Political science and theory

Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the property, jobs, and businesses of local Jews and Roma/Gypsies and their legal resistance strategies to such an unjust policy.

Struggling for Recognition posits that the drive for personal recognition is a prime motivation behind the pursuit of democracy.

Contemporary critical theory has customarily been dominated by French and German thought.

This 2006 anthology offers research on Hegel''s followers in the 1830s and 1840s.

Risk, Power and the State addresses how power is exercised in and by contemporary state organisations.

This book addresses the crisis of the juridical-political foundation within contemporary democracies.

AFTER GLOBALIZATION Relentlessly, remorselessly, endlessly, we are told there is no alternative to globalization, whether our lecturers are bourgeois economists, progressive journalists, or imaginative litterateurs.

Motor vehicle accidents are still a leading cause of death, even if the trend has somewhat declined over the past 20 years.

Challenging the received notions of International Relations theory about a central tradition - Realism - Molloy demonstrates how a belief in a mode of theorization has distorted Realism, forcing the theory of power politics in IR into a paradigmatic strait-jacket that is simply inadequate and inappropriate to the task of encompassing its diversity.

First published in 1932.

This comparative work examines the political and social context of interest groups in Malta and Ireland, two small island states at the periphery of an integrated continent.

A broad interpretation of the events and beliefs of seventeenth-century England, first published in 2000.

This edition includes a new preface, revised versions of several essays, and an exhaustive bibliography.

This book presents a uniquely comprehensive and balanced survey of current green political ideas.

bThis unique textbook provides students with a detailed look at many different aspects of democracy in practice: clearly describing and analysing all three existing models of democracy:* participatory democracy* referenda and initiatives* representative or liberal democracy.

This book emphasises the theoretical and methodological diversity of the field of political psychology as a means for understanding political behaviour.

The kinds of hatreds that analysts have assumed make up part of the unspoken backdrop of Western civilization have now erupted into our daily foreground.

Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people.

Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Gro raum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of Aggression and the Principle "e;Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine lege"e;.

This book examines the three major transformations that the country underwent from the early 1860s to 2000.

Amid the growing calls for a turn towards sustainable agriculture, this book puts forth and discusses the concept of agrarian extractivism to help us identify and expose the predatory extractivist features of dominant agricultural development models.

Focusing on the historical context in which political theorists have developed their thinking, this textbook provides an invaluable introduction to students of political thought.

We are living in a time when social and political authoritarianism appear to be gaining ground around the world.

This timely book looks critically at the policy response to AIDS and its institutionalization over time.

This book examines Conservative backbench debate on European integration and British relations in the Middle East between 1948 and 1957.

This book explores one of the most dramatic and scandalous events in the movement for American democratic reform.

The Cuban Revolution offers a reflective account of what the Revolution has meant to various actors such as the dominant powers, the Third World, fellow revolutionaries, intellectuals and Cuban citizens at different periods in its history.

Negin Nabavi brings together essays written by experts and scholars that shed light on the many transformations that Iran has experienced in the thirty years under the Islamic Republic and speculate on the import of the developments of 2009 and beyond.

This book provides a theoretical and historical examination of the speech and deeds of European founders.

Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature of the process.

Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.

This edited volume focuses on the links between the ongoing crisis in and around Ukraine, regional diversity, and the reform of decentralization.

An examination of China's accommodation of Western constitutional values, in the light of the pending return of British Hong Kong to China.

Consequentialism is the view that the rightness or wrongness of actions depend solely on their consequences.

Since the 1980s, democratic struggles have triggered constitutional reforms, elections, and other forms of political progress.

Olof Palme (Sweden), Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria), and Indira Gandhi (India) achieved the pinnacle of political power, fell from or relinquished power, and then, after a period in the political wilderness, regained it.

Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation.

Marx, Marginalism and Modern Sociology offers an original interpretation of Marx's critique of political economy as the basis of a critique of modern economics and sociology.

Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American, which proved crucial to their ways of arguing and reasoning both in and out of the American context.

Presenting a global history of aerial bombardment, this book shows how certain European powers initiated aerial bombardment of civilians after World War I, and how it was an instrument of choice in World War II.

Elinor Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Economics.

This book sheds new light on early twentieth-century secularism by examining campaigns to challenge dominant Christian approaches to the teaching of morality and citizenship in English schools, and to offer superior alternatives.

A provocative polemic against the philosophical psychology that underpins Rational Choice theories.

The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, even in countries with little or no tradition of direct democracy.

Of the many ideas that inspired and shaped the American Founding Fathers' thought, individualism and a commitment to individual rights were primary among them.

Children have posed a longstanding dilemma for liberalism.

Higher education and research institutions are confronted with changing and sometimes contradictory claims from state, industry and society, today.

Work is widely thought to have become more precarious.