Politics and Government

Siberia has had an interesting history, quite distinct from that of Russia. Absolutely vast, containing many non-Russian nationalities, and increas...

In Walking Ghosts, Steven Dudley, a journalist who lived in Columbia for five years, expertly chronicles the life and death of the Patriotic Unio...

Written by leading historians and political scientists, this collection of essays offers a broad and comprehensive coverage of the role of war in A...

This is a penetrating analysis of UN Security Council reform. It presents an overview of the current debates - emphasising the potential for, and m...

A fresh historical and theoretical exploration of the much-debated, but still elusive, question of the Korean divide. In contrast to much of the li...

There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional...

One of the most common and strongest criticisms of the EU is that power is held by a select few who are unaccountable technocrats sitting in Brusse...

Mexico has failed to achieve internal security and poses a serious threat to its neighbors. This volume takes us inside the Mexican state to explai...

This book examines the impact of globalization on the Indian economy, exploring the trade, investment and financial aspects of globalization, and a...

Writing well, and persuasively, is not only a discipline that can be learned, it is one deeply rooted in the classical arts of rhetoric and polemic...

Interest and research on regionalism has soared in the last decade. Local governments in metropolitan areas and civic organizations are increasingl...

The issue of local governance is high on the institutional agenda of many local and regional authorities throughout the OECD countries. This book e...

While skepticism about the role of moral considerations in international politics has been influential within the discipline of international relat...

This book examines the emergence of new international norms to govern the spread of small arms, and the extent to which these norms have been estab...

In the late 1860s the U.S. federal government initiated the most abrupt transition from slavery to citizenship in the Americas. The transformation,...

In A History of Canadian Economic Thought, Robin Neill relates the evolution of economic theory in Canada to the particular geographical and politi...

Scholarship on NATO is often preoccupied with key episodes in the development of the organisation and so, for the most part, has remained inattenti...

Although it lasted only a single term, the presidency of George H. W. Bush was an unusually eventful one, encompassing the fall of the Berlin Wall ...

This book examines Indian foreign policy and security relations in its eastern regional neighbourhood.Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South A...

A major new study of the realities of contemporary warfare, which presents a range of fresh insights and is essential reading for all students and ...

This book investigates whether an international institution can alter state behaviour and thereby contribute to the peaceful resolution of a confli...

Taking a quantitative approach, Allan G. Bogue assesses the nature of radical and conservative Republicanism in the Civil War Senate, documents the...

In a provocative book about American hegemony, Christopher Layne outlines his belief that U.S. foreign policy has been consistent in its aims for m...

The underpinning assumption of public management in the developing world as a process of planned change is increasingly being recognized as unreali...