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Locating Africa on the global stage, this book examines and compares external involvement in the continent, exploring the foreign policies of major states and international organizations towards Africa. The contributors work within a political economy...

The post-September 11th security policies of Poland, the UK, France, the US and Germany presented in this new book illustrate how and why the Atlantic community ruptured over Iraq, a result in part, it is argued, of the existence of particular national...

Pareto and Political Theory is the first book-length study of the philosopher's importance in terms of the most fundamental issues of political discourse: individualism vs. holism, science vs. hermeneutics, laissez-faire vs. social engineering, and value...

Identity, Narrative and Politics argues that political theory has barely begun to develop a notion of narrative identity; instead the book explores the sophisticated ideas which emerge from novels as alternative expressions of political understanding...

Introduction Converging or Competing Interests? 1945-47 Trade, Economic Cooperation and Foreign Policy 1945-52 Atlantic Alliance vs. Scandinavian Unity 1948-49 The Scandinavian Defence Dilemma 1949-51 A Failed Political Breakthrough 1951-52 Defining...

This book is a major new interpretation of the Cold War and how it shaped the course of history. It looks into why the Cold War did not become more heated, and how it was finally overcome. Loth examines the containment of the Cold War, d?tente, the...

Niklas Luhmann's social theory stands in direct opposition to the dominant "anthropocentric" traditions of legal and political analysis. King and Thornhill now offer the first comprehensive, critical examination of Luhmann's highly original theory of the...

Exploring relationships between politics, the people and social change, this book assesses the fortunes mainly of Labor, but also of the Communist Party and the New Left in postwar Britain. Using concepts like political culture, it looks at the left's...

Marx's Capital III , The Culmination of Capital: General Introduction; G.Reuten Class, Capital, and Crisis; P.Mattick Capital in General and Marx's Capital ; C.J.Arthur Hostile Brothers: Marx's Theory of the Distribution of Surplus-Value in Volume III of...

The Making of a Whig High Office Heading the Party Fragmentation and Coalition Home Secretary Whig into Tory

List of Figures Acknowledgements New Millennium, Old Nationalism? Nations and Nationalism Historically Nationalisms Conceptuality Home Writ Large: Nationalism and the Maintenance of Empire Home Writ Small: Nationalisms of Separatist Movements Uninational...

Original essays explore the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship, and social justice across the world. The editors bring together 20 contributions by scholars to cover the historical, political, and social contexts of...

The most plausible accounts of economic rationality, interpersonal liberty, human welfare and private-property anarchy do not conflict. Using philosophy and social science, Escape from Leviathan defends this bold, non-normative, thesis from contrary...

Introduction PART I: THE WOMEN'S MAGAZINES IN THE ERA OF THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY Work Versus Family Marriage, Divorce, and Unwanted Pregnancy The Promotion of New Gender Relations Variations in the 'New Woman' PART II: THE STALIN ERA Women's Experience...

In the first comprehensive treatment of its kind, Bobo Lo examines the course of Russian foreign policy in the decade following the Soviet collapse. Adopting a conceptual approach, he identifies the principal ideological and institutional factors that...

The Thatcher era was the most dramatic period in British politics since the 1940s. The Keynesian order established then was falling apart thirty years later and the time had come for radical change. As Conservative Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher...

Abbreviations of Works by Bakhtin and Voloshinov Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Appropriation in History The World According to Globalisation and Bakhtin; P.Hitchcock Bakhtin's Dialogism Reconsidered Through Hegel's 'Monologism': the Dialectical...

Introduction: John Major: One of Us?; P.Dorey Chaos or Cohesion? John Major and the Parliamentary Conservative Party; P.Cowley A Permanent Revolution in Whitehall: The Major Governments and the Civil Service; K.Theakston Centralization and Fragmentation:...