Politics and Government

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of change and continuity in West Asia, its society, religion and politics. An overv...

The third edition of this highly-regarded core textbook offers an accessible and impressively comprehensive account of Western Political Thought ov...

Much ink has been spilled by scholars, journalists, and former government officials from both the United States and the Soviet Union in efforts to ...

Re-Globalization examines the changing face of globalization, with political, economic, and social balances in flux, and tensions increasing in man...

This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive...

As civil wars become forums for international conflicts and ideological rivalries, their containment and resolution is an increasingly important re...

The citizen, a figure capable of self-government is both the political and the personal sense, is a central and enduring theme of political thought...

Renegotiating the Nuclear Order offers a sociological approach to the nuclear order, and order defined by nuclear technology and nuclear weapons. T...

Openness in the international economy happens when countries employ the commercial policies needed to mould free trade into an outcome that serves ...

The integration of national economies through the ongoing process that has come to be known as globalization has stirred much controversy, includin...

The increased engagement of states with their co-ethnics abroad has recently become one of the most contentious features of European politics. Unti...

Tom King’s personal memoirs range across a life of exceptional activity and interest. Aged nineteen, he found himself commanding a military company...

In this volume, eight energy experts address the question of how much energy conservation can contribute to national energy supplies and how it wil...

This book is concerned with the future direction of the international division of labour in manufacturing. It explores the different patterns of fo...

The secular world may have thought it was done with theology, but theology was not done with it. Recent decades have seen a resurgence of religion ...

Of all the ‘third party’ movements in American history, none have been as controversial as the Communist Party of the United States of America. Alt...

This translation of Rita Segato’s seminal book La crítica de la colonialidad en ocho ensayos offers an anthropological and critical perspective on ...

This book while comprehending the contemporary global security environment, offers a new roadmap for nuclear disarmament by creating a balance betw...

Most recent books about Chiapas, Mexico, focus on political conflicts and the indigenous movement for human rights at the macro level. None has exp...

Europeanization as Discursive Practice adopts a poststructuralist reading of Europeanization to study the effects of EU accession in the light of p...

The concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of interaction and transformation between different institutional and social forms, and norma...

Using newly declassified documents from Serbian, British, Indian, Chinese, Myanmar, U.S., and Soviet archives, Non-Aligned Movement Summits shows h...

Few philosophers have been the subject of as much or as intense debate, yet almost everyone agrees on one thing: Jean-Jacques Rousseau is among the...

The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and homophobic. Yet, in recent years the region has become a vibrant and important a...

The people of Afghanistan stand at a crossroads, with resistance to the Soviet occupation entering its eighth year. The question of survival must b...

From nonviolent protests in Cairo and Manama to the ousting of Libya's Gaddafi and the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the series of uprisings w...

The Greek Economy, first published in 1986, presents a detailed survey of the development of the Greek economy in the twentieth century. It examine...

Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal mark...

In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader, launched the economic reforms that turned the world's most populous nation into an economic dynam...

Africa in World Politics provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African sta...

This book offers the reader tools to recognize, analyze, and fight back against the fake news, misinformation, and disinformation that come at us f...

First published in 1989, Cultural Politics in Contemporary America is a radical attempt to lay out the complex ways in which the American media and...

Africa in World Politics provides advanced undergraduate and graduate students with the perfect introduction to the challenges faced by African sta...

The Rise and Fall of Democracy Promotion in US Foreign Policy employs a transformational change framework to understand US democracy promotion from...

First published in 1986, The Decline of Arab Oil Revenues explores the fall in the economic value of Arab oil reserves in the 1980s. Some of the th...