This book starts with four aspects - subject's cognition, way of thinking, political value and ideology, conducts comparative studies on political culture.
In his celebrated account of the origins of American unity, John Adams described July 1776 as the moment when thirteen clocks managed to strike at the same time.
This book examines what the justification of political power and the character of a liberal political community in the conditions of pluralism should look like, with the aim of equal respect for all.
This book documents and analyses Chilean university and school students' opposition to the Pinochet regime during the latter years of the 1970s and the 1980s.
The final volume of Robert Service's major trilogy on Lenin's political life takes the account from the Brest-Litovsk Treaty of 1918 to the Bolshevik leader's death in 1924.
The social dynamics of deforestation and of forest protection are the ongoing interactions amongst social actors and processes that determine the use and management of forests.
Autonomy: Capital, Class and Politics explores and critiques one of the most dynamic terrains of political theory, sometimes referred to as 'Autonomist Marxism' or post-Operaismo.
The abduction of Western citizens by Hizb'Allah was motivated either by internal organisational requirements or in alignment with Syrian and Iranian interests, and mechanisms for the resolution of the hostage-crisis were subject to continuous interaction between Hizb'Allah, Iran, and Syria influenced by internal Lebanese, regional, and international events.
If catastrophes are, by definition, exceptional events of such magnitude that worlds and lives are dramatically overturned, the question of timing would pose a seemingly straightforward, if not redundant question.
Joao Carlos Espada's provocative survey of a group of key Anglo-American and European political thinkers argues that there is a distinctive, Anglo-American tradition of liberty that is one of the core pillars of the Free World.
In this book, Marc Morjé Howard addresses immigrant integration, exploring the far-reaching implications of one of the most critical challenges facing Europe.
Die in der vorliegenden Festschrift zu Ehren von Georg Weißeno versammelten Beiträge beleuchten die Kompetenzorientierung in der Politischen Bildung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven.
Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities and his analysis of power remains unclear.
This book seeks to understand the politics of nationalism in the buffer zone between Russia and the West: Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova, as well as Russia itself.
The book focuses on the negotiation process leading up to the creation of the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) and the domestic implementation of this international agreement.
As the reader of this book probably already knows, I have devoted a great deal of time to the topic which is, rather unfortunately, named rent seeking.
Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century, New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars-historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists-who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and China.
Wissenschaftlern wird immer wieder vorgeworfen, sie kommunizierten überwiegend untereinander, nicht aber mit Außenstehenden und Betroffenen – gefangen im Elfenbeinturm mit Spezialsprachen, methodischer Spezialisierung in großer Abgeschlossenheit.
Written by the same team that produced Westminster and Europe [1996], this book reports and analyzes the major developments in the relationship between Britain and the European Union between the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty and the British General Election of 2001.
The author explores the practice and effects of the European Union's democracy promotion efforts vis-a-vis its authoritarian neighbours in the Middle East and North Africa.
