Political Science

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state...

In Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son, Trinidadian-American writer & activist Lesley-Ann Brown explores, through the lens of motherhood, issues such as migration, identity and nationhood, and how they relate to land,...

For more than half a century many Uyghurs, members of a Muslim minority in northwestern China, have sought to achieve greater autonomy or outright independence. Yet the Chinese government has consistently resisted these efforts, countering with...

The Good Friday Agreement is widely celebrated as a political success story, one that has brought peace to a region that was once synonymous around the globe with political violence. The truth, as ever, is rather more complicated than that.In many...

The world is at a turning point. While globalization benefited many, it produced extremes with drastic wealth inequality, indebtedness, and political volatility among the most important. As the ground underneath globalization undergoes tectonic shifts,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046787Author Carles Lalueza-FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021 was the result of declining active support for the government, and of waste and inefficiency in aid delivery. Yet, while corrosive, these problems were not in themselves sufficient to have brought about a...

For four decades Saudi Arabia and Iran have vied for influence in the Muslim world. At the heart of this ongoing Cold War between Riyadh and Tehran lie the Sunni-Shia divide, and the two countries' intertwined histories. Saudis see this as a conflict...

Winner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019!In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew Fellows uniquely connects Earth systems, Jungian and philosophical approaches to the existential threats...

Over the last five years, widespread concern about the effects of social media on democracy has led to an explosion in research from different disciplines and corners of academia. This book is the first of its kind to take stock of this emerging...

When Britain left the European Union in January 2021, it set out on a new journey. Shorn of empire and now the EU too, Britain's economy is as national as it has ever been. A decade or so since globalisation seemed inevitable, this is a remarkable...

Finding a job used to be simple. You'd show up at an office and ask for an application. A friend would mention a job in their department. Or you'd see an ad in a newspaper and send in your cover letter. Maybe you'd call the company a week later to check...

As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The whole financial system was collapsing, without anything to stop it. When a senator asked Bernanke what...

This seminal work by political philosopher C.B. Macpherson was first published by the Clarendon Press in 1962, and remains of key importance to the study of liberal-democratic theory half-a-century later. In it, Macpherson argues that the chief...

A new edition of the classic work on the economic tools of foreign policyToday's complex and dangerous world demands a complete understanding of all the techniques of statecraft, not just military ones. David Baldwin's Economic Statecraft presents an...

To what extent do international organizations, global policy networks, and transnational policy entrepreneurs influence domestic policy makers? Have we entered a new phase of globalization that, unbeknownst to most citizens, shapes policies that used to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739973315Author Andrea J MilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630991Author Gilles DauveFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

One of the most difficult problems facing Western democracy today is the decline in citizens' political engagement. There are many elements that contribute to this, including fundamental socio-cultural changes. This book summarizes these contexts and...

How challenger parties, acting as political entrepreneurs, are changing European democraciesChallenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain, the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the...

This engaging and concise new edition offers the student and general reader a compact, readable treatment of British membership of the European Union (EU) from 1973 up until the present day and Brexit, with detailed analysis of the period 1945-1972...

In 2020, Steven Greer, an internationally-renowned human rights scholar, was falsely and publicly accused of Islamophobia by the University of Bristol Islamic Society (BRISOC). In July 2021, he was officially exonerated without equivocation or...

Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to...

Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried...

This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the Pentateuch, it reads biblical narratives and codes of law as documenting formations of theopolitical imagination. Ophir deciphers the logic of divine rule that...

Studies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle East Proposes a new research agenda for the study of oil's varied lives in the modern and contemporary Middle East Includes 13 case studies, including 2 photo...

Since first publication in 1982, Howard Elcock's Local Government has established a reputation as a comprehensive and unbiased account of how British local government really works. This respected textbook has been completely revised and rewritten for its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927987117Author Janine VangoolFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint UPPERCASE publishing incPublisher UPPERCASE publishing inc

An acclaimed author and celebrated journalist breaks down the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment.Global demand for power is doubling every two decades, but electricity remains one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2004 2004.Book InformationISBN 9780262524407Author Bruce Bueno de MesquitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint MIT...

A timely, provocative expose of America's political and business leadership's deep ties to China: a network of people who believe they are doing the right thing - at a profound and often hidden cost to American and Western interests. The past few years...

'Let's go on a sleigh ride And race across the snow, The reindeer guide our sleigh tonight Oh, how their noses glow!' Join friends for a sensational sleigh ride in a winter wonderland! This board book series features a mode of transport in each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for Cundill History Prize 2023.Book InformationISBN 9781101973677Author Matthew ConnellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

"Freedom Fighters" covers a violent episode in recent Welsh history shunned or relegated to the sidelines by more conventional historians. By drawing together various sources, the author has produced a highly compelling narrative of a period when a group...

Under what circumstances might climate change lead to negative security outcomes? Over the past fifteen years, a rapidly growing applied field and research community on climate security has emerged. While much progress has been made, we still don't have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451665123Author Steve RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Threshold EditionsPublisher Threshold EditionsWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 168mm *...

Set in the author's homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC...

The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the false assessment of Saddam Hussein's weapons arsenal were terrible reminders that good information is essential to national security. These failures convinced the American public that their intelligence...

Over the past decade the European Union has faced threats to its currency, borders and unity. Covid-19, which began its inexorable spread across Europe in February 2020, is the latest crisis to test the Union's resilience. Luuk van Middelaar's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733716413Author Jose Maria ArizmendiarrietaFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Solidarity HallPublisher Solidarity HallWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...