Political science and theory

Als bedeutsamer schätzen alle drei Autoren die indirekten Auswirkungen der Friedensbewegung ein.

This book widens the current debate on security privatization by examining how and why an increasing number of private actors beyond private military and security companies (PMSCs) have come to perform various security related functions.

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

This book examines the issue of injustice, and our responses to it, in a range of contemporary contexts.

This book is a study of post-Mao Chinese moral subjectivity and a philosophical inquiry into the relation between moral subjectivity and freedom.

What kind of ethics in world politics is possible if there is no foundation for moral knowledge or global reality is at least complex and contingent?

This lively and sophisticated study describes the opinions and attitudes of the electors in one electoral district (Vancouver-Burrard) during the federal and provincial elections held from 1963 to 1965.

The concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike.

The book examines the complex and contested moral and legal issues of preventive warfare.

Die Bedingungen beschleunigter gesellschaftlicher Wandlungsprozesse in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft mit steigender Zuwanderung, der Zunahme des politischen Populismus in und außerhalb Europas, des Extremismus sowie der Gefahr durch den Terrorismus, stellen immense Herausforderungen für die Politikdidaktik und die Praxis der politischen Bildung dar.

The relation between Hegel and Marx is among the most interpreted in the history of philosophy.

This edited collection outlines the issues central to youth engagement in research and social innovation.

Compares those active resistance movements which burst into public view in China and "e;cultural resistance"e;, which instead lies unspoken in everyday action.

Although Marx's concept of ideology has been a subject of considerable discussion, much of the debate has proved to be rather disappointing.

The first comprehensive discussion of all the main philosophical issues raised by terrorism against the background of its past and recent developments.

This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa.

The Survival Regime explores the concept of survival to describe the effects on politics of the fusion of war and capital in globalization.

This book, first published in 1990, takes a challenging look at the images constructed by the Press of women's political protest.

Peter Hall and David Soskice's Varieties of Capitalism has become a seminal text and reference point across the social sciences, generating debate and research around political-economic models.

The end of the Cold War and the discussions concerning the process of globalization have brought the study of international politics face to face with new issues such as human rights, humanitarian interventions, environmental concerns, global social movements and health issues like HIV/AIDS.

This book examines the origins and execution of Russian military and political activities in Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan.

Whenever the topic of large jails and public hospitals in urban America is raised, a single idea comes to mind.

The Survival Regime explores the concept of survival to describe the effects on politics of the fusion of war and capital in globalization.

This book is the most comprehensive single volume reference work available for British political facts.

First published in 1988.

The first study of the Churchill government of 1951-55 based on the Prime Minister's political papers (including his correspondence with President Eisenhower) and diaries and letters of Eden, Butler and other ministers.

This Companion provides scholars and graduates, serving and retired military professionals, members of the diplomatic and policy communities concerned with security affairs and legal professionals who deal with military law and with international law on armed conflicts, with a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in the area of military ethics.

This study presents intriguing analysis of the impact of private security companies' practices upon the fields of security and politics in the Czech Republic.

Sybille De La Rosa arbeitet eine auf dem Begriff der kreativen Aneignung basierende Repräsentationstheorie aus und zeigt deren Relevanz im Bereich der Menschenrechtspolitik auf.

How the works of Jane Austen show that game theory is present in all human behaviorGame theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today.

A collection of papers presented at Boston University by leading Sovietologists evaluating the meaning of developments in the USSR and their impact since Gorbachev became head of government.

This volume stems from the efforts of scholars who seek to understand the social dynamics of large technical systems.

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics.

Many theoretical publications make assumptions about the facts of globalization, and in particular about the role and autonomy of the nation state.

Recognition is a basic human need, but it is not a panacea to all societal ills.

Western critical theory, Marxism included, has largely been based on a view of historical materialism that Gramsci, among others, developed in his prison notebooks.

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men.

Poses of the World develops a theory of the pluralistic coexistence of politics with aesthetic, scientific, ethical and economic procedures that have sought to influence, dominate or even replace politics.

In many ways, the United States' post-9/11 engagement with legal rules is puzzling.

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.

"e;David Hardwick and Leslie Marsh have assembled a contentious collection of independent thinkers on liberalism's identity and prospects.

Zum laufenden Krieg in der Ukraine kam 2023 ein neuer Angriff, der Überfall der Hamas auf Israel.