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The Decline of the Western-Centric World and the Emerging New Global Order: Contending Views by Yun-han Chu
RRP: €45.21€40.91The Western liberal democratic world order, which seemingly triumphed following the collapse of communism, is looking increasingly fragile as populists and nationalists take power in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, as the momentum of... -
What Do We Know about War? by Sara McLaughlin Mitchell 9781538140093
€67.83What Do We Know about War? brings together leading scholars within international relations to review the current theory and research on peace and war-what is known, the quality of the evidence, and future research strategies.About the AuthorSara... -
Trump vs. China: Facing America's Greatest Threat by Newt Gingrich 9781546099888
RRP: €17.84€15.89Every American needs to understand the threat to America's safety and prosperity posed by China's reemergence as a world power. Unlike our other economic and military rivals, China is the only country big enough and with enough human resources to compete... -
Democratic Theory Today: Challenges for the 21st Century April Carter (University of Queensland) 9780745621951
RRP: €23.79€21.37At the beginning of the twenty-first century, liberal democracy appears as the only valid form of democracy. Nonetheless, the well-established parliamentary regimes are facing serious threats to both their liberal and their democratic values. Among these... -
A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African Liberation John S. Saul 9780745334790
RRP: €27.36€21.68Twenty years on from the fall of apartheid in South Africa, veteran analyst and activist John S. Saul examines the liberation struggle, placing it in a regional and global context and looking at how the initial optimism and hope has given way to a sense... -
India 2030: Rise of a Rajasic Nation: A deep dive into India's financial and economic policies by Gautam Chikermane
RRP: €16.65€14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143458357Author Gautam ChikermaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaDimensions(mm) 200mm * 130mm * 20mm -
Embodying Geopolitics: Generations of Women’s Activism in Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon by Nicola Pratt 9780520281769
RRP: €29.75€23.31When women took to the streets during the mass protests of the Arab Spring, the subject of feminism in the Middle East and North Africa returned to the international spotlight. In the subsequent years, countless commentators treated the region's gender... -
The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told US About Iraq by Lakshmi Chaudhry 9781583226445
RRP: €8.32€6.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583226445Author Lakshmi ChaudhryFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 206g -
East Central Europe between the Two World Wars by Joseph Rothschild 9780295953571
RRP: €38.08€34.05East Central Europe Between The Two World Wars is a sophisticated political history of East Central Europe in the interwar years. Written by an eminent scholar in the field, it is an original contribution to the literature on the political cultures of... -
The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen by Paul Gordon Lauren
RRP: €41.65€37.34This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the... -
Still the Best Hope: Why the World Needs American Values to Triumph by Dennis Prager 9780061985133
RRP: €23.79€15.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061985133Author Dennis PragerFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
Political Analysis: A Guide to Data and Statistics by Matthew Loveless
RRP: €40.45€33.33Why let other people explain the world to you? From news reporting on elections or unfolding political crises to everyday advertising, you are confronted with statistics. Rather than being swayed by bad arguments and questionable correlations, this book... -
Theories of Institutions by Joseph Jupille
RRP: €113.05€89.39The human condition teems with institutions - intertemporal social arrangements that shape human relations in support of particular values - and the social scientific work developed over the last five decades aimed at understanding them is similarly vast... -
Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy by Nancy Bermeo
RRP: €41.65€33.26For generations, influential thinkers--often citing the tragic polarization that took place during Germany's Great Depression--have suspected that people's loyalty to democratic institutions erodes under pressure and that citizens gravitate toward... -
Grasping Greatness: Making India a Leading Power by Bibek Debroy 9780670093724
€37.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780670093724Author Bibek DebroyFormat HardbackPage Count 660Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Random House India -
Political Discipline in a Free Society (Routledge Library Editions: Political Science Volume 40) by Harold John Blackham
RRP: €11.89€10.94This book traces the rise and fall of political philosophies since the 17th century. The second part of the book shows how the general technique of cumulative learning from experience applies to social legislation and social services, party politics to... -
Conflict and Development Andrew J. Williams (University of St. Andrews, UK) 9781138887527
RRP: €52.35€46.10In the five years since the first edition of Conflict and Development was published the awareness of the relationship between conflicts and development has grown exponentially. Developmental factors can act as a trigger for violence, as well as for... -
On Good and Evil and the Grey Zone by Alex Danchev
RRP: €28.55€26.00How can works of the imagination help us to understand good and evil in the modern world? In this new collection of essays, Alex Danchev treats the artist as a crucial moral witness of our troubled times, and puts art to work in the service of political... -
The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man David Strahan 9780719564246
RRP: €13.08€9.06This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more... -
Aesthetic Politics: Political Philosophy Beyond Fact and Value by F. R. Ankersmit 9780804727303
RRP: €29.74€26.14Taking as its point of departure a sharp critique of Rawls's influential A Theory of Justice-which, like most Western political philosophy since the seventeenth century, considers ethics to be foundational to a proper understanding of the political-this... -
Science in the Age of Unreason by John Staddon
RRP: €26.18€16.72Science is undergoing an identity crisis! A renown psychologist and biologist diagnoses our age of wishful, magical thinking and blasts out a clarion call for a return to reason and the search for objective knowledge and truth. Fans of Matt Ridley and... -
Local Government from Thatcher to Blair: The Politics of Creative Autonomy Hugh Atkinson (South Bank University) 9780745622040
RRP: €22.60€20.38This accessible text summarizes and explains the structure of British local government, focusing on key changes introduced during the Thatcher/Major years and initiatives implemented by the current Labour administration. While offering a detailed... -
Identity/Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox by William E. Connolly 9780816640867
RRP: €24.98€22.21In this foundational work in contemporary political theory, William Connolly makes a distinctive contribution to our understanding of the relationship between personal identity and democratic politics, particularly in the domains of religion, ethics,... -
Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World by Robert O. Keohane
RRP: €65.44€56.79As one of the most innovative and influential thinkers in international relations for more than three decades, Robert O. Keohane's groundbreaking work in institutional theory has redefined our understanding of international political economy. Consisting... -
Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order by Börje Ljunggren 9780674291348
RRP: €45.16€36.59In the late 1980s, most of the world still associated Vietnam with resistance and war, hardship, refugees, and a mismanaged planned economy. During the 1990s, by contrast, major countries began to see Vietnam as both a potential partner and a... -
Intelligence Collection by Robert M. Clark 9781452271859
RRP: €129.71€113.61This comprehensive book by one of the foremost authorities in the field offers systematic and analytical coverage of the "how and why" of intelligence collection across its three major stages-the front end (planning), collection, and the back end... -
T Is for Thankful by Greg Paprocki 9781423655008
€11.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423655008Author Greg PaprockiPage Count 32Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith Inc -
Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World by Peter Sluglett 9781788319768
RRP: €29.74€25.92Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which they have developed. Placing them in the context of the... -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989 by Jeffrey A. Engel
RRP: €31.52€23.29The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in... -
The Blessings of Liberty: Human Rights and Religious Freedom in the Western Legal Tradition by John Witte, Jr.
RRP: €36.88€27.19Leading legal scholar John Witte, Jr. explores the role religion played in the development of rights in the Western legal tradition and traces the complex interplay between human rights and religious freedom norms in modern domestic and international law... -
Russian Liberalism by Paul Robinson 9781501772177
RRP: €27.36€23.81Russian Liberalism charts the development of liberal ideas and political organizations in Russia as well as the implementation of liberal reforms by the Russian and Soviet governments at various points in time. Paul Robinson's comprehensive survey covers... -
The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions by Christopher F. Karpowitz
RRP: €41.65€38.23Do women participate in and influence meetings equally with men? Does gender shape how a meeting is run and whose voices are heard? The Silent Sex shows how the gender composition and rules of a deliberative body dramatically affect who speaks, how the... -
American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism by Stanislav Vysotsky
RRP: €30.93€26.93Since the election of President Trump and the rise in racist and white supremacist activity, the militant antifascist movement known as antifa has become increasingly active and high profile in the United States. This book analyzes the tactics, culture,... -
Court and Legal Skills by Penny Cooper
RRP: €28.55€28.32This book provides social workers with the theoretical and practical knowledge they need to effectively deal with courts and legal issues, which includes presenting evidence, supporting vulnerable service users in the legal system and developing good... -
Anarchy and the Kingdom of God: From Eschatology to Orthodox Political Theology and Back by Davor Dzalto
RRP: €36.89€32.81Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of "anarchism" both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power,... -
Concepts for a Democratic and Ecological Society Yavor Tarinski 9781789049220
RRP: €11.89€10.34Yavor Tarinski examines the fundamental conflict between democratic aspirations and the imposed norms of capitalism, the potential for directly democratic and ecologically designed cities, the imperative to renew the commons, and the prospects for a... -
The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
RRP: €19.03€11.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582434865Author Wendell BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 139g -
The Moral Person of the State: Pufendorf, Sovereignty and Composite Polities by Ben Holland
RRP: €36.88€32.61This is the first detailed study in any language of the single most influential theory of the modern state: Samuel von Pufendorf's account of the state as a 'moral person'. Ben Holland reconstructs the theological and political contexts in and for which... -
Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective Michael Butter (University of Tubingen, Germany) 9781032359434
RRP: €42.83€38.01Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world.Covid conspiracy theories have attracted... -
Democracy and Globalization: Anger, Fear, and Hope by Josep M Colomer 9780367461928
RRP: €45.21€39.72As democracy is disrupted by globalization, the solution is to globalize democracy. This book explores the causes of the current crisis of democracy and advocates new ways for more representative, effective, and accountable governance in an...