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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Much of Karl Marx's most important work came out of his critique of other thinkers, including many socialists who differed significantly in their conceptions of socialism. The fourth volume in Hal Draper's series looks at these critiques to illuminate...

Ths book provides a comprehensive analysis of NATO through a range of theoretical perspectives that includes realism, liberalism and constructivism, and lesser-known approaches centred on learning, public goods, securitisation and risk.

 The Politics of Economic Life explores the ways by which practices of consumption, work, production and entrepreneurship can be imbued with political strategy and ideology, and assesses the potentials and perils of the politicization of...

Presenting empirically rich case studies, leading experts analyze the ways in which the shifting balance of power between nation-state, economy and civil society over the past half century affected social movements in their choice of addressees and...

Empoymentism is an essay exploring from a Muslim point of view the predominance of salaried employment in the modern age, and its limited compatibility with freedom, authentic leadership and positive social change.

Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just how tall the wall separating church and state should be. Now Gregg Frazer puts their arguments to rest in...

From wildcatting Texas oilmen to Colorado rock climbers, from hipster capitalists to populist moralizers, westerners have proven themselves to be a highly individualistic breed of American--as much in their politics as in their vocations or lifestyles...

This revised and expanded edition of the classic Making the Managerial Presidency provides a comprehensive history of presidential reorganization planning for the entire twentieth century, from Theodore Roosevelt through Bill Clinton.In 1987 the National...

This book rethinks the key concepts of International Relations by drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu.The last few years have seen a genuine wave of publications promoting sociology in international relations. Scholars have suggested that Bourdieu's...

This book offers an analytical paradigm to examine relationships between tricksters and systems, change and stability, in a range of contexts.

The aim of this book is to bring together geographers, and Schmitt experts who are attuned to the spatial dimensions of his work, to discuss The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum (Schmitt, 1950 [2003]).

This edited volume brings together many of the world's leading scholars of intelligence with a number of former senior practitioners to facilitate a wide-ranging dialogue on the central challenges confronting students of intelligence. The book presents a...

In this book, Feliciano de Sá Guimarães offers an original application of Role Theory. He proposes a theory of master role transitions to explain how small powers can change regional powers' master roles without changing the regional material power...

Employed against a warlike background, the diplomatic methods of the ancient Greeks are thought by some to have been useless but by others to have been the most advanced seen prior to modern times. This book works to its own view by looking at the...

Volume 1 of The Writings of Thomas Paine encapsulates the intellectual fervor of a revolutionary era. Paine's incendiary essays, including Common Sense, ignite the flames of independence, shaping the very fabric of American ideology. A compelling...

This book is a compilation of papers presented at a day-long conference organised in Chennai, on March 28, 2019, by the Chennai Centre for China Studies (C3S) in partnership with the National Maritime Foundation (NMF) and the Department of Defence...

L'Ami de l'ordre est une pièce de théâtre en un acte (et six scènes) de Georges Darien, dont l'action se déroule au moment de la Commune de Paris, alors que les barricades de la Commune sont basculées par les soldats versaillais et que commence la...

Die Prinz-Albert-Gesellschaft hat sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, die britisch-deutschen Beziehungen in Wissenschaft, Kultur und Politik zu pflegen. Alljährlich finden unter dieser Prämisse Tagungen statt, deren Beiträge in den Prinz-Albert-Studien ...

Fixing America: Essays on Domestic and Foreign Policy offers original insights and pragmatic solutions to intransigent and entrenched political issues domestic and foreign. The work provides new analysis which correctly identifies root causes of policy...

In this timely collection of essays and "quasi-essays," acclaimed novelist and critic Harold Jaffe explores the intricate vicissitudes of millennial culture. Gesturing, in a philosophical shorthand, toward a kind of pop Armageddon, Revolutionary Brain is...

Revolutionizing Global Politics: An In-depth Exploration of Key Concepts, Strategies, and Research Methods in a Changing World Revolutionizing Global Politics: An In-depth Exploration of Key Concepts, Strategies, and Research Methods in a Changing World

LEGAL POSITIVISM AND NATURAL LAWThree lectures by the Harvard Law School professor examine legal positivism and natural law. In the course of his analysis Fuller discusses Kelsen's theory as a reactionary theory and Hobbes' theory of sovereignty. He...

One of G. K. Chesterton’s finest collection of essays, The Well and the Shallows, explore more controversial themes than typically seen in the work of the English writer. Written with Chesterton’s biting wit, he touches on various cultural, social and...

The first edited volume solely dedicated to the philosophy of Adriana Cavaero.

Makes the case that the different stances Aristotle and Socrates take toward politics can be traced to their divergent accounts of friendship.

Putting at work a negative pedagogy centered around learning from unlearning, problematizes and boldly challenges today's culturalist discourses, camouflaged racisms, and masked fascisms.

Investigates, through a critical exploration of Derrida's political thought, the foundations of modern secular discourse in relation to issues of race and colonialism.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Essays that argue in favor of Lenin's continuing relevance for twenty-first century politics and thought.

Draws on Marx and the first-generation Frankfurt School to make the case that cosmopolitanism must become a postcapitalist political theory.

Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels's contributions to modern social and political theory.

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

A study of John Marshall's political thought with special emphasis on his views of constitutional legitimacy, sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity.

Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.

Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice.

Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

Explores why past generations of radical ecological and social justice scholarship have been ineffective, and considers the work of a new wave of scholarship that aims to reinvent the radical project and combat injustice.

Blends academic and activist perspectives to explore recent emancipatory struggles to win and transform state power.

""A History Of Modern Liberty V1: Introduction, Origins-The Middle Ages"" is a book written by James G. Mackinnon and first published in 1906. This book is the first volume of a comprehensive historical account of the development of liberty in the modern...

""A Handybook Of Social Intercourse: Political Economy For The Million"" is a book written by William Brownsword Chorley in 1862. The book is a comprehensive guide to political economy, designed for the general public rather than scholars or experts in...