Politics and Government

State of the World 2005 takes a new and deeper look at the theme that has dominated international politics since 9/11: security. Not the armed conf...

Designed to serve as a basic text for introductory courses in public administration, this pioneering work provides students with a clear-eyed under...

First published in 2004, this provocative and remarkable book is the first significant study of how the Clinton administration revolutionized US po...

At a point in history marked by dramatic challenges to the existing political and social order, the question of legal and political obligation emer...

This volume analyses the narration of the social through music and the seismographic function of music to detect social problems and envision alter...

When The New Democracy first appeared in 1912, it was widely regarded as one of the most influential works of the Progressive Era. Yet, despite co...

In the Post-Cold War era, US nuclear foreign policies towards India witnessed a major turnaround as a demand for ‘cap, reduce, eliminate’ under the...

While gender and race often are considered socially constructed, this book argues that they are physiologically constituted through the biopsychoso...

This book provides a critical overview of the occurrence of war in the international system by examining the concept from multiple perspectives and...

Originally published in Spanish and edited by Cuban historian Daisy Rubiera Castillo and playwright and theater critic Inés María Martiatu Terry, t...

Conflict and instability are built into the very fabric of the Middle East and North African (MENA) state and states system; yet both states and st...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2020, is one of the most recognizable acronyms in...

Although political scientists and their students tended, prior to the seventies, to approach political theory as the history of political ideas, a ...

In this important text, Stephen Valocchi brings capitalism back into the study of the gay and lesbian movement. He argues that to understand the co...

He (和), or harmony, has traditionally been a central concept in Chinese thought, and to this day continues to shape the way in which people in Chin...

Lewis Anthony Dexter may well have been one of the better known and least appreciated political scientists of the last century. This outstanding co...

This book offers a new approach to the problem of evil through an examination of the anthropological figure of the ‘trickster’. A lesser known and ...

This book analyzes a series of decisions by leaders of three major terrorist organizations and identifies a unique "Decision DNA" for each of them....

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military coup abruptly ended a decade of a civilian-military hybrid regime – a massive setback for the democratisati...

This book investigates the experiences of women city councilors in India. It follows the careers of women in Jaipur, Rajasthan, who were brought in...

How are foreign policy decisions made? This volume shows the various approaches to answer this question. In their introduction, Jacobson and Zimmer...

This book describes an inquiry into the upbringing of young cerebral palsied children. Following the precedent set by John and Elizabeth Newson in ...

He (和), or harmony, has traditionally been a central concept in Chinese thought, and to this day continues to shape the way in which people in Chin...