Political science and theory

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

The populist radical right is one of the most studied political phenomena in the social sciences, counting hundreds of books and thousands of articles.

This book provides a comparative analysis and a systemic categorization of the Populist Radical Left Parties (PRLPs) in Western Europe.

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.

In Africa Unchained , George Ayittey takes a controversial look at Africa's future and makes a number of daring suggestions.

The book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium.

The idea of 'social capital' is increasingly influencing international, national, and local policy making and work within the social sciences.

Hume's Politics provides a comprehensive examination of David Hume's political theory, and is the first book to focus on Hume's monumental History of England as the key to his distinctly political ideas.

Why do states similar in size, resources and capabilities significantly differ in their basic orientations and actions across major domains in foreign policy, security and defense?

The global justice debate has been raging for forty years.

Risk and Hyperconnectivity brings together for the first time three paradigms: new risk theory, neoliberalization theory, and connectivity theory, to illuminate how the kaleidoscope of risk events in the opening years of the new century has recharged a neoliberal battlespace of media, economy, and security.

How the NRA became a political juggernaut by influencing the behaviors and beliefs of everyday AmericansThe National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful interest groups in America, and has consistently managed to defeat or weaken proposed gun regulations-even despite widespread public support for stricter laws and the prevalence of mass shootings and gun-related deaths.

Forty years ago, in his landmark work A Theory of Justice, the American philosopher John Rawls depicted a just society as a fair system of cooperation between citizens, regarded as free and equal persons.

Fast’s book on his break with the Communist Party, and a riveting tribute to the importance of justice and beauty over dogma and rigidityThe Naked God is Howard Fast’s public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Offers a collaborative exploration of the role of historical understanding in leading disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.

This book introduces the concept of 'act of citizenship' and in doing so, re-orients the study of what it means to be a citizen.

This book examines the political process that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court in 2002.

This book looks at contemporary political violence, in the form of jihadism, through the lens of a philosophical polemic between Hannah Arendt and Frantz Fanon: intellectual representatives of the global north and global south.

This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions.

This book looks at the main factors which have contributed to the strikingly strong growth of Asian economies in the last twenty-five years.

Consciousness and the Neoliberal Subject outlines a theory of ideological function and a range of ideological positions according to which individuals rationalise and accept socio-economic conditions in advanced consumer capitalist societies.

This book analyzes contemporary dispossessions in Brazil, drawing on the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation to show how processes of proletarianization, capitalization, and commodification each relate in distinct ways to capitalist accumulation.

This book examines the political thought of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, the most important thirteenth century German Rabbi.

Theories about the decline of legitimacy or a legitimacy crisis are as old as democracy itself.

Published more than twenty years ago, Stephen Eric Bronner's bold defense of socialism remains a seminal text for our time.

This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord.

Addressing the proper relation of moral and religious belief to politics and law, especially constitutional law, Perry here discusses whether a common moral foundation exists that is capable of providing, in a diverse social system like ours, consistent guidelines for handling divisive political, policy, religious and constitutional disputes.

Today, nearly a century after the National Fascist Party came to power in Italy, questions about the built legacy of the regime provoke polemics among architects and scholars.

9/11 and the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have left many people baffled and concerned.

It is generally assumed that we are justified in punishing criminals because they have committed a morally wrongful act.

For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.

Michel Foucault's account of the subject has a double meaning: it relates to both being a ';subject of' and being ';subject to' political forces.

The idea of social injustice is pivotal to much contemporary moral and political philosophy.

This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context.

On July 1, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated its tenth anniversary as a special administrative region of China.

This book, first published in 1966, focuses on the stories of ordinary people who have stood up to tyrants around the world.

Our contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity.

Since September 11, 2001, the imagination of "e;low probability, high consequence"e; events has become a distinctive feature of contemporary politics.

Examines the role of the OAU and how it has dealt with human rights.

In this volume the reader will find interesting forms of analysis on Japan just as it was embarking on potentially the most important changes in its political system since 1955, when the Liberal Democratic Party was created through a merger of Japan's two dominant conservative parties of that era.

The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit s highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field s most important readings in a single volume Unparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third edition traces the evolution of political philosophy as a contemporary practice, and raises important questions about the impact of current political events.

Friedrich August von Hayek (1899-1992), winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, was an influential economist and political philosopher.

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years.

To those who invoke them, rights are powerful instruments for settling arguments in favour of the right-holders.

An assessment of the explanatory utility of different approaches to account for post-Soviet Russia's foreign policy towards the West, arguing that only by focusing both on external constraints and changes in the Russian leadership's foreign policy thinking can we explain major facets of Russia's conduct from 1992-2007.