Political science and theory

Traditional moral theory usually has either of two emphases: virtuous moral character or principles for distributing duties and goods.

The war in Vietnam, spanning more than twenty years, was one of the most divisive conflicts ever to envelop the United States, and its complexity and consequences did not end with the fall of Saigon in 1975.

From the shores of Europe to the Mexican-US border, mass migration is one of the most pressing issues we face today.

Whether or not it constituted a complete break from the past, the 15-M movement's most important legacy was a more expansive notion of the popular political, one that recognized cultural representation as a mode of political articulation and as part of a political culture.

Marranos were Spanish or Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of the Spanish Inquisition to avoid being massacred or forced to flee but who continued to practise Judaism in secret.

This political guide helps us understand why the federal government is designed as it is and how it can be fixed.

Playing Politics is a very thought provocative book unusually written with a very unordinary perspective.

The political right is at an inflection point.

Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures?

The war in Vietnam, spanning more than twenty years, was one of the most divisive conflicts ever to envelop the United States, and its complexity and consequences did not end with the fall of Saigon in 1975.

Most scholars link the origin of politics to the formation of human societies, but in this innovative work, Tilo Schabert takes it even further back: to our very births.

Glenn foretells of a united world government led by a world leader who becomes envisioned is the Messiah in Judaism, the second coming or resurrection in Christianity and Islam, and would have a place of reverence in many other religions, and respect among the nonreligious.

Gershon Baskin's memoir of thirty-eight years of intensive pursuit of peace begins with a childhood on Long Island and a bar mitzvah trip to Israel with his family.

The unnecessary wars get declared when US, as a powerful country, supports one country while opposing the other countries, such as the Middle Eastern wars, causing waste of money and countless lives.

Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future.

With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "e;crisis of democracy"e;, the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned.

Longlisted for the 2021 Porchlight Business Book Awards, Management & Workplace CultureAn expert takes on the crisis of income inequality, addressing the problems with our current compensation model, demystifying pay practices, and providing practical information employees can use when negotiating their salaries and discussing how we can close the gender and racial pay gap.

Common Sense and Other Writings, by Thomas Paine, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classicsseries, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.

In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil, ethical and political action in the polis.

Gamboa's World examines the changing legal landscape of eighteenth-century Mexico through the lens of the jurist Francisco Xavier de Gamboa (1717-1794).

This book attacks a poison that for so very long we have called political correctness.

Today the United States is fighting a "e;war"e; against terrorism, a military action whose definition will be a matter of controversy, particularly, if history is any guide, between Congress and the president.

The book shows that from the last two decades of the twentieth century and the end of the Cold War in 1991, a shift occurred in inter-American geopolitics as the United States emerged as the dominant global structural power.

Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether.

Today almost half of all Americans decline to define themselves as either "e;liberal"e; or "e;conservative.

A devastating catalog of Barack Obama’s numerous evasions, misleading statements and blatant lies, from statements in his national bestseller Dreams from My Father to “You can keep your health plan,” PolitiFact’s 2013 “Lie of the Year.

Martin Luther King once insisted that 'a riot is the language of the unheard.

Cet ouvrage, qui renoue avec les grands textes amoureux de la civilisation arabo-musulmane, presente l'histoire d'une passion amoureuse foudroyante, et l'etat de devastation dans lequel la narratrice s'est retrouvee a la suite de cette relation.

Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that all men are created equal .

From a donated typewriter that frequently breaks down, people on Alabamas death row have literally cut and pasted together a newsletter, On Wings of Hope, for the last three decades to educate the public about the death penalty.

China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century.