Comparative Politics

From the former secretary of state and bestselling author -- a sweeping look at the global struggle for democracy and why America must continue to ...

What motivates citizens to support one party over the other? Do they carefully weigh all of the relevant issues and assess which party or candidate...

A new fifth edition of a well-established and popular introduction to all aspects of life in the US, fully updated to take into account the latest ...

In The Concrete Plateau, Andrew Grant examines the ways that urbanization has extended into the Tibetan Plateau. Many people still think of Tibetan...

A no-holds-barred biography of Viktor Orbán, the most successful--and arguably most dangerous--politician in Hungarian history. Through a masterly...

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 ...