Political Ideologies

If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong in the twenty-first. Citizens aroun...

In the wake of the uprisings throughout the Middle East in late 2010 and early 2011, the role of Islamist parties in the political process has take...

A new beginning for Marxism might just be on the horizon of a landscape despoiled by Soviet communism and a now wobbling world capitalism. The atte...

In the last fifty years, many aspects of socialism have been rolled back around the world. Indeed, in the 1990s, following the collapse of communis...

In the voluminous secret history of the 1930s, one episode that still puzzles researchers is the death in 1937 of one of Stalin's key allies - his ...

Following the locust years of the neo-liberal revolution, social democracy was the great victor at the fin-de-siècle elections. Today, parties desc...

Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most ...

The end of Soviet Socialism signalled to some observers that the ghost of Marx had finally been laid to rest. But history's refusal to grind to a h...

Drawing Liberalism is the first book-length critical examination of the political and social impact of the political cartoonist Herbert Block—popu...

An examination of race and political/cultural/religious movements in the West in the context of transatlantic debates on modernity. It explains the...

As populism presaging authoritarianism surges worldwide and political rights and civil liberties erode, pundits, politicians, and political scienti...

In 1966 Richard Nixon hired Patrick J. Buchanan, a young editorial writer at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, to help lay the groundwork for his presi...

Any democratic regime needs an active and performative party system. Political parties act as intermediaries between institutions and society, arti...

The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24 explores the impact of the Russian Revolution on the world’s most powerful anarchist mov...

Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the ov...

Observers from Abroad offers an examination of published and archival images of Soviet Russia, providing a deeper understanding of the complexities...

Tadeusz Kowalik lived through ten decades and three economic and political systems in Poland. He combined his academic study of economic ideas with...

Bernie Sanders’ socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China’s economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse abou...

This trenchant account of the last twenty-five years of the British Labour Party argues that Tony Blair's modernizing tendency was profoundly mista...

Catalonia: A New History revises many traditional and romantic conceptions in the historiography of a small nation. This book engages with the scho...

What does extremism mean? How does it show up in our daily lives? What drives people to extreme behaviors, and how can we learn to live and thrive ...

Investigating the appeal of the group Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), the study expands on why non-violent radical forms of Islam still attract segments of Mu...

The study of Marxism in Britain throws light on what many historians have referred to as `the enemy within’. In this book, David Burke looks at the...

North Carolina's 1963 speaker ban law declared the state's public college and university campuses off-limits to "known members of the Communist Par...

This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social do...

Fascists in Exile tells the extraordinary story of the war criminals, collaborators and fascist ultranationalists who were resettled in Australia b...

In March 1998, India broke a quarter-century's silence when it detonated a series of nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert. Having announced it p...

In Revolution and Constitutionalism in Britain and the U.S.: Burke and Madison and Their Contemporary Legacies, David A. J. Richards offers an inve...

What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues...

After the Second World War, the idea that local community action was indispensable for the alleviation of poverty was broadly embraced by US policy...

How has Christianity engaged with democracy? In this authoritative new treatment of a sometimes troubled relationship, Donald Norwood reflects on t...

In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operatio...

Unlikely Allies offers the first comprehensive and scholarly English-language analysis of German-Ukrainian collaboration in the General Government,...