Political science and theory

The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the concept of Russia's uniqueness.

Now in its 161st edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world.

In this book I argue for an approach that conceives human rights as both moral and legal rights.

From 9/11 to Charlie Hebdo along with Sony-pocalypse and DARPA's $2 million Cyber Grand Challenge, this book examines counterterrorism and cyber security history, strategies and technologies from a thought-provoking approach that encompasses personal experiences, investigative journalism, historical and current events, ideas from thought leaders and the make-believe of Hollywood such as 24, Homeland and The Americans.

Islam is not only a religion, but also a culture, tradition, and civilization.

Democratic theory's deliberative turn has hit a dead end.

Intended for both general readers and students, Peter Riesenberg's instructive book surveys Western ideas of citizenship from Greek antiquity to the French Revolution.

The book outlines post-Soviet style of health management in Central Asia.

Socialism, Democracy and Human Rights discusses the environment of Soviet socialist democracy.

Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Süddeutsche Jakobiner" verfügbar.

At its core, politics is all about relations of rule.

Soviet Literature in the Sixties (1965) examines the Soviet literary scene and its changes following the death of Stalin.

Drawing on an immense body of literature and research, Brian Jenkins analyses the forces that shaped mid-nineteenth century Irish nationalism in Ireland and North America as well as the role of the Roman Catholic Church.

For courses in Introduction to Political Science.

Includes a 2014 Postscript addressing Occupy Wall Street and other developments.

This book includes up-to-date contributions in the broadly defined area of probabilistic analysis of voting rules and decision mechanisms.

In 1990 Zimbabwe embarked on economic liberalisation.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Eine Weltfriedensorganisation nach den Vorschlägen des Böhmischen Königs Georg von Podiebrad und nach den Ideen des Johannes Amos Comenius" verfügbar.

The book applies an interdisciplinary analytical framework, based on social psychology theories of inclusion and exclusion, to a discussion of legal discourse and the development of legal frameworks in Europe concerning migrants, asylum seekers, refugees, and European citizens.

This book provides an in-depth, multidisciplinary framework and case-study analysis for understanding the root causes of violence in schooling.

This book explores a hitherto unexamined possibility of justifiable disobedience opened up by John Rawls' Law of Peoples.

This book pursues an original perspective on Europe's shifting extent and geopolitical standing: how countries and spaces marginal to it impact on Europe as a center.

This book is the first on the creation, development and influence of popular politics, specifically the role of Political Unions, on the Great Reform Act of 1832.

This is an analysis of the changing pressures and demands placed on party systems in 11 countries in Western Europe since 1945.

This volume reflects on the global dimension of the 2008 banking and financial crisis and point to a bigger and deeper crisis of authority and legitimacy for public managers.

This book takes the novel approach of framing Political Obligation as a situation rather than a problem.

Political, literary, and cultural historians of the early modern Anglophone world have long characterized the crucial century between 1642 and 1742 as the period when absolutist theories of sovereignty yielded their dominance to shared models of governance and a burgeoning doctrine of unalienable, individual rights.

The emergence of China as a great power is perhaps the most consequential development for the world in the 21st century.

Michel Foucault identified sexuality as one of the defining biopolitical technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A comprehensive examination of the inability of liberal capitalism to generate the technological innovations necessary to prevent dangerous climate change.

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-thought in response to the challenges of the Anthropocene, the emerging epoch of human-induced instability in the Earth system and its life-support capacities.

Now in its 155th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world.

Die Vorstellung, historische Prozesse würden sich durch exakte Datierungen begrenzen lassen, sorgt unter Historikern zumeist nur für Kopfschütteln.

This book examines recent changes to Indigenous policy in English-speaking settler states, and locates them within the broader shift from social to neo-liberal framings of citizen-state relations via a case study of Australian federal policy between 2000 and 2007.

Ted Van Dyk, a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy fights, casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American politics since JFK.

Friendship, Altruism, and Morality, originally published in 1980, gives an account of "e;altruistic emotions"e; (compassion, sympathy, concern) and friendship that brings out their moral value.

This book provides empirically grounded conceptual, design and practical advice on conducting process tracing, a key method of qualitative research.

Fugitive Politics explores the intersection between politics and ecology, between the requirements for radical change and the unprecedented challenges posed by the global crisis, a dialectic has rarely been addressed in academia.

Drawing on scholarship from an array of disciplines, this volume provides a deep and timely look at the intertwining of race and religion in American politics.

The New Dominion analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transformation of the state's politics and shaped the political Virginia of today.

The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale.