Social science / Political science / Economic Conditions

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...

Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility

by Robert Kuttner

One of our foremost economic thinkers challenges a cherished tenet of today’s financial orthodoxy: that spending less, refusing to forgive debt, and shrinking government—“austerity”—is the solution...

The Small Nation Solution: How the World's Smallest Nations Can Solve the World's Biggest Problems

by John H. Bodley

In The Small Nation Solution, John Bodley argues that the contemporary global problems of poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation are problems of scale and power. Bodley’s solution involves keeping...

Petrotyranny

by John Bacher & David Suzuki

John Bacher uncovers frightening facts about the world's oil industry and explores the potential for global conflict.

The Capitalism Papers: Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System

by Jerry Mander

In the vein of his bestseller, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, nationally recognized social critic Jerry Mander researches, discusses, and exposes the momentous and unsolvable environmental...

The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America

by David Stockman

A New York Times bestseller

The Great Deformation is a searing look at Washington’s craven response to the recent myriad of financial crises and fiscal cliffs. It counters conventional wisdom with an eighty-year...

The European Union after Lisbon: Polity, Politics, Policy

by Søren Dosenrode

A few years have passed since the Lisbon Treaty came into force but the question still remains of what the Lisbon Treaty has actually brought about. Was it just 'relatively insignificant' as some scholars have...

Roads to Regionalism: Genesis, Design, and Effects of Regional Organizations

by Tanja A. Börzel & Lukas Goltermann

Many publications focus on a narrow set of regional organizations or display a strong bias towards the European Union as the supposedly most sophisticated integration scheme. This book, in contrast, goes beyond...

Our North America: Social and Political Issues beyond NAFTA

by Julián| Castro-Rea

This book explores neglected aspects of the key relationships between Canada, Mexico and the United States, with the authors in this book addressing vital issues which bind this global region together, including...

New Regionalism or No Regionalism?: Emerging Regionalism in the Black Sea Area

by Ruxandra Ivan

New Regionalism or No Regionalism? places the Black Sea problématique in a wider historical and spatial context, taking a closer look at the region and examining further the structure of the Black Sea area....

The Dynamics of Black Sea Subregionalism

by Panagiota Manoli

Representing a new development in the study of contemporary regionalism, Panagiota Manoli examines the process of institutionalized sub-regional cooperation and casts new light on the factors influencing the...

Community of Insecurity: SADC's Struggle for Peace and Security in Southern Africa

by Laurie Nathan

Exploring the formation, evolution and effectiveness of the regional security arrangements of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), Community of Insecurity examines the vital issues of why the SADC...

New Security Frontiers: Critical Energy and the Resource Challenge

by Sai Felicia Krishna-Hensel

New Security Frontiers brings together a wide range of topics focusing on critical resource availability impacting upon global security and the geopolitical ramifications of resource competition. The volume...

Global and Regional Problems: Towards an Interdisciplinary Study

by Pami Aalto & Vilho Harle

Distinctive due to explicit and systematically developed links between international relations (IR) and related disciplines, this book addresses global and regional interactions and the complex policy problems...

European Union Economic Diplomacy: The Role of the EU in External Economic Relations

by Stephen Woolcock

European Union Economic Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive analysis of the factors that determine the role of the EU in economic diplomacy. In an up-to-date treatment that includes consideration of the...

Australia's Uranium Trade: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges of a Contentious Export

by Michael Clarke & Stephan Fruhling

This edited volume explores Australia's uranium trade by examining it across a range of domestic and international dimensions. It focuses on the key challenges facing Australian policy makers in a twenty-first...

The New Economic Diplomacy: Decision-Making and Negotiation in International Economic Relations

by Nicholas Bayne & Stephen Woolcock

This third, fully updated edition of The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically; how they negotiate internationally;...

Asymmetric Trade Negotiations

by Sanoussi Bilal & Philippe De Lombaerde

Combining a clear theoretical exposition with systematic cross-regional analysis, 'Asymmetric Trade Negotiations' offers a coherent picture of strategic, design and political economy aspects of North-South trade...

The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed

by David Stockman

The controversial bestseller on the failure of the Reagan Revolution, now back in print

Supply-Side Follies: Why Conservative Economics Fails, Liberal Economics Falters, and Innovation Economics is the Answer

by Robert D. Atkinson

Supply-Side Follies methodically debunks the common assumptions of conservative economics and demonstrates why it is a 'flawed doctrine' that is setting up the U.S. for a major economic downturn in the near...