Politics and Government

How should failed states in Africa be understood? Catherine Scott here critically engages with the concept of state failure and provides an histori...

First published in 1974 Conservative Politics in France gives a scholarly account of politics in France from 1880 to the present and explains the w...

Focusing on Kenya’s path-breaking mobile money project M-Pesa, this book examines and critiques the narratives and institutions of digital financia...

Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to We...

Public Opinion and the Palestine Question (1987) analyses public opinion on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. It studies attitudes in various Weste...

First Published in 1937, The British Civil Servant presents a comprehensive overview of the main problems and conditions related to the British pub...

Active from the late 1960s until the mid-1990s, the U.S. branch of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party (PSP) worked simultaneously to build support fo...

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

This annual reference provides a statistical study of military trends in the Middle East and a collection of essays analyzing the details and strat...

This book investigates several aspects of military power and security in the North Atlantic and Arctic regions.NATO’s northern flank is a large mar...

?Authenticity? has begun to rival ?development? as a key to understanding the political aspirations of the Islamic world. Almost everywhere moderni...

As one of the foundational texts in the field of postcolonial writing, Barbara Harlow’s Resistance Literature introduced new ground in Western lite...

China's Provincial Statistics, 1949-1989 provides a systematic compilation of China's regional statistics on various aspects of the thirty province...

This book presents an introductory survey of the major themes, thinkers and texts, philosophical genres and profound insights of the Chinese philos...

The book considers the main arms exporting countries, including China, Russia, and the US, as well as several European states, and the policies eac...

Across the modern era, the traditional stereotype of Germans as authoritarian and subservient has faded, as they have become (mostly) model democra...

This report is the product of a research project carried out during 1986 jointly by the National Institute for Research Advancement, Tokyo; the Cen...

Focusing on television media reporting of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath, this book explores how African states directly involved in...

Mass shootings have become the “new normal” in American life. The same can be said for the public debate that follows a shooting: blame is cast, po...

The crises of the European Union extend beyond the challenges of Covid-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, and mass migration, cutting to the core of the EU ...

This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on...

Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they p...

In the many studies that have been conducted on the provision of financial services for consumers, regulation has emerged as one of the most import...

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...

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