Politics and Government

Is today’s left really new? How has the European radical left evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at three moments of...

This book explores the military strategies of the five system-determining great powers during the twenty-first century.The book’s point of departur...

At the height of the Cold War, the John F. Kennedy administration designed an ambitious plan for the Middle East-its aim was to seek rapprochement ...

This new IISS Strategic Dossier examines the recent development of Moscow’s armed forces and military capabilities. It analyses the aspirations und...

As China is poised to become a global economic force, its leadership is on the brink of imminent and potentially sweeping change. With Deng Xiaopin...

The Governance of Financialization in Latin America and East Asia analyses how states in these areas have adopted different monetary, financial, an...

Everyone agrees that theology has failed; but the question of how to understand and respond to this failure is complex and contested. Against both ...

In 1985, the U.S. aerospace industry achieved a $13.1 billion trade surplus and contributed $89.2 billion in shipments to the U.S. economy. Without...

On June 8, 1967, Egypt's most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces had defeated the Israeli a...

In this book, Anthony Kirk-Greene, who served as a district officer in Nigeria for over a decade, draws upon personal memoirs, diaries, private and...

This book examines everyday artefacts of world politics: the things that everyday people make that tell stories about how the world works.The autho...

This volume examines the role of Russia in the world under President Putin’s rule. When the Soviet Union disintegrated after the Cold War, Russia s...

With her new book, Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia, cultural anthropologist Carole Counihan makes a significant contribution to understandi...

This timely and original volume fills the gaps in the existing theoretical and philosophical literature on international relations by problematizin...

From its emergence out of the ashes of World War II through to the economic and political challenges of today, Austria has embodied many of the c...

Leftist filmmakers of the 1960s revolutionized the art of documentary. Often inspired by the radical art of the Soviet 1920s, filmmakers in countri...

First published in 1976, From Policy to Administration is not the conventional Festschrift written by many hands on many unrelated subjects- rather...

This book comparatively examines the preferences of four key arms-producing states towards European joint armaments programmes.The European defence...

My first introduction to the lower Medjerda Valley was in 1976 byWerner Kiene, then director of economic development programs in NorthAfrica for th...

Henry Kissinger’s 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking de...

A crucial senatorial debate on the question of the states’ relationship to the federal government.Two generations after the founding, Americans sti...

A vital text for understanding the twenty-first-century battlefield and the shifting force structure, this book prepares students to think critical...

Longlist, 2023 Edwards Book Award, Rodel InstituteFrom nineteenth-century abolitionism to Black Lives Matter today, progressive social movements ha...

This classic text provides a rich and nuanced discussion of American national security policymaking.American National Security remains the ideal fo...

The Targeted Poverty Alleviation programme was proposed by President Xi in 2013 and aims to give poor people the resources to lift themselves out o...

A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Following the U.S-Taliban peace deal of February 2020 - and the U.S's promised withdrawal from Afghanistan - the T...

In Saudi Arabia today a classic confrontation between Islamic fundamentalism and modernism has brought the Saudi banking system virtually to a stat...

India Briefing, 1989 is the third in a series of annual assessments of key events and issues in Indian affairs prepared by the Contemporary Affairs...

This book provides detailed histories of colonial water systems in four localities in the Mexican Bajío—Celaya, Salvatierra, Valle de Santiago, an...

The EU referendum in the UK and Trump’s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayli...

The Targeted Poverty Alleviation programme was proposed by President Xi in 2013 and aims to give poor people the resources to lift themselves out o...

This book portrays aspects of the life of a community of over 1,200 Jews who were either born in Yemen, or who were, in 1975–77, the young sons and...

Young Marx is a comedy set in 1850's London, where Karl Marx, is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. Broke and restless, the play portrays the thirty-two-...

It became an established practice in the 19th century for the European colonial powers - in particular, Britain and France - to exercise hegemony o...

First published in 1944, Nationality in History and Politics unpacks the vagueness of terms such as nationality, national consciousness, national c...