Politics and Current Affairs

Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever sinc...

Updated and revised, this short introduction has become a go-to source for its clarity and succinct account of the evolution of Indian foreign poli...

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali B...

Since the colonization of the Philippines by Spain in the sixteenth century, the island chain has been at the center of global trade flows, imperia...

The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial,...

Terrorism kills far fewer Americans annually than automobile accidents, firearms, or even lightning strikes. Given this minimal risk, why does the ...

Truth to Power, the first-ever history of the U. S. National Intelligence Council (NIC), is told through the reflections of its eight Chairs in the...

In the twenty-five years after 1989, The world enjoyed the deepest peace in history. In the rise and fall of peace on Earth, the eminent foreign po...

The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to ...

Designed and modeled after a six-week introductory food law course taught at Northeastern University, Food Law and Regulation for Non-Lawyers offer...

In Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards’ trusted IBM SPSS® workbook, students dive headfirst into actual political data and work with a softw...

Comparative European Party Systems, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive analysis across 48 party systems of party competition, electoral syste...

The Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Trade surveys the literature on the politics of international trade and highlights the most ex...

Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period o...

Civilian control over the military is widely hailed as one of the major successes of India's democracy. Because it is so rare, especially among pos...

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituen...

The United States national-security establishment is vast, yet the United States has failed to meet its initial objectives in almost every one of i...

In the 21st century, the Indo-Pacific region has become the new centre of the world. The concept of the 'Indo-Pacific', though still under construc...

Why are some multiethnic countries more prone to civil violence than others? This book examines the occurrence and forms of conflict in multiethnic...

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M.A. Jinnah entered politics as a congressman and as a nationalist. While being in the Congress, Jinnah joined the Muslim League in 1913. It was in...

राष्ट्र-राज्य के काल में नागरिकता से जुड़े आयामों पर एक ठोस समझ की ज़रूरत हर नागरिक के लिए आवश्यक है। ऑक्सफ़ोर्ड इंडिया की ये नवीन प्रस्तुति इस विषय प...

Is one person's terrorist another's freedom fighter? Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'War on Terror'? For many, the terrorist attacks of ...

India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been acc...

यह पुस्तक 1947 से 2010 तक भारत की विदेश नीति के उद्भव का एक व्यापक विवरण प्रस्तुत करता है। मुख्यत:, यह पुस्तक भारत के पड़ोसी राज्यों तथा वैश्विक व्...

Examining the relationship between sedition and liberal democracies, particularly in India, this book looks at the biography of sedition laws, its ...

With the demolition of the Babri Masjid and subsequent riots of the late 1980s and 1990s in Uttar Pradesh, the period that followed appeared relati...

From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservatio...

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in...

Western constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing thei...

Considered ‘the most articulate and persuasive spokesman’ for the developing world in the twentieth century, renowned economist Mahbub ul Haq (1934...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that diff...

Resource exploitation in the form of land-grabbing has become a major debate worldwide. Based on extensive field research conducted at the India-Pa...

Much seems to be going wrong with democracy at present. The global advance of democracy is stalled and, what is worse, cynicism about democracy is ...

Economic reforms implemented by the South Asian countries in the 1980s and 1990s had positive impacts on growth, and the region's share of world GD...

From the Oxus to the Indus explores the political and cultural history of the Indo-Iranian borderlands during the reign of the Bactrian and the Ind...

The book is a study of the current state of nationalist imagination in three states in India: Assam, West Bengal, and Delhi. It analyses the percep...

Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi–Urdu debates, language politics and public...

Globalization, as commonly understood, limits policy choices of a nation by creating structural and institutional constraints. This leads to an imp...

Having survived a tumultuous period in its political history, the island state of Sri Lanka has one of the longest and most active traditions of po...

The book explores the interaction of political parties, bureaucracy, media, judiciary, and civil society groups in shaping policy in contemporary I...

This Handbook presents the first comprehensive study of policy analytical practices in comparative perspective. It explores emerging developments ...

As a field of rich theoretical development and practical application, political communication has expanded over the past fifty years. Since its dev...

Public administration ensures the development and delivery of the essential public services required for sustaining modern civilization. Covering a...

This book offers a comprehensive commentary on the many facets of environmental politics of the present times. Looking towards the future, it quest...

Welfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is p...