Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book Commodifying Communism is an ethnographic study of the role of personal ties between private entrepreneurs and local officials in th...

A historical narrative that examines the role of ulema and their use of the concept of jihad during India’s struggle for independence. Colonialism...

About the Book Successive amendments in the citizenship law in India have spawned distinct regimes of citizenship. The idea of citizenship regimes ...

About the Book This book provides a broad overview of the main trends in mass attitudes towards domestic politics and European integration from the...

About the Book Since the outbreak of the Pacific War, British India had been taken as the main logistic base for China's war against the Japanese. ...

About the Book Under the ambitious leadership of President Xi Jinping, China is transforming its wealth and economic power into tools of global pol...

About the Book Efficient communication, collaboration, data exchange and sharing are crucial for the success of today's many multi-disciplinary and...

About the Book What explains China's response to intervention at the UN Security Council? China and Intervention at the UN Security Council argues ...

About the Book An understanding of the nature of advanced industrial economies is derived from this extensive investigation of the ways in which th...

Technology forms an important aspect of culture as it gauges the economic and social developments of a society during its various phases. The rate ...

About the Book Institutions are norms that undergird organizations and are reflected in laws and practices. Over time, institutions take root and p...

About the Book In the early 1990s, competitive elections in the Russian Federation signaled the end to the authoritarian political system dominated...

About the Book Ben Schneider's comparative historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America examines business or...

About the Book A news-breaking expose of the Bush administration's rush to war, from the coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Bush's Brain In ...

Building a Citizens’ Partnership in Democratic Governance covers 10 years of efforts (2000–2010) in building and sustaining citizens’ partnership ...

About the Book Despite a recent decline in voter turnout, British general elections are still the centrepiece of Britain's liberal democracy and th...

About the Book The 2005 UK General Election promised to be a hard-fought contest. Drawing upon contributions from a range of experts, this book exp...

About the Book The world's problems―climate change, epidemics, and the actions of multinational corporations―are increasingly global in scale a...

The history of the Partition is neither singular nor static. It appears different from different perspectives. The past is never over, its presence...

This book binds together essays that, in spite of adopting diverse methodologies and different perspectives, study Bihar’s development, cultural ch...

About the Book Existing theories of economic liberalization fail to account for Mexico's experiences. Why has the Mexican government risked alienat...

About the Book Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often c...

About the Book Everywhere people share certain moral principles--it is bad to steal, to kill, to lie--and yet we often subvert these rules. As Robe...

About the Book The present book is devoted to the life and work of Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007). In the late twentieth centu...

About the Book Advance Praise for Behind the Burqa ""Whenever and wherever adults make war, children die and women are subjected to fear and humili...

This book will make you revisit the ‘minority question’ as it has been understood, conventionally. This book subjects to scrutiny some of the wel...

Becoming Asia: Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations Since World War II

About the Book In this moving account of the barriers between Israelis and Palestinians, leading Israeli journalist Isabel Kershner traces the rout...

About the Book Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel's famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly th...

About the Book Bards, Ballads and Boundaries presents an atlas of one of the world s richest historical musical traditions. The Atlas is a cartogra...

About the Book From citizens paying taxes to employees following their bosses' orders and kids obeying their parents, we take it for granted that a...

About the Book Does the people's need to believe in the president trump their duty to understand, to think critically, and demand truth? Have Ameri...

About the Book Following 9/11, Americans were swept up in a near hysteria-level fear of terrorists, especially of Islamic extremists working domest...

About the Book Asylum and Exile is the result of several months of personal outreach to refugees and asylum seekers that goes behind the headlines ...

A rare piece of research on the game of urban services delivery in an Indian metropolis. Assorted City makes an important contribution to urban pl...

About the Book This book analyzes the formal constitutional changes that have recently taken place in the Asia-Pacific region, embracing the countr...

About the Book: Asian Rivalries: Conflict, Escalation, and Limitations on Two-level Games The most typical treatment of international relations is ...

About the Book Since the end of the 1980s in India, self-styled representatives of a variety of ascriptive groups (religious, caste, regional, and ...

About the Book This work offers a set of extended interpretations of Madison's argument in Federalist X of 1787, using ideas from social choice the...

About the Book Appeasement alternatives to World War II have been the subject of intense debate and this volume addresses the vital phenomenon of e...

About the Book A comprehensive analysis of China’s efforts to build and utilize soft power as a distinctive part of its foreign policyThis volume...

About the Book Mitchell's new study uses Tocqueville's Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in the United States in our own tim...

About the Book This book explores the interpretation of politicians' career goals. Members seek to win repeated reelection, in the U.S. House of Re...

About the Book The book examines (1) the relationship between political mobilization and the making of policy/ to grant socio-economic rights (2) t...

About the Book Against the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the fore...

Afghan Endgames: Strategy and Policy Choices for America’s Longest War