Politics and government

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

Poli Sci Fi: An Introduction to Political Science through Science Fiction allows readers, students, and instructors to explore the multiple worlds of science fiction while gaining a firm grasp of core political science concepts.

This book explores how leading news media responded to the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath, showing how journalists regularly framed discussions about post-crisis regulatory reform in ways that reinforced the same market liberal policy paradigm that had ushered in the crisis.

To convey the image of a responsible power willing to contribute to regional stability and cooperation, China has shifted from a single-minded preference for bilateralism to an active participation in East Asian regionalism in the recent decades.

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis and overview of China's foreign policy since 1949.

Discover how the Oval Office s occupants have made and make history Which one was the tallest?

First published in 1998, this volume describes and analyses organizations of social security claimants and their position in the field of force of the national welfare state in six European countries: representing a diversity of welfare state regimes.

While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War, Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan's security.

Recent elections in Japan have been dramatic, and the 2021 general election was no exception.

The new edition of this well-established and highly regarded textbook continues to provide the clearest and most comprehensive introduction to the modern state.

Gillion demonstrates the direct influence that political protest behavior has on Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court.

Russia in a Reconnecting Eurasia examines the full scope of Russian national interests in the South Caucasus and Central Asia and analyzes the broad outlines of Russian engagement over the coming years.

Employs rich examples and illustrations to provide a clear, concise introduction to the rules and significance of the EU legal order.

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

Professor King's concept of the philosophy of history leads him to offer this demonstration of the incoherence, even absurdity, of the notion that the past can have nothing to teach us - whether posed by those who argue that history is "e;unique"e; or that it is merely "e;contextual"e;.

This book outlines the principles behind the international law of foreign investment.

The 21st century marks a watershed in the history of the human economic condition.

The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies, focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens.

This book is about the challenges that emerge for organizations from an ever faster changing world.

Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries.

In April 1945, when the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was surrendered and handed over to the British Army, Canadian forces arrived on scene to provide support, to bear witness, and to document the crimes.

Despite impressive economic growth rates over the last decade, foreign aid still plays a significant role in Africa's political economies.

Environmental Conflict and Cooperation explores the evolution of environmental conflict as a field of research and the study of cooperation as an alternative to war.

"e;The perfect book for the present moment.

This book, first published in 1979, is an analysis of the wartime Ministry of Information, responsible for the maintenance of public morale.

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern timesThe world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them over the course of 2,500 years.

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over-and upending-nearly every aspect of life.

Introduction to Homeland Security, Third Edition provides the latest developments in the policy and operations of domestic security efforts of the agencies under the U.

Investigates the efficacy of the European Union''s promotion of good governance through its funding and conditionalities both within EU proper and in the developing world.

One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights.

Die Politikfinanzierung in der Schweiz ist ein grosses Geheimnis.

Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the economy.

Leading authorities present the latest cutting edge research on state judicial elections.

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children.

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.

Asks and answers the hardest questions about the relationship between British Islam and English law using classical pluralist theory.

This new book brings together Britain's leading naval historians and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British naval thinking and what has made it so distinctive over the last three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the current day.

The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states.

This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance.

Working from multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives (especially, from the social sciences, media studies discourse analysis, text grammar, folklore, performing arts and linguistics), the authors of the volume investigate and illuminate pertinent issues on democratization, elections and electioneering campaigns and the constitution of order in an African context.

What happens when a government begins a major foreign policy commitment and then later receives new information that it is failing?

This study presents an in-depth survey of the principal policies and personalities of American diplomacy of the era, together with a discussion of recent historiography in the field.

Many students find the leap between school and university level mathematics to be significantly greater than they expected.

This book deals with the constantly evolving, vast, and diverse field of nontraditional security.

Austerity as Public Mood explores how politicians and the media mobilise nostalgic and socially conservative ideas of work and community in order to justify cuts to public services and create divisions between the deserving and undeserving.

This volume brings together leading researchers to celebrate the significant contributions of Peter Grabosky to the field of Criminology, and in particular his work developing and adapting regulatory theory to the study of policing and security.

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide.