Politics and Current Affairs

This innovative teaching text on United States foreign policy interprets the foreign policy decision-making process through the lens of political d...

This is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its own members. Drawing on years of participant o...

About the Book Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students...

About the Book China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state...

About the Book While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hug...

About the Book We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspec...

About the Book The natural resources of the earth - from oil and water to minerals and land - are crucial to our basic economic and social existenc...

About the Book Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in cr...

About the Book The IMF stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the Fund has had its po...

About the Book The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the g...

About the Book In a world that continues to be riven by armed conflict, the fundamental moral and political questions raised by warfare are as impo...

About the Book After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this pr...

About the Book The decision to become a United States citizen is one of the most important choices you can ever make. Before you can become a U.S. ...

In this refreshing and much needed text, Michael Goldsmith and Harold Wolman present a new approach to the study of urban politics which will be we...

About the Book TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAR AND CONFLICT "With rich entries that highlight the political context, strategic significance, and tactical det...

About the Book The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possib...

About the Book What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a way that combines...

About the Book Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people. Populist movements use the idea to challenge electe...

About the Book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken p...

About the Book For eight years, Nancy Soderberg served with distinction and creativity at the highest levels of American government. She is uniquel...

About the Book Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democr...

About the Book For almost two decades, China has claimed that its expanding economy benefits Europe, stimulating European growth, exports, and empl...

About the Book From the harrowing situation of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean in rubber dinghies to the crisis on the US-Mexico border,...

About the Book In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 America...

About the Book A compelling indictment of the Bush Administration's cynical, anti-democratic manipulation of the media In this devastating analysis...

About the Book As I write this, I'm sitting in a restaurant in a major U.S. airport, eating my breakfast with a plastic knife and fork. I worked up...

About the Book The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet ...

About the Book We are living through a period of dramatic political change - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in ...

About the Book Since 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to ...

About the Book The Encyclopedia of Diplomacy ist ein umfassendes und ma gebliches vierb�ndiges Kompendium und beleuchtet aus globaler Sicht die w...

About the Book By tracing the history of the PSA, The Development of a Discipline: The History of the Political Studies Association reveals the cha...

About the Book Liberals blame the global retreat of liberal democracy on globalisation and authoritarian leaders. Only liberalism, so they assume, ...

About the Book The Conservatives are back, and back with a bang - two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pre...

About the Book The British Parliament and Foreign Policy in the 20th Century explores the ways in which parliaments in Britain and internationally ...

What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world,...

About the Book We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to th...

About the Book Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how di...

About the Book Gives you the scoop on how the Court reaches its decisions Get involved and track a case through the system This fun and easy guid...

About the Book For most Western governments, defending against the threat of infectious disease is now an accepted security priority. Deciding what...

About the Book Russia is back as a major force in global politics, but what does this mean? Is Russia the dangerous revisionist foe that meddles in...

About the Book Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple...

About the Book "There's never been a more pressing time to question every aspect of our inadequate democracy"- Polly Toynbee "This important book ...

About the Book This volume considers the varied forms of parliamentary pressure in the period between the civil wars and the advent of universal su...

About the Book Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically ac...

About the Book God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find t...

About the Book We are living in a period of great uncertainty. Votes for Brexit and Trump, along with widespread political volatility, are not only...

About the Book The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity ...