Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book Edited by a new team on leading authorities of French politics Developments in French Politics 3 brings together specially written c...

East and Central Europe has experienced dramatic changes since the collapse of communism. This volume brings together specially commissioned chapte...

About the Book Bringing together a set of specially commissioned chapters by leading authorities, this book provides an accessible introduction to ...

This comprehensive textbook addresses the role that the agencies of administrative development play in the functioning of a government, especially ...

About the Book In Deploying Ourselves, David A. Westbrook puts the case for major reform of US national security. He argues that today's national s...

About the Book The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the sam...

About the Book As the U.S. strives to establish democracy in Iraq and contemplates its own democratic system in the wake of a series of controversi...

About the Book This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on...

About the Book Republicans and Democrats increasingly distrust, avoid, and wish harm upon those from the opposing party. They also increasingly res...

About the Book Many books on sustainability have been written in the last decade, most of them dealing with agricultural systems, communities, and ...

About the Book High-profile controversies surrounding the funding of political parties have shown how inequalities in wealth can enter the politica...

About the Book The concept of community is tainted by the events of the twentieth century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the ...

Specially compiled for students, this invaluable reader gathers key statements from political thinkers, explained and contextualised with editorial...

About the Book Based on exhaustive research, this book explains how the European Union makes decisions in seven major policy sectors. Written in a ...

About the Book What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas Jeff...

This ground-breaking study addresses a key question for contemporary liberal democracies—how can inequalities between groups be addressed, while su...

About the Book How to handle Russia? This question has become ever more prominent as the Euro-Atlantic community's relations with Russia languish i...

About the Book The world has been sleep-walking into cyber chaos. The spread of misinformation via social media and the theft of data and intellect...

The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping’s strategies to address critica...

About the Book Food has a fundamental position in society, ensuring health, happiness and political stability. Consequently, the management of food...

About the Book Cosmopolitanism: Uses of the Idea offers an illuminating and dynamic account of an often confusing and widespread concept. Bringing ...

Corporate governance is part of an economy's system which has today become the most important mechanism for resource allocation. It is affected by ...

About the Book During the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itse...

About the Book This book presents a radically new approach of how societies can bring corruption under control.Since the late 1990s, the detrimenta...

About the Book From natural disaster areas to zones of conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention has emerged. This new post-Cold War i...

About the Book Updated and expanded, this account of the distinctive structures of European life analyses social, political, economic and cultural ...

About the Book Adopting a thematic, interdisciplinary approach, this account of the distinctive structures of European life uses contributions from...

About the Book In Constitutional Goods, Alan Brudner distills the essentials of liberal constitutionalism from the jurisprudence and practice of co...

About the Book Reviews the latest research breakthroughs and applications Since the discovery of carbon nanotubes in 1991, one-dimensional nanostru...

About the Book Competition Policy in the European Union provides a comprehensive introduction to the European Union's policies on restrictive pract...

This textbook offers a lucid and comprehensive understanding of comparative public administration since its inception. This textbook explores the ...

About the Book This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how gran...

About the Book This edition contains new chapters on politics and society, linking society and government, government itself and public policy.

About the Book Comparative European Politics: Distinct Democracies, Common Challenges provides a complete guide to European politics through a comp...

About the Book This accessible, user-friendly guide provides students with all the key information and analysis on the European Union and its polic...

About the Book COMPARATIVE POLITICS IN TRANSITION combines a thematic framework with a country by country approach to provide a truly thoughtful an...

India and Pakistan achieved unofficial nuclear power status in 1998 with Pakistan attempting to use nuclear blackmail in fighting for a limited sli...

About the Book By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age - and it still d...

About the Book Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are as...

About the Book China's inexorable rise as a major world power is one of the defining features of the contemporary political landscape. But should w...

About the Book The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of huma...

About the Book Two sharply contrasting views of China exist today. On the one hand a rising superpower predicted to have the largest economy in the...

About the Book The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets ...

Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi is an in-depth analysis of voting patterns of voters in Delhi. Rapid immigration has changed the social profi...

About the Book In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social for...

About the Book Every minute 24 people are forced to leave their homes and over 65 million are currently displaced world-wide. Small wonder that tac...