Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book Liberals blame the global retreat of liberal democracy on globalisation and authoritarian leaders. Only liberalism, so they assume, ...

About the Book The democratization of international organizations is a theme increasingly debated all over the world. This is the first work on int...

About the Book Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor...

About the Book Since the seventeenth century liberal thinkers have been interested in the rights of individuals and their capacities to engage as f...

About the Book The Delphic Oracle on Europe brings together leading thinkers and policy-makers from different academic disciplines and policy-orien...

About the Book Imperial Nations advance their own interests by exploiting other societies. To those on the receiving end this is obvious, while ins...

The Craft of Political Research is a non-technical introduction to research design and analysis in political science, emphasizing the choices we ma...

About the Book The Corporate Governance Landscape of Pakistan is a story told by the pioneers of corporate governance in the country for the benefi...

About the Book The Conservatives are back, and back with a bang - two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pre...

About the Book Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things cont...

About the Book Citizens living in presidential or parliamentary systems face different political choices as do voters casting votes in elections go...

About the Book This unique companion is a much-needed guide for those who are embarking on field research in conflict-affected countries. In a brea...

About the Book In this book, Eva Golinger uses documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act to lay out irefutable evidence that the U...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748622238); This textbook provides an introduction to the topical subject of constitutional c...

The Challenge of Democracy: Citizenship, Rights and Ethnic Conflicts in India and Israel

About the Book This best-selling, mainstream American government text is both a comprehensive introduction and a complete program, with the print t...

About the Book In recent years, the wearing of the full-face veil or burqa/niqab has proved a controversial issue in many multi-cultural European s...

About the Book The British Parliament and Foreign Policy in the 20th Century explores the ways in which parliaments in Britain and internationally ...

About the Book From the start of Barack Obama's presidency in 2009, conservative populist groups began fomenting political fractiousness, dissent, ...

This book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle. It draws  from first-hand accounts of Amiya Nath Bo...

About the Book The blue manuscript is the ultimate prize for any collector of Islamic treasure, but does it still exist, and if so, can it be found...

About the Book During the course of American history, wrongful events have occurred and certain Americans have stood up and spoken out against thes...

What if the state as we know it didn’t exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world,...

About the Book The American Era makes a provocative argument about America's world role. It establishes the rationale for a grand strategy that rec...

About the Book Surgery continues to be the most effective treatment of solid tumors in terms of recovery, while its combination with other treatmen...

About the Book This volume explores how the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) won the 2014 Parliamentary elections with such an unprecedented majority, a...

About the Book Exploring the fury of the young in a world or crisis that seems to offer no alternatives "Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear. B...

About the Book Identification vs profiling; state welfare vs state surveillance; privacy vs transparency -- the idea of Aadhaar has bitterly polari...

About the Book Ronald Reagan's victory in the 1980 presidential election marked a watershed moment in the history of the United States, heralding t...

About the Book The causes and consequences of terrorism are matters of considerable debate and great interest. Spectacular events are recognized by...

About the Book We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to th...

About the Book One of our Most Brilliant public intellectuals, Paul Berman has spent his career writing on revolutionary movements and their totali...

This book is a definitive work on agrarian change in colonial Bengal. It deals with a period which witnessed the first conflict between two alien s...

About the Book Temptations of Power examines the new security dilemma which confronted George W. Bush when terrorists proved on 9/11 that they coul...

About the Book This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an in...

Teasing Question: Exploring Disconnects in Contemporary India

About the Book Today, the majority of sovereign states can be described as "democracies" Because they possess elected political leadership and some...

About the Book Few attempts have been made to understand the internal logic of Kim Jong-un's regime and why life in North Korea is so difficult. T...

About the Book What is American government like today? How has it changed--and how has it remained the same--over the course of the century now com...

About the Book From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bears--interest groups, often using the language of human rights, are claiming that they are ...

About the Book Today Syria is a country known for all the wrong reasons: civil war, vicious sectarianism, and major humanitarian crisis. But how di...

About the Book Questions of power are central to understanding global trade politics and no account of the World Trade Organization (WTO) can affor...

Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Indian Politics

About the Book A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food syst...

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