Politics and Government

How can transitional justice institutions provide due diligence to the lived experiences of women during war and violent political upheaval? How ca...

Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, ...

Why Public Service Matters conveys the importance, purpose, and nobility of a career as a civil servant in the United States. It does so, however, ...

Foucault saw the notion of parrhesia (truth-telling) as the most important factor for how governments could and should communicate with their peopl...

This volume offers a panoramic and interdisciplinary view of the growing field of Sports Mega-Event studies. Contributions explore leveraging strat...

This book provides a historically-informed survey critically outlining sociological, psychological, political, and economic approaches to the role ...

This edited volume explores development in the so-called 'fragile', 'failed' and 'pariah' states. It examines the literature on both fragile states...

This book analyzes the interaction of religion, society, and governance in China - suggesting it is much more subtle and complex than common conven...

This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power ...

Have you ever fallen out with someone close to you over your political ideas or convictions or felt that a personal relationship was damaged becaus...

Tannam focuses on the role of bureaucracies when dealing with conflict in two international organisations, the European Union (EU) and the United N...

For more than a decade, international troops have been deployed to Afghanistan. Out of all NATO members, this mission was the most difficult for Ge...

This volume addresses questions such as: How do the unique experiences of Blacks in America influence their political psychology? What are the psyc...

This edited volume illuminates the role of women in violence to demonstrate that gender is a key component of discourse on conflict and peace. Thro...

On the basis of original, empirically rich, and theoretically sound social research, the chapters in this volume reveal and analyze the complex rel...

The Power of Interdependence offers a convincing challenge to the dominant view among many observers of global affairs, that individual countries e...

This volume offers scholarly perspectives on the creative and humorous nature of the protests at Gezi Park in Turkey, 2013. The contributors argue ...

This book documents what happens when people encounter public officials. It draws on multi-national Barometer surveys asking questions about corrup...

Sponsoring Sufism argues that governments are sponsoring Sufism not only because they see it as an 'apolitical' movement that won't challenge their...

Michael Gove was, unquestionably, a pivotal figure in British educational reform during his time as the coalition's Secretary of State for Educatio...

In 2005, the international community unanimously endorsed a revolutionary norm that has the potential to end genocide and other atrocity crimes in ...

American politics is increasingly driven by apocalyptic rhetoric. Highlighting possible adverse consequences of such politics for our freedom and q...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, i...

Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to creat...