This book addresses how the erosion of traditional forms of political association and legal regulation has given rise to a pluralism of "e;imperfect communities"e; constantly exposed to the risk of dissolution.
Despite being a relatively young sub-discipline, European environmental sociology has changed considerably in the last decades towards more interdisciplinary collaborations and problem solving.
Changes in the global political order have combined with dominant trends in liberal political philosophy to spark increasing scholarly criticism of the state's traditional right to regulate immigration according to its own national identity.
Die Theorie des Thomas Hobbes hat in der Vergangenheit stark abweichende Deutungen erfahren und Anlass zu zahlreichen lang anhaltenden Debatten geliefert.
This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation.
Der vorliegende Band umfasst eine große Bandbreite theoretischer Beiträge und empirischer Anwendungen räumlicher Modelle auf dem Gebiet der Politikwissenschaft.
This book examines what 'republicanism' meant to the Americans who drafted and ratified the United States Constitution, guaranteeing a 'republican form of government' to every state in the Union.
This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution.
After modernism and postmodernism, it is argued, the everyday supposedly is where a democracy of taste is brought into being - the place where art goes to recover its customary and collective pleasures, and where the shared pleasures of popular culture are indulged, from celebrity magazines to shopping malls.
An argument that humanists have the toolsand the responsibilityto mobilize political power to tackle climate changeAs climate catastrophes intensify, why do literary and cultural studies scholars so often remain committed to the separation of aesthetic study from the nitty-gritty of political change?
A century after the publication of Evgeny Pashukanis' pivotal book General Theory of Law and Marxism, this collection presents a comprehensive account and analysis of his key concept of legal form.
The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programsIn 1970s America, politicians began "e;getting tough"e; on drugs, crime, and welfare.
Die Vereinten Nationen durch drei Jahrzehnte wissenschaftlich-publizistisch, aber auch politisch so loyal zu begleiten, wie dies mein Münchner Kollege Peter 1.
The first full account of British policy towards China, Japan and Korea from the final stages of the Second World War to the outbreak of the Korean War, set against the backdrop of the Anglo-American relationship, broader Far Eastern developments, the beginnings of the Cold War, and Britain's relationship with the Commonwealth.
This volume is intended to serve as a review of the "e;next generation"e; of political economy scholars in what can be called the "e;Wagnerian"e; tradition, which traces its roots to Buchanan and De Viti De Marco in the 1930s, who argued that any decision that results from a political entity must be the product of individual decision makers operating within some framework of formal and informal rules.
This cutting-edge handbook, written by foremost authoritative scholars, presents the main theoretical and empirical issues involved in current Europeanization research.
This book explores race and multiculturalism in Malaysia and Singapore from a range of different disciplinary perspectives, showing how race and multiculturalism are represented, how multiculturalism works out in practice, and how attitudes towards race and multiculturalism - and multicultural practices - have developed over time.
Accounts of public intellectuals in France and French feminism have focused on a specific set of women thinkers overlooking some major women intellectuals.
Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be morally unjustifiable.
From the 14th-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the 20th century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure.
