Political science and theory

Over the past century, democracy spread around the world in turbulent bursts of change, sweeping across national borders in dramatic cascades of revolution and reform.

The contributors to this volume take a hard look at Roosevelt's reaction to the Holocaust.

Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented.

In recent years, there has been an increased attention to temporality in political theory, and such attention is sorely needed.

This book provides the analytical framework for understanding the relationship between media scandals, executive accountability and the crisis of democracy.

David Harvey is among the most influential Marxist thinkers of the last half century.

This book presents an important new account of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's Closed Commercial State, a major early nineteenth-century development of Rousseau and Kant's political thought.

Considers how political language has changed through time, looking at concrete examples from English and other languages.

Jurisprudence, according to Cassirer, is not merely the systematic, conceptual pursuance of ethics.

Why do some societies choose to adopt federal settlements in the face of acute ethnic conflict, while others do not?

Uses the tools of political, legal, moral and historical analysis to describe a ''just return'' process for repatriating refugees.

Examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy.

HIV/AIDS is but one of a number of new and deadly diseases which threaten communities throughout the world.

Gregory Inwood, Carolyn Johns, and Patricia O'Reilly offer unique insights into intergovernmental policy capacity, revealing what key decision-makers and policy advisors behind the scenes think the barriers are to improved intergovernmental policy capacity and what changes they recommend.

This edited book examines names and naming policies, trends and practices in a variety of multicultural contexts across America, Europe, Africa and Asia.

The changes and divisions on the left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study.

This book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid-receiving African governments.

San Diego and Tijuana are the site of a national border enforcement spectacle, but they are also neighboring cities with deeply intertwined histories, cultures, and economies.

Against the broad historical background of economic globalisation and dwindling nation-state resources, this book examines the impact of the end of the Cold War and of the geo-political transformation of Europe on a wide range of issues, from changing perceptions of France's future world role to the internal ramifications of a new ideological and strategic environment.

The effectiveness and capacity of survival of democratic regimes has been recently and widely questioned in the public and political debate.

This book claims Nietzsche as a leftist revolutionary but without overlooking the conservative and retrogressive elements of his political philosophy.

Georges and Pauline Vanier follows their lives and travels across the world - from Canadian military life to the League of Nations, from the inner circles of British government to their harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied France - detailing their disappointments and triumphs during social and political turbulence.

In January 1830, a debate on the nature of sovereignty in the American federal union occurred in the United States Senate between Senators Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina.

States define who their citizens are and exert control over their life and movements.

Over the past three decades, American evangelical Christians have undergone unexpected, progressive shifts in the area of race relations, culminating in a national movement that advocates racial integration and equality in evangelical communities.

From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the postcolonial politics of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, representation has been posed as both indispensable and impossible.

A comprehensive picture of the pursuit of regionalism across Northeast Asia in the years following the Cold War.

This book, first published in 1978, examines the local and international aspects of the struggle for Greek union with Cyprus - Enosis.

Now widely regarded as the best available guide to the study of the Founding, the first edition of Interpreting the Founding provided summaries and analyses of the leading interpretive frameworks that have guided the study of the Founding since the publication of Charles Beards An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution in 1913.

What do we study when we study International Relations (IR)?

The Political Economy of Germany in the Twentieth Century offers a comprehensive examination of how political decisions have shaped the economic trajectory of Germany from World War I onward.

Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain investigates the gendered, eroticized, and xenophobic ways in which the controversies in the 1760s surrounding the political figure John Wilkes (1725-97) legitimated some men as political subjects, while forcefully excluding others on the basis of their perceived effeminacy or foreignness.

Information concerning the island of Cuba was exceedingly unsatisfactory character until the search-light of American inquiry was thrown upon it from the beginning of the war for Cuban liberty early in 1895.

The concept of a sovereign nation-state is a central part in many of the debates discussing the salient issues in political science today.

The ongoing reconstruction of world politics following the collapse of Soviet and Eastern European variants of communism have seemingly unleashed the power of ethnicity with a vengeance.

The African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security and development in Africa.

This book is about the relationship between citizens and the state.

After being wounded and awarded the Bronze Star for valor as a Marine infantry platoon commander in Vietnam, Arnold Punaro thought he'd left the battlefield behind.

Has contemporary liberalism's devotion to individual liberty come at the expense of our society's obligations to children?

Takes a behind the scenes look at the debates and decisions of the Kenyan Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission.

We face a crisis of public reason.

An exploration of political traditions and their usage in explanations of British politics.

This book provides a contextual account of the first anarchist theory of war and peace, and sheds new light on our contemporary understandings of anarchy in International Relations.

This book fills the normative gap arising from the absence of a multilateral mechanism for sovereign debt restructuring.

Ilan Gur-Ze'ev and Education: Pedagogies of Transformation and Peace critically analyses and introduces the main ideas of Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, reflecting on his continuing theoretical and practical relevance to the field of education.

In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America.

At the intersection of the warmth of hearth and home and the dangers of the street lies the tenuous position of women engaged in reproductive labour, those involved in the sex trade and those in domestic positions.

Buchs analyses the goals and instruments of the Open Method of Coordination, discusses approaches which theorize its functioning, examines its policy content and develops a framework for its evaluation.