Political science and theory Books

Presenting a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers, this major reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archives and sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945.

This textbook provides a comprehensive collection of influential essays that present a balanced survey of the major ideas that have come out of political philosophy in the last two decades.

Following the financial crisis at the end of the twentieth century, regionalisms in the global political economy have evolved in a number of ways. This informative book brings together the leading scholars in the field to provide cutting edge analyses of...

Women, States and Nationalism counters this attitude and examines the many and contradictory ways in which women negotiate their places in 'the nation'. The volume includes theoretical essays that explore the multiple ways in which the very concept of...

This book presents an alternative roadmap for a world characterised by geopolitical uncertainty. The surging expectations about a future world of democratic values and high economic growth, born out of superpower bonhomie at the end of the Cold War, did...

This book offers comprehensive coverage of various aspects of financial accountability around the EU budget - how it is spent via policies, how institutions engage in checking policy performance, and therein, the issues of monitoring, controlling,...

This book examines the shifting, non-linear relationship between religion, nationalism and politics in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, India. In the wake of the revocation of Article 370, the state's plural and relatively harmonious society has come...

This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. Charting trends in government over six decades of the post-colonial era, the book tackles key questions...

This comprehensive, encyclopedic review compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the political and social implications of death and dying, discussing fourty five canonical thinker's ethical and philosophical accounts on...

Strategic Conspiracy Narratives proposes an innovative semiotic perspective for analysing how contemporary conspiracy theories are used for shaping interpretation paths and identities of a targeted audience.Conspiracy theories play a significant role in...

Many Americans, regardless of political affiliation, are anxious about the future of the "land that we love." In America's Expiration Date, trusted political commentator Cal Thomas offers a diagnosis of what's wrong with the United States and...

This book offers important new insights into the history and culture of the Gaelic-speaking world from the mid-fifteenth century through to the reign of James VI and I. Throughout this period, the reach of the English and Scottish crowns within these...

This book deals with the morality, self-conception and honour of states, something that goes well beyond the narrow, rationalist defence of national interests, which dominates most IR studies. The volume pursues this line of thinking by focussing on...

The late Julius Kambarage Nyerere was nicknamed 'Musa' (Moses) during the later, post-independence years for leading his people from slavery and guiding them toward a free land of prosperity - the Promised Land. The Tanzanian odyssey chronicled in this...

Politics in America today are nothing like they had been for the previous 200 years. This book answers the questions that nobody is asking. What led to this seismic shift? What is the basic prime mover maintaining this chasm of beliefs? What must be done...

À la base de cette vie littéraire, souple, nuancée et subtile, on voit distinctement de la vie abondante, vivace, sans forme encore comme une force prête à toutes les déterminations, - le terreau, la nourriture chimique à même laquelle mangent les...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Politik - Politische Theorie und Ideengeschichte, Note: 1,7, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Orientierungswissen: Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Sprache:...

What role has football (and sport in general) played in Hungarian foreign policy? Was there a continuity between the inter-war period and communism? Are foreign politics and sporting diplomacy synonyms? This book tries to provide answers to these...

Die Arbeit systematisiert das Politische in der unmittelbaren Gegenwartsliteratur. Die philologische Analyse ausgewählter Erzähltexte wird dabei unter Einbezug politischer Theorien methodisch erweitert, um thematische und ästhetische Neuausrichtungen zu...

How did Mussolini manage to use the 1934 World Cup to benefit his fascist regime? How did North Korea, with its surprising team, reveal itself to the world in 1966? Why did the match between Kuwait and France in 1982 lead to the first diplomatic...

BACK IN PRINT!In 1990 William Gairdner published The Trouble with Canada and it sparked a conservative renewal and inspired a generation.In 1910 he completely this update, The Trouble with Canada ... Still! Gairdner rejoins the battle, showing that...

David Esteller Ortega nació en el Píritu, Municipio Esteller, Edo. Portuguesa, Venezuela. Se graduó de abogado en la Universidad Central de Venezuela y obtuvo el título de Doctor en Derecho en la Universidad de Carabobo, con la mayor calificación...

Saint Peter and Donald Trump are a lot alike. Really? How?We know that God's hand was certainly on Saint Peter, but is God's mighty hand also on Donald Trump? To be in the know and to keep your finger on the pulse of what's happening and why,...

It's time to graduate from the Electoral College!This book builds the case against the Electoral College from the perspective of a mathematician, applying a quantitative lens to a systematic and thorough analysis of every presidential election from 1788...

WHEN a progressive college professor runs for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in a deeply conservative rural district, he loses. That's no surprise. But the story of how Ferrence loses and, more importantly, how American political narratives...

THIRD PLACE: CT Press Club Professional Communications Contest for General Non-FictionI don't think outside the box. There is no box. The box is an illusion that limits the range of what we consider, squashing curiosity and creativity, ruling out...

Econ Journal Watch maintains an ongoing series of studies on classical liberalism by country. The first articles appeared in 2015. A selection of chapters from that series are here republished largely unchanged from their appearance as articles, though...

Irmin Vinson's Some Thoughts on Hitler and Other Essays is a book about propaganda. Vinson explains how the organized Jewish community uses the memory of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust as weapons to stigmatize the patriotism and ethnic pride not just of...

In the society of Trueway, Steph Hugo is the model Citizen. She has the tattoos to prove it, but she also has secrets, and secrets can be dangerous - especially in the land of the naked truth.When her son, Tim, discovers one such secret, she must decide...

Les Céfrancs masqués (c'est à dire pudiquement voilés pour ne pas aguicher l'entreprenant corona-machin) jettent des regards réprobateurs à ceux qui - à tort ou à raison - se refusent à raser les murs et obéir servilement aux excessives et abusives...

This book is correctly regarded as one of Trotsky's finest classics. It is a product of a sharp polemic within the American trotskyist movement during the period 1939-40. This was a dispute which touched on the very fundamentals of Marxism. It was...

National identity plays an increasingly important role in Western, liberal democracies. Thus, immigration and diversity are often considered a threat to national identities and restrictions on immigration and nation-building policies are being...

"Hay que temer más al enemigo de Washington que al de Moscú". Este es un sentimiento que he expresado una y otra vez. El comunismo no destruyó la protección arancelaria erigida por el presidente George Washington. El comunismo no obligó a Estados Unidos...

No cabe duda de que Royal Dutch Shell, del "Comité de los 300", es una de las empresas petroleras más antiguas y más grandes de las que operan actualmente en el mundo. Su facturación en 2005 fue de 306.730 millones de dólares. La difunta Reina Juliana de...

Para empezar a entender los acontecimientos mundiales, es necesario que nos demos cuenta de que los numerosos acontecimientos trágicos y explosivos del siglo XX no se produjeron por sí solos, sino que fueron planificados según un patrón bien establecido...

Afin de commencer à comprendre les événements mondiaux, il est nécessaire que nous réalisions que les nombreux faits tragiques et explosifs du 20ème siècle ne sont pas survenus par eux-mêmes, mais qu'ils ont été planifiés selon un schéma bien établi. Qui...

L'histoire de la création des Nations Unies est un cas classique de diplomatie par le mensonge. Les Nations Unies ont succédé à la défunte Société des Nations, première tentative de mise en place d'un gouvernement mondial unique dans le sillage de la...

Il est certain que bon nombre d'entre nous sont conscients que les personnes qui dirigent notre gouvernement ne sont pas celles qui contrôlent réellement les questions politiques et économiques, nationales et étrangères. Cela a conduit beaucoup d'entre...

"ワシントンの敵はモスクワの敵より怖い"...

歴史上、多くの国の平均的な男性は、生計を立て、家族を養い、それらを実現するための仕事をすること以外に、ほとんど、あるいは全く時間を割くことができないことがよく指摘されてきた。そのため、政治や経済問題、戦争や平和など、自分や国民の生活に関わる重要な事柄には、ほとんど時間を割くことができない。各国政府はそれを知っている。それは、多くの異なるフロント組織の背後で活動する高度な組織集団が、常に市民に対して優位に立っていることと同じであるように思われる。一般人が知らないこと、そしておそらくこれからも知らないであろう...

タヴィストック人間関係研究所は、アメリカやイギリスの道徳、精神、文化、政治、経済政策に大きな影響を与えています。アメリカ憲法を攻撃する最前線にいるのだ。アメリカ国民の大多数が第一次世界大戦に反対していた時期に、アメリカを第一次世界大戦に参戦させるために、これほどプロパガンダを展開したグループはなかった。同じ戦術が、タヴィストックの社会科学者たちによって、アメリカを第二次世界大戦、韓国、ベトナム、セルビア、そしてイラクとの2つの戦争に巻き込むために使われた。タヴィストックは、トインビーが「偽情報のブラックホ...