Politics and government

This timely account of politicized homophobia contests portrayals of the African continent as hopelessly homophobic, highlighting how elites deploy it.

Fourteen leading scholars explore the lives of seven of the most famous Jewish lawyers in the history of international law.

Detailed study of the ICC''s practice in prosecuting gender-based crimes, current up to the ICC Statute''s twentieth anniversary in 2018.

Introduces the idea of a flexible approach to the human rights movement that returns to basics in an increasingly diverse and multipolar world.

This book provides a contextual analysis of ASEAN law and its impact on the business and commercial aspect of laws.

Investigates the struggle between governments, parliaments, the people and courts over who participates in EU treaty making.

Examines how contemporary asymmetric conflicts between the United States and their non-state adversaries have become contests over the two norms of casualty-aversion and civilian protection.

At last a history that explains how indigenous dispossession and survival underlay and shaped the birth of Australian democracy.

A critical take on the convergence of human rights discourse with the counterterrorism agenda revealing its effects on developing countries.

Drawing on extensive interviews, Hartshorn explains how labor became a revolutionary topic prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010–2011.

Shows how the Norwegian model of judicial review provides an alternative to American and European constitutionalism.

Critically examines the human rights activities of the Council of Europe and the European Union at a time of uncertainty and change.

Utilizing surveys of Obama, McCain, and Romney donors, the authors explore the question: who donates to presidential campaigns?

A vision of contemporary China from the inside, Xu''s essays offer a liberal reaction to the complexity of China''s rise.

The notion of ''representative democracy'' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?

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

The first volume of its kind to take a comprehensive view of social justice issues and interventions for young people from a global perspective.

This book represents the first comprehensive analysis of NGO participation at international criminal and human rights courts.

Provides a new way of thinking about parties formed by social movements, and their evolution over time.

This business history elucidates the international history of the interwar period by putting the armaments sector front and center.

Shows that modernism was concocted out of surprising sources, and that one of them was Toryism during 1900–1920.

Apocalyptic rhetoric creates dangerous politics; three great thinkers show how clear-eyed realism is our best hope.

Links democracy with the process of overcoming severe social inequality, rather than with ideal forms of political debate.

Explores how foreign policy was used to promote American nationalism by creating external threats in the early republic.

Provides the first formal account and theory of endurance as a practice in performance art and protest.

A nuanced range of interdisciplinary perspectives on the role of emotions in moral and political reactions to mass violence.

The book brings together cutting-edge scholarship from the United States and Europe to address political and cultural responses to the arms race of the 1980s.

Advances theorization of childhood in contexts of racialized settler-colonial political violence while acknowledging children''s power to interrupt it.

A cutting-edge description of subnational democracy combined with a ground breaking explanation for why some regions are much less democratic than others.

Based on long-term research in northern Chad, this book provides a unique account of mobility, wealth, and aspirations to political autonomy at the heart of the contemporary Sahara.

Explores the contributions of international courts and tribunals in terms of performance by offering a comparative analysis of international courts.

Examines how distinctive liberalisms respond to racial, cultural, gender-based and class-based forms of diversity and difference.

Through the lens and experiences of civil society, Fortier demonstrates the volatility of democratization following the downfall of Tunisia''s authoritarian regime duringin the 2010–11 uprisings.

European criminal law faces many challenges in harmonising states'' criminal justice systems.

Analyses the relation of preventive and curative health policy and its evolution over time.

This comparative study of post-war European socialism explores the problems of socio-economic and political reconstruction across the Iron Curtain.

An analysis of the role of the interplay between formality and informality in shaping the current state of international law.

Examines the clash between political systems and political action as the Roman Republic disintegrated.

History mattered to the political elite in ancient China.

Offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between secularization, tolerance and democracy through a theoretically informed look at South Asian politics.

Explores the relationship between the legitimacy, the efficacy, and the decision-making of national and transnational constitutional courts.

Using a global array of case studies, this collection explores the consequences of political involvement on an individual''s life.

Since 1787, constituent assemblies have shaped politics.

The book develops the model of institutional constructivism to aid socio-legal research and to account for patterns of socio-legal change.

Advances our understanding of global and international relations through a ground-breaking philosophical analysis of social practices indebted to Oakeshott, Wittgenstein and Hegel.

Explains how weakly institutionalized and male-dominant parties undermine descriptive representation in Brazil''s OLPR legislative elections.

Examines the entrenchment of Salafism in Lebanese society while also highlighting the movement''s transnational links to the Persian Gulf.

Explores how and why the rise in international courts impacts on domestic politics on both national and international levels.

Challenges conventional views of what it means to ''do justice'' in the aftermath of mass atrocities, from a legal perspective.

A comprehensive new account of China''s entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.