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Marxism (RLE Marxism): An Historical and Critical Study George Lichtheim 9781138888937
RRP: $77.68$69.15This book, first published in 1961 and revised in 1964, is both a critical study of a body of thought and an historical account of how Marxist theory arose from the context of European history in the 19th century. It traces the development of socialist... -
Manifesting Democracy?: Urban Protests and the Politics of Representation in Brazil Post 2013 Maite Conde 9781119331100
RRP: $41.98$40.51This volume explores the series of public protests - manifestacoes - that took place in a number of Brazilian cities in June and July 2013, when thousands of people took to the streets to demand improvements in urban infrastructures. Critically examines... -
Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism by Rafael Sanchez
$77.32Since independence from Spain, a trope has remained pervasive in Latin America's republican imaginary: that of an endless antagonism pitting civilization against barbarism as irreconcilable poles within which a nation's life unfolds. This book apprehends... -
Reflections on Violence by John Keane
$35.76Genocidal wars, concentration camps, firebombed cities, spreading plagues of private blood-letting: the twentieth century has seen more than its fair share of violence, planned and unplanned, with prospects of still more to come. And yet, argues John... -
Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change by Emma Briant
RRP: $178.50$127.20This book offers a unique account of British and United States government's attempts to adapt their propaganda strategies to global terrorist threats in a post-9/11 media environment. It discusses Anglo-American coordination and domestic struggles that... -
Civilizations in World Politics: Plural and Pluralist Perspectives Peter J. Katzenstein 9780415777117
RRP: $92.38$80.72A highly original and readily accessible examination of the cultural dimension of international politics, this book provides a sophisticated and nuanced account of the relevance of cultural categories for the analysis of world politics. The book's... -
The Words and the Land: Israeli Intellectuals and the Nationalist Myth by Shlomo Sand 9781584350965
RRP: $33.58$23.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584350965Author Shlomo SandFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm -
The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations by Benno Teschke
RRP: $44.08$43.64Winner of the 2003 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial PrizeThis book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years' War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the... -
Universality, Ethics and International Relations: A Grammatical Reading by Veronique Pin-Fat 9780415492065
RRP: $92.38$80.72Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory. This book explores the reasons why grappling with universality and ethics seems to be a profound endeavour and where we... -
Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism: Why women are in refrigerators and other stories by Penny Griffin
RRP: $92.38$80.72While some have argued that we live in a 'postfeminist' era that renders feminism irrelevant to people's contemporary lives this book takes 'feminism', the source of eternal debate, contestation and ambivalence, and situates the term within the popular,... -
Explaining Institutional Change: Ambiguity, Agency, and Power by James Mahoney
RRP: $52.48$42.29This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and... -
NATO's Air War for Kosovo: A Strategic and Operational Assessment by Benjamin S. Lambeth 9780833030504
$69.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780833030504Author Benjamin S. LambethFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint RANDPublisher RANDWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm -
Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti 9780495911265
$132.28"Democracy For The Few" is a provocative interpretation of American Government. It shows how democracy is repeatedly violated by corporate oligopolies, and how popular forces have fought back and occasionally made gains in spite of the system. By... -
Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia by David M. Lampton
RRP: $52.50$41.79What China's infamous railway initiative can teach us about global dominance. In 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled what would come to be known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)-a global development strategy involving infrastructure projects... -
Age of Iron: On Conservative Nationalism by Professor of Political Science Colin Dueck
RRP: $38.83$33.43Dueck explores the past, present, and future of Republican foreign policy nationalism. The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad. Riding the populist wave, Donald Trump achieved the... -
Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War: AChronicle and Analysis of theRevolution of Dignity by Mychailo Wynnyckyj
$81.65In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integration, the Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to... -
In A Day's Work: The Fight to End Sexual Violence Against America's Most Vulnerable Workers by Bernice Yeung
RRP: $27.28$18.12Apple orchards in bucolic Washington State. Office parks in Southern California under cover of night. The home of an elderly man in Miami. These are some of the workplaces where female workers have suffered brutal sexual assault and shocking harassment... -
Update Liberalism: Liberal Answers to the Challenges of Our Time by Ralf Fucks 9783837669954
RRP: $69.28$57.16Liberal democracy is under pressure worldwide. It is challenged by anti-liberal movements and parties as well as by authoritarian regimes. Liberalism as a cross-party movement and a broad way of thinking has fallen into the defensive and is often... -
Regulatory Crisis: Negotiating the Consequences of Risk, Disasters and Crises by Bridget M. Hutter
RRP: $65.08$56.22Using a new concept - 'regulatory crisis' - this book examines how major crises may or may not affect regulation. The authors provide a detailed analysis of selected well-known disasters, tracing multiple interwoven sources of influence and competing... -
United States Relations with South Africa: A Critical Overview from the Colonial Period to the Present by Y. G. M. Lulat 9780820479064
RRP: $85.89$71.19Relations between the United States and South Africa - or the parts of the world these nations now occupy - go nearly as far back as the very beginning of their inception as permanent European colonial intrusions. This book is a critical overview of... -
Deceiving the Sky: Inside Communist China's Drive for Global Supremacy by Bill Gertz
RRP: $29.38$19.45The United States' approach to China since the Communist regime in Beijing began the period of reform and opening in the 1980s was based on a promise that trade and engagement with China would result in a peaceful, democratic state. Forty years later the... -
National Security Intelligence by Loch K. Johnson
$49.08National security intelligence is a vast, complex, and important topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. In the second edition of his definitive introduction to the field, leading... -
Farewell To The Peasantry?: Political Class Formation In Rural Mexico by Gerardo Otero
RRP: $83.98$73.63Farewell to the Peasantry? questions class-reductionist assumptions in certain Marxist and populist approaches to political movements in twentieth-century rural Mexico, highlighting the interpretation of the process of political class formation.Book... -
Rethinking Asia's Economic Miracle: The Political Economy of War, Prosperity and Crisis by Richard Stubbs
$90.38In the new edition of this important contribution to understanding both the Asian economic miracle and the 1997-8 crisis, Richard Stubbs assesses the main explanations to date and updates the analysis to take account of globalization and the remarkable... -
Revolutionary Iran: Challenge and Response in the Middle East by R. K. Ramazani
$56.55The policies and actions of revolutionary Iran continue to reverberate throughout the world. Now with a new epilogue on the Iranian-American arms deal. "Revolutionary Iran" is the most incisive account to date of the Khomeini regime's foreign policy and... -
Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation by James Howard Kunstler 9780802121448
RRP: $27.28$25.62James Howard Kunstler's critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler's shocking vision of our post-oil future caught the... -
Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God by Amy Erica Smith
RRP: $65.08$47.99As Brazilian democracy faces a crisis of legitimacy, political divisions grow among Catholic, evangelical, and non-religious citizens. What has caused religious polarization in Brazilian politics? Does religious politics shore up or undermine democracy?... -
Americans in China: Encounters with the People's Republic by Terry Lautz 9780197512838
RRP: $51.43$43.64Americans in China tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and scholars... -
Environmental Protest in Western Europe by Christopher Rootes 9780199218509
$88.70The rise of environmentalism has been one of the more remarkable developments in the politics of western societies in recent decades. However, as environmental awareness has become more generalized, the forms of expression of environmental concern have... -
The Human Right to Health by Jonathan Wolfe 9780393063356
RRP: $39.88$31.92Few topics in human rights have inspired as much debate as the right to health. Proponents would enshrine it as a fundamental right on a par with freedom of speech and freedom from torture. Detractors suggest that the movement constitutes an impractical... -
Tenement Nation: Working-Class Cosmopolitanism in Edinburgh by Christa Ballard Tooley 9780253066008
RRP: $52.48$45.51Around the world, blue-collar politics have become associated with resistance to the multicultural. While this may also be true in Edinburgh, Scotland, a closer look reveals the growth of liberal democratic ideals in the working-class population, which... -
Religion in World Conflict by Jonathan Fox
RRP: $90.28$78.94This new book tackles two crucial questions: First, how does religion in its various forms and manifestations influence world politics? Second, how will adding religion to the discourse on international relations modify our theoretical understanding?... -
Utopia or Bust by Benjamin Kunkel
$34.63After the financial crash and the Great Recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned.But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone... -
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines by Michael E. Mann 9780231152549
RRP: $52.50$40.87The ongoing assault on climate science in the United States has never been more aggressive, more blatant, or more widely publicized than in the case of the Hockey Stick graph-a clear and compelling visual presentation of scientific data, put together by... -
God Is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourishedin Communist China by Liao Yiwu 9780062078476
RRP: $31.48$19.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062078476Author Liao YiwuFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 196gDimensions(mm) 208mm *... -
The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program by Jeremy Scahill 9781501144141
RRP: $33.60$20.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501144141Author Jeremy ScahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm *... -
The State Is Your Enemy: Essays on Liberation and Racial Justice by James Kelman 9781629639680
RRP: $39.88$25.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639680Author James KelmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Coercive Confinement in Ireland: Patients, Prisoners and Penitents by Eoin O'Sullivan 9780719086489
RRP: $189.00$136.12This book provides an overview of the incarceration of tens of thousands of men, women and children during the first fifty years of Irish independence. Psychiatric hospitals, mother and baby homes, Magdalen homes, Reformatory and Industrial schools,... -
Victims and Perpetrators of Terrorism: Exploring Identities, Roles and Narratives by Orla Lynch
RRP: $88.18$80.54This volume examines how both victims and perpetrators of terrorism are relevant to our understanding of political violence.While the perpetrators of political violence have been the subject of significant academic research, victims of terrorism and... -
A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin 9780198294719
$198.18The New Handbook of Political Science is an authoritative survey of developments in the discipline compiled by 42 of the most famous political scientists worldwide, analysing progress over the past twenty years and assessing this in the context of...