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The Democratic Unionist Party: From Protest to Power by Jonathan Tonge 9780198705772
€133.96The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has moved from a religion-dominated protest party to a pragmatic party of government in Northern Ireland, the most popular in the region, with more votes, Assembly seats, and MPs than any of its rivals. This book draws... -
Governing Canada: A Guide to the Tradecraft of Politics by Michael Wernick
RRP: €20.22€18.21Have you ever wondered how the day-to-day business of government actually works? What do prime ministers and ministers do when away from the spotlight of Question Period? How does a government stay on track, and how can a career be derailed? How can a... -
Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development by Thomas McCarthy
RRP: €27.36€23.28In an exciting study of ideas accompanying the rise of the West, Thomas McCarthy analyzes the ideologies of race and empire that were integral to European-American expansion. He highlights the central role that conceptions of human development... -
Child Protection Systems in the United Kingdom: A Comparative Analysis by Anne Stafford
RRP: €47.60€45.34Child protection systems differ across the four countries of the United Kingdom, and understanding the differences provide important opportunities for learning and improving day-to-day practice. This authoritative book compares UK child protection... -
Europe's Crisis of Legitimacy: Governing by Rules and Ruling by Numbers in the Eurozone by Vivien A. Schmidt
RRP: €34.50€31.78This volume examines the interrelationship between democratic legitimacy at the European level and the ongoing Eurozone crisis that began in 2010. Europe's crisis of legitimacy stems from 'governing by rules and ruling by numbers' in the sovereign... -
The Socialist Challenge Today: Syriza, Corbyn, Sanders - Revised, Updated and Expanded Edition by Leo Panitch 9780850367577
RRP: €9.51€8.89WHAT SHOULD THE LEFT AIM TO ACHIEVE TODAY? This book addresses the challenges facing socialists and the recent shift from protest to politics. It examines the limits and possibilities for class, party and state transformation and the democratic and... -
Defending Politics: Why Democracy Matters in the 21st Century by Matthew Flinders 9780199644421
RRP: €59.49€43.97If the twentieth century witnessed the triumph of democracy then something appears to have gone seriously wrong. Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, sceptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the... -
Understanding Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union Graham Taylor (University of the West of England, UK) 9781787146792
RRP: €21.41€15.73On 23rd June 2016 the United Kingdom shocked the world by voting to leave the European Union. In this clear and concise book, Graham Taylor argues that the result is the most visible tip of an iceberg of social change that has been decades in the making... -
Constructing Public Opinion: How Political Elites Do What They Like and Why We Seem to Go Along with It by Justin Lewis 9780231117678
RRP: €33.32€25.94Is polling a process that brings "science" into the study of society? Or are polls crude instruments that tell us little about the way people actually think? The role of public opinion polls in government and mass media has gained increasing importance... -
Giving Offence Martin Rowson 9781906497019
RRP: €17.85€16.07Tolerated in Britain for over 300 years-and ubiquitous throughout the world for much longer - visual satire gives offence in the quickest way and in its purest form. Cartoons have long since established themselves as a legitimate part of the general... -
Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq Lily Hamourtziadou (Birmingham City University) 9781529206739
RRP: €29.74€23.07Lily Hamourtziadou's investigation into civilian victims during the conflicts that followed the US-led coalition's 2003 invasion of Iraq provides important new perspectives on the human cost of the War on Terror. From early fighting to the withdrawal... -
Oil Gavin Bridge 9781509511730
RRP: €19.03€17.15Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes... -
Until We Have Won Our Liberty: South Africa after Apartheid by Evan Lieberman
RRP: €41.65€28.56A compelling account of South Africa's post-Apartheid democracyAt a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era's most closely... -
Armenia's Velvet Revolution: Authoritarian Decline and Civil Resistance in a Multipolar World by Anna Ohanyan
RRP: €28.55€24.92In April 2018, Armenia experienced a remarkable popular uprising leading to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan and his replacement by protest leader Nikol Pashinyan. Evoking Czechoslovakia's similarly peaceful overthrow of communism 30... -
China's Crisis of Success by William H. Overholt
RRP: €27.36€23.28China's Crisis of Success provides new perspectives on China's rise to superpower status, showing that China has reached a threshold where success has eliminated the conditions that enabled miraculous growth. Continued success requires re-invention of... -
The Beginning of Politics: Power in the Biblical Book of Samuel by Moshe Halbertal 9780691174624
RRP: €41.65€33.26New insights into how the Book of Samuel offers a timeless meditation on the dilemmas of statecraft The Book of Samuel is universally acknowledged as one of the supreme achievements of biblical literature. Yet the book's anonymous author was more than... -
On Limited Nuclear War in the 21st Century by Jeffrey A. Larsen 9780804790895
RRP: €29.74€26.19The last two decades have seen a slow but steady increase in nuclear armed states, and in the seemingly less constrained policy goals of some of the newer "rogue" states in the international system. The authors ofOn Limited Nuclear War in the 21st... -
The Age of Ecology by Joachim Radkau 9780745662169
€21.53This book is the first major study of the history of environmentalism, from its origins in romanticism and the nature cults of the late 18th century to the global environmental movements of today. Radkau shows that this is not a single story of the... -
Anthropology, Ecology, And Anarchism: A Brian Morris Reader by Brian Morris 9781604860931
RRP: €28.55€18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860931Author Brian MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 321g -
Theories of Political Protest and Social Movements: A Multidisciplinary Introduction, Critique, and Synthesis by Karl-Dieter Opp
RRP: €57.11€50.23Political protest and social movements are ubiquitous phenomena. This book focuses on the current theoretical approaches that aim at explaining them: the theory of collective action, the resource mobilization perspective, political opportunity structure... -
Why Johnny Still Can't Read or Write or Understand Math: And What We Can Do about It by Andrew Bernstein
RRP: €19.04€11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637584330Author Andrew BernsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Bombardier BooksPublisher Bombardier BooksWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Iraq since the Invasion: People and Politics in a State of Conflict by Keiko Sakai
RRP: €44.02€24.73This book addresses the complex events and unexpected outcomes of military intervention by the United States and its allies in Iraq in 2003. Considering the long-term outcomes of the intervention, this volume examines economic collapse, societal... -
The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America by Gabriel Winant 9780674292192
RRP: €20.17€14.45Winner of the Frederick Jackson Turner AwardWinner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeWinner of the C. L. R. James AwardA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of the Year"The Next Shift is an... -
Social Preconditions of National Revival in Europe: A Comparative Analysis of the Social Composition of Patriotic Groups Among the Smaller European Nations by Miroslav Hroch
RRP: €29.75€23.31This classic work on nationalism, originally published thirty years ago and now reissued with a new preface by the author, provides excellent historical and political background to the profusion of recent nationalist movements in Eastern Europe. Miroslav... -
Major Infrastructure Planning and Delivery: Exploring Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (Nsips) in England and Wales by Ben Clifford 9781800085244
RRP: €35.70€32.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085244Author Ben CliffordFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 610gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm -
Comparative Politics of Southeast Asia: An Introduction to Governments and Political Regimes Aurel Croissant 9783031051166
RRP: €53.54€45.47This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the political systems of all ASEAN countries and Timor-Leste from a comparative perspective. It investigates the political institutions, actors, and processes in eleven states, covering democracies... -
The Liberal Virus: Permanent War and the Americanization of the World Samir Amin 9780745323596
RRP: €20.22€13.93America's ongoing project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous way. Where European political culture since the French... -
Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949-1990 by Stefan Berger 9781782386858
RRP: €33.26€27.35During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc's most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties... -
Revisiting Gendered States: Feminist Imaginings of the State in International Relations by Swati Parashar 9780190644048
€49.09Two decades ago, V. Spike Peterson published a book titled Gendered States in which she asked, what difference does gender make in international relations and the construction of the sovereign state system? In the intervening years, a wealth of feminist... -
Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose Al Gore 9781844074846
RRP: €30.93€26.93Al Gore leads the charge against climate change, the world's greatest threat, in an incendiary new foreword to this timeless classic that launched his environmental career. If you want to know Gore, you need this book!About the AuthorAl Gore is an... -
Away from Chaos: The Middle East and the Challenge to the West by Gilles Kepel 9780231197038
RRP: €26.18€20.66The Middle East is one of the world's most volatile regions. In recent years, from the optimism and then crushing disappointment of the Arab uprisings through the rise and fall of the Islamic State, it has presented key international security challenges... -
Obsolete Communism: The Left-Wing Alternative by Daniel Bendit-Cohn 9781902593258
RRP: €14.28€9.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781902593258Author Daniel Cohn-BenditFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 323g -
A Research Agenda for Terrorism Studies Lara A. Frumkin 9781789909098
€114.06Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.Asking vital... -
The Floodgates Of Anarchy Albert Meltzer 9781604861051
RRP: €19.03€13.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604861051Author Stuart ChristieFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 183g -
The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class by Fred Siegel 9781594037955
RRP: €15.46€11.85What we think of as liberalism today--the top and bottom coalition we associate with President Obama--began not with Progressivism or the new deal, but rather in the wake of the post-WWI disillusionment with American society. The Revolt Against the... -
The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750-1848 by James Stafford
RRP: €89.25€80.61The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role... -
Russian Conservatism by Paul Robinson
RRP: €23.79€20.87Russian Conservatism examines the history of Russian conservative thought from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. Robinson charts the contributions made by philosophers, politicians, and others during the Imperial, Soviet, and... -
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter by Shannon K O'Neil 9780300274110
RRP: €15.46€13.64A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years as companies, money, ideas, and people went abroad, they... -
Is Political Philosophy Impossible?: Thoughts and Behaviour in Normative Political Theory by Jonathan Floyd 9781107450523
RRP: €29.74€25.61Political philosophy seems both impossible to do and impossible to avoid. Impossible to do, because we cannot agree on a single set of political principles. Impossible to avoid, because we're always living with some kind of political system, and thus... -
The Philosophy and Methods of Political Science by Keith Dowding
€54.62This original account of the role of philosophy and methodology in political science gets back to the basics of studying politics. Cutting through long-standing controversies across different theoretical camps within the discipline, Dowding provides an...