Social science / Political science

Embracing the Fog of War: Assessment and Metrics in Counterinsurgency

by Ben Connable

The unpredictable counterinsurgency environment challenges centralized, quantitative campaign assessment. A comprehensive examination of the centralized, quantitative approach to assessment, as described in...

The Benefits to Taxpayers from Increases in Students' Educational Attainment

by Stephen J. Carroll & Emre Erkut

Increases in educational attainment benefit the public because more highly educated people tend to pay more in taxes, are less likely to use social support programs, and are less likely to commit crimes. This...

Why We'll Win - Liberal Edition

by Malcolm Friedberg

Demystifying Syria

by Fred H. Lawson

Demystifying Syria offers an extraordinary insight into the shifting relations between the Ba‘th party and the armed forces, civil law, social structure, burgeoning private enterprise, internal political opposition,...

Best of Enemies

by Robert Gibson

Republished for the centenary of the Entente Cordiale, this new edition of Best of Enemies gives an entertaining and perceptive overview of Anglo-French relation. Updated to include the Anglo-French disagreements...

Red Dusk and the Morrow: Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia

by Paul Dukes

Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, by ‘C’ (the mysterious head of the British secret service). His mission: to pull together the British spy networks operating...

Degrees of Separation: Ethnic Minority Voters and the Conservative Party

by Michael Ashcroft

At the 2010 general election, only 16 per cent of ethnic minority voters supported the Conservatives. In Degrees of Separation Lord Ashcroft explores the gulf between ethnic and religious minorities and the...

Surrender: How British industry gave up the ghost 1952-2012

by Nicholas Comfort

British industry at the start of the New Elizabethan Age was a world leader. The first – British – jet airliner was taking to the skies, the first nuclear power station was under construction at Calder Hall...

Dirty Politics, Dirty Times

by Michael Ashcroft

This is a newly revised and updated paperback edition of the former Conservative Party Treasurer's personal account of his battle over unsubstantiated claims concerning his business affairs which culminated...

Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas

by Mavis Batey

Alfred Dillwyn Knox was Britain’s leading wartime codebreaker, a famously eccentric and temperamental genius who cracked German ciphers in both wars. During the Second World War Knox became Britain’s chief...

Which Way's Up?: The Big Challenges Facing Britain and How to Confront Them

by Nicholas Boles

Nicholas Boles, newly elected MP for Grantham and Stamford, is the founder and former director of the influential right-of-centre think tank, Policy Exchange. More importantly, this close friend of David Cameron...

Campaign 2010: The Making of the Prime Minister

by Nicholas Jones

In the run-up to the general election of May 2010 it was universally acknowledged that whatever the outcome, this vote would start a fresh chapter in British political history. But no one anticipated just how...

Seeking Gaddafi: Libya, the West and the Arab Spring

by Daniel Kawczynski

On 18th March 2011 the United Nations passed Resolution 1973 allowing the establishment of a No Fly Zone above the towns and cities of Libya to defend civilians from the oppressive regime of Colonel Muammar...

5 Days to Power: The Journey to Coalition Britain

by Rob Wilson

A remarkable and important account of the negotiations that led to the birth of the Coalition.

22 Days in May: The Birth of the Lib Dem-Conservative Coalition

by David Laws

22 Days in May is the first detailed Liberal Democrat insider account of the negotiations which led to the formation of the Lib Dem/Conservative coalition government in May 2010, along with an essential desription...

Duck!: The Dick Cheney Survival Bible

by Gene Stone

Whether you like it or not, Dick Cheney is our president. Whoops, we mean vice president. Now, just in time for hunting season, here’s an indispensable guide fully loaded with tips for surviving these tortuous...

The Excellencie of a Free State: Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth

by Marchamont Nedham

First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian newsbook Mercurius Politicus, The Excellencie of a Free-State addressed a dilemma in English politics, namely,...

Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace

by Lakhdar Brahimi & Thomas R. Pickering

The international task force organized by The Century Foundation, under the leadership of Ambassadors Lakhdar Brahimi and Thomas Pickering, just released their report, Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace. Their findings...

Franco's Friends: How British Intelligence Helped Bring Franco to Power in Spain

by Peter Day

Published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Falangist uprising in July 2011, Franco's Friends tells the little-known true story of how MI6 orchestrated the coup that brought General Franco to power...

Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order

by Ivo Mosley

Democracy is not a universal good, it is a political system, and like all political systems it is open to corruption. The word 'democracy' means 'rule by the people', not rule by a simple majority. To achieve...