Politics and Current Affairs

The new edition of Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy offers an updated overview and critical discussion of contemporary discourses around truth, ...

Portugal in the 21st Century provides a thorough yet accessible picture of contemporary Portugal in the first two decades of the twenty-first centu...

About the Book This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender,...

Over the past six decades, India's competitive political process has brought the country's diverse population into the fabric of a nation and a dem...

In India, even after six decades of independence and planned economy employing 'pro-poor' assistance programmes, the hunger-regime has consolidated...

About the Book Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically ac...

About the Book Written specifically for undergraduate students by a leading scholar, teacher and writer this is the first major new textbook on Bri...

About the Book God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find t...

About the Book This edited collection examines the growing uncertainty about the role and scope of traditional political rights in the 21st Century...

This accessible book introduces students to the basic concepts in political science. The first part of the book provides a historical overview of t...

About the Book Arab nationalism and Islamism have been the two most potent ideological forces in the Arab region across the twentieth century. Over...

About the Book This new replacement volume for the author's British Political Ideologies focuses on the key political doctrines in contention at th...

This updated edition explores the philosophical roots and historical antecedents contributing to the development of modern political ideologies. Th...

Now in its twelfth edition, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal continues the book's tradition of offering a clear, concise and comprehen...

About the Book Political Fictions includes Sartre’s long foreword to André Gorz’s The Traitor, which has often been called the most intimate ...

About the Book We are living in a period of great uncertainty. Votes for Brexit and Trump, along with widespread political volatility, are not only...

Why let other people explain the world to you? From news reporting on elections or unfolding political crises to everyday advertising, you are con...

About the Book The presidency was neither designed nor expected to act in concert with the American people; the Framers intended Congress to repres...

About the Book The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity ...

About the Book As aviation is celebrated as one of the world's fastest growing industries, with passenger numbers and cargo volumes projected to do...

About the Book A dance begins beneath the out-stretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then ...

About the Book Why does political decentralization seem reduce intrastate conflict more in some countries than in others? This question constitutes...

About the Book From flag-waving to the singing of national anthems, the practices and symbols ofpatriotism are inescapable, and modern politics is ...

About the Book This book is a penetrating analysis of Pakistan's foreign policy from the time of Independence in 1947 until the beginning of the ne...

About the Book The political autobiography of the insurgent presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's campaign for the presidency of the United Stat...

About the Book When and why do powerful countries seek to enact major changes to international order, the broad set of rules that guide behavior in...

About the Book On Revolution includes a long essay in two parts in which Sartre dwellsupon the ‘myth’ of revolution and goes on to analyse revo...

About the Book Sartre met Albert Camus in Occupied France in 1943—an odd pair: onefrom the upper reaches of French society; the other, a pied-noi...

About the Book We see nonviolent resistance all over today's world, from Egypt's Tahrir Square to New York Occupy. Although we think of the last ce...

This textbook is systematic in its approach to theories, management, and policy in relation to nonprofit organizations. It is an ideal resource for...

About the Book Bringing together researchers from the fields of social policy, economics, sociology and clinical psychology, this book offers new e...

Nepal has a long history of political struggle and popular uprisings have often threatened the existing regimes of this landlocked, predominantly H...

About the Book Using the 2007 siege of the Lal Masjid in Pakistan, the book outlines important lessons and practical guidelines for crisis negotiat...

About the Book Israel is a Jewish state in a Muslim Middle East. How can it survive in that region? This book answers this question by analyzing th...

This is a comprehensive yet concise and accessible introduction to the history, role, activities and future challenges facing NATO. Assuming no pri...

About the Book Despite the recent proliferation of literature on nationalism and on social policy, relatively little has been written to analyze th...

About the Book An ambassador's account of India's relations with one of her oldest engaging neighbours--Myanmar The Indian legendary texts call it...

About the Book Most international relations specialists since World War II have assumed that morality plays only the most peripheral role in the ma...

About the Book The combination of its unique morphology, physical properties, cost effectiveness and environmental friendliness make natural rubber...

Marxist Theory After Trotsky Selected Writings by Tony Cliff, 1898876932, 9781898876939, Bookmarks

About the Book This book examines the interaction of domestic and foreign issues in the lives of ethnic Americans. Arguing that the damaging impact...

About the Book A giant of 20th century history, Mao Zedong played many roles: peasant revolutionary, patriotic leader against the Japanese occupati...

In the age of Islamophobia, Madrasas are at crossroads—infamously labelled as ‘dens for terrorism’ where the ‘youth are misguided, motivated and re...

Mohammed Akhlaq and Rakbar lynched in the name of cow protection. Chimma, a Dalit, lynched by the mob for entering a Hindu temple. In the recent y...

The state of perpetual change that characterized British local government during the Thatcher/Major years did not end with the election of New Labo...

Local Governance in India draws on the basic theoretical and practical aspects of localizing governance and illuminates how local governance unfol...

About the Book Some families are dangerous environments. Most practitioners in social work, child protection, and hospital and community medicine, ...

About the Book The essence of libertarianism is the view that coercive political institutions, such as the state, are justified only insofar as the...