Political science and theory

This book examines US foreign policy in the Eastern Mediterranean and the region's key role in the practice and evolution of American exceptionalism.

This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation.

Exploring the rise and fall of global power from the mid-nineteenth century, this book tracks the long and interrelated trajectories of the most serious challenges facing the world today.

This revised and updated 2nd edition of Freedman's hard-hitting study aims to remedy the current lack of gender-specific analyses of asylum and refugee issues.

Im zweiten Band der Reihe sprache – macht – gesellschaft erörtern Forscher*innen aus Sprachforschung, Politikwissenschaft und Politischer Bildung das Feld Europabildung.

Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency.

The debate on how mankind should respond to climate change is diverse, as the appropriate strategy depends on global as well as local circumstances.

Focusing on critical approaches to security, this new textbook offers readers both an overview of the key theoretical perspectives and a variety of methodological techniques.

This book offers an answer to the question: who ought to do what, and for whom, if global justice is to progress?

"e;Johnson revels in all the wicked things these great thinkers have done.

Social movements have shaped and are shaping modern societies around the globe; this is evident when we look at examples such as the Arab Spring, Spain's Indignados and the wider Occupy movement.

This book provides a novel analysis of the military campaign of Rafael Carrera during the popular insurrection of 1837-1840 in Guatemala.

Post-Industrial Socialism provides critical analysis of recent developments in leftist political thought.

In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy.

In Unfulfilled Union Garth Stevenson examines such topics as the origins and objectives of Confederation and the BNA Act of 1867, the interpretation of Canada's federal constitution by the courts, the impact of economic regionalism and Quebec nationalism, financial relations between the federal and provincial levels of government, the consequences of federalism for economic policy, the sources of federal-provincial conflicts and the means to resolve them, and the lengthy but inconclusive efforts to reform the constitution through federal-provincial agreement, particularly since Quebec's Quiet Revolution in the 1960s.

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.

The America of the early republic was built on an experiment, a hopeful prophecy that would only be fulfilled if an enlightened people could find its way through its past and into a future.

This book analyses social democratic parties' attempts to tackle inequality in increasingly challenging times.

This book gives a historical and contemporary overview of the redistricting process, using North Carolina for the different political, electoral, and legal issues and debates over the practice of drawing legislative district boundaries.

This is the first full-length biography of Immanuel Kant in more than fifty years.

'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.

This book offers a new framework for understanding feminism and political activiism in Kyrgyzstan, "e;nomadity of being.

Sozialistische und kommunistische Theorien entwickelten sich in Europa seit Babeuf in der Französischen Revolution.

This book provides a transdisciplinary assessment of multiple countries' legal and policy frameworks vis-a-vis the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradication, adopted in 2014 by the Committee on Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

An assessment of the transitional processes aimed at creating a stable and just society in South Africa.

Critique in a Neoliberal Age brings a critique of ideology to main debates within economic sociology, populism studies, the neoliberal university, therapy culture, contemporary intimacies and feminism.

Explores ''low policing'' of interpersonal disputes in Jordan to show the inconspicuous methods the state uses to maintain social order.

The contributors to this book, first published in 1971, analyse as International Socialists the economic and social issues of modern society.

This book discusses the radical transformation of Rwanda, focusing on the dynamics of its society before and after the genocide against theTutsis in 1994.

Until President Jimmy Carter launched an effort to diversify the lower federal courts, the U.

This book highlights the pivotal roles of individuals in England's complex sixteenth-century reformations.

This book is the first to establish the nature and causes of violence as key features in the political economy of Australia as an advanced capitalist society.

Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

First published in 1956, Political Theory explores the historical development of political ideas and analyses some basic concepts of contemporary political theory, including the notions of the State, of Sovereignty and the Law.

This volume explores the work of Robert W.

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.

In the first of his annual series of lectures at the College de France, Foucault develops a vigorous Nietzschean history of the will to know through an analysis of changing procedures of truth, legal forms, and class struggles in ancient Greece.

This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the renewal of academic engagement in the Argentinian dictatorship in the context of the post-2001 crisis.

Put in the wider context of British imperial and diplomatic aims in 1941-1945, the book clarifies the importance of Vietnam to Britain's regional objectives in Southeast Asia; concluding that Churchill was willing to sacrifice French colonial interests in Vietnam for his all-important 'special relationship' with the United States.

The Global Covernant is a ground-breaking work by one of the leading scholars in international relations that rejuvenates the classical international society approach, and brings it into contact with the new era of world politics.

A pressing question at the forefront of current global political debates is: how can we salvage the democratic project in the context of 'globalization'?