Social science / Political science

European Union: The Basics

by Alex Warleigh-Lack

Fully updated to include the new Treaty of Lisbon, this is the best short and accessible introduction to the politics of the European Union, written by one of the world's most well-known authorities in the area....

National and European Foreign Policies

by Reuben Wong & Christopher Hill

National and European Foreign Policy explores the processes of interaction between the national and the European levels in foreign policy making in European Union states. The volume also assesses the mutual...

Chairing Multilateral Negotiations

by Spyros Blavoukos & Dimitris Bourantonis

This book examines the important role of the chairmanship office in multilateral negotiations within the UN setting. Although chairmanship is a generic feature of international politics, negotiations, and decision-making,...

The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy

by David Skidmore

The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist...

Edmund Burke

by Frank O'Gorman

First published in 1973, this title offers a concise and readable account of Burke's political philosophy. As well as examining the foundation for Burke's thought, the book also provides much needed connections...

The Intimate State

by Perveez Mody

This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings...

Contested Capitalism

by Richard W. Carney

This book examines the political origins of financial institutions across fifteen developed democracies, with focused case studies on the US, France, Japan, Austria, and Germany.

The institutional arrangements...

Multiculturalism and Moral Conflict

by Maria Dimova-Cookson & Peter Stirk

Multiculturalism is higher on the daily political agenda than it has ever been. Leading politicians and public commentators speak with an unparalleled bluntness about the perceived limitations of multiculturalism...

Pareto and Political Theory

by Joseph V. Femia

Pareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher's importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics,...

Exceptionalism and the Politics of Counter-Terrorism

by Andrew W. Neal

This book is an analysis and critique of the concepts of 'exception' and 'exceptionalism' in the context of the politics of liberty and security in the so-called 'War on Terror'.

Since the destruction of the...

Oppositional Discourses and Democracies

by Michael Huspek

When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through...

Creativity and Conflict Resolution

by Tatsushi Arai

This book explores how creative ways of resolving social conflicts emerge, evolve, and subsequently come to be accepted or rejected in inter-group relations.

Creativity and Conflict Resolution explores a subject...

Party Politics in Taiwan

by Dafydd Fell

In 1991 Taiwan held its first fully democratic election. This first single volume of party politics in Taiwan analyzes the evolution of party competition in the country, looking at how Taiwan's parties have...

Partitions

by Stefano Bianchini, Sanjay Chaturvedi & Rada Ivekovic

The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the continuing feud between two Koreas, the Irish peace process, the case of Israel/Palestine...

Modernity, the Media and the Military

by John F. Williams

This new volume explores the history of an important, but neglected sector of the Western Front between 1914 and 1918 in the context of its portrayal in the media. The analysis sheds new light on of the role...

The European Union and International Organizations

by Knud Erik Jørgensen

This volume seeks to explore the complex relationship between the European Union and International Organizations, and to fill a remarkably wide gap in existing literature on the topic.

Analysing the way in which...

Looking For America: Rediscovering the Meaning of Freedom

by Douglas Simpson

A political strategist and campaign consultant defines from a Scriptural basis as to why there are two opposing viewpoints to every political issue. Looking for America calls us back to the simple faith upon...

The UN General Assembly

by M.J. Peterson

The United Nations General Assembly is arguably the most important discussion forum in global politics. This is a concise and accessible introduction to its history, organization and politics.

Examining the...

The Chinese State in Transition

by Linda Chelan Li

One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People's Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The attention of the outside world...

Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

by Stephen Legg

The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930s Germany, and...