Political science and theory

With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "e;crisis of democracy"e;, the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned.

The idea that war is sometimes justified is deeply embedded in public consciousness.

Freedom of speech is never very far away from political controversy.

Michael Walzer is one of the world s most important political thinkers, whose major works, such as Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars, have transformed many central debates in contemporary political philosophy.

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and pre-political.

Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before.

In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as capitalism, upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique.

In a world that continues to be riven by armed conflict, the fundamental moral and political questions raised by warfare are as important as ever.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times.

Russia is back as a major force in global politics, but what does this mean?

Idiots burn books for the same reason philosophers write them they matter.

Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-down state solutions.

Today, deliberative democracy is the most widely discussed theory of democracy.

By 2100, the human population may exceed 11 billion.

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century.

Some analysts have called distrust the biggest governmental crisis of our time.

States claim the right to choose who can come to their country.

Jeremy Bentham philosopher, theorist of law and of the art of government was among the most influential figures of the early nineteenth century, and the approach he pioneered utilitarianism remains central to the modern world.

Power rarely works by force alone: it also rules by winning hearts and minds.

What does it mean for the people to actually rule?

Whether we should obey the law is a question that affects everyone s day-to-day life, from traffic laws to taxes.

Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe.

We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies.

Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, community, liberty, equality.

Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people.

Should Brexit or Trump cause us to doubt our faith in democracy?

The original and often continuing sin of countries with a settler colonial past is their brutal treatment of indigenous peoples.

For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace.

Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether.

Violence from state coercion to wars and revolutions remains an enduring global reality.

Recent years have seen a number of whistleblowers risk their liberty to expose illegal and corrupt behaviour.

In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views.

It was not until 1961 that Foucault published his first major book, History of Madness.

Is it possible to abolish coercion and hierarchy and build a stateless, egalitarian social order based on non-domination?

The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal.

Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq.

Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe s leading radical thinkers.

The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings.

International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global condition of human society.

Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness.

Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975.

On the occasion of Habermas s 80th birthday, the German publisher Suhrkamp brought out five volumes of Habermas s papers that spanned the full range of his philosophical thought, from the theory of rationality to the critique of metaphysics.

This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.

Michel Foucault's death in 1984 coincided with the fading away of the hopes for social transformation that characterized the postwar period.

The concept of well-being plays a central role in moral and political theory.

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.

This third and final volume of the series of writings by Antonio Negri examines how Spinoza s thought constitutes a radical break with past ideas and an essential tool for envisaging a form of politics beyond capitalism.

Ein Buch, das Fragen stellt, die wir uns kaum noch zu stellen wagen: Warum scheint das Denken in einer Zeit, die von Wissen und Technologie dominiert wird, in einen Stillstand zu verfallen?

America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s.

How a hybrid Confucian-engendered form of governance might solve today's political problemsWhat might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like?