Social & Political Philosophy

This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The comparative and trans...

First published in 1933, Nationalism in the Soviet Union aims at presenting the mentality of the Soviet citizen, of the Communist theology, and the...

This book explores the future of liberalism in India. It moves away from traditional approaches and draws upon resources from other disciplines th...

At a time when Peru continues to reel from the impact of Covid-19 and the eruption of corruption scandals involving five former presidents, this bo...

Through a comparative analysis involving 13 countries from Africa, America, Asia and Europe, this book provides an invaluable assessment of womens ...

This book explores the why and the how of womens participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, ...

This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response...

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of cons...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

This book is a contribution to the philosophical discourse on education.Education is considered a tool of philosophy. Education (paideia) and polit...

This book assesses the relationship between cosmopolitanism and sovereignty. Often considered to be incompatible, it is argued here that the two co...

Literature for a Society of Equals defends modern equality and seeks its best literature. It accuses equalitys supposed friends on the left of atte...

Scotlands economic capacity to prosper independently of Britain has become a key political issue, dominating the independence referendum of 2014 an...

This book investigates the historical roots of the Italian Republics oldest surviving political party, the populist far right Lega (Nord), tracing ...

Political Narratosophy offers a critically subversive rethinking of the political and philosophical significance of narrative, and why feminist epi...

This book demonstrates how the philosophy of science can enhance our understanding of sustainability and the practices we use to enact it. Examinin...

This book brings together a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working at the nexus of peace and development to reflect, at the mid-way po...

This book offers a unique analysis of the tension between the individual and society in educational contexts, and the role that citizenship and dem...

This book applies a novel theory of unbalanced responsiveness to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship be...

Branding Authoritarian Nations offers a novel approach to the study of nation branding as a strategy for political legitimation in authoritarian re...

This book explores the writings of Norberto Bobbio (1909-2004) who was Italys foremost political, legal, and democratic theorist, a distinguished h...

This book assesses the larger influences that government termination by parliaments has on executivelegislative relations, claiming that the way in...

This book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynam...

This volume is a timely contribution to the current debates and potential efforts to study and counter the phenomena of extreme right violence in a...

What explains the popularity and widespread appeal of numerous post-Yugoslav feminist and LGBTQ+ festivals in the last decade? This book argues tha...

This book provides a comprehensive and in-depth survey of the foundational research orientations of contemporary Chinese Marxism. The chapters in t...

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement me...

This book explores how political, economic and social crises in Europe have led to electoral realignments, territorial forms of politics and new na...

This handbook brings national and thematic case studies together to examine a variety of populist politics from local and comparative perspectives ...

This book offers insights into the legal mechanisms that are adopted in multilevel constitutional orders to accommodate the tension between contras...

Women and COVID-19: A Clinical and Applied Sociological Focus on Family, Work and Community focuses on womens lived experiences amid the pandemic, ...

The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

To disentangle the National Socialists path to power in Germany, one must attend to the discursive strategies and liturgical practices employed by ...

This book explores religion-regime relations in contemporary Zimbabwe to identify patterns of co-operation and resistance across diverse religious ...

The accruement of crises over the last two decades, with their particular manifestations in the European context, has evoked the feeling of living ...

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920, when Lenins Soviet Russia decided to chall...

This book explores the influence of right-wing political cultures (including conservatism, political Catholicism, reactionary nationalism and fasci...

This book explains deliberative constitution-making with a special focus on the connections between participation, representation and legitimacy an...

Holocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European for...

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship betw...

Marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh's Constitution, this book gauges its development from 1972 to 2022, focusing on its foundational goals, ...

Shaping Nations and Markets employs a mixed methods approach to contend that economic ideas, organization of domestic interests and their economic ...

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic...

In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic...

Where does the great Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore stand in todays global world? The legacy of Rabindranath Tagore is vast. No...