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Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems by Gary W. Cox
RRP: €44.02€37.26Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of... -
UN Security Council: Practice and Promise by Edward C. Luck
RRP: €44.02€38.71Written by best-selling author Edward C. Luck, this new text is broad and engaging enough for undergraduates, sophisticated enough for graduates and lively enough for a wider audience interested in the key institutions of international public policy... -
Rafiq Hariri and the Fate of Lebanon by Marwan Iskandar 9780863563706
RRP: €20.22€13.93On Valentine's Day 2005 self-made billionaire Rafiq Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, was assassinated in Beirut by a massive bomb that destroyed his motorcade. The Lebanese people subsequently took to the streets, and the United Nations Security... -
Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance Benjamin Braun (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany) 9781032111193
RRP: €42.83€37.43Capital Claims: Power and Global Finance analyses how global financialized capitalism operates and reproduces itself, exploring the remarkable ability of the financial sector to maintain its dominance through even the most severe economic crises.The book... -
Robert F. Kennedy and the 1968 Indiana Primary by Ray E. Boomhower 9780253023780
RRP: €20.22€17.93On April 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., arrived in Indiana to campaign for the Indiana Democratic presidential primary. As Kennedy boarded his flight from an appearance in Muncie to Indianapolis, he learned that civil rights leader Dr. Martin... -
Science & Technology Policymaking by Alfred T. Barrios 9781606924396
RRP: €101.14€67.56Scientific and technical knowledge and guidance influences not just policy related to science and technology, but also many of today's public policies as policymakers seek knowledge to enhance the quality of their decisions. Science and technology policy... -
Why India is not a Great Power (Yet) by Bharat Karnad 9780199459223
RRP: €41.64€38.57Since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense... -
Irish Political Prisoners 1960-2000: Braiding Rage and Sorrow by Sean McConville
RRP: €52.35€45.74This is a comprehensive, detailed and humane account of the thousands who came into custody during the years of the Northern Ireland conflict and how they lived out the months, years and decades in Irish and English maximum security prisons.Erupting in... -
Battleground: Asymmetric Communication Ecologies and the Erosion of Civil Society in Wisconsin by Lewis A. Friedland
RRP: €20.23€17.52Battleground models Wisconsin's contentious political communication ecology: the way that politics, social life, and communication intersect and create conditions of polarization and democratic decline. Drawing from 10 years of interviews, news and... -
Enchanted America: How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics by J. Eric Oliver
RRP: €30.94€29.57America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information. Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens... -
Hidden Voices: Lived Experiences in the Irish Welfare Space Joe Whelan (Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin) 9781447360933
RRP: €29.74€23.07Underpinned by the idea of the right to a 'basic minimum', welfare states are a major feature of many societies. However, the lived experiences of persons seeking and receiving welfare payments can often be overlooked. This book seeks to remedy this... -
The Supreme Court: An Analytic History of Constitutional Decision Making by Tom S. Clark 9781108436939
RRP: €36.88€32.58This book presents a quantitative history of constitutional law in the United States and brings together humanistic and social-scientific approaches to studying law. Using theoretical models of adjudication, Tom S. Clark presents a statistical model of... -
Organizing for Autonomy: History, Theory, and Strategy for Collective Liberation by CounterPower
RRP: €17.84€12.07“How can we get free? How can we free ourselves, our communities, our environments, our society? And what will this freedom look like? While the present moment holds incredible possibilities to organize for our collective liberation, there are powerful... -
Constituent Power: A History by Lucia Rubinelli
RRP: €107.10€90.58From the French Revolution onwards, constituent power has been a key concept for thinking about the principle of popular power, and how it should be realised through the state and its institutions. Tracing the history of constituent power across five key... -
Betrayal Of Palestine: The Story Of George Antonius Susan Boyle 9780813337593
RRP: €65.44€56.79This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betrayal of Palestine is an important and innovative work... -
The Making of Modern Tibet by A.Tom Grunfeld 9781563247149
RRP: €49.97€43.88An account of Tibet and the Tibetan people that emphasises the political history of the 20th century. This book attempts to reach beyond the polemics by considering the various historical arguments, using archival material from several nations and... -
Qatar: The Practice of Rented Power by Diana Galeeva 9781032215822
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book explains the parameters of Qatar's political growth by developing an alternative theory of power - 'rented' power.The author demonstrates how Qatar's emergence as a regional power can be solely explained by its capacity as a gas-rich rentier... -
Rules without Rights: Land, Labor, and Private Authority in the Global Economy by Tim Bartley
RRP: €32.12€28.86Activists have exposed startling forms of labor exploitation and environmental degradation in global industries, leading many large retailers and brands to adopt standards for fairness and sustainability. This book is about the idea that transnational... -
The Inequality Trap: Fighting Capitalism Instead of Poverty by William Watson
RRP: €35.69€31.54US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the "defining issue of our time." It has inspired the "Occupy" movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression - the "one percent." But is our... -
Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice by Catherine Boone
RRP: €35.69€31.34This 2003 study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkages and political deals that bind center and periphery are the solutions. In African... -
Raphael Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide by Douglas Irvin-Erickson
€76.99Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) coined the word "genocide" in the winter of 1942 and led a movement in the United Nations to outlaw the crime, setting his sights on reimagining human rights institutions and humanitarian law after World War II. After the UN... -
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Frederick Engels
RRP: €10.71€7.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873489775Author Frederick EngelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books Ltd -
Problems of Protection: The UNHCR, Refugees, and Human Rights by Niklaus Steiner 9780415945745
RRP: €52.35€46.22First Published in 2003. Of all the humanitarian impulses in world politics today, one of the most widely recognized is the need to protect refugees. However, as The Problems of Protection explores, what on the surface appears to be a simple... -
Contested Britain: Brexit, Austerity and Agency Paul Carmichael 9781529205022
RRP: €32.12€24.80A distinctive and original analysis of how the politics of the UK and the lives of British citizens have evolved in the first decades of the twenty-first century, this book provides an interdisciplinary critical examination of the roots, ideology and... -
Measuring Human Rights by Todd Landman 9780415446501
RRP: €52.35€45.74The measurement of human rights has long been debated within the various academic disciplines that focus on human rights, as well as within the larger international community of practitioners working in the field of human rights.Written by leading... -
The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It by Malcolm Nance
RRP: €17.84€11.78MSNBC counterterrorism analyst and New York Times bestselling author Malcolm Nance was the first person to blow the whistle on Russia's hacking of the 2016 election and to reveal Vladmir Putin's masterplan.Now, in THE PLOT TO BETRAY AMERICA, Nance... -
Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction? by Michelle Malkin 9781621579717
RRP: €34.50€19.96Malkin follows the money and motives to show that how we're falling victim to a massive immigration scam.About the Author MICHELLE MALKIN is a mother, wife, blogger, conservative syndicated columnist, and bestselling author of six books. She founded... -
The Long Game on the Silk Road: US and EU Strategy for Central Asia and the Caucasus by S. Frederick Starr 9781538114643
RRP: €41.65€36.54This book argues that American and European policies toward Central Asia and the Caucasus suffer from both conceptual and structural impediments. It traces the framework of Western policies to the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, which resulted in the... -
Interpretation and Method: Empirical Research Methods and the Interpretive Turn Dvora Yanow 9780765635402
RRP: €65.44€58.42Exceptionally clear and well-written chapters provide engaging discussions of the methods of accessing, generating, and analyzing social science data, using methods ranging from reflexive historical analysis to critical ethnography. Reflecting on their... -
The Economics and Politics of European Integration: Populism, Nationalism and the History of the EU by Ivan T. Berend
RRP: €47.59€41.72The Economics and Politics of European Integration offers a comprehensive history of European integration, from the conceptualization of a United States of Europe, to the present day. The special role of the United States in this process of integration,... -
Environmental Justice in India: The National Green Tribunal Gitanjali Gill 9781138625808
RRP: €52.35€45.74Modern environmental regulation and its complex intersection with international law has led many jurisdictions to develop environmental courts or tribunals. Strikingly, the list of jurisdictions that have chosen to do this include numerous developing... -
Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion by Sophie Nicholls
RRP: €89.25€80.61Through its close, critical reading of the political treatises and polemical literature produced in France in the sixteenth century, this book offers a valuable new contribution to the intellectual history of the Early Modern era. Sophie Nicholls... -
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke 9780814731246
RRP: €88.06€77.77Uncovers the mindset and motives that drive far-right extremists More than half a century after the defeat of Nazism and fascism, the far right is again challenging the liberal order of Western democracies. Radical movements are feeding on anxiety... -
Salafism and Political Order in Africa by Sebastian Elischer
RRP: €36.88€27.62Violent Islamic extremism is affecting a growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In some, jihadi Salafi organizations have established home bases and turned into permanent security challengers. However, other countries have managed to prevent... -
The Social Evolution of International Politics by Shiping Tang 9780198753582
€50.61Winnner of the International Studies Association Annual Best Book Award. Deploying an original 'Social Evolution Paradigm' (SEP) and drawing from anthropology, evolutionary biology, and international relations, this book advances a sweeping account... -
International Politics: Power and Purpose in Global Affairs by Paul D'Anieri 9780357136171
€90.37D'Anieri's INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: POWER AND PURPOSE IN GLOBAL AFFAIRS, 5th Edition, helps you make the connection between academic theories and real-world issues and events. Comparing international politics to a series of intellectual puzzles, the text... -
International Norms and Local Politics in Myanmar Yukiko Nishikawa (Nagoya University, Japan) 9781032213668
RRP: €47.59€41.72Nishikawa explores how international norms have been adopted in the local context in Myanmar to project a certain international image, while in fact the authorities are exploiting these norms to protect their own interests.In the liberal international... -
Routledge Handbook of NGOs and International Relations by Thomas Davies 9780367783860
RRP: €45.21€39.72Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of advocacy groups in the environmental, feminist, human rights, humanitarian, and peace sectors,... -
Authority by Richard Sennett 9780393310276
RRP: €20.23€17.33A master of the interplay between politics and psychology, Richard Sennett here analyzes the nature, the role, and the faces of authority-authority in personal life, in the public realm, authority as an idea. Why have we become so afraid of authority?... -
Seeking the Promised Land: Mormons and American Politics by David E. Campbell
RRP: €29.74€25.20Mormons have long had an outsized presence in American culture and politics, but they remain largely unknown to most Americans. Recent years have seen the political prominence of Mormons taken to a new level - including the presidential candidacy of...