Politics and Government

This accessible case study offers a fully rounded picture of Zambia's course since independence, chronicling the periods of boom and decline after ...

From 24-hour-a-day "girl cam" sites on the World Wide Web to trash-talk television shows like "Jerry Springer" and reality television programs like...

This comprehensive new analysis goes far beyond today's headlines and the basic facts and figures on the military forces in the region. Tracing the...

This book considers ideas from economic paradigms, namely, post-Keynesian, neo-Ricardian, and neo-Marxian. It discusses the importance of money to ...

Dr. Weeks presents a detailed critique of dependency theory as an explanation of underdevelopment and offers an alternative theory based on the int...

This pioneering work, based on many years of reading and research and ranging mainly from the seventeenth century to the present, breaks new ground...

This is the only book to offer a detailed chronology of modern Soviet naval operations set within the framework of long-range Soviet foreign and do...

Independent from Britain only since 1981, the new nation of Belize is situated at the intersection of two cultural spheres: the English-speaking Af...

 This volume contains information on the views held in various countries concerning what the future holds and what should be done, by each nation's...

This book argues that guilt, shame, and remorse, associated with a history of substance abuse, explain why a minority of Islamist extremists carrie...

Bringing together proponents and opponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative, this book includes original essays by leading experts on every aspe...

As the U.S. military moves into an uncertain future dominated by rapid change, traditional modes of thought will no longer suffice. Contributors to...

A sophisticated analysis of changing views of political virtue in the 18th century and the origins of the modern dilemma over probity and suitabili...

Privatization of large national enterprises has been the most far-reaching of Latin America’s dramatic structural reforms, the objective being to u...

This book is about the intifada, the popular Palestinian uprising in the Israeli-occupied territories, broadcasted by television to an audience of ...

International normative standards constitute a major influence on the policies of states and other actors in the international system, as well as o...

This book focuses both on the application of recent developments in mathematics to the formulation of nontrivial theory in the social sciences and ...

Who will lead America in the years to come? Letters from Young Activists introduces America's bold, exciting, new generation of activists. These di...

In 1979, several world reknowned politicians, ambassadors, academicians, and journalists met at the Jerusalem Conference on Terrorism to discuss th...

Buy a pair of Levi's, lose the Russian accent, become an American... how hard could it be?Moscow, 1988. After years of antisemitic harassment, coun...

For 50 years, the International Finance Section at Princeton University has encouraged and published work in international finance. This volume, a ...

In 2002, Kiwi Camara, a Filipino-American at Harvard Law School, joined most of his classmates in posting his class outlines for the previous year ...

The Chinese health care system is deeply rooted in a traditional, agricultural way of life, but since the late 1970s it has been increasingly influ...

This book provides the technical background and a historical perspective of biotechnology. It examines scientific questions on the assessment of ri...

This book identifies issues and trends in agriculture, natural resources, and rural communities in the context of topical strategic planning. It po...

What is a democracy? Why do we form democratic systems? Can democracy survive in an age of distrust and polarisation?The Psychology of Democracy ex...

Based on formal content analysis of the writings of Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov and past Soviet ministers of defense and heads of the Politburo, Jam...

After World War II, Japan reemerged in the arena of international relations as an almost exclusively economic power without military might or terri...

Between early 1978 and late 1980, power relationships in the Pacific region underwent historic transformation. Deng-Xiaoping, re-emerging as a key ...

This book presents an overview of European political thought from the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1815 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 by ...

The Political Economy of Populism explores the interplay between identity, the economy and inequality to explain the dynamics of populist votes sin...

 Relations between the European Community and the United States are taking on a new momentum. Are we heading towards a period of greater US-EC co-o...

In 2018, Israel marks the seventieth anniversary of statehood. Yet the events of 1948 are remembered very differently by the Palestinian people, wh...

 This book originally published in 1985, looked at Argentina’s international insolvency issues and looks at the dilemma of how to proceed in order ...

Informal Alliance is the first archive-based history of the secretive Bilderberg Group, the high-level transatlantic elite network founded at the h...

The dreary presidential campaign of 1996 and Clinton's disillusioning presidency matched the convulsive pattern of events which yanked the nation i...

This book traces a century of militarised communication that began in the United States in April, 1917, with the institution of the Committee on Pu...

 When the justices of the Supreme Court ruled the legislative veto unconstitutional in the 1983 case of "Immigration and Naturalization Service ver...

Ironically, as telecommunications technology—the embodiment of modernity—advances, bringing people in different nations into more direct contact du...

Through the fall of Anastasio Somoza, the rise of the Sandinistas, and the contra war, the United States and Nicaragua seemed destined to repeat th...

This book examines the rise and fall of the liberal nationalist movement in Iran. It provides an analysis of the National Fronts' successes and fai...

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

Heir to a tradition that predates the founding of the Republic, the Foreign Service of the United States has been representing U.S. interests abroa...

The links between economic policy and economic growth are simultaneously obvious and obscure, with many factors interacting to influence the overal...

The 1980s were a watershed in the history of the Shi’a community in Lebanon. From the attacks on Israeli forces in South Lebanon in the aftermath o...