Political Science & Theory

This completely revised edition of Global Think Tanks: Policy Networks and Governance provides a clear description of, and context for, the global ...

Our time is the age of postmodernity and of the clash of epochs. But a new age of humanity is rising. It is evolutionity or the evolutionary epoch ...

This volume includes five case studies on war and the military in the USSR, Russia and Yugoslavia. It argues that the armed forces were at the core...

This book poses the question: How can we organize society in such a way that our disagreement about facts and norms works to the benefit of everyon...

This title was first published in 2000: Politics cannot be conceived of as just a subsystem of society, or as a network of particular interests. Th...

Political compromise is emerging as a preferred solution for numerous apparently intractable problems. Many have pointed to the rising degree of po...

When money equates to power and the system is rigged in favor of wealthy elites, why do we still pretend we are living in a democracy? In Living un...

This book presents a critique of dominant governance theories grounded in an understanding of existence as a static, discrete, mechanistic process,...

By using the concept of capitalism as a form of life, the authors in this volume reconceive capitalism, its mechanisms and effects on our bodies an...

The liberal political theorist John Rawls, despite remaining largely silent on green concerns, was writing during a time of increasing awareness th...

Political theorist Laurie M. Johnson deals with Jungs analysis of the effects of modern scientific rationalism on the development of communism, fas...

In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the ...

Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger ...

First published in 1990, this book was intended as a counter to the rising and continued strength of the New Right and an attempt to bolster the pe...

This book was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns re...

This book was first published in 2003.This informative text deals with the emergence of coalition agreements, their contents, the problem of enforc...

Recent social and political developments in the EU have clearly shown the profound structural changes in European society and its politics. Reflect...

In the wake of Brexit and Trump, the debate surrounding post-truth fills the newspapers and is at the center of the public debate. Democratic insti...

This title was first published in 2002. This innovative work analyses how the United States has laid down the foundations for global power. It reas...

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative...

Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary. Yet while few would deny that rights are important, there is a great deal of disagr...

This title was first published in 2000. Offering original insights into the relationship between media and democratic theory, this volume brings to...

This title was first published in 2002: Questioning the most fundamental assumptions of international relations theory, this absorbing work compare...

For those who lived through the Cold War period, and for many of the historians who study it, it seemed self-evident that the critical incidents th...

A great deal of effort has been expended by Anglo-American scholars in an attempt to isolate past and contemporary fascisms, neofascisms, cryptofas...

The book analyses the renewed importance of the North Atlantic for NATO in the face of new security challengesThis Whitehall Paper explores the ren...

Serving as a touchstone for a much-needed research program on social scales, this volume challenges disciplinary boundaries and brings into focus a...

First published in 1998, this volume deals with the explanation of international politics and foreign policy. Levels of explanation and their inter...

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world...

The seventeenth century English philosopher, John Locke, is widely recognized as one of the seminal sources of the modern liberal tradition. Libert...

Thomas Hobbes is a towering figure in the history of modern thought and political philosophy. He remains best remembered for his 1651 treatise on g...

This title was first published in 2002: Questioning the most fundamental assumptions of international relations theory, this absorbing work compare...

First published in 1999, this volume is a radical text which contributes to the current debate over the future of liberal theory as it offers an ex...

Engaging with a range of interconnected and highly topical issues of identity, self-determination and secession, this book examines the import and ...

James Madison (1751-1836) - 'the Father of the American Constitution' - was a legal and political thinker of great originality and range. The essay...