Politics and Current Affairs

This text, provides an interdisciplinary and international introduction to the study of political economy, looking at interests, institutions, idea...

A unique analysis of the numbers that came to define Chinese politics and how this quantification evolved over time. For decades, a few numbers ca...

A sweeping and theoretically original analysis of the India-Pakistan rivalry from 1947 to the present. Since their mutual independence in 1947, Ind...

Global migration flows in the 20th century have seen the emergence of Muslim diaspora and minority communities in Europe, North America and other p...

How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable le...

An engaging introduction to the core concepts, theories, actors and issues in global politics. Featuring a combination of chapters authored by lead...

A comprehensive, trusted core text on media’s impact on attitudes, behavior, elections, politics, and policymaking, Mass Media and American Politic...

The fifth edition of this seminal textbook by best-selling author Andrew Heywood continues to lead the way in providing a comprehensive and authori...

Nine of India’s 14 prime ministers have been elected from constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state and most complex polit...

Concepts have a particular importance for students of politics and international relations. Political argument often boils down to a struggle over ...

Medicine and Integration of Frontier Tribes: The British and After in Arunachal Pradesh traces the use of medicine as an instrument of diplomacy in...

Diving into an unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work. How can devel...

The severe setback to India’s polity during the period 2018–21 is distinct and unprecedented. It is inaccurate and erroneous to describe this phase...

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Nationhood, Social Justice and Unequal Transformations: Essays for K.R.Narayanan is a commemorative volume consisting of lectures delivered at the ...

From solar panels to synthetic biology, an accessible-yet-authoritative overview of how climate change, the global Covid-19 pandemic, and emerging ...

India's Ministry of Home Affairs, with its striking durability, and ability to adapt to the transition from colonial rule to post-colonial governan...

Why has global governance largely failed to effectively tackle some of the most pressing global environmental challenges of our time?

This book brings together a unique team of academics and practitioners to analyse interests, institutions, and issues affecting and affected by the...

Nowhere in India is contemporary politics and visions of 'the political' as diverse, animated, uncontainable, and poorly understood as in Northeast...

In recent years, contract farming has received much attention in the literature, and is touted as a means to engage small farmers in high value agr...

This volume looks back at the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 through contemporary accounts and scholarly reflections. Organized into five parts, the ...

The precarity of democratic order In contemporary times needs no underlining. Crisis of Liberal Deliberation addresses this Issue from a novel pers...

Xi Jinping has proven to be one of the most transformative political leaders of the twenty-first century. After a long career that began at the vil...

Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western domi...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as t...

Now in paperback, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states...

How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace? More than half of all countries that experienced c...

Populism and Neoliberalism argues that the roots of populism lay in the contradiction between the democratic ideal, which implies that the people s...

An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for t...

It profiles salient technologies and science, including persuasion science, artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML), surveillance tech...

One might say that the womb of death—the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonization—gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her ...

The region and people of Kashmir have been at the centre of processes that transformed South Asia after the two World Wars and the collapse of colo...

The COVID-9 pandemic has generated human suffering and economic devastation across the world – but these reflect not just the impact of the disease...

Mainstream economics invariably sees capitalism as an isolated and closed system. In this path-breaking book, authors argue that this is both histo...

Why is it so difficult to control, or fix, pollution? How can we justify harvesting the world’s natural resources at unsustainable rates, even thou...

Afghanistan, a landlocked country in Central Asia, has improbably been at the center of international geopolitics for four decades. After the Sovie...

Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer ri...

India's over 200 million Dalits, once called "untouchables," have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but the outcomes of thi...

In 2003, The United Nations adopted a common rights-based approach to development in their efforts to promote an international standard of human ri...

Several months after a 2014 operation in the Gaza Strip, fifty-three Israeli Defense Forces combatants and combat-support soldiers were awarded mil...

This book strives to understand India's approach to global governance by way of systematically considering three potential factors - ideas, interes...

A Foot in the Door is the culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, and brings the voices of Dalit wome...

Billionaires in World Politics shows how the privatization of politics assumes a new dimension when billionaires wield power in world politics, whi...

Never before have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomou...