integrated civil Europe from the outset.

British philosopher Michael Oakeshott is widely considered as one of a key conservative thinkers of the 20th century.

Vorwort Mit dem Inkrafttreten des Vertrags von Lissabon ist die Europäische Union erneut zus- mengerückt, sie kann bürgernäher und handlungsfähiger werden.

Unstable universalities, available for the first time in paperback, examines the theme of universality and its place in radical political theory.

Between 1957-1961, Dwight D.

This book is a theoretical inquiry on the relation of the body politic with the religious movements in the time between the Constitutional Revolution and the Islamic Revolution in Iran; it illustrates speculative and historical analyses on the relationship of state, religion, and socio-political status in the late Qajar dynasty (1905-1925) and the whole Pahlavi monarchy.

This analysis of legislative behavior shows how primary voters can obstruct political compromise and outlines potential reforms to remedy gridlock.

This Element examines the affective polarization present in American politics, arguing that intergroup discussions can mitigate animosity.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Diese Einführung in das politische System der Bundesrepublik schildert den Parlamentarismus, den Bundesstaat, die Parteien, die Gesetzgebung und die politische Verwaltung, die Praxis der Koalitionsregierung und das Verfassungsgericht.

This book brings together diverse sets of standpoints on liberalism in an era of growing skepticism and distrust regarding liberal institutions.

Volume I and II of the The MacKenzie King Record presented they story of Mackenzie King as wartime Prime Minister of Canada.

Kriege, Bomben, Selbstmordattentäter - nirgends gab es in den letzten Jahren so viel Gewalt wie in der arabischen Welt.

Decolonizing Time: Work, Leisure, and Freedom demonstrates the importance of time as a central category for political theory, providing not only a history of the fight for time through political, feminist, and critical theory, but also assessing this tradition in the context of the United States.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Catalonian crisis in Spain from a historical, political and legal perspective.

Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates the ways Kurds, the world's largest stateless nation, use satellite television and Internet to construct their identities.