Politics and Government

Remember that metaphor about the frog that slowly cooks to death in the pot of increasingly warm water? Leftists have used it for years to describe...

With The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class, Kees van der Pijl put class formation at the heart of our understanding of world politics and the glob...

Nos societes de l''information voient se multiplier les bases de donnees administratives et les enquetes: force est cependant de constater que leur...

Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881) was one of the most important and controversial figures in nineteenth-century French revolutionary politics, and ...

On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist ...

After the leading organizations of radical sexual politics - the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Marxist Group - imploded or dissolved, the Gay Le...

American Homo offers a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural and economic struggles of lesbian, gay and bisexual people to reveal how ...

In this highly prescient work - which has had a big impact on figures such as Pablo Oglesias of Podemos in Spain - Ernesto Laclau continues the phi...

Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common p...

As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. Th...

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, healthcare, climate change, border policing; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But d...

Baltimore. Ferguson. Tottenham. Clichy-sous-Bois. Oakland. Ours has become an age of riots as the struggle of people versus state and capital has t...

How do we explain the strange survival of the forcesresponsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the f...

What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society, and how has it come about? Perry...

For decades, the American political asylum process has been used to punish enemies and reward friends of the US government. Refugees from Cuba can ...

Senator Bernie Sanders won 13 million votes and a majority of young voters in the 2016 Democratic primary, giving a consensus unbeatable party favo...

Civilizing Africa bringing European institutions and society to Africa was a common rationale for nineteenth-century European expansions into tha...

Are there any lessons Romania can teach transitional justice scholars and practitioners? This book argues that important insights emerge when analy...

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an...

The Languages of Politics/La politique et ses langages provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse from an...

US foreign policy is undergoing a dire transformation, forever changing Americas place in the world. Institutions of diplomacy and development are ...

Written by an Irish medical insider, Professor of Surgery Liam Kirwan, An Unholy Trinity is highly critical of the historic relationship between po...