Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by 'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public hea...

About the Book China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state...

About the Book What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries but not others become rising powers? In Why...

About the Book While many are born into prosperity, hundreds of millions of people lead lives of almost unimaginable poverty. Our world remains hug...

About the Book We live in times of increasing public distrust of the main institutions of modern society. Experts, including scientists, are suspec...

About the Book Europe's turn of fortune is humbling, humiliating and, perhaps, irreversible. What went wrong, and when? Europe's most audacious mom...

About the Book The natural resources of the earth - from oil and water to minerals and land - are crucial to our basic economic and social existenc...

About the Book Whispers of War: An Afghan Freedom Fighter’s Account of the Soviet Invasion is the real-life tale of a young political leader, Ma...

About the Book Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in cr...

About the Book The IMF stands at a crossroad. Derided as increasingly irrelevant in the first decade of the new millennium, the Fund has had its po...

About the Book In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It pur...

About the Book The fall of the Berlin wall was seen by many as the final triumph of liberal democracy over communism. But now, in the wake of the g...

About the Book The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with signif...

About the Book In a world that continues to be riven by armed conflict, the fundamental moral and political questions raised by warfare are as impo...

About the Book After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this pr...

About the Book ‘विशिष्ट रचनाएं: चौधरी चरण सिंह’ भारत के भूतपूर्व ...

About the Book The decision to become a United States citizen is one of the most important choices you can ever make. Before you can become a U.S. ...

In this refreshing and much needed text, Michael Goldsmith and Harold Wolman present a new approach to the study of urban politics which will be we...

About the Book This classic work describes the foundation of the United Nations, the workings of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Se...

About the Book Despite the plethora of textbooks available on the European Union and the wide range of interdisciplinary and non-specialist courses...

About the Book A concise, pithy, accessible account of everything you need to know about Iraq that is full of detail, anecdote and human interest b...

About the Book How do parties respond to the electorate and craft winning strategies? In the abstract parties are the vehicles to make democracy wo...

About the Book Millions of dollars are spent every year by companies and special interest groups attempting to influence government policy. They wo...

About the Book TWENTIETH-CENTURY WAR AND CONFLICT "With rich entries that highlight the political context, strategic significance, and tactical det...

About the Book A leading Turkish political scientist enhances understanding of the interactions of liberal democracy with longstanding cultural cle...

About the Book The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possib...

About the Book Multiscale Simulations and Mechanics of Biological Materials A compilation of recent developments in multiscale simulation and compu...

About the Book What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war? How can bitter divisions be resolved in a way that combines...

About the Book Fuel cells are expected to play a major role in the future power supply that will transform to renewable, decentralized and fluctuat...

About the Book Have you ever felt totalled? This book provides a utopian vision which could replace the overbearing truth that capitalism encompass...

About the Book The public relations industry is not just about celebrity gossip. This book shows how, whenever big business is threatened, spin doc...

About the Book Theory and History in International Relations is an eloquent plea to scholars of global politics to turn away from the "manufacture"...

The Women's War is the gripping true story of a Danish female soldier's tours to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan between 2007 and 2009. There s...

About the Book Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people. Populist movements use the idea to challenge electe...

About the Book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography aims to account for the intellectual and worldly developments that have taken p...

About the Book In recent years, the world has been re-introduced to the constituency of "white working class" people. In a wave of revolutionary po...

About the Book In the Third Revolution, eminent China scholar Elizabeth C. Economy provides an incisive look at the transformative changes underway...

About the Book Fisheries buybacks are an important strategy being implemented globally in the efforts to produce a more sustainable and profitable ...

About the Book Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democr...

About the Book A considerable amount of research has emerged in recent years on the science, technology and health effects of oats but, until now, ...

About the Book For almost two decades, China has claimed that its expanding economy benefits Europe, stimulating European growth, exports, and empl...

About the Book The idea of security--from ancient Greece to the War on Terror In The Security Principle , French philosopher Fr d ric Gros takes a ...