Political science and theory

An enlightening examination of the ways our capitalist system depends on three corrupt principles: greed, hatred and ignorance.

This book offers a fresh, accessible and original interpretation of the modern state, concentrating particularly on the emergence and nature of democracy.

This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?

This “succinct and eye-opening collection of recent interviews and essays [presents] sober and unflinching analysis” of Gaza’s humanitarian crisis (Publishers Weekly).

Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations.

An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealthMuch of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment—efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo.

We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and benevolent ruler.

A Berlin Republic brings together writings on the new, united Germany by one of their most original and trenchant commentators, Jürgen Habermas.

How did the alliance between labor and the Democratic Party develop after the First World War?

The renowned activist’s lectures on Cold War foreign policy delivered in Nicaragua during the US-backed war against the Sandinista government.

Society is under siege under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics.

Populism is an expression of anger; its appeal stems from being presented as the solution to disorder in our times.

In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.

Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different forms and institutional spheres.

Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed?

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The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive.

John Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of both the empiricist tradition in philosophy and the liberal tradition in politics.

This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the political, economic, social and ideological relations of the modern world.

This revised and updated edition of a core textbook one of the most well-established texts in the field of comparative politics offers a comprehensive introduction to the comparison of governments and political systems, helping students to understand not just the institutions and political cultures of their own countries but also those of a wide range of democracies and authoritarian regimes from around the world.

After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads.

Assemblée nationale no future ?

For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative.

This outstanding book is the first comprehensive introduction to the English School of International Relations.

The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world.

A fascinating manifesto, proposing that the world should be split into smaller regions to distribute power more evenly.

Over the past 25 years, J rgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society.

After Japanese bombs hit Pearl Harbor, the American right stood at a crossroads.

This short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch of globalization.

The pandemic has brought into sharp relief the fundamental relationship between institution and human life: at the very moment when the virus was threatening to destroy life, human beings called upon institutions on governments, on health systems, on new norms of behavior to combat the virus and preserve life.

Structured analytically, the book introduces the reader to all the facets of citizenship.

The book discusses so-called real socialism and offers an alternative conceptualization of it as authoritarian collectivism, making use of an analytical and developmental methodology, that is, presenting it in categorical terms as well dwelling on its genesis, development and demise.

Does a global economy render the traditional nation-state obsolete?

An investigation into the foundations of democratic societies and the ongoing struggle over the power of concentrated wealthMuch of our politics today, Paul Starr writes, is a struggle over entrenchment—efforts to bring about change in ways that opponents will find difficult to undo.

In this classic collection, some of the world's most eminent critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse.

It is often remarked that politicians private lives are becoming a feature of political communication in many advanced industrial democracies.

This innovative approach to freedom starts from an account of what we mean by describing someone, in a psychological vein, as a free subject.

Alliance politics is a regular headline grabber.

Commercial banks UBS and HSBC embroiled in scandals that in some cases exposed lawmakers themselves as tax evaders.

This major work retraces the emergence and development of the Bourgeois public sphere - that is, a sphere which was distinct from the state and in which citizens could discuss issues of general interest.

The eminent political activist examines the principles and strategies of imperial violence and propaganda from American colonization to the modern day.

Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today.

Volume two of the influential study of US foreign policy during the Cold War—and the media’s manipulative coverage—by the authors of Manufacturing Consent.