Political Science & Theory

The aim of this book is to explain and assess the relevance of the ideas of Gramsci to a world fundamentally transformed from that in which his tho...

The end of the Lower Canada rebellions of 1837-8 assured the survival of the Seminary. Assuming a reinforced social and ideological role in industr...

This book presents a polemical account of the historical development of the neoliberal imagination. Inspired by the thought of Frederic Jameson, Be...

This year the United Nations celebrated the 'Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide', adopted in December 1948. It is...

Focusing on the increasing refusal and transgression of politics as normal across the globe, this book examines new forms of democratisation, democ...

The Routledge Handbook of Ideology and International Relations reviews, consolidates, and advances the study of ideology in international politics....

This book is the first book-length deconstructive study of the political philosophy of Jürgen Habermas. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, th...

While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it...

Is Christianity exclusively a religious phenomenon, which must separate itself from all things political, or do its concepts actually underpin secu...

Fascism and Political Theory offers both students and researchers a thematic analysis of fascism, focusing on the structural and ideological links ...

Denying recognition or even existence to certain others, while still tolerating diversity, stabilizes a political order; or does it? Revisiting thi...

In Liberal Progressivism, Gordon Hak makes the case for the value of theory and philosophy in understanding the day-to-day political realm of elect...

When we talk about patriotism in America, we tend to mean one form: the version captured in shared celebrations like the national anthem and the Pl...

This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process. It argues that, c...

The book presents a new materialist understanding of acts of deliberate destruction of the built environment and, specifically, of the politics of ...

As we search for greater understanding of the origins of liberalism, religious toleration, and modern democratic thought, Mark Jendrysik's timely w...

First published in 1988, Terrorism: The Cuban Connection examines Cuba’s involvement in terrorism. With a focus on Havana, the book begins by looki...

Since the time of Plato, political philosophy has attempted to create a secure basis upon which to build the prescriptive claims for political acti...

Not simply an “event” or merely an “incident,” the 1962 standoff between the U. S. and the Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba was a crisis, which s...

In Public Goods, Public Gains, Link and Scott discuss the systematic application of alternative evaluation methods to estimate the social benefits ...

In this fascinating treatment of "party" life, Michael Hanchard traces the many different forms of communal expression that underlie black parties....

Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of ...

Examining the historical and social trajectories involved in the continuous development of civil society, this volume reveals the contextual nature...

The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers ...

This book offers a geneaological understanding of the condition of our time by reconstructing the complex story of the transition from the "cyclica...

Red Britain sets out a provocative rethinking of the cultural politics of mid-century Britain by drawing attention to the extent, diversity, and lo...

The recovery of the ideas and experiences of William Manning is a major event in the history of the American Revolutionary era. A farmer, foot sold...

Yves Simon was one of the preeminent Thomistic philosophers and political theorists of the twentieth century. He saw it as a moral duty to understa...

Grandmother Andre told stories in front of a campfire. Elizabeth Goudie wrote a memoir in school scribblers. Phyllis Knight taped hours of intervie...

Is a strong cosmopolitan stance irretrievably arrogant? Cosmopolitanism, which affirms universal moral principles and grants no fundamental moral s...

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in comparative political theory, there has been virtually no serious examination of Buddhism by political ph...

The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class pol...

Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of ...

The words of Abraham Lincoln have been immortalized in speeches and enshrined in policies and practices, and none of those words, spoken or written...

No struggle has been more contentious or of longer duration in Mexican national history than that between a centripetal power in the capital and th...