Political science and theory

First published in 1987.

Populism has taken the world by storm-but what is it?

The engaging and inquiring mind of French philosopher Jacques Maritain reflected on subjects as varied as art and ethics, theology and psychology, and history and metaphysics.

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab worldand how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society.

This collection of essays by liberal and feminist philosophers addresses the question of whether marriage reform ought to stop with same-sex marriage.

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Hybridity and Ideology analyzes the structure, development, and significance of political perspectives that mix or fuse the distinct beliefs, practices, and identities found in other ideologies-for example, hybrid worldviews such as liberal nationalism, ecosocialism, and anarchafeminism.

This edited collection examines seminal changes and major policy challenges in metropolitan governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim that are being faced by governments (national and sub-national) and their polities.

Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy.

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.

Featuring a new foreword that brings the book up to dateRare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense, and green technologies-everything from iPhones and medical technologies to wind turbines, efficiency lighting, smart bombs, and submarines.

Political practices, agencies and institutions around the world promote the need for humans, individually and collectively, to develop capacities of resilience.

One of the more positive international trends as of late has been the transformation of several countries from authoritarian-based dictatorships and single party systems into multi-party democracies characterized by peaceful political transitions.

This volume illustrates the diversity of populism globally.

This book provides an overview of the space sector in African countries, from a legal and policy point of view, analysing how the African Union's Space Policy and Strategy (ASPS) is implemented and highlighting the various space activities in each country.

European integration efforts are on the brink of collapse.

In this book, Edward Erler brings a lifetime of study of political philosophy, the American founding, and the US constitution to the central role of property in American constitutional thought.

Heinrich Meier's guiding insight in Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion.

Auf die sich multipolar entwickelnde Machtverteilung reagieren die Theorieschulen der Internationalen Beziehungen (IB) in den letzten Jahrzehnten mit einer immer stärkeren Ausdifferenzierung.

This second edition of a successful book provides updated clinical and research knowledge, including information on the licensing of new antiepileptic drugs.

As the final installment of Public Culture's Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism-or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society.

This book investigates the hegemony of the USA by examining the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations' responses to major global crises.

In the United States, state, territorial, and local governments are responsible for most aspects of selecting and securing election systems and equipment.

This book features mathematical and formal philosophers' efforts to understand philosophical questions using mathematical techniques.

Rethinking Refugees: Beyond State of Emergency examines the ways in which refugees have been made objects of the complex discourse, practices, and strategies of humanitarianism making visible the link between our knowledge of refugees and questions about the changing status of political power, space, and identity.

This book reconstructs the concept of the individual in Marx as the key to a fresh interpretation of Marxian philosophy.

Kein Land hatte sich so intensiv auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg vorbereitet wie das Dritte Reich.

Do we have moral duties to people in distant parts of the world?

Immigrants and minorities in Europe and America have responded in diverse ways to security legislation introduced since 9/11 that targets them, labeling them as threats.

This book posits that national education systems are enhancing socioeconomic inequalities in political engagement.

This book uses historical analysis, constitutional economics, and complexity theory to furnish an account of city subsidiarity as a legal, ethical, political, and economic principle.

This book analyses the conflicts that emerged from the Brazilian labour movement's active participation in a rapidly changing political environment, particularly in the context of the coming to power of a party with strong roots in the labour movement.

A long neglected concept in the field of international relations and political theory, hospitality provides a new framework for analysing many of the challenges in world politics today, from the search for peaceable relations between states to asylum and refugee crises.

The Euro-Zone represents the single most important step in European Integration since 1957 and one of the boldest economic, monetary, and political projects in modern history.

Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "e;Latin American multicultural turn"e; in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades.

Cosmopolitics, the concept of a world politics based on shared democratic values, is in an increasingly fragile state.

This book applies a multiparadigmatic philosophical frame of analysis to the topic of social revolution.

How the Chinese Communist Party maintains its power by both repressing and responding to its peopleSince 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has maintained unrivaled control over the country, persisting even in the face of economic calamity, widespread social upheaval, and violence against its own people.

Hans-Jürgen Lange, H.

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This book analyzes the World Social Forum (WSF) in a context of crisis and transition in the history of Western capitalist modernity.

At present, a nativist turn in Indian political theory can be observed.

Debates both sides of the issue of whether capitalism is valuable as an ideal for women.