Politics and Current Affairs

Even after 70 years, the Partition of India, we continue to grapple with its histories, memories and legacies within our contemporary society. It r...

This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of laws aimed at reg...

This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and...

This innovative and thought-provoking text will teach you about the diverse and increasingly expansive sub-discipline of geopolitics. Divided into ...

Each chapter discusses a cluster of interrelated concepts and examines how they have been used by different thinkers and traditions and explores re...

Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Yet even after t...

Offering an unparalleled, sweeping survey of the political ideologies that have shaped our world, the seventh edition of Andrew Heywood's seminal u...

This text, provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to the study of political economy, looking at interests, institutions, idea...

A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers ca...

A sweeping and theoretically original analysis of the India-Pakistan rivalry from 1947 to the present. Since their mutual independence in 1947, Ind...

Global migration flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other p...

How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable le...

An engaging introduction to the core concepts, theories, actors and issues in global politics. Featuring a combination of chapters authored by lead...

A comprehensive, trusted core text on media’s impact on attitudes, behavior, elections, politics, and policymaking, Mass Media and American Politic...

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authori...

Nine of India’s 14 prime ministers have been elected from constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state and most complex polit...

Concepts have a particular importance for students of politics and international relations. Political argument often boils down to a struggle over ...

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western domi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as t...

Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states...

How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced c...

Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal, which implies that the people s...

An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for t...

It profiles salient technologies and science, including persuasion science, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), surveillance tech...

Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even thou...

Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Sovie...

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer ri...

India's over 200 million Dalits, once called "untouchables," have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but the outcomes of thi...

In 2003, The United Nations adopted a common rights-based approach to development in their efforts to promote an international standard of human ri...

Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever sinc...

Updated and revised, this short introduction has become a go-to source for its clarity and succinct account of the evolution of Indian foreign poli...

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali B...

Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island chain has been at the center of global trade flows, imperia...

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial,...

Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than automobile accidents, firearms, or even lightning strikes. Given this minimal risk, why does the ...

Truth to Power, the first-ever history of the U. S. National Intelligence Council (NIC), is told through the reflections of its eight Chairs in the...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, The world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In the rise and fall of peace on Earth, the eminent foreign po...

The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to ...

Designed and modeled after a six-week introductory food law course taught at Northeastern University, Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers offer...

In Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards’ trusted IBM SPSS® workbook, students dive headfirst into actual political data and work with a softw...

Comparative European Party Systems, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis across 48 party systems of party competition, electoral syste...

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade surveys the literature on the politics of international trade and highlights the most ex...

राष्ट्र-राज्य के काल में नागरिकता से जुड़े आयामों पर एक ठोस समझ की ज़रूरत हर नागरिक के लिए आवश्यक है। ऑक्सफ़ोर्ड इंडिया की ये नवीन प्रस्तुति इस विषय प...

Is one person's terrorist another's freedom fighter? Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'War on Terror'? For many, the terrorist attacks of ...

India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been acc...