Political leaders and leadership

Presents a new theory of the rise, evolution, decline, and collapse of political orders, exploring the impact of late-modernity upon the survival of democratic and authoritarian regimes.

This major reinterpretation of British-German relations in the 1970s explores why the two countries rarely saw eye to eye over European integration.

Shows that the young adult fantasy genre is a dynamic formation that reshapes itself responsively in a continuing process over time.

Offers a new understanding of the evolution of authoritarian rule in Southeast Asia, revealing differences within and across authoritarian regimes.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets'' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

Contemporary British and American fiction is defined by financial markets'' power over the global publishing industry and the global economy.

An original study explaining why leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women''s rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Offers the first systematic comparative analysis of the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal rule and the prospects for US democracy.

Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.

Explores the development of a ''European security culture'' from the Congress of Vienna to the First World War.

Offers the first systematic comparative analysis of the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal rule and the prospects for US democracy.

Explains the failure of democratization efforts in Southeast Asia, and why have autocracies proved so resistant to democratic opening?

This major reinterpretation of British-German relations in the 1970s explores why the two countries rarely saw eye to eye over European integration.

Nero was negligent, not tyrannical.

Examines the relationship between the president and the Supreme Court, including how presidents view the norm of judicial independence.

Organized thematically, this book tells the story of the European encyclopedia from 1650 to the present.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese ''core'' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party''s elite politics.

Organized thematically, this book tells the story of the European encyclopedia from 1650 to the present.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese ''core'' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party''s elite politics.

An introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon.

Analyses the ideological writings of a scholarly and unusual Byzantine emperor dedicated to distinctively Orthodox Christian principles.

An introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon.

Challenges the assumption of the rationality of foreign policy makers in international relations, showing how leaders systematically vary in the rationality of their thinking.

Explores the primary modes by which rulers have exercised power and shaped political relations in Timor-Leste.

Discusses how mass detention and deportation of immigrants, has escalated even higher since the Obama and Trump administrations.

An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.

An innovative analysis of political leadership in Africa between 1960 and 2018, drawing on an entirely new dataset.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Ibsen in Context provides an unparalleled wealth of material on Ibsen''s life, career, works and afterlives.

Demonstrates how party elites influence candidate decisions and shape the outcomes of primary elections for House and Senate.

This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.

Explores the meanings of the term ''author'' for seventeenth-century German musicians, examining how compositions were made and used.

Demonstrates how party elites influence candidate decisions and shape the outcomes of primary elections for House and Senate.

This book is an indispensable guide to how to write articles, choose journals, and deal with revisions or rejection.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

This book is an indispensable guide to how to write articles, choose journals, and deal with revisions or rejection.

The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel''s career and influence.

The first English-language scholarly book to provide an overview of the Angela Merkel''s career and influence.

Sen argues that the decline of caste-based politics in twentieth-century Bengal was as much the result of coercion as consent.

Gender and Elections is the most comprehensive, reliable, and trustworthy resource on the role of gender in electoral politics.

This book analyzes the origins of the Vietnam War, examining President Ngô Đình Diệm''s efforts to build a modern, independent nation amongst internal struggles.

This book analyzes the origins of the Vietnam War, examining President Ngô Đình Diệm''s efforts to build a modern, independent nation amongst internal struggles.

This analysis of Thomas Jefferson''s only published work demonstrates the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and dissemination.

This analysis of Thomas Jefferson''s only published work demonstrates the political aspirations behind its composition, publication and dissemination.