Political Science & Theory

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...

Against the backdrop of America's escalating urban rebellions in the 1960s, an unexpected cohort of New York radicals unleashed a series of urban g...

This book proposes a theory of toleration wherein liberal democracies peacefully co-exist with non-democratic societies. It conceptualises internat...

How should we design our economic systems? Should we tax the rich at a higher rate than the poor? Should we have a minimum wage? Should the state p...

Adam Smith (17231790) is famous around the world as the founding father of economics, and his ideas are regularly quoted and invoked by politicians...

This book examines democracy and governance from the unconventional and largely under researched vantage point of information. It looks at the excl...

Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-centurys most innovative thinkers and his work on Discipline and Punish was so original and offered m...

This book assesses the impact of post-9/11 domestic counterterrorism policy on US political life. It examines political discourse, law, institution...

The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood a...

Die Studie Wie sich Jugendliche Demokratie vorstellen beleuchtet die Demokratievorstellungen und Politikeinstellungen von jungen Menschen. Im Mitte...

To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalga...

To a degree insufficiently captured by the term governance, the present age is one of institutional complexity. China is a case in point. An amalga...

According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a p...

Althusser and Law is the first book specifically dedicated to the place of law in Louis Althussers philosophy. The growing importance of Althussers...