Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason by Martijn Konings 9781503604438
RRP: $41.98$36.83Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is it, then, that opportunities for speculative investment... -
Does Capitalism Have a Future? by Immanuel Wallerstein 9780199330850
RRP: $71.38$45.97The Great Recession has prompted a reassessment of the specific mode of capitalist accumulation that achieved dominance in the era of globalization. Yet just about all of this literature has focused on one of two issues: why things went wrong, and what... -
The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars by Barry R. Posen
RRP: $62.98$55.65Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy-that collection of military, economic, and political means and ends with which a state attempts to achieve security. Posen isolates three crucial elements... -
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John Mersheimer 9780374531508
RRP: $42.00$26.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374531508Author John MersheimerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
Settling for Less: Why States Colonize and Why They Stop by Lachlan McNamee
RRP: $63.00$48.91Why countries colonize the lands of indigenous people Over the past few centuries, vast areas of the world have been violently colonized by settlers. But why did states like Australia and the United States stop settling frontier lands during the... -
Critique of Security by Mark Neocleous
RRP: $65.10$60.25'Challenging and accessible, this book opens up new political questions as it describes the new ways in which life has become more comprehensively securitised.' Professor Michael Dillon, Politics and International Relations, Lancaster University The... -
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept by Zvi Ben-Dor Benite 9780231029292
RRP: $63.00$48.91What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest, the concept of sovereignty remains underexamined both in the history of its practices and in its aesthetic and intellectual... -
Captives: How Rikers Island Took New York City Hostage by Jarrod Shanahan
RRP: $42.00$30.35Captives combines a thrilling narrative account of Rikers Island's descent into infamy with a dramatic retelling of the last seventy years of New York and American politics from the vantage point of its jails. It is a story of a crowded field of... -
Broken Benefits: What's Gone Wrong with Welfare Reform Sam Royston (The Children's Society) 9781447333265
RRP: $33.58$26.99Britain is going through the most radical upheaval of the benefits system since its foundations were laid at the end of the 1940s. In Broken Benefits, Sam Royston argues that social security isn't working, and without a change in direction, it will be... -
Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective: Transnational Networks, Exile Communities, and Radical Internationalism by Kasper Braskén
RRP: $67.18$59.49This book initiates a critical discussion on the varieties of global anti-fascism and explores the cultural, political and practical articulations of anti-fascism around the world.This volume brings together a group of leading scholars on the history of... -
Asia's New Geopolitics: Military Power and Regional Order Desmond Ball 9781032187365
RRP: $60.88$52.69Intensifying geopolitical rivalries, rising defence spending and the proliferation of the latest military technology across Asia suggest that the region is set for a prolonged period of strategic contestation. None of the three competing visions for the... -
The Butterfly Defect: How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It by Ian Goldin 9780691154701
RRP: $79.80$63.86The Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies... -
Movements and Parties: Critical Connections in American Political Development by Sidney Tarrow
RRP: $65.08$47.99How do social movements intersect with the agendas of mainstream political parties? When they are integrated with parties, are they coopted? Or are they more radically transformative? Examining major episodes of contention in American politics - from the... -
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg: Volume I: Economic Writings by Rosa Luxemburg
$74.24This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labor, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations. In addition to a... -
Land, Investment & Politics - Reconfiguring East Africa`s Pastoral Drylands by Jeremy Lind
RRP: $41.98$35.64Examines the new challenges facing Africa's pastoral drylands from large-scale investments and how this might affect the economic and political landscape for the regions affected and their peoples. More than ever before, the gaze of global... -
A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs 9780231188487
RRP: $31.48$24.13The American Century began in 1941 and ended on January 20, 2017. While the United States remains a military giant and is still an economic powerhouse, it no longer dominates the world economy or geopolitics as it once did. The current turn toward... -
Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus: Diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean by William Mallinson 9781443831796
$87.40Can Henry Kissinger be described as a serious statesman who altered the course of relations between states? Or was he a shallow impersonator of those whom he admired, and a geopolitical engineer who treated people as collateral fodder, reducing morality... -
Planetary Politics – A Manifesto by Marsili
RRP: $20.98$18.80The global crisis of our time involves a complex of ecological, economic, technological and migratory challenges that no state is able to control. The result is a provincialisation of our democracies with respect to the new planetary powers confronting... -
The Dead Do Not Die: "Exterminate All the Brutes" and Terra Nullius by Sven Lindqvist 9781595589897
RRP: $37.78$33.12Sven Lindqvist is one of our most original writers on race, colonialism, and genocide, and his signature approach-uniting travelogues with powerful acts of historical excavation-renders his books devastating and unforgettable. Now, for the first time,... -
The Sheffield Workers' Committee: Rank and file trade unionism during the First World War by Edd Mustill
$12.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851248714Author Edd MustillFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books -
Republic by Plato 9780872201378
RRP: $79.78$70.35The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato's text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato's thought since... -
Troublemakers: The Construction of 'Troubled Families' as a Social Problem by Stephen Crossley 9781447334743
RRP: $58.78$45.30The launch of the Troubled Families Programme in the wake of the 2011 riots conflated poor and disadvantaged families with anti-social and criminal families. The programme aimed to 'turn around' the lives of the country's most 'troubled families', at a... -
History Has Begun: The Birth of a New America by Bruno Macaes
RRP: $27.28$25.10Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilisations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, the US was... -
American Law 101: An Easy Primer on the U.S. Legal System by Jasper Kim
$53.55American Law 101: An Easy Primer on the U.S. Legal System is a thorough introduction to American legal principles, a highly accessible user's guide into both the spirit and the black letter law underlying the U.S. legal system. Everyone who wants a... -
The U.S. Intelligence Community Jeffrey T Richelson 9780813349183
RRP: $115.48$101.05The role of intelligence in US government operations has changed dramatically and is now more critical than ever to domestic security and foreign policy. This authoritative and highly researched book written by Jeffrey T. Richelson provides a detailed... -
Social Closure and International Society: Status Groups from the Family of Civilised Nations to the G20 Tristen Naylor 9781032094106
RRP: $83.98$73.63Laying the foundations of a theory of 'international social closure' this book examines how actors compete for a seat at the table in the management of international society and how that competition stratifies the international domain. In a broad... -
What Do We Owe to Refugees? by David Owen 9781509539741
RRP: $31.48$21.27Who are refugees? Who, if anyone, is responsible for protecting them? What forms should this protection take? In a world of people fleeing from civil wars, state failure, and environmental disasters, these are ethically and politically pressing questions... -
Brexit and Beyond: Rethinking the Futures of Europe by Benjamin Martill
RRP: $31.50$28.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787352766Author Benjamin MartillFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 495g -
Seven Days in New Crete by Robert Graves
RRP: $23.08$17.70Edward Venn-Thomas lives in the twentieth century but has been mysteriously transported to the future, and the apparently idyllic society of New Create, where there is no hunger, no war and no dissatisfaction. However Venn-Thomas is starting to find life... -
Self-Defence against Non-State Actors: Volume 1 by Mary Ellen O'Connell 9781316641125
RRP: $71.38$61.45In this book, self-defence against non-state actors is examined by three scholars whose geographical, professional, theoretical, and methodological backgrounds and outlooks differ greatly. Their trialogue is framed by an introduction and a conclusion by... -
The Political Potential of Sortition: A study of the random selection of citizens for public office by Oliver Dowlen 9781845401795
$37.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845401795Author Oliver DowlenFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 450gDimensions(mm) 234mm *... -
Inside Independent Nigeria: Diaries of Wolfgang Stolper, 1960-1962 Clive S. Gray 9781138717992
RRP: $62.98$56.78This title was first published in 2003.Wolfgang Stolper was one of the first Western economists to serve as an adviser in the government of an independent African country. In 1960 he was brought in by the Nigerian government to help shape Nigeria's first... -
First Platoon: A Story of Modern War in the Age of Identity Dominance by Annie Jacobsen 9781524746674
RRP: $35.68$23.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524746674Author Annie JacobsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Global Governance Timothy Sinclair 9780745635309
RRP: $35.68$31.96In today s uncertain world, the concept of global governance has never been more relevant or widely discussed. But what does this elusive idea really mean, and why has it become so important? This pacey introduction sheds new light on the issues... -
Is Austerity Gendered? by D Perrons
RRP: $20.98$18.80Austerity has dominated the policy agenda in the past decade. Although it appeared to end with the COVID-19 pandemic, a return to harsh cutbacks in the future cannot be ruled out. In this incisive analysis, Diane Perrons shows that while austerity... -
Divided Gulf: The Anatomy of a Crisis Andreas Krieg 9789811363139
RRP: $230.98$72.68This book discusses the various critical dimensions of the Qatar Crisis as a development that has fundamentally reshaped the nature of regional integration for the near future. It represents the first academic attempt to challenge the commonly propagated... -
Time In Marx: The Categories Of Time In Marx's Capital: Historical Materialism, Volume 61 by Stavros Tombazos
RRP: $63.00$41.75Demonstrates that the basic concepts of the three volumes of Capital come under different categories of time: time of production' in the first volume is linear, 'time of circulation' in the second is circular, while in the third volume 'organic time' is... -
Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics by Charlotte Hooper 9780231120753
RRP: $58.80$45.78Much has been written on how masculinity shapes international relations, but little feminist scholarship has focused on how international relations shape masculinity. Charlotte Hooper draws from feminist theory to provide an account of the relationship... -
A Hitch in Time: Reflections Ready for Reconsideration by Christopher Hitchens 9781538757659
RRP: $63.00$37.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538757659Author Christopher HitchensFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 152mm * 36mm -
The Warrior Elite by Captain (Retd.) Dick Couch
RRP: $33.58$24.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400046959Author Dick CouchFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...