Politics and Current Affairs

• Author(s): Sally N. Cummings • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceHow does empire affect the route to successor sovereign state systems and the features of the soverei...

• Author(s): Paul Rogers • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryIraq stands on the edge of civil war. As sectarian killings escalate, and troops become more deeply entrenched, is there any prospect of an exit st...

• Author(s): Birgit Muller • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceThe Gloss of Harmony focuses on agencies of the United Nations, examining the paradox of entrusting relatively powerless and underfunde...

• Author(s): James J. Brittain • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book presents an insider's account of Columbia's internal conflict. At the forefront are the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Col...

• Author(s): Murray Stewart Leith • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceAddresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic ...

• Author(s): John Hilary • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceCapitalist growth is widely heralded as the only answer to the crisis still sweeping the global economy. Yet the era of corporate globali...

• Author(s): Rex Brynen • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK) • BISAC: Political ScienceOne of the core aspects of the Palestinian refugee question is that of compensation or reparations for Palestinian refugees forc...

• Author(s): Amrit Wilson • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Threat of Liberation returns to the tumultuous years of the Cold War, when, in a striking parallel with today, imperialist powers were seeking...

• Author(s): Marwan Darweish • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political SciencePeacebuilding and Reconciliation brings together a number of critical essays from members of the renowned Centre for Peace & Reco...

• Author(s): David Cronin • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryDuring the chaos of the eurozone crisis, few mainstream commentators have stopped to question the purpose of the European Union itself, and whose ...

• Author(s): Nicholas Gilby • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryDeception in High Places reveals the corruption endemic in Britain's biggest arms deals over the last fifty years. Based on painstaking research...

• Author(s): Marcelle C. Dawson • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: HistoryContesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-Aparthe...

• Author(s): Eveline Lubbers • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceThe exposure of undercover policeman Mark Kennedy in the eco-activist movement revealed how the state monitors and undermines politic...

• Author(s): Ted Honderich • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: PhilosophyThis is a new edition of a classic work by one of the world's leading progressive political philosophers. Ted Honderich examines ideology and ...

• Author(s): Simon Pirani • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceSimon Pirani investigates the interaction of power, money and people in Russia during the presidencies of Vladimir Putin and his success...

• Author(s): Richard Barbrook • Publisher: Pluto Press • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press • BISAC: Political ScienceWinner of the MEA's 2008 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology.'A compelling, authoritative, and...

• Author(s): Jhar | Prem Shankar • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • BISAC: Literary CollectionsIndia and China focuses on these two countries, both in the middle stages of market-led development and grappling with the problem tha...

• Author(s): Amitav Acharya • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceRegional institutions are an increasingly prominent feature of world politics. Their characteristics and...

• Author(s): Mats Berdal • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceAfter years of paralysis, the 1990s saw an explosion in the number of United Nations field operations aroun...

• Author(s): Anthony Simon Laden • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Political ScienceOver the past twenty-five years debate surrounding cultural diversity has become one of the most ac...

• Author(s): Daniel E. Lee • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyHuman Rights and the Ethics of Globalization provides a balanced, thoughtful discussion of the globalization of ...

• Author(s): Friedrich Soltau • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: LawThis work analyses fairness and equity dimensions of the climate regime. A central issue in international law and po...

• Author(s): Craig Yirush • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: HistorySettlers, Liberty, and Empire traces the emergence of a revolutionary conception of political authority on the far s...

• Author(s): Jeremy Farrall • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: LawThis book is the first in a series examining how public law and international law intersect in five thematic areas of ...

• Author(s): Stephanie Roemer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book examines the Tibetan government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA). Based on ext...

• Author(s): Gary Dorrien • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceThis work argues that the influence of neoconservatives has been none too small and all too important in the s...

• Author(s): Sally Cummings • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book not only widens our understandings of developments in this geopolitically important region but als...

• Author(s): Louiza Odysseos • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: PhilosophyPresenting the first critical analysis of Carl Schmitt's The Nomos of the Earth and how it relates to the epochal ...

• Author(s): Joël Ruet • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Social ScienceThis book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Hayden • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceBased on extensive original research, including interviews with key participants, this book investigates ...

• Author(s): Andrew Wyatt • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceBy applying the concept of political entrepreneurship to a detailed case study of the south Indian state of Ta...

• Author(s): Jürgen Rüland • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceThis volume presents the state of the art of the new phenomenon interregionalism examining both empirical obs...

• Author(s): Robert E. Goodin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Political ScienceDrawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provid...

• Author(s): Dieter Grimm • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: LawConstitutionalism: Past, Present, and Future is the definitive collection of Dieter Grimm's most influential writings on constitutional thought and interp...

• Author(s): Chitra Sinha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: LawThe book explores a significant episode of Indian social history, the Hindu Code Bill controversy that stirred the Indian social consciousness in the mid-...

• Author(s): Christopher Hood • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Political ScienceAn examination of rewards of high public office in seven Asian political systems including case studies fo...

• Author(s): Yaniv Roznai • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: LawCan constitutional amendments be unconstitutional? The problem of 'unconstitutional constitutional amendments' has become one ...

• Author(s): Marwan Muasher • Publisher: Yale UP • Publisher Imprint: Yale UP • BISAC: Political ScienceThis important book is not about immediate events or policies or responses to the Arab Spring. Instead, it takes a long, judicious view of pol...

• Author(s): Scott Anderson • Publisher: Doubleday Books • Publisher Imprint: Doubleday Books • BISAC: HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - KIRKUS PRIZE WINNER - From the author of the landmark bestseller Lawrence in Arabia comes a stunningly revel...

• Author(s): Hussein Agha • Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc • Publisher Imprint: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc • BISAC: HistoryTwo insiders explain why the Israeli-Palestinian peace process failed, and anticipate what lies ahead. On ...

• Author(s): W. Bartley Hildreth • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceThis bestselling reference examines all major areas in public administr...

• Author(s): Luc Capdevila | Daniele Voldman | Richard Veasey • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsWars in the industrial age kill large numbers of people. What do societies involved in t...

• Author(s): Fraser Cameron • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceWritten by a Brussels insider, this book examines the origins, workings and priorities of the Euro...

• Author(s): Jongseok Woo • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceThrough a cross-national lens Political Corruption and Democratic Governance explores po...

• Author(s): Will Leggett • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceWhat's Left after New Labour? This timely book assesses the legacy of both the Third Way and its cri...

• Author(s): James Lacey • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: HistoryThis edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises h...

• Author(s): Charles Pattie | Patrick Seyd | Paul Whiteley • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceThe concept of citizenship is currently the focus of discussion ...

• Author(s): Jonathan Ping • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceThis book explores how fundamental aspects of China’s rapidly evolving arena of international relat...

• Author(s): Jorge Schiavon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceStudying paradiplomacy comparatively, this book explains why and how sub-state governments (SSG) c...

• Author(s): Stephen Woolcock • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceThe New Economic Diplomacy, fifth edition, explores how states conduct their external economic r...

• Author(s): Stanley Allen Renshon • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsFrom a pampered son who showed little promise, to his rise to the presidency, George W. Bush has transformed himself t...

• Author(s): Walid Phares • Publisher: St Martins Pr • Publisher Imprint: St Martins Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political ScienceFrom MSNBC terrorism expert Walid Phares, this is a frightening look into the future of jiha...