Political science and theory Books

This book introduces a new perspective on risk seeking behaviour, developing a framework based on various cognitive theories, and applying it to the specific case-study of Turkey's foreign policy toward Syria. The author examines why policy makers commit...

This book addresses the question: "What should be the appropriate limits to free speech?" The author claims that it is the state, rather than abstract principles, that must provide the answer. The book defends a version of Hobbesian absolutism and...

This book examines the distinctive contribution that the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer make to democratic theory. Walhof argues that Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy enlarges our perspective by shifting our view away from individual citizens to what...

This book outlines a new model for global social justice movements that is based on Freud and Lacan's central insights regarding the unconscious, repetition, drives, and transference. Since most of our current social issues are global in nature, Bob...

This book examines the coalitions and relationships within the power centers of Shi'ite politics during the era of political feudalism in Lebanon. The author maps the Shi'ite leadership and its inter-connections, including the alliances and rivalry...

This book discusses the rise of polarity as a key concept in International Relations Theory. Since the end of the Cold War, until at least the end of 2010, there has been a wide consensus shared by American academics, political commentators and policy...

Historically, segments of white Americans have let racist paranoia supersede judicious reasoning throughout our history. The 2016 Presidential election in the United States brought the Know-Nothing's back from the hidden depths of our...

​This Brief uses game-theoretic analysis to debunk the turnout paradox and offers an alternative economic model to elucidate the patterns behind the socioeconomic bias in turnout. The author argues that the turnout paradox-the idea that rational,...

Although it’s self-evident to observers of the contemporary academic scene, far too few parents whose kids are college-bound seem aware of the conflict raging within academia over its soul. The classical ideal of a liberal arts education has long...

In 2014, India reposed high hopes in Prime Minister Modi - to deliver 'New India' of plentiful jobs, double-digit growth and corruption-free efficient governance. A decade later, those hopes stand belied. Instead, relentless and multi-pronged attacks are...

Unabridged version of Common Sense, offered for chump change. This book, through passionate argument, established the separate American identity, tipping sentiment for the American cause.Paine was outlawed in Britain and escaped execution in France, due...

contemporary poems from croatia, russia, and lithuania; croatian underground comic; political commentary from barcelona on the current situation in catalonia; film commentary on sophia coppola's films from barcelona; underground comic from brasil;...

Collected here in this omnibus edition are Henry David Thoreau's most important works including A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers; The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, including Civil Disobedience; and of course, Walden. A Week on the...

Originally published in 1919, this classic work of social psychology introduces the concept of ¿the herd instinct¿ in relation to human behavior and explores the fundamental importance of gregariousness among animals as well as among humans. In addition,...

A sophisticated defense of state supremacy. Hardcover, 151 pp. Originally published: Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1842. Published simultaneously in the United States and Great Britain, Enquiry criticizes Britain's seizure of American vessels engaged in...

This book is examining the situations of the American people now. It explains how many people are losing their patience and trust of the government because of the economic situations. The economic situation is influencing people's attitude towards one...

Our lives has been infected with evil, from computers and sports to the greatest tragedy Americans have witnessed, September 11, 2001. Sex, drugs, murders, corporate corruption, racial inequality and political shenanigans are just a few things covered...

The "father of Russian Marxism", George Plekhanov (1857-1918) directed most of his writings against the Russian "populist" movement to which he once belonged. He insisted that although, in principle, in semi-feudal societies such as the Russian, the...

These major writings on the ideology and practice of anarchism have a special value in showing the Marxist position against anarchism. Marx and Engels center their attack upon the followers of Bakunin, while Lenin's writings are devoted largely to...

This text serves as an advanced introduction to the field of international history. With contributions from a range of scholars, it maps the current terrain of the sub-discipline through essays that both appraise recent historiography and analyse...

Der Besitz Venetiens und die Bedeutung des Neu-Italischen Reiches (1861) ist ein Buch, das vom Springer Verlag ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es wurde von einem unbekannten Autor geschrieben und behandelt die Geschichte und Bedeutung des Besitzes von...

Das Buch ""Der Aufsatz De Regimine Principum Von Thomas Von Aquino (1894)"" von Bosone, Casar August ist eine kritische Ausgabe des ber�����hmten Werks von Thomas von Aquin mit dem Titel ""De Regimine Principum"". Der Autor bietet eine detaillierte...

""Della Unita Storica, Politica E Nazionale D'Italia"" ����� un libro scritto da Giuseppe Occioni-Bonaffons nel 1867. Quest'opera tratta della storia politica e nazionale dell'Italia, analizzando le cause che hanno portato alla formazione dello Stato...

""Della Necessita Del Governo Monarchico In Italia"" ����� un saggio scritto nel 1805 da Giuseppe Pallavicino. L'autore sostiene la necessit������ di un governo monarchico in Italia, in quanto ritiene che solo un monarca possa garantire l'unit������ e la...

""De Voorbereyding Van De Kiezing Aen De Herberg"" is een boek geschreven door Jacob Kats en uitgegeven in 1836. Het boek beschrijft de voorbereidingen die mensen in een herberg treffen voordat ze gaan stemmen tijdens verkiezingen. Het boek geeft een...

De Republiek van Plato is een boek geschreven door Burger Jr. en gepubliceerd in 1849. Het boek is een vertaling van Plato's beroemde werk ""De Republiek"" en biedt een diepgaande analyse van Plato's idee�����n over politiek, rechtvaardigheid en de...

De Staatsleer Van Hegel En Hare Toepassing (1896) is een boek geschreven door Willem Carel Adrien Vredenburch. Het boek behandelt de politieke filosofie van Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel en de toepassing ervan op de moderne samenleving. Vredenburch...

Conf�����rence sur les diff�����rentes enceintes de Paris (1871) est un livre �����crit par Edmond Bureau. Dans ce livre, l'auteur pr�����sente une conf�����rence sur les diff�����rentes enceintes de Paris en 1871. Il examine les diff�����rentes...

""Complot d'Arnold et de Henry Clinton"" est un livre �����crit par le Marquis de Fran�����ois Barbe-Marbois en 1831. Il s'agit d'un r�����cit historique d�����taillant le complot d'Arnold, un g�����n�����ral am�����ricain qui a trahi les �����tats-Unis...

Compendio De La Historia Politica Y Eclesiastica De Chile (1867) es un libro escrito por el historiador chileno Miguel Luis Amunategui. En este libro, el autor presenta una visi������n general de la historia pol������tica y religiosa de Chile, desde los...

Few concerns preoccupy contemporary progressive thought as much as the issue of how to achieve a sustainable human society. The problems impeding this goal include those of how to arrest induced global environmental change (GEC), persistent disagreements...

This book confronts the issues young people face growing up in the confusion and anxiety of today's highly global society. Young people face their futures consumed with feelings of doubt, uncertainty and ambivalence. The Global Financial Crisis and the...

Queen Marie Antoinette, wife of King Louis XVI of France and Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England were two of the most notorious queens in European history. They both faced accusations that they had transgressed social, gender and...

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left...

The Political World of Bob Dylan definitively investigates his relationship to the social, political, and religious cultures that acted upon Dylan and to which he reacted, the world that he influenced and that influenced him. Generally associated with...

This study examines the intersection of two philosophical developments that arguably have come to define contemporary life in the liberal democratic west. First, it considers how democracy has transformed historically from being one among several...

This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attempted to bolster its nationalist legitimacy through the utilisation of Chinese history. The authors identify two different modes of nationalism - aggressive and consensual - both of which...

This book uses the case studies of Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chávez in order to introduce the concept of revolutionary totalitarian personality, and to show that this type of personality is decisive in choosing a totalitarian...

The Politics of Total Liberation vividly articulates the crises haunting the social and natural worlds, which are coming apart under the impact of global capitalism, human overpopulation, species extinction, and runaway climate change. Steven Best...

This work examines the attempt by the governments of Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa to defy the drive for African independence in the 1960s and 70s, and the international community's response. From 1961 to 1974, Portugal, Rhodesia and South Africa...

Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, the Balkan region offers a particularly interesting case for the study of the global Cold War...

The Voice of the People Part 1: Or The History of Political Issues in the United States is a book written by William H. F. Henry and originally published in 1884. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the political issues that have shaped the...

Caroli Scribani E Societate Jesu Politicus Christianus, Liber Primus, Pars Prima (1626) est opus a Scribano, Carolo, scriptum. In hoc libro, auctor agit de politica christiana, quae est disciplina quae ad rationem gubernationis civitatum christianarum...

The book ""Report of the Commission Appointed by the President to Investigate the Conduct of the War Department in the War with Spain Part 1"" is a historical document published in 1899 by the Government Printing Office Publisher. The book details the...