Politics and Government

This book examines the factors and issues responsible for the intra-Palestinian conflict that has undermined the strength and vitality of the strug...

What is presidential leadership and why have some presidents been considered “great” – or rather “transformational” – while others are not? What ar...

This book examines what came to determine the local power and character of the Communist party-state at the level of the national non-Russian repub...

Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the ...

Investigating the role played by religious actors in sociopolitical issues as a manifestation of the invisible politics of religion, this book conc...

Every international negotiation bears a risk of collapse, as even among like-minded countries, different players often have different priorities an...

Although the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi is an important international political event, most of the studies of it place their anal...

Originally published in 1957, The Unservile State looks at the theme of liberty in the Welfare State. Has it survived Welfare – is it even better f...

This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenom...

The key difference between success and failure for most governance systems is adaptation, specifically the ability to resolve the existing social, ...

This study demonstrates that the full time party officials of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) used the term “party leadership” to bo...

This title was first published in 2000:  The International Library of Politics and Comparative Government brings together in one series, the most s...

Christians and the Middle East Conflict deals with the relationship of Christians and Christian theology to the various conflicts in the Middle Eas...

This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behavior of United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to Kennedy pertai...

Populists and the Pandemic examines the responses of populist political actors and parties in 22 countries around the globe to the COVID-19 pandemi...

Academics, NGOs, the United Nations, and individual nations are focused on the prevention and intervention of genocide. Traditionally, missions to ...

This book outlines the main security threats, actors, and processes in the Western Balkans following the dissolution of Yugoslavia. Exploring the s...

What is a realist response to nuclear weapons? This book is animated by the idea that contemporary attempts to confront the challenge of nuclear we...

A mob scene erupted in April 1990 in the sleepy hamlet of Caneada, a small town on the northern edge of the Allegheny Mountains. In addition to rio...

Right-wing populism is a global phenomenon that challenges several pillars of liberal democracy, and it is often described as a dangerous political...

The collapse of the Soviet Union has had profound and long-lasting impacts on the societies of Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia,...

The rise of China has brought about a dramatic increase in the rate of migration from mainland China. At the same time, the Chinese government has ...

Forty years ago Louis Hartz surveyed American political thought in his classic The Liberal Tradition in America. He concluded that American politic...