Politics and Current Affairs

Deep Currents and Rising Tides: The Indian Ocean and International Security

About the Book By consulting the work of well-known and obscure al-Qaeda theoreticians, Michael W. S. Ryan finds jihadist terrorism strategy has mo...

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

Categorizing the centrality of foreign policy decision-making as being intrinsic to external relations, China and India are evolving new methodolog...

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...

The real truth behind the assassination of our 16th president Written by the critically acclaimed author of Ghosts of Cape Sabine, Dark Union reve...

About the Book The salmon louse Lepeophtheirus salmonis is adapted to survive in hostile marine environments of the northern hemisphere, including ...

About the Book The question of how Donald Trump won the 2016 election looms over his presidency. In particular, were the 78,000 voters who gave him...

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...

About the Book Billions of dollars stolen from citizens are circling the globe, enriching powerful individuals, altering political outcomes, and di...

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 Leading anthropologists and political scientists are brought together in this volume to debate the problem of comparison, taking up ...

About the Book Crisis in American Institutions provides an array of engaging articles on important topics. Consistently introducing framing materia...

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

About the Book Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again?Counter Re...

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

About the Book Is it possible and desirable to translate the basic principles underlying cosmopolitanism as a moral standard into effective global ...

About the Book Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an ava...

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 With the Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, the EU de facto became a state territory stretching from Por...

About the Book Conventional Arms Control provides an analysis of the political and operational problems of verification of conventional arms contro...

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...

Containing The China Onslaught: Role of the US, Japan, India and other democracies is a book with a special relevance today both for the world and ...

About the Book Under the Human Rights Act, British courts are for the first time empowered to review primary legislation for compliance with a codi...

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

About the Book Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of c...

About the Book This volume features a comparative account of ethics regulations across the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Italy. Th...

About the Book When apartheid ended in 1994, a radiant optimism suggested a bright future for the new, unified South Africa. But today, even in the...

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

About the Book In posing challenging questions about the relationship between state and society, theories of governance have promoted fierce debate...

Read reviews Moving beyond the precepts of traditional deterrence theory, this ground-breaking volume offers insights for the use of deterrence in...

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

About the Book Aimed at providing a comprehensive understanding of comparative political communication, this volume analyzes the media systems of E...

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...

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...

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