Comparative Politics

In the last few years, populism -- of the right, left, and center varieties -- has spread like wildfire throughout the world. The impulse reached i...

In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actua...

With almost every news broadcast, we are reminded of the continuing instability of the Middle East, where state collapse, civil wars, and terrorism...

Today a general mood of pessimism surrounds Western efforts to strengthen elections and democracy abroad. If elections are often deeply flawed or e...

In this often irreverent commentary, Nick Adams and Dave Erickson make an irrefutable case that the Establishment is the enemy of the people. In th...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world Masterly mappi...

Using a new concept - 'regulatory crisis' - this book examines how major crises may or may not affect regulation. The authors provide a detailed an...

The essential new book from the authors of the international bestseller The Spirit Level'Why are people, particularly young people, experiencing in...

Lebanon and Israel/Palestine are two political entities that expanded in 1920 and 1967 respectively, and became divided societies characterized by ...

Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and...

Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and...

The first wave of democratization in the United States - the removal of property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote - was accompani...

Democratic transitions in the early 1990s introduced a sea change in Sub-Saharan African politics. Between 1990 and 2015, several hundred competiti...

What does it mean to be resilient in a societal or in an international context? Where does resilience come from? From which discipline was it 'impo...

The post-cold war era has seen an unmistakable trend toward the proliferation of violent non-state groups-variously labeled terrorists, rebels, par...

Daniel Pipes has collected some of his sharpest and most prescient writings from the quarter century 19892014. In them, he addresses a range of cur...

Secession and the Sovereignty Game offers a comprehensive strategic theory for how secessionist movements attempt to win independence. Combining or...