Politics and Current Affairs

The essays in this book are an outcome of discussions thattook place in the fourth World Social Forum, held in Mumbai in January 2004. They offer t...

About the Book This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice the...

About the Book Appeasement alternatives to World War II have been the subject of intense debate and this volume addresses the vital phenomenon of e...

Pakistan is under increasing scrutiny, being central to an intense and escalating political and ideological conflict between the West and fundament...

About the Book This work introduces the central beliefs of the anti-capitalist movement, a movement that has quickly established itself as a key pl...

About the Book A collection of critical essays on concepts in occupational therapy, intended to stimulate interest in academic debate and to provok...

About the Book The rise of the worldwide anti-globalization movement has led to a renewed interest in anarchism, but many are still unsure of what ...

About the Book A comprehensive analysis of China’s efforts to build and utilize soft power as a distinctive part of its foreign policyThis volume...

About the Book The American Ideology explicates and criticizes two notions of reason in society: efficiency and the concept of the reasonable. Desp...

About the Book Surveying the American governmental system, this revised text covers topics such as the constitution, federalism, civil liberties, p...

About the Book Popular distrust and the entrenchment of government by professionals lie at the root of America's most pressing political problems. ...

About the Book Bessette/Pitney's AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS: DELIBERATION, DEMOCRACY AND CITIZENSHIP, First Edition, is based on the idea of ...

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 This book surveys US achievements and failures in the world across the 20th century. The analysis builds upon surveys of experts at ...

About the Book Mitchell's new study uses Tocqueville's Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own tim...

About the Book This book explores the interpretation of politicians' career goals. Members seek to win repeated reelection, in the U.S. House of Re...

Just as Donald Trump's victorious campaign for the US presidency shocked liberal Americans, the seemingly sudden national prominence of white supre...

About the Book The book examines (1) the relationship between political mobilization and the making of policy/ to grant socio-economic rights (2) t...

About the Book Against the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the fore...

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...

About the Book While progress in Africa can be seen across the board, every day-migrants are dying in the Mediterranean. The continent is in fact a...

Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America’s Longest War

About the Book Professor J. David Singer has been arguably the most important influence on quantitative research into the causes and attributes of ...

About the Book E-Governance as a field of study is relatively new when considered within the broader historical context of US democracy. The advent...

आशुतोषवार्ष्णेयकीयहक़िताबभारतीयलोकतंत्रकोसमझनेऔरसमझानेकीकोशिशहै. तथ्योंऔरसबूतोंकेजरिएभारतकेलोकतांत्रिकहोनेकीउसप्रक्रियाकोदेखनाहैजो 1947 केबादशुरूहुई...

About the Book Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in ...

This book posits that a sustainable future is possible without abandoning Capitalism. In its current form as Consumer Capitalism, the organization ...

About the Book Millions passionately desire a viable alternative to austerity and neoliberalism, but they are sceptical of traditional leftist top-...

On 1 July 2018, Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected as the next President of Mexico. AMLO’s decisive victory speaks volumes about the corrupt s...

About the Book The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, has come to stand for the rule of law, curbs on executive power and the freedom to enjoy basic libe...

Aditi Rao is a poet in search of language—she looks to history and mythology, to beaches and forts and around street corners—she finds herself in t...

About the Book The US-India nuclear deal, popularly known as the 123 Agreement, announced by George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh on 18 July 2005, was...

About the Book In this wide-ranging and incisive collection, Peter Gowan traces the contours of the world order that emerged after the end of the C...

About the Book This is the book Tony Blair doesn't want you to read about 7/7. In February 2003, Tony Blair was warned by British intelligence that...

Even after 70 years, the Partition of India, we continue to grapple with its histories, memories and legacies within our contemporary society. It r...

Variations in ceramics are culturally significant. These are an expression of the functions that they are meant to perform, the identity of a commu...

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of laws aimed at reg...

This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and...

This innovative and thought-provoking text will teach you about the diverse and increasingly expansive sub-discipline of geopolitics. Divided into ...

Each chapter discusses a cluster of interrelated concepts and examines how they have been used by different thinkers and traditions and explores re...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after t...