Political ideologies and movements Books

This book offers transdisciplinary scholarship which challenges the agendas of and markers around traditional social scientific fields.　It builds on the belief that the study of major issues in the global cultural and political economies benefit from a...

This work explores the question of defining ideology from a Marxist perspective. Advancing beyond the schemas of discussion presented in current Marxist literature, the author offers an account of how the concept of ideology should be defined and what...

Why do reasonable people lead their nations into the tremendously destructive traps of international conflict? Why do nations then deepen their involvement and make it harder to escape from these traps? In Paradoxes of War, originally published in 1990,...

This book argues that the Russian thinker Petr Kropotkin's anarchism was a bio-political revolutionary project. It shows how Kropotkin drew on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and Russian bio-social-medical scientific thought to the...

Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and...

With its focus on Latino and Latina communities in the United States, this book investigates narrative and aesthetic strategies that are employed to represent transnational experiences in literary and cultural texts. Specifically concerned with how real...

This book examines the possibility of reconciliation between liberalism and Shiite Islam. By examining two key liberal theories, this book shows that secular liberalism is not justifiable in the view of Shiite Islamic thought. Yet, since the liberal...

This book explores the common thread holding together seemingly diverse tendencies in attacks on liberalism. The author argues that ambivalence about the self and about desire as an expression of the self fosters the intense animosity we observe directed

Three former western Soviet republics-Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova-now find themselves torn between the European Union and the increasingly assertive Russia. This volume examines the foreign and domestic policies of these republics with an eye to the...

Herreros examines from the ground up, and from first principles, how social capital is formed. He gives special attention to "particularized trust," the byproduct of associational participation, and its relationship to generalized social trust. He argues...

Are world views once formed during childhood and adolescence stable over life or do they change when they come under pressure from new institutional contexts? This book seeks the answer by re-visiting an aged political generation growing up in...

Gender, Equality and Difference During and After State Socialism examines gender as a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon which is influential in and influenced by state-led policies and structures as well as social practices and relations and...

This collection explores the nature and role of ethics within anarchist thought and practice, examining normative, meta-ethical and applied ethical issues through some of the theoretical insights of anarchism. It comprises contributions from...

This book addresses the question: how, and to what degree, are political institutions important in explaining the state of post-Communist political systems today? More specifically, it analyses the nature of political leadership and explains how, and...

This book examines the political career of Hua Guofeng, Mao's successor as paramount leader in 1976. Hua emerged seemingly out of nowhere following an unexceptional career as a young revolutionary in Shanxi and a provincial official in Hunan. It was in...

Globalization and Regionalization in Post-Socialist Economies explores the reconfiguration of economic spaces in the 'new Europe' with a focus on the post-socialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. It is made up of an...

This collection of essays explores the transformations of the political landscapes within which black social movements in Latin America have been operating since the end of the 1970s. Evaluating black social movements in their various national contexts,...

Germany's New Right as Culture and Politics is the first full-length study in English of the New Right in Germany and it breaks new ground by considering the New Right as both a political and a cultural movement. This approach reveals the problems that...

International Relations scholarship has typically engaged with vulnerability as a problem to be solved through 'rational' attempts to craft a global order marked by universality, predictability and stability. By recovering an awareness of the...

The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as grammaticality and structural change covertly rely on a false conceptualization of...

Bringing together a collaboration of leading specialists in Labour Party history, this edited collection provides a detailed and accessible analysis of what has led to the demise of respective Labour governments from Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown. In...

Twenty years after the end of communism, the history of Central and Eastern Europe still sparks intense discussions in the former Soviet bloc, as contested memories, primarily about communist repression and WWII, are relived. This volume goes beyond the...

Tracing both economic and political developments through the prism of history as well as more recent events, this book casts new light on the role of communist history in setting the different regional successes in post-communist transition. It...

A leading international business theorist and writer for more than 30 years Peter Buckley focuses in this volume on the development and modeling of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and its role in knowledge creation and dissemination as well as...

The Kenya Socialist is published by Vita Books, Nairobi and is edited by Shiraz Durrani and Kimani Waweru. It aims to encourage free flow of information, knowledge and discussion which can lead to a better understanding of socialism. It seeks to...

Discover a thought-provoking and in-depth analysis from a dedicated citizen-soldier on the events of the Vietnam War and how it had profound long-term consequences for the American Republic. The Vietnam War's conclusion saw the discontinuation of...

This book represents a serious attempt to develop new strategies to manage the ethnic conflicts that continue to undermine Nigeria's efforts at democratic consolidation. Case studies discuss the socio- economic and political dynamics that fuel ethnic...

Este libro de Rebel Press Media expone la agenda de las élites globales y el próximo reseteo de la civilización humana.Rebel Press Media profundiza en la verdad no contada sobre cómo los principales medios de comunicación se han vendido y siguen...

Un nouveau cycle de propagande de mort avec une soi-disant mutation a commencé pour compléter le coup de force de la "Grande Réinitialisation" vers une dictature tyrannique de l'Agenda 2030. Alors que de plus en plus de gens commencent à prendre...

Der Kapitalismus hat fast jeden Winkel der Erde erobert, er ist das beherrschende System und den meisten Menschen scheint eine Alternative unvorstellbar. Warum eigentlich ist er so erfolgreich? Der berühmte Sozialist und Schriftsteller Paul Lafargue war...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Politik - Politisches System Deutschlands, Note: unbenotet, HAWK Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst - Fachhochschule Hildesheim, Holzminden, Göttingen (Fakultät Soziale Arbeit), Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Politik - Politisches System Deutschlands, Technische Universität Dortmund (Fakultät für Erziehungswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Pädagogische Problemstellungen spezifischer Lebensalter, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit zielt darauf ab, die Beziehung und den Einfluss ideengeschichtlicher...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Politikwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Ausgewählte Probleme der Politischen Theorie- und Ideengeschichte,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,7, Universität Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am Beginn der Arbeit steht ein Blick auf die „Wiederentdeckung" des Aristoteles in der...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,0, Universität Passau (Lehrstuhl für Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: "Veronika Spleiß geht in ihrer Arbeit der...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Geschichte Deutschlands - Nationalsozialismus, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Note: 1,3, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den ideologischen Grundlagen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,3, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beleuchtet das politische System der Föderativen Republik...

It seems so much is going wrong in America. Some say it's because our leaders are incompetent. Others think it's merely a coincidence. But to millions of concerned Americans, those simplistic explanations no longer ring true. Instead, they sense...

Complete collections of statements and communiques from the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was a California leftist revolutionary group active for 22 months, from 1973 through 1975, formed by ex-convicts and...

In Patriots Betrayed: A Soldier, Scholar, Spy's Warning about America's Leadership Crisis, a West Point graduate and former FBI Special Agent, who is currently under an unconstitutional investigation by the corrupt FBI, exposes the corruption and...

A quarter of a century after the opening of the archives in Berlin and Moscow, the role of the German Communist Party (KPD) is the subject of a new wave of studies. This book makes this new field of scholarship available in English for the...