Political leaders and leadership

Europe's Restorations were characterised by their evolving dialectics.

In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre.

At the height of the Cold War, the John F.

Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region.

David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'.

How have the workings of the British civil service changed over the past forty years?

In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World.

Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) was the only one of the sons of the renowned nineteenth-century Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to enjoy a significant political career in his own right.

August Bebel (1840-1913) was one of the towering figures of late nineteenth century European socialism and the leading figure of the German labour movement from the 1860s until his death in 1913.

Following the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the 'Congress System' became the primary instrument of diplomacy in Europe.

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within'.

Herbert Gladstone (1854-1930) was the only one of the sons of the renowned nineteenth-century Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone to enjoy a significant political career in his own right.

Soviet foreign policy in the Stalin era is commonly assumed to have been a direct product of either Marxist ideology or the leader's whims.

Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regime based on discretionary allocation of funds and powers to interest groups that has developed since the creation of emergency institutions after America's entry into World War I.

As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food.

Iran's presidents have defined the Islamic Republic's attitudes towards the rest of the world.

Martyn Bennett here provides the first military biography of Cromwell in the context of the seventeenth century Military Revolution.

In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre.

Nationalism is a key topic within Balkan Studies, and one of the driving forces behind the bloody and difficult history of the region.

David Lloyd George left a profound political legacy, despite being described by the wife of his successor, Herbert Asquith, as a 'gambler without foresight'.

How have the workings of the British civil service changed over the past forty years?

In the last three decades, Turkey has attempted to build close relationships with Russia, Iran and the Turkic World.

'When the Nazi power was broken, I asked myself what was the best advice I could give to my fellow citizens here in this island and across the channel in our ravaged continent.

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

How do you govern 130,000 people from exile?

Nuclear power has for the most part dominated Western media and academic analyses concerning Iranian foreign policy in recent years.

He was at the forefront of some of Germany's most definitive and controversial decisions, in his role as the first Social Democrat Chancellor of West Germany between 1969 and 1974.

In 1840, conflict within the Ottoman Empire gave rise to a serious all-European crisis which led to a diplomatic rupture between France and other Great Powers.

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China.

In July 2011, South Sudan was granted independence and became the world's newest country.

To maintain the pace at which he worked as a parliamentarian, cabinet minister, war leader, writer and painter, Churchill required a vast female staff of secretaries, typists and others.

The most unusual feature of Donald Trump's nationalist and populist campaign for the presidency of the USA was his obsessive use of Twitter.

You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father.

For nine years, Carwyn Jones was at the helm of Welsh politics.

Born into the Mao era, the author's education in school and at home by her father, a devoted Communist propaganda officer, was a brainwashing process.

Born into the Mao era, the author's education in school and at home by her father, a devoted Communist propaganda officer, was a brainwashing process.

'Carefully researched and excellently written .

'A thrilling read' Tom Holland'History-writing at its best' Barry StraussBy the end of his short life, Alexander the Great had redrawn the map of the ancient world to create an empire that stretched from the Adriatic Sea to the Indian subcontinent.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon.

Cult-of-personality or true democracy?

Cult-of-personality or true democracy?

Despite different legal and constitutional arrangements, in many states across Europe, public leaders are forging new collaborative relationships with non-state and civic actors to seek innovative ways of providing public services.

**JOHN CRACE'S NEW BOOK DEPRAVED NEW WORLD IS AVAILABLE NOW**Infectiously entertaining political satire, from the author of Decline and Fail and I, Maybot.

'Optimism, mojo, complete bollocks.

Set in the offices of a magazine publishers, Meredith Oakes' comedy of fragile values in the media will not restore your faith in human nature, but it is guaranteed to help you get on in publishing without really succeeding.

How To Write Everything is the ultimate writer's handbook.

'Any bibliophile will find many enjoyable nuggets in this compendium of book chat' Stephen Poole, Guardian'An engaging little eye-opener about the publishing business, full of tasty nuggets about books, writers and their editors' Sunday Times'Enjoyable .

A novel about the love-life of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937).

Siegi Moos, an anti-Nazi and active member of the German Communist Party, escaped Germany in 1933 and, exiled in Britain, sought another route to the transformation of capitalism.