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Pure Strategy: Power and Principle in the Space and Information Age

by Everett Dolman

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value.

This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be...


Political Theory in Transition

by Noel O'Sullivan

During the past two decades there has been increasing dissatisfaction with established political categories, on the grounds that they no longer fit many of the facts of contemporary life, or adequately express...


Crisis of the Strauss Divided: Essays on Leo Strauss and Straussianism, East and West

by Harry V. Jaffa

Harry V. Jaffa, one of Strauss’s most influential students and an ardent participant in the internal divisions among Straussians, brings together his key contributions to the battle to define Strauss’s legacy....


Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics: An Introduction

by Todd Landman

Building on the strengths of the first edition, this accessible and user-friendly textbook explores the strategies of comparative research in political science. It begins by examining different methods, then...


Globalisation and Equality

by Keith Horton & Haig Patapan

Is globalisation creating a more unequal world? Is it creating new forms of inequality? Does it make certain pre-existing forms of inequality more morally or politically significant than they would otherwise...


Jane Austen, Game Theorist

by Michael Suk-Young Chwe

Game theory--the study of how people make choices while interacting with others--is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book,...


Ideas to Die for: The Cosmopolitan Challenge

by Giles Gunn

Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global...


Pliny's Defense of Empire

by Thomas R. Laehn

Despite perennial interest in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, the world's first encyclopedia, as a record of the prodigious, the quotidian, and the useful in Rome in the first century AD, for centuries Pliny...


Trans-Atlantic Divide: The USA/Euroland Rift?

by John J. Metzler

This book brings a needed balance to the debate: are the USA and Europe really at odds after stressful unavoidable diplomatic residue following the Iraq War? The book outlines a clear common ground for both...


The Labour Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

by Karl Kautsky

First published in English in 1924 this ambitious work, by the famous Marxist theoretician Karl Kautsky, aims to provide nothing less than an "exposition of the methods to introduce socialism" amongst the...


Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky

by Alison Edgley

The Social and Political Thought of Noam Chomsky questions Chomsky's claim not to have a theory about the relationship between human beings and their society other than that which 'can be written on the back...


Federalism and Rights

by G. Tarr & Ellis Katz

The authors of this engaging book discuss whether federalism promotes or undermines rights. With emerging democracies in Europe and elsewhere currently attempting to design constitutions that combine effective...


Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity: Servant Leadership as a Way of Life

by Shann Ray Ferch

Forgiveness and Power in the Age of Atrocity: Servant Leadership as a Way of Life speaks to categorical human transgressions in the hope that readers will be compelled to examine their own prejudices and engage...


History of American Political Thought

by Bryan-Paul Frost & Jeffrey Sikkenga

This book is a collection of secondary essays on America's most important philosophic thinkers-statesmen, judges, writers, educators, and activists-from the colonial period to the present. Each essay is a comprehensive...


Direct Democratic Choice: The Swiss Experience

by Hanspeter Kriesi

Direct Democratic Choice sets out to understand how the citizens actually decide in direct-democratic votes. Author Hanspeter Kriesi has analyzed nearly twenty years of post-election surveys in Switzerland (1981-1999),...


Intellectuals and Race

by Thomas Sowell

Intellectuals and Race is a radical book in the original sense of one that goes to the root of the problem. The role of intellectuals in racial strife is explored in an international context that puts the American...


Damned If You Do: Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture

by John M. Parrish, Margaret S. Hrezo & Paul Cantor

These essays showcase the value of the narrative arts in investigating complex conflicts of value in moral and political life, and explore the philosophical problem of moral dilemmas as expressed in ancient...


The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration

by Robert Axelrod

Robert Axelrod is widely known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and complexity theory. He is a leader in applying computer modeling to social science problems. His book The Evolution of Cooperation...


Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics

by Marc Stears

This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today....


Understanding Institutional Diversity

by Elinor Ostrom

The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics. A leader in applying...