Politics and Current Affairs

This new collection of key authors on nationalism presents the latest thinking on this fundamental aspect of Politics, International Relations and ...

Governments have failed to stem global emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases causing climate change. Indeed, climate-changing poll...

The Iraq war has unleashed such a torrent of opinion...impassioned polemic, neo-con apologia, world-weary cynicism...that it feels like the importa...

During his momentous time as Secretary-General of the UN, Kofi Annan played a decisive role in launching the Millennium Development Goals, establis...

War: Contemporary Perspectives on Armed Conflicts around the World presents a broad variety of interdisciplinary and social scientific perspectives...

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians, one that’s grown increasingly apparent in recent...

Urban Politics blends the most insightful classic and current political science and related literature with current issues in urban affairs. The bo...

Conflict and disaster have been part of human history for as long as it has been recorded. Over time, more mechanisms for responding to crises have...

This book explores the underbelly of globalisation - the illicit networks of money, drugs, people and arms that make up a multi-billion dollar ille...

For many years, attention in both public and intellectual fields was concentrated on the benefits of civil society. However, with the demand for gr...

Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep cr...

The United Nations General Assembly is arguably the most important discussion forum in global politics. This is a concise and accessible introducti...

The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics offers a thorough examination of the complex relationship between art and politics, and the many forms ...

Immigration is one of the most contested issues on the political agenda of liberal states across Europe and North America. While these states can b...

Written by B. Guy Peters, a leading authority in the field, this comprehensive exploration of the political and policy making roles of public burea...

The Policy Design Primer is a concise and practical introduction to the principles and elements of policy design in contemporary governance. Guidin...

Expanding from her path-breaking work in Unspeakable Truths, Priscilla Hayner focuses on a new challenge in The Peacemaker’s Paradox: the age-old p...

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin s moti...

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...

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda’s successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international ...

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

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - t...

This text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from a historical perspective. Now fully updated...

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...

Now in its eighth edition, The Environmental Policy Paradox continues the book's tradition of offering an accessible introduction to the social, ec...

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

The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the discipline’s core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of...

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...

Mario Carranza studies in depth the linkages between Indo-Pakistani nuclear relations and the International Nuclear Order. He critically analyzes t...

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

While the EU has championed "effective multilateralism" and experienced a dramatic internal reform process to improve its performance in external r...

Israel is a country made up of contradictions. A lively democracy in a multicultural society but within a state promoting a strong national identit...

This new (third) edition of Rethinking Public Relations continues the argument of previous editions that public relations is weak propaganda. Howev...

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...