Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book This textbook introduces the key concepts that underpin sustainable energy transitions. Starting with the basic biophysical principl...

About the Book After nearly six centuries of emergence and world dominance, the sovereign state now has a globally widespread competitor that frequ...

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 First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Morrill's Very Short Introduction to Stu...

About the Book Strengthening Governance Globally is the fifth volume in the series 'Patterns of Potential Human Progress'. Each volume considers on...

There is a sharp convergence in international relations in the global arena today. In fact, the nation states’ engagement in the present context ha...

Strangling Liberty: Media in Distress in Pakistan makes an attempt to trace the history of media during the last 66 years that shows as to how trem...

About the Book Black, opinionated, and with a distinctly working-class London accent, Gary Younge is not your typical foreign correspondent. Yet, i...

About the Book The relaunch of European integration in the 1980s and 1990s will affect profoundly the continent's course in the twenty-first centur...

About the Book This book explores the political economy of women's work in India and its relationship to the Indian state. The author argues that t...

About the Book & State vs. Society in Northeast India: History, Politics and the Everyday ;looks at a state as an entity that does not operat...

The book takes into account the commonalities across the boundaries at both, the micro and the macro levels, such as the expansion and intensificat...

About the Book This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to t...

About the Book In an age when areas such as health, education, and the environment are becoming more and more dependent on the state, the state dem...

A comprehensive analysis on the rise, assertion and dominance of the New Hindu Right forces in civil society From its forgettable electoral perform...

About the Book Untangling the logical, lexical, and semantic patterns of the multiple official speeches of Indian prime ministers, Speaking the Nat...

Rabindranath Tagore, an icon of humanism and universalism who always privileged India’s argumentative traditions, remains a source of inspiration f...

About the Book What is socialism? Does it have a future, or has it become an outdated ideology in the 21st century? This Very Short Introduction co...

Social Thought in Indic Civilization presents an interdisciplinary perspective on the pre-colonial social thought. It draws on the methodologies an...

About the Book As population aging has become increasingly acute in many countries, the debate over how to reform often creaking public pension sys...

About the Book Rule-based global order remains a central object of study in International Relations. Constructivists have identified a number of me...

About the Book The result of a four-year long comparative research study centered at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and fina...

About the Book Are social movement organizations euro-sceptical, euro-pragmatic, or euro-opportunist? Or do they accept the EU as a new level of go...

About the Book The Small Arms Survey is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switz...

Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba’i’s Siyaru’l-muta’akhkhirin is divided into three unequal parts. The first part traces the history of the Mughal Empire...

About the Book President Barack Obama's first trip abroad in his second term took him to Israel and the Palestinian West Bank, where he despondentl...

This volume focuses on little kingdoms, a concept developed by anthropologists and historians to characterize a specific type of local rulership in...

About the Book Using controversy over abortion as a lens through which to compare the political process and role of the media in these two very dif...

About the Book The idea of an alliance between Britain and its old Commonwealth colonies has recently made a remarkable comeback in the context of ...

About the Book Shackles on the Ladder of Light is a narrative poetry collection drawing the step-ahead journey of the main character from an ordina...

A refreshing read in terms of its take on the issue of hate speech, hurt, and politics of it. The currency of “hurt” as a claim to, and pretext f...

Selections on international left, politics, global economy, social theory, cinema, art and aesthetics. includes sections on India.

About the Book Asia is experiencing major changes in its security relations. This book brings together respected experts to assess both the theoret...

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 For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africa...

About the Book Until two decades ago, the social sciences adhered to the secularisation thesis that stressed the gradual obliteration of religion i...

About the Book Polarised politics in America has been driven by a vicious scandal machine comprised of partisan politicians and a sensationalist me...

The SAGE Series in Human Rights Audits of Peace Processes provides an overview of peace-audit study and explores why many peace processes fail. It ...

About the Book What went wrong in Russia? A group of leading young scholars answer this question through a theoretically informed, in-depth analysi...

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 Unique and insightful, this book takes a look at Russia's development through the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Rather than make the m...

About the Book The book recreates a past of Hindus and Muslims living together in Kashmir. The atmosphere of togetherness is rife. Almost perfect. ...