Political science and theory

It has become axiomatic to contend that U.

The Syrian conflict is a war of a new type, with many dimensions, strategic goals and rivalries, one of which is the regional struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas.

A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community.

Until recently, "e;continental"e; philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality.

This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics.

This text provides a clear and systematic introduction to the development of social and political theory in modern Italy.

In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate.

Otfried H ffe is one of the foremost political philosophers in Europe today.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

“Provocative and diverse” essays on the image—and the reality—of feminism in the twenty-first century (Christine A.

For courses in Experimental Methods and in Research Methods in Political Science and Sociology

 

An informative and unintimidating look at the basics of research in the social and behavioural sciences

Exploring Research makes research methods accessible for students – describing how to collect and analyse data, and providing thorough instruction on how to prepare and write a research proposal and manuscript.

This book examines the key institutional structures and processes of modernity.

Structured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.

This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri's work is focussed on the consequences of the rapid process of deindustrialisation that has occurred across the West in recent years.

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change.

This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?

Law is the most sacred fetish of our time.

The eminent political activist examines the principles and strategies of imperial violence and propaganda from American colonization to the modern day.

How should one understand the nature and possibilities of political radicalism today?

On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality.

Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future.

In this short book Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day.

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed?

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler.

This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of intellectuals and the poetry of the multitude.

Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber.

Essays and reviews concentrating on politics, economics, sociology and culture.

Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War-and the media's manipulative coverage-by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.

Bruno Latour s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have never been modern .

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and communism.

This book thinks through modernity and its representations by exploring critical considerations of time and space.

In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration?

We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence.

Sovereign nation states, which were formed in the context of major war, have been deeply exclusionary in their dealings with minority cultures and alien outsiders.

This important intervention interrogates keystone features of the dominant European theoretical landscape in the field of populism studies, advancing existing debates and introducing new avenues of thought, in conjunction with insights from the contemporary Latin American political experience and perspectives.

Contract and Domination offers a bold challenge to contemporary contract theory, arguing that it should either be fundamentally rethought or abandoned altogether.

In this book, Amitai Etzioni, public intellectual and leading proponent of communitarian values, defends the view that no society can flourish without a shared obligation to the common good.

This first volume in a new trilogy of books by Antonio Negri examines and develops the Italian tradition of radical Marxist thought known as operaismo or autonomist Marxism the tradition to which Negri himself adheres and in which he is a leading figure.

Since 9/11 politicians, preachers, conservatives and the media are all speaking about evil.

An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealthMuch of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo.

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures.