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The Crisis of Globalization by Patrick Diamond
RRP: €33.31€24.99In recent years, the effects of economic openness and technological change have fuelled dissatisfaction with established political systems and led to new forms of political populism that exploit the economic and political resentment created by... -
Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices by Sasha Engelmann
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere.Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices traces the potential of artistic, community-driven experiments... -
Terrorism and Counterintelligence: How Terrorist Groups Elude Detection by Blake W. Mobley 9780231158763
RRP: €59.50€47.03Protecting information, identifying undercover agents, and operating clandestinely-efforts known as counterintelligence-are the primary objectives of terrorist groups evading detection by intelligence and law enforcement officials. Some strategies work... -
Television, Democracy and Elections in Russia by Sarah Oates
RRP: €52.35€45.74Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a wealth of information and data, including: public opinion surveys, content analysis... -
Business and Populism: The Odd Couple? by Magnus Feldmann 9780192894335
RRP: €139.83€126.27Business and Populism analyses the relationship between right wing populism and business with a focus on business responses and strategies in the face of the global populist turn. In the neoliberal era business had become accustomed to favourable... -
When Democracy Trumps Populism: European and Latin American Lessons for the United States by Kurt Weyland 9781108728829
RRP: €27.36€23.28The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Because no populist leader had occupied the White House in 150 years, there were many questions about what to... -
Inequality and the State by John Hills 9780199276646
€53.26This book is about inequality, how the State affects distribution through its spending programmes and through taxation, and what the public thinks of these three issues. It describes and analyses one of the biggest social changes in Britain since the... -
Kissinger and Latin America: Intervention, Human Rights, and Diplomacy by Stephen G. Rabe 9781501706295
RRP: €41.65€39.15In Kissinger and Latin America, Stephen G. Rabe analyzes U.S. policies toward Latin America during a critical period of the Cold War. Except for the issue of Chile under Salvador Allende, historians have largely ignored inter-American relations during... -
A Wealthier, Fairer Scotland: The Political Economy of Constitutional Change by Michael Keating
RRP: €21.41€19.81The ambition of the Scottish Government is to create a wealthier and fairer nation. Following the devolution acts of 1998, 2012 and 2016, it has extensive powers and resources to fulfill its ambition. This interdisciplinary collection of essays asks... -
Epistemic Communities, Constructivism, and International Environmental Politics Peter Haas (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 9781138858558
RRP: €57.11€50.61Epistemic Communities, Constructivism and International Environmental Politics brings together 25 years of publications by Peter M. Haas. The book examines how the world has changed significantly over the last 100 years, discusses the need for new,... -
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog
RRP: €22.61€18.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812931297Author Antjie KrogFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 209mm *... -
Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice Corneliu Bjola (University of Oxford, UK) 9781138843820
RRP: €52.35€46.10This book analyses digital diplomacy as a form of change management in international politics.The recent spread of digital initiatives in foreign ministries is often argued to be nothing less than a revolution in the practice of diplomacy. In some... -
Ordinary People: LGBTQ Russia by Ksenia Kuleshova 9781620977934
RRP: €19.03€13.14An inspiring and beautifully produced series of photo-portraits of LGBTQ Russians living in an increasingly homophobic Russia Do we want children from elementary school to be imposed with things that lead to degradation and extinction? Do we want them to... -
The Metropolitan Police and the British Film Industry, 1919-1956: Public Relations, Collaboration and Control by Alex Rock 9781350295087
€115.58This groundbreaking book investigates the murky relationship between the Metropolitan Police Press Bureau and the British film industry, shedding new light on police-media relations. Beginning with the culture of suppression during the interwar period,... -
Johann Gottfried Herder on World History: An Anthology: An Anthology Michael Palma 9781563245411
RRP: €45.21€39.41Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) was an influential German critic and philosopher, whose ideas included "cultural nationalism" - that every nation has its own personality and pattern of growth. This anthology contains excerpts from Herder's writings... -
Multi-party Politics in Kenya - The Kenyatta and Moi States and the Triumph of the System in the 1992 Election by David Throup
RRP: €35.69€35.53Detailed study of Kenya's 1992 election. The two authors of this work analyse the case of post-colonial Kenya under Kenyatta and Moi and show how, in spite of a multi-party system, the ruling elite has kept power and wealth to itself. North... -
European Identity by Jeffrey T. Checkel
RRP: €29.74€21.36Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and... -
Working at Swindon Works 1930-1960 by Peter Timms 9780752444031
RRP: €20.22€15.62Presents a social and industrial study of the conditions faced by the many thousands of working men and women and their families whose lives were controlled by the Great Western Railway from 1930-1960, the beginning of the modern period for the railway... -
Grounding Urban Natures: Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies by Henrik Ernstson 9780262537148
RRP: €39.27€34.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262537148Author Henrik ErnstsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm -
America's Constitution: A Biography by Professor Akhil Reed Amar
RRP: €26.18€16.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2006.Book InformationISBN 9780812972726Author Akhil Reed AmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random House Trade... -
Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution by Amanda Hollis-Brusky 9780190933746
RRP: €30.93€22.80There are few intellectual movements in modern American political history more successful than the Federalist Society. Created in 1982 to counterbalance what its founders considered a liberal legal establishment, the organization gradually evolved into... -
Survival June-July 2021: Ending Endless Wars? by The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
RRP: €23.79€21.37Survival, the IISS's bimonthly journal, challenges conventional wisdom and brings fresh, often controversial, perspectives on strategic issues of the moment.In this issue: Anatol Lieven argues that the Taliban will remain the most powerful military and... -
American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center by William Langewiesche 9780865476752
RRP: €22.61€14.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476752Author William LangewiescheFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)... -
Italian Neofascism: The Strategy of Tension and the Politics of Nonreconciliation by Anna Cento Bull 9780857451743
RRP: €28.50€23.19During the Cold War Italy witnessed the existence of an anomalous version of a civil conflict, defined as a 'creeping' or a 'low-intensity' civil war. Political violence escalated, including bomb attacks against civilians, starting with a massacre in... -
The Political Economy of the Abe Government and Abenomics Reforms by Takeo Hoshi
RRP: €35.69€33.08This volume seeks to explain the political economy of the Abe government and the so-called 'Abenomics' economic policies. The Abe government represents a major turning point in postwar Japanese political economy. In 2019, Abe became the longest serving... -
A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics by Matthew W. Slaboch
RRP: €46.41€40.92Since the Enlightenment, the idea of progress has spanned right- and left-wing politics, secular and spiritual philosophy, and most every school of art or culture. The belief that humans are capable of making lasting improvements-intellectual,... -
Free Time by Julie Rose 9780691163451
RRP: €41.65€33.26Recent debates about inequality have focused almost exclusively on the distribution of wealth and disparities in income, but little notice has been paid to the distribution of free time. Free time is commonly assumed to be a matter of personal... -
International Political Economy in the 21st Century: Contemporary Issues and Analyses Roy Smith (Nottingham Trent University, UK) 9781138808416
RRP: €53.54€47.59Understanding of the theories that underpin international political economy (IPE), and their practical applications, is crucial to the study of international relations, politics, development and economics. This is a comprehensive and accessible... -
Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich
RRP: €24.98€21.04Understanding Trump requires a willingness to study him and learn from him. His principles grow our of five decades of business and celebrity success. He does things differently than traditional politicians because his entire life experience has been... -
The Anthropology of Parliaments: Entanglements in Democratic Politics Emma Crewe 9781350089594
RRP: €44.02€38.41The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing Parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe's insights deepen our... -
William Walker's Wars: How One Man's Private American Army Tried to Conquer Mexico, Nicaragua, and Honduras by Scott Martelle 9781613737293
RRP: €28.50€22.23In the decade before the onset of the Civil War, groups of Americans engaged in a series of longshot-and illegal-forays into Mexico, Cuba, and other Central American countries in hopes of taking them over. These efforts became known as filibustering, and... -
The Right to the Smart City by Paolo Cardullo
RRP: €24.98€21.12Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda. In general, these initiatives are promoted and rolled-out by governments and corporations which enact various forms of top-down, technocratic governance and reproduce neoliberal governmentality... -
The Godfather Doctrine: A Foreign Policy Parable by John C. Hulsman 9780691141473
RRP: €9.51€7.95The Godfather Doctrine draws clear and essential lessons from perhaps the greatest Hollywood movie ever made to illustrate America's changing geopolitical place in the world and how our country can best meet the momentous strategic challenges it faces... -
The Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon by Fouad Ajami
RRP: €34.50€30.18In the summer of 1978, Musa al Sadr, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Shia sect in Lebanon, disappeared mysteriously while on a visit to Libya. As in the Shia myth of the "Hidden Imam," this modern-day Imam left his followers upholding his legacy and... -
The Oxford Handbook of French Politics by Robert Elgie
€50.06The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science. The Handbook is organized into three parts: the first part identifies foundational... -
The Next Public Administration: Debates and Dilemmas by B. Guy Peters 9781446252895
RRP: €46.40€37.63Written by two of the leading scholars in the field, this book explores public administration in the past, present and future, critically reviewing the modernization of public management reform. It reasserts public administration as an integral component... -
Lenin as Philosopher by A. Pannekoek 9780850361865
RRP: €14.22€13.39First published in 1938 by a leader of the Council Communism movement, Anton Pannekoek's Lenin as Philosopher offers a classic left-wing interpretation and critique of Lenin's philosophical accomplishment and its relationship to the development of... -
Routledge Handbook of Policy Design by Michael Howlett 9780367659868
RRP: €54.73€48.23Uniting theoretical bases and advancements in practice, the Routledge Handbook of Policy Design brings together leading experts in the academic field of policy design in a pioneering effort of scholarship. Each chapter provides a multi-topic overview of... -
Escaping Dystopia: Rebuilding a Public Domain Stephen McBride (McMaster University) 9781529220612
RRP: €17.84€14.43Multiple crises have led many to conclude that the current economic and political system is broken. The present and future look increasingly precarious - if not outright dystopian Stephen McBride calls for radical solutions to these crises to provide a... -
The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today by Colin Dueck 9780190659943
RRP: €19.03€14.16By mid-2015, the Obama presidency will be entering its final stages, and the race among the successors in both parties will be well underway. And while experts have already formed a provisional understanding of the Obama administration's foreign policy...