Social science / Political science

Battle for Our Minds: Western Elites and the Terror Threat

by Michael Widlanski

From political communications expert Dr. Michael Widlanski comes a rich and detailed portrayal of how intellectual arrogance and complacency in our government has led to a failure to effectively use counter-terrorism...

Climate Protection and Development

by Frank Ackerman & Richard Kozul-Wright

Writing about climate change often falls into one of two opposite traps - predicting either calamity or apathy - both of which this book avoids. This is not a story of gloom and doom, of inevitable climate catastrophe....

Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right

by Ann Coulter

The hottest and most controversial book of the year! Find out who really controls the media in America.

“[Ann Coulter] is never in doubt. And that, along with her bright writing, sense of irony and outrage,...

End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation

by Barry C. Lynn

In September 1999, an earthquake devastated much of Taiwan, toppling buildings, knocking out electricity, and killing 2,500 people. Within days, factories as far away as California and Texas began to close....

Paradise Regained

by Edward W Shafik

Based on real events, Paradise Regained tells the story of Egyptian Coptic Christians massacred for their faith in a terrorist act secretly sponsored by the Muslim-dominated government. The story explores Egypt's...

Comeback: Conservatism That Can Win Again

by David Frum

With a new Afterword on the results of the 2008 presidential race, an intensely controversial book that the Wall Street Journal says “should be required reading for all GOP candidates.”

David Frum was one...

Justice and Governance in East Timor

by Rod Nixon

Focusing on the case study of Timor Leste, this book presents the New Subsistence State as a conceptual tool for understanding governance challenges in countries characterised by subsistence economic and social...

Maritime Piracy

by Robert Haywood & Roberta Spivak

Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry's rapid...

The Politics of Containment

by Thomas Paster

This book assesses the role of employers in the development of welfare state and labour market institutions. Building on an in-depth analysis of Germany, a market economy known to often provide economic benefits...

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism

by Richard Jackson & Samuel Justin Sinclair

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative new textbook, addressing a number of key issues in contemporary terrorism studies from both 'traditional' and 'critical' perspectives.

In recent years the terrorism...

Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction

by Badredine Arfi

International Relations (IR) theorists have ceaselessly sought to understand, explain, and transform the experienced reality of international politics. Running through all these attempts is a persistent, yet...

Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan

by Chad Haines

The Karakoram Highway was constructed by the Pakistani state in the 1970s as a major development project that furthered the national interest and solidified state control over the disputed region of northern...

Europe's Encounter with Islam

by Luca Mavelli

In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as 'problematic'. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called 'Danish...

Essays on Neuroscience and Political Theory

by F. Vander Valk

The past 20 years have seen increasingly bold claims emanating from the field of neuroscience. Advances in medical imaging, brain modelling, and interdisciplinary cognitive science have forced us to reconsider...

Contested Citizenship in East Asia

by Kyung-Sup Chang & Bryan S. Turner

Theories of citizenship from the West - pre-eminently those by T.H. Marshall - provide only a limited insight into East Asian political history.

The Marshallian trajectory - juridical, political and social...

Social Security in Contemporary Japan

by Mari Osawa

The present study analyzes the livelihood security system of contemporary Japan in international comparison from a historical and gender perspective. It posits 'livelihood security systems' rather than 'welfare...

Environmental Governance

by J.P. Evans

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role...

Reframing the Problem of Climate Change

by Carlo Jaeger, Gerd Leipold & Klaus Hasselmann

This book provides an evaluation of the science and policy debates on climate change and offers a reframing of the challenges they pose, as understood by key international experts and players in the field....

A History of World Order and Resistance

by Andre C. Drainville

This book combines theory with history to?look into a dozen episodes of struggle?over the concrete and?situated terms of world ordering, and?it finds reasons to think that the contemporary 'movement of movements'...

Negotiating Environment and Science

by Richard J. Smith

In this thought-provoking new book, career U.S. State Department negotiator Richard J. Smith offers readers unprecedented access to the details about some of the most complex and politically charged international...