Political Science & Theory

Taking a close look at the dense fabric that our government weaves between war, state power, and economics, this collection of essays reveals the g...

Bringing just war doctrine to life, Richard J. Regan raises a host of difficult questions about the evils of war, asking first and foremost whether...

Very rarely has peace and conflict studies been combined with public administration research. This book brings together theories from conflict reso...

How did the world''s most warlike continent become its most peaceful one? Europe is usually in the news for the wrong reasons. Economic crises, ter...

This book introduces a new conceptual category to philosophical and political discourse, namely Hecate-isms, which can be applied to postpostmodern...

Consecutive constructivism is a moral and political theory which mitigates structural injustice by securing individuals perception of private moral...

This book begins from the assumption that we have entered an era where the concept of political representation is seriously compromised. Eschewing ...

With the rise of nationalism, and with it the nation-state in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, so arose new polemical issues. As the Spanish ...

History is a powerful tool in the hands of politicians, and can be a destructive weapon since power over the past is the power to decide who is a h...

The Atlantic World continues to live with the burdens of its own past. Patriarchy, colonialism, and the degradation of people and land persist, and...

The question of Modern Greek identity is certainly timely. The political events of the previous years have once more brought up such questions as: ...

Why our workplaces are authoritarian private governments--and why we can't see it One in four American workers says their workplace is a dictators...

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior res...

What kind of hypocrite should voters choose as their next leader? The question seems utterly cynical. But, as David Runciman suggests, it is actual...

It is easier to imagine the end of the world, the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, than to imagine the end of capitalism. Jacobin Editor Pete...

When it comes to politics, we often perceive our own beliefs as fair and socially beneficial, while seeing opposing views as merely self-serving. B...

What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book ans...

In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy t...