Politics and Government

The GCC is a major player in the post-2011 reordering of the Middle East. Despite the rise in prominence of individual Gulf states - especially Kuw...

Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano are now legendary, as much because of NEA support of their work as for the work itself. This is one example ...

Exploring British Politics is a concise, comprehensive, and accessible guide to the subject. Fully updated and revised, the new edition covers deve...

The true story of the government conspiracy to bring down J. Robert Oppenheimer, America’s most famous scientist.On April 12, 1954, the nation was ...

Bahcheli analyzes the dispute over Cyprus from its emergence in the 1950s to the coup against President Makarios which brought Greece and Turkey to...

First Published in 1982, Iraq: The Contemporary State presents insights into the political, social, and economic developments in Iraq. The author a...

In the first biography of U.S. House Speaker John W. McCormack, author Garrison Nelson uncovers previously forgotten FBI files, birth and death rec...

This study centers on the history of the dispute over the Falkland Islands (Las Islas Malvinas), a remote, windswept archipelago in the far reaches...

First Published in 1967, Politics and Government at Home and Abroad presents William A. Robson’s penetrating observations on the basic requirements...

This book focuses on the international politics of transborder data flows. It examines the rise of data services and the impact of these services o...

Originally published in 1991, this volume discusses the urban working class, international migrants and the so-called lumpenproletariat. The book e...

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...