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• Author(s): Alain Badiou • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Commentary & OpinionThe election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even p...

• Author(s): Andrew Gamble • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralPeople so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everythi...

• Author(s): Stephanie Lawson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralInternational relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosop...

• Author(s): Bruce Haddock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBruce Haddock's lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, setting political thought in t...

• Author(s): Khalilah L. Brown-Dean • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralIn 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much progress had bee...

• Author(s): Philip Cunliffe • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralGlobalization is over. With US president Donald Trump pursuing an 'America First' agenda in trade and foreign polic...

• Author(s): Herfried Munkler • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis important new book deals with the changing nature of war in the post-Cold War era and the emergence of new fo...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): Khalilah L. Brown-Dean • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralIn 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much progress had bee...

• Author(s): Robert Springborg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralEgypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary...

• Author(s): Conor Gearty • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralAll aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what C...

• Author(s): John S. Dryzek • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralContending discourses underlie many of the worlds most intractable conflicts, producing misery and violence. This is...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): Michael Drake • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThis accessible book addresses one of the twenty-first century's most important issues: the increasing lack of connection between politic...

• Author(s): Saul Newman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismWhat shape can radical politics take today in a time abandoned by the great revolutionar...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Weiss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PeaceA singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to Ea...

• Author(s): Michael Drake • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThis accessible book addresses one of the twenty-first century's most important issues: the increasing lack of connection between politic...

• Author(s): Jon Roper • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe Contours of American Politics takes a fresh look at the political culture of the United States. In its complexity and...

• Author(s): Steve Bruce • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIslamic fundamentalists wreck the financial heart of New York; Hindus destroy a mosque at Ayodhya; Orthodox Jews battle Palestinians for possessi...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThis book offers an accessible and broadly conceived examination of the impact of globalization on comparative politics. Written in a lu...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Haynes • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: ReferenceThis book offers an accessible and broadly conceived examination of the impact of globalization on comparative politics. Written in a lucid ...

• Author(s): Hans Joas • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PeaceWritten by one of Europe's leading social theorists, this book takes up the claims of modernity and confronts them with a stark reality: the ongoing ...

• Author(s): Anthony Giddens • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental Policy"A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone ...

• Author(s): Robert Jackson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralSovereignty is at the very centre of the political and legal arrangements of the modern world. The idea originated i...

• Author(s): John Dearlove • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThis is the long-awaited third edition of Dearlove and Saunders' highly acclaimed, best-selling, textbook on British politics. The...

• Author(s): Julia Adeney Thomas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHumans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-...

• Author(s): Kurt Schock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Process - Political AdvocacyFrom Gandhi's salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote d...

• Author(s): Rod Thornton • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)In recent years, the nature of conflict has changed. Through asymmetric warfare radical groups and weak state ac...

• Author(s): David Naguib Pellow • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHuman societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships ar...

• Author(s): Jan-Erik Lane • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: ReferenceThis is a new introductory textbook on comparative politics and government, providing students with a guide to the literature and a new appro...

• Author(s): Adrian Leftwich • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe spectre of poverty, disease and ignorance still haunts much of the developing world today. But not everywhere....

• Author(s): Ulrich Beck • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis brilliant new book by one of Europe's leading social thinkers throws light on the global power games being played ...

• Author(s): Carl Schmitt • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralPolitical Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the Nationa...

• Author(s): Brian Barry • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn the past twenty years, social injustice has increased enormously in Britain and the United States, regardless of the party in power. At the sa...

• Author(s): Alan Dowty • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GlobalizationWhat explains the peculiar intensity and evident intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Of all th...

• Author(s): Barbie Zelizer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Process - Media & InternetMost of us would agree that American journalism has problems. Rushed reporting and thin coverage. Timidity in...