Politics and Current Affairs

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

This revised edition of Religion and Politics in South Asia presents a comprehensive analysis of the interaction of religion and politics in Afghan...

In this new and fully revised edition Pinar Bilgin provides an accessible yet critical analysis of regional security in the Middle East, analysing ...

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

Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics, and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much ha...

The field called policy analysis focused originally on the formulation of new policies and was structured to give advice to those in the top reache...

Using theoretical frameworks to explore the political, organizational, and cultural dynamics of performance budgeting, this book examines the adopt...

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...

This book examines the relevance of nonviolent tactics to current debates about political action and political thought. Nonviolent political action...

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...

Aimed at undergraduate-level courses, this brand-new textbook provides an overview of Middle Eastern politics, offering in-depth examination of the...

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

The fifth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in International Relations. It explains and analyzes each th...

The new edition of this classic history of International Relations has been completely revised and updated throughout and remains a major guide to ...

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

This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post–Cold War era, beginning with George H. W. Bush and ending with the first 17 mon...

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...

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understan...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

This book addresses one of the most important issues in international relations - how wars are ended.

Parliament is constantly in the news and televised daily, but much of its work remains a mystery to outsiders and is sometimes perplexing even to i...

Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of e...

‘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...

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the links between areas of global governance, human rights global economy and international law. By ...

"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...

This is a clear and critical account of Foucault's political thought: what he said, how it's been used and its influence today. Michel Foucault (19...

In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to enhance the working a...

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...

Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book...

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...

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide ...

Revised throughout, the second edition of this comprehensive and highly respected textbook continues to provide a thorough introduction to European...

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...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills, the 'bureaucratic ethos' that he described conti...

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...

The text aims to uncover the roots of the United States' near perpetual involvement in war since the beginning of WWI in 1914. Using alliance polit...