Political science and theory

Internationally acclaimed, award-winning author Michael Parenti is one of America's most astute and engaging political analysts.

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

This book covers various forms of the production of girmitiya culture and literature.

Integration of the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) into the European Union (EU) has become more a question of timing than a question whether it will or should be made.

Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing.

Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted.

Among the most prominent and significant political and legal developments since the end of the Cold War is the proliferation of mechanisms for addressing the complex challenges of transition from authoritarian rule to human rights-based democratic constitutionalism, particularly with regards to the demands for accountability in relation to conflicts and abuses of the past.

William Cobbett was an English journalist and member of parliament, who was born in Farnham, Surrey.

A mbassador at Large: Diplomat Extraordinary is a welcome contri- bution to the literature on contemporary diplomacy, and is especially relevant to the conduct of United States foreign relations.

Free Trade Reimagined begins with a sustained criticism of the heart of the emerging world economy, the theory and practice of free trade.

Formal and informal institutions structure our social interactions by giving rise to normative expectations and patterns of collective behaviour.

This Element analyzes how local newspapers can hold back the rising tide of political division by focusing on local issues.

Sympathy for the poor and resentment of the rich are widespread, and they influence Americans'' political preferences.

This book is the first full-length history of the BBC World Service: from its interwar launch as short-wave radio broadcasts for the British Empire, to its twenty-first-century incarnation as the multi-media global platform of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Presenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal changes in the international system that have risen from the collapse of the 'Westphalian' international order.

An innovative re-evaluation of the concept of anarchy in theorizing diplomacy between states which draws on a historically sensitive re-evaluation of the ideological uses of politeness in the anarchist thought of William Godwin.

This book tackles global economic and social issues from a perspective that may seem obvious but which no author has yet taken: that we humans are living beings.

The use of regional organizations to mitigate and respond to disasters has become a global trend.

This book provides an important reappraisal of the concept of human nature in contemporary realist international-political theory.

John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists.

Both academic and popular representations of globalization, critical or celebratory, have tended to conceptualize it primarily in spatial terms, rather than simultaneously temporal ones.

Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West.

»Wie wir wurden, was wir sind«Österreich ist eine erfolgreiche Republik.

Theories of the Policy Process provides a forum for the experts in the most established and widely used theoretical frameworks in policy process research to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and the promising future research opportunities of each framework.

First published in 1981, Theories of Trade Unionism traces the development of trade union theory from its nineteenth-century foundations to the more advanced conceptual models present at the time of original publication.

This book addresses two interrelated discourses of crisis in contemporary Europe: the migrant crisis vs.

State formation in post-colonial societies differed greatly from the formation of the Western capitalist state.

Over the two decades following the Second World War, the policy that would create "e;a nation of immigrants,"e; as Canadian multiculturalism is now widely understood, was debated, drafted, and implemented.

In times of increasing challenges to 'the Western idea,' this book illuminates how Russian and EU foreign policy discourses interact.

The concept of political plasticity is a powerful new tool for understanding change and continuity in behavior.

Pluralistische Gesellschaften sind voller Zumutungen: Andere vertreten andere Positionen, Moralen oder Rationalitäten als man selbst.

Wie beeinflussen Eliten weiterhin die Entwicklung von Kommunen in postsowjetischen Landern Europas?

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John Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West.

This pioneering volume examines Europeanism in the new international society that emerged after the First World War through the League of Nations, with a focus on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Baltic countries, and the Balkans.

​Die politische Kommunikation in der repräsentativen Demokratie Deutschlands lässt sich als ein Kommunikationsnetzwerk ohne ein steuerndes Subjekt verstehen, die weitgehend auf die Normen und Strukturen des politischen Systems ausgerichtet ist und diese dabei beständig reproduziert.

This short book calls to account the government misrulers and corporate criminals who made suffering from the global coronavirus pandemic more acute.

This book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates over the place of civic participation in democratic theory and practice.

Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas.

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.

The American Conception of Neutrality After 1941 by Jurg Martin Gabriel, is a study of global political history since 1941 with a particular emphasis on America's attitude to neutrality.

In this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world defined predominantly by global capitalist development, Lin offers a critical review of relevant debates and discusses the imperative and feasibility of a socialist Chinese model, reconstructed, as an alternative to standardized modernity at an impasse.

The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a participatory revolution, with consultants, advisors, and non-profits called into communities, classrooms, and corporations alike to listen to ordinary people.