Politics and Current Affairs

Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unific...

The Islamophobia Industry reflects the rising tide of anti-Muslim feeling sweeping through the United States and Europe. Lean takes us inside the ...

The International Studies Encyclopedia and its online version, International Studies Online , published in association with the International Studi...

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy’s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and commu...

With oil reaching $100 a barrel in January 2008 and the US facing challenges to dollar hegemony, few people would now deny that there is an energy ...

This book explores the crisis in fossil fuels. Oil, gas and coal are precious resources that define modern life. Without them, mass-produced food a...

Despite Washington's military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war – accelerated by the great recession an...

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought is the most comprehensive and rigorous treatment of significant political thinkers, political theories, conce...

Few phenomena in the Arab world are more controversial than Al Jazeera – the satellite television news channel that, despite its brief history, has...

In the West, the suicide bomber has become a familiar image in newspapers and on television. In Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and elsewh...

Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements. In the f...

This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najaf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today...

Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and ...

As peace operations become the primary mechanism of conflict management used by the UN and regional organizations, understanding their problems and...

Preface , Introduction , Part I: Pakistan-US Relations, 1: Changing dynamics: Islamic Orientation of the Pakistani State & the Islamic Reaction...

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade ...

The term 'nation-building' has experienced a remarkable renaissance since the early 1990s. It has been used to describe and to justify the military...

This classic book explores the intellectual, political and social foundations of Islamism, and current Islamist groups across the Arab and Muslim w...

Karl Marx's classic definitions of class and society under capitalism are still widely used today. Ideas such as class, revolution, production and ...

Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...

A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East T...

‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only t...

Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individ...

List of Plates, List of Figures, Maps, and Tables, Foreword, Notes, Introduction: The Creation of Global Issues, 1. Population, The Changing Popula...

"TI has once again shown its ability to combine research and policy analysis not just to shine a light on the deeply embedded problems of corruptio...

Worldwide, the construction sector is regularly rated as the most corrupt industry. Even so, the scale and effects of this corruption are frequentl...

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book criti...

East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s share of wor...

Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India. Drawing on five year...

During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of East...

Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space r...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015The term peace process is now widely used to describe attempts to manage and resolve conflict. As the n...

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not ca...

Britain has been a significant voice in global politics in the last two decades and its impact on world events far outweighs its material resources...

"The Baghdad Bulletin was essential reading in the first few months after the end of the war. ... I am only sorry that I cannot read it anymore. Da...

The G8 runs what South African president Thabo Mbeki and others describe as 'global apartheid'. ... He -- and everyone else -- should read this sup...

As the world s only superpower, America s foreign policy inevitably has a major impact Ð be it positive or negative – on contemporary international...

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, ...

This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that ‘su...

Will The Middle East Implode? by Mohammed Ayoob, 8126547332, 9788126547333, Wiley India

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

Liberalism by Paul Kelly, 0745621007, 9780745621005, Polity Pr

International Relations only emerged as a discipline in its own right in the early twentieth century as scholars and practitioners sought to study ...

Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most impor...