Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book We see nonviolent resistance all over today's world, from Egypt's Tahrir Square to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last ce...

About the Book Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new e...

About the Book The Minister's Manual is the single most comprehensive resource for preaching and worship available. Filled with completely new mate...

About the Book A captivating look at one of America's most prominent and fascinating public figures Bestselling author, war hero, presidential cand...

About the Book The essence of libertarianism is the view that coercive political institutions, such as the state, are justified only insofar as the...

About the Book Labor is the source of all wealth. Without workers, the world's natural resources cannot be transformed into finished goods and serv...

Labour leader Harold Wilson was once asked how difficult he found being prime minister of the United Kingdom. ‘Not half as difficult as being Leade...

About the Book Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had ...

About the Book The idea that war is sometimes justified is deeply embedded in public consciousness. But it is only credible so long as we believe t...

About the Book Introduces readers to the world of homeland security and provides them with up-to-date information on recent attacks, new terrorist ...

About the Book How can we make sense of human rights in China's authoritarian Party-State system? Eva Pils offers a nuanced account of this content...

About the Book According to current deabtes, 'individualization' has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to 'globalization'. It ...

Declared a terrorist menace yet voted into government in a free election, Hamas then used its Gaza power base to launch cross-border attacks that s...

About the Book A new edition of the #1 text in the human computer Interaction field! This book seeks to chart the technology-fueled changes taking ...

About the Book Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people across the globe are embracing left-wing...

About the Book Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only si...

About the Book Football is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it's so simple to play - but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan S...

About the Book Military Recruiting is a war. It's just a different kind of war than what you were prepared and trained to fight for. Recruiting is ...

"This special issue of Parliamentary History is one product of 'Eighteenth-Century Political Participation and Electoral Culture' (ECPPEC) a resear...

About the Book Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements...

About the Book The concept of community is tainted by the events of the twentieth century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the ...

About the Book How to handle Russia? This question has become ever more prominent as the Euro-Atlantic community's relations with Russia languish i...

The real truth behind the assassination of our 16th president Written by the critically acclaimed author of Ghosts of Cape Sabine, Dark Union reve...

About the Book The world has been sleep-walking into cyber chaos. The spread of misinformation via social media and the theft of data and intellect...

About the Book With the Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, the EU de facto became a state territory stretching from Por...

About the Book By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age - and it still d...

About the Book Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are as...

About the Book China's inexorable rise as a major world power is one of the defining features of the contemporary political landscape. But should w...

About the Book From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from...

About the Book Violence - from state coercion to wars and revolutions - remains an enduring global reality. But whereas it is often believed that t...

About the Book A news-breaking expose of the Bush administration's rush to war, from the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Bush's Brain In ...

About the Book "A wise and wide-ranging reminder of the things we should have been talking about when we were talking about Brexit."-- Stephanie Fl...

Today the majority of the peoples of the planet live in nation-states, based upon the idea, if never the reality, of a single people, a single cult...

About the Book It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally comm...

About the Book Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa ""Whenever and wherever adults make war, children die and women are subjected to fear and humili...

About the Book From citizens paying taxes to employees following their bosses' orders and kids obeying their parents, we take it for granted that a...

About the Book A splendidly illuminating book.-- The New York Times Like it or not, George W. Bush has launched a revolution in American foreign po...

About the Book Racism, extremism, anti-democratic sentiment - our increasingly polarized world is dominated by a type of thinking that doubts other...

About the Book In 2014, the declaration of the Islamic State caliphate was hailed as a major victory by the global jihadist movement. But it was sh...

Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even thou...

World in Crisis is a new book from one of the world's leading scholars. Gabriel Kolko provides a panoramic overview of the problems facing the US ...

Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the h...

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing poll...

This book explores the underbelly of globalisation - the illicit networks of money, drugs, people and arms that make up a multi-billion dollar ille...

Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep cr...

Immigration is one of the most contested issues on the political agenda of liberal states across Europe and North America. While these states can b...

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin s moti...