Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book Assuming that "marginal" citizens cannot govern their own lives, proponents of the therapeutic state urge casework intervention to r...

About the Book In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics - from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 America...

About the Book The May Fourth movement (1915-1923) is widely considered a watershed in the history of modern China. This book is a social history o...

About the Book The recent irruption of WikiLeaks, Anonymous, Snowden and other tech-savvy actors onto the global political stage raises urgent ques...

The rise of China as an emerging power and as the most likely challenger to the global preponderance of the US is already having a significant impa...

About the Book Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. One, the Soviet Union, was geographically the largest ...

About the Book Since 2012, hundreds of men and women have left Western countries to join jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Many are still there, m...

About the Book Raised to be "flowers of the nation," the first generation born after the founding of the People's Republic of China was united in i...

About the Book Could lessons from Asia, Oceania and the Middle East help Europe overcome the challenge of religious diversity? Religious diversity ...

About the Book The historical significance of Barack Obama's triumph in the presidential election of 2008 scarcely requires comment. Yet it contain...

About the Book The Practices of Global Ethics takes a unique look at global ethics: not as mere written statements but as a set of practices undert...

The Practice of War: Production, Reproduction and Communication of Armed Violence

About the Book The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key ...

About the Book The Politics of Whiteness presents the first sustained analysis of white racial identity among workers in what was the South's large...

About the Book By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trad...

About the Book This textbook develops the essential tools of linear algebra, with the goal of imparting technique alongside contextual understandin...

About the Book The Politics of Misinformation is an examination of how concentrations of social and economic power result in public languages of po...

About the Book The Labour Party has been using marketing longer than is commonly realised. Leading figures like Morrison, Snowden, Webb, Gaitskell,...

About the Book Examining the philosophical origins of the Anglo-American political and constitutional tradition in seventeenth century England, Lee...

About the Book This volume seeks to address two distinct yet interconnected issues: centre-periphery relations and ethnic identity in Pakistan. Fir...

About the Book The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people ...

About the Book This book locates Digital India in context. It deals with the many ways in which Digital India is shaped by local pressures and poli...

About the Book A compelling indictment of the Bush Administration's cynical, anti-democratic manipulation of the media In this devastating analysis...

About the Book 2011 shook the world politically. The Occupy Movement, Los Indignados and the Greek Aganaktismenoi (outraged) reacted to zombie capi...

About the Book This volume on the politics of the European Union presents the EU as an emerging political system, in which the government, policies...

About the Book Britain has become increasingly diverse over the last fifty years and she has been fortunate to attract relatively highly educated i...

About the Book We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens....

About the Book The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy – the "market-institutional" perspe...

About the Book In the time span of a two-term US presidency, Poland went from an authoritarian one-party state with a faltering centrally planned e...

About the Book Taking a broad, interdisciplinary approach, Malcolm Levitt and Christopher Lord provide a systematic assessment of the inextricably ...

About the Book Recent years have seen an intensification of discussion on the issue of Britain's political class. The question of who our politicia...

About the Book From Egypt to India, and from Botswana to London, worker, youth and middle class rebellions have taken on the political and bureaucr...

About the Book In the past twenty years, over 25 million refugees have returned 'home'. These refugee repatriations are considered by the internati...

About the Book Nuclear energy has long been promoted as a solution to Asia's growing energy demands with little attention to its often debilitating...

About the Book Passed in 2000, The United Nations security Council resolution 1325 and subsequent seven resolutions make up the women, peace and se...

About the Book Water is a basic human need and a scarce commodity with increasing value to farmers, industries, and cities in an urbanizing world. ...

About the Book The United Nations is a vital part of the international order. Yet this book argues that the greatest contribution of the UN is not ...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of the Welfare State is a definitive guide to the contemporary welfare state. In a volume consisting of nearly f...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the imp...

About the Book Networks are omnipresent in our natural and social world, and they are at the heart of politics. Relationships of many types drive p...

About the Book Over the past three decades, scholars, government analysts and terrorism experts have examined the relationship between Islam and po...

About the Book Unpacking the major debates, this Oxford Handbook brings together leading authors of the field to provide a state-of-the-art guide t...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the ...

About the Book The Oxford Handbook of Energy and Society presents an overview of this expanding area that has evolved dramatically over the past de...

About the Book Chronic viral hepatitis affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and each year millions more people become infected. In Chro...

About the Book American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty-first century. After social and cultural history emer...

About the Book One of the most wide-ranging studies of prejudice undertaken in a decade, The Outsider combines new research methods and rich analys...