Comparative Politics

In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing...

This book makes an original and readable contribution to defining the nature of justice in the aftermath of a repressive regime. While considering ...

One US military leader has called Israel the intelligence equivalent of five CIAs. An Israeli cabinet minister likens his country to the equivalent...

During the early Middle Ages, King Alfred (reigned 871-99) gained fame as the ruler who brought learning back to England after decades of Viking...

The United Kingdom has not yet lasted as long as the Kingdom of Wessex, and may not do so. Conventional histories of Britain, though, tell the stor...

Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival ...

The decades-long resilience of Middle Eastern regimes meant that few anticipated the 2011 Arab Spring. But from the seemingly rapid leadership turn...

Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an ...

Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an ...

Politics makes for strange bedfellows, the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is ...

State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authorit...

The Conscience of a Progressive begins where Senator Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative (1960) and Paul Krugman's The Conscience of...

Since the 1990s, a burgeoning literature has emerged on the politics and governance of urban climate. It is now evident that urban responses to cli...

Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World takes a unique approach to the issue of gender equality in corporations in the 21s...

American democracy is in a period of striking tumult. The clash of a rapidly changing socio-technological environment and the traditional presidenc...