Comparative Politics

Emerging Scholarship on the Middle East and Central Asia: Moving from the Periphery provides fresh analysis and cutting-edge critique of phenomena ...

Cyber norms and other ways to regulate responsible (state) behaviour in cyberspace is a fast moving political and diplomatic field. The academic st...

Two major forces in the creation of the State of Israel in May 1948 were David Ben-Gurion and Chaim Weizmann. While each “giant” led very different...

The New Minorities of Europe: Social Cohesion in the European Union argues that while the EU currently faces economic issues, it is pressed with la...

This book offers a critical overview on the literature on party change and provides original data on several dimensions of party organizations, foc...

Ethno-politics has become a major force in the post-Cold War era. The fundamental challenge to military establishments in deeply plural societies ...

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transf...

Although the state's role in society has clearly expanded since the 1930s, its independent effect on social structure and change has been given lit...

African Governance, Security, and Development explores the political economy of development in Africa. The contributors examine the impact and impl...

Southeast Asia and South America are regions made up of largely illiberal states lacking stabilizing great powers or collective identities. But des...

Migration and Xenophobia: A Three Country Exploration examines issues of migration and xenophobia using the experiences of three nations: the Unite...

How is it that Sweden has been able to combine political stability with an entrenched multiparty system? How is it that she has produced such remar...

The book draws on some of the scholarship in perception studies and “Normative Power Europe” theory. The study of perceptions, although dating back...

This book examines the notion that while states may differ in terms of ideology, economic system, and institutional architecture, their role as an ...

This book is an outgrowth of critical examination of Western political theory embedded in Western-centrism and the tumultuous ideational processes ...

This volume brings together leading thinkers who offer reflections on the place of Western civilization in the academy, at a time when there is ind...

This book analyzes the power variations between political executives in semi-presidential regimes. It contrasts institutional, partisan, and extra-...

This edited volume brings together chapters that offer theoretically pertinent comparisons between various dimensions of Israeli and Turkish politi...