Social science / Political science / History & Theory

Presidential Leadership and the Creation of the American Era

by Joseph S., Jr. Nye

This book examines the foreign policy decisions of the presidents who presided over the most critical phases of America's rise to world primacy in the twentieth century, and assesses the effectiveness and ethics...

Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy

by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole & Howard Rosenthal

Behind every financial crisis lurks a "political bubble"--policy biases that foster market behaviors leading to financial instability. Rather than tilting against risky behavior, political bubbles--arising from...

The Awakening of Latin America: A Classic Anthology of Che Guevara's Writing on Latin America

by Ernesto Che Guevara & Maria del Carmen Ariet Garcia

A classic anthology of Che Guevara's writings on Latin America from his youthful travels to his assassination in Bolivia.

Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy

by Peter E. Gordon & John P. McCormick

During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural...

Pluralism

by Peter Lassman

The problem of value pluralism permeates modern political philosophy. Its presence can be felt even when it is not explicitly the central topic under investigation. Political thinkers such as Max Weber, Isaiah...

An Account of Denmark

by Robert Molesworth

The Liberty Fund edition of An Account of Denmark, with its related texts, is the first modern edition of Molesworth’s writings. This volume presents not only An Account, a text that for most of the eighteenth...

The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power

by Victor S Navasky

A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse.

As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the...

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,...

Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge (New in Paperback)

by Michael Suk-Young Chwe

Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were...

From the Secret Files of J. Edgar Hoover

by Athan Theoharis

Documents from the late FBI director's secret files reveal for the first time the shocking extent of FBI activities in spying on prominent Americans and political groups. "A grimly fascinating-and profoundly...

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...

After Zionism: One State for Israel and Palestine

by Antony Loewenstein & Ahmed Moor

After Zionism brings together some of the world’s leading thinkers on the Middle East question to dissect the century-long conflict between Zionism and the Palestinians, and to explore possible forms of a...

Iraq: A Political History (New in Paperback)

by Adeed Dawisha

With each day that passed after the 2003 invasion, the United States seemed to sink deeper in the treacherous quicksand of Iraq's social discord, floundering in the face of deep ethno-sectarian divisions that...

The Torment of Secrecy: The Background and Consequences of American Secruity Policies

by Edward Shils

One of the few minor classics to emerge from the cold war years of McCarthyism-an essay in sociological analysis and political philosophy that considers the cold war preoccupation with espionage, sabotage, and...

From Mediation to Nation-Building: Third Parties and the Management of Communal Conflict

by William J. Lahneman, Joseph R., Jr. Rudolph & Mohammad Ashraf

The volume is unique in both design and some of its entries, and in the mix of practitioners and scholars writing its chapters. Although there are numerous specialized works that treat the individual options,...

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...

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...

John Stuart Mill's Platonic Heritage: Happiness through Character

by Antis Loizides

This book explores various connections of John Stuart Mill’s thought to ancient Greek philosophy primarily in relation to his conception of happiness. It argues that a better understanding of Mill’s background...

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...