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The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom Saul Landau 9780745321400
RRP: €59.50€38.50This book is a scathing account of George W. Bush's America before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Saul Landau delves into the erosion of civil liberties and the proliferation of empire under the guise of pre-empting the scourge of terrorism. He... -
Israeli Foreign Policy since the End of the Cold War by Amnon Aran
RRP: €107.10€89.87This is the first study of Israeli foreign policy towards the Middle East and selected world powers including China, India, the European Union and the United States since the end of the Cold War. It provides an integrated account of these foreign policy... -
Transitional Justice Theories Susanne Buckley-Zistel 9781138924451
RRP: €57.11€49.75Transitional Justice Theories is the first volume to approach the politically sensitive subject of post-conflict or post-authoritarian justice from a theoretical perspective. It combines contributions from distinguished scholars and practitioners as well... -
Contested Multilateralism 2.0 and Asian Security Dynamics by Kai He
RRP: €38.07€33.71In the 1990s there was a wave of multilateralism in the Asia Pacific, which was led primarily by ASEAN. Since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, however, many non-ASEAN states have attempted to seize the initiative, including the USA, Japan, China,... -
The New United Nations: International Organization in the Twenty-First Century John Allphin Moore, Jr. (California State Polytechnic University) 9781032250960
RRP: €54.73€47.75The third edition of this successful text highlights new international trends toward global governance, nation-building, and human development, while also assessing the extraordinary challenges confronting the United Nations at this critical moment in... -
The Australian Policy Handbook: A Practical Guide to the Policymaking Process Catherine Althaus 9781032399201
RRP: €42.83€38.01The seventh edition of this classic handbook on the policy process is fully updated, featuring new material on policy making amid local and global disruption, the contestable nature of modern policy advice, commissioning and contracting, public... -
The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders Since 1945 by Peter Hennessy 9780312293130
RRP: €71.39€47.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312293130Author Peter HennessyFormat HardbackPage Count 688Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 1152gDimensions(mm)... -
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Romo Dallaire
€17.73For the first time in the United States comes the tragic and profoundly important story of the legendary Canadian general who "watched as the devil took control of paradise on earth and fed on the blood of the people we were supposed to protect." When... -
Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society by Noam Chomsky 9781629633817
RRP: €22.60€15.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633817Author Noam ChomskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press -
Securing India in the Cyber Era by Sameer Patil 9780367716127
RRP: €23.79€21.05This book explores the geopolitics of the global cyber space to analyse India's cyber security landscape. As conflicts go more online, nation-states are manipulating the cyber space to exploit each other's dependence on information, communication and... -
My Hijacking: A Personal History of Forgetting and Remembering by Martha Hodes
RRP: €38.08€23.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062699794Author Martha HodesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 231mm *... -
Sex and World Peace by Valerie M. Hudson 9780231131827
€43.89Sex and World Peace unsettles a variety of assumptions in political and security discourse, demonstrating that the security of women is a vital factor in the security of the state and its incidence of conflict and war. The authors compare micro-level... -
Global Energy Assessment: Toward a Sustainable Future by Global Energy Assessment Writing Team 9780521182935
RRP: €85.67€75.78The Global Energy Assessment (GEA) brings together over 300 international researchers to provide an independent, scientifically based, integrated and policy-relevant analysis of current and emerging energy issues and options. It has been peer-reviewed... -
Stepford Daughters: Tools for Feminists in Contemporary Horror by Johanna Isaacson
RRP: €17.84€12.07In Stepford Daughters, Johanna Isaacson explores an emerging wave of horror films that get why class horror and gender horror must be understood together. In doing so, Isaacson makes the case that this often-maligned genre is in fact a place where... -
Calhoun: American Heretic by Robert Elder
RRP: €35.69€24.04John C. Calhoun's ghost still haunts America today. First elected to congress in 1810, Calhoun served as secretary of war during the war of 1812, and then as vice-president under two very different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It was... -
The Psychology of Political Communicators: How Politicians, Culture, and the Media Construct and Shape Public Discourse Ofer Feldman 9781138596191
RRP: €52.35€45.74In this timely study, Ofer Feldman, Sonja Zmerli, and their team of experts shed light on the multiple ways communication affects political behavior and attitudes. Written for students and scholars alike, The Psychology of Political Communicators uses... -
A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism: Reclaiming the Mindful Commons by Peter Doran
RRP: €52.35€46.22The power of capital is the power to target our attention, mould market-ready identities, and reduce the public realm to an endless series of choices. This has far-reaching implications for our psychological, physical and spiritual well-being, and... -
Threats and Promises: The Pursuit of International Influence by James W. Davis
RRP: €29.75€26.63Conventional wisdom dictates that the conditions of international politics require states to pursue "tough" strategies based on threats, ruling out "soft" strategies such as reassurances or appeasement. In Threats and Promises, James W. Davis, Jr.,... -
Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
RRP: €22.00€18.94For almost a decade, journalists and pundits have been asking why we don't see successful examples of political satire from conservatives or of opinion talk radio from liberals. This book turns that question on its head to argue that opinion talk is the... -
Staging the World: Chinese Nationalism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Rebecca E. Karl 9780822328674
RRP: €27.36€24.18In Staging the World Rebecca E. Karl rethinks the production of nationalist discourse in China during the late Qing period, between China's defeat in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895 and the proclamation of the Republic in 1911. She argues that at this... -
International Relations and Historical Sociology: Breaking Down Boundaries Stephen Hobden 9781138007185
RRP: €52.35€46.10This book provides an original analysis of recent work by key historical sociologists through the prism of International Relations. Stephen Hobden investigates the number of issues which overlap between the two disciplines by focusing on three main... -
Sovereignty After Empire: Comparing the Middle East and Central Asia by Sally N. Cummings
RRP: €34.50€32.75How does empire affect the route to successor sovereign states and their features? This systematic comparison of empires and their consequences for sovereignty applies theory to the political structures of states, and the differences between them, in the... -
The Hidden-Hand Presidency: Eisenhower as Leader by Fred I. Greenstein
RRP: €36.30€32.82With a new Foreword that examines the continuing significance of the Eisenhower presidency, this title reveals that there was great political activity beneath the placid surface of the executive office under Eisenhower. "To read (this book) is to... -
Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed by Andrew Koppelman
RRP: €27.36€19.54In 2010 in South Fulton, Tennessee, each household paid the local fire department a yearly fee of $75.00. That year, Gene Cranick's house accidentally caught fire. But the fire department refused to come because Cranick had forgotten to pay his yearly... -
On Being A Man: Four Scottish Men in Conversation by David Torrance 9781910021330
RRP: €9.51€7.19What does 'masculinity' mean today?On Being a Man brings together four men to consider the condition of Scottish men, reflect on their own backgrounds and experiences, and confront some of the most difficult issues men face. These include the changing... -
Digging for the Disappeared: Forensic Science after Atrocity by Adam Rosenblatt
RRP: €24.98€22.21The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global... -
Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism by Rafael Sanchez
RRP: €36.89€33.03Since 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... -
The Drift: Stopping America's Slide to Socialism by Kevin A Hassett 9781684512652
RRP: €34.50€20.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684512652Author Kevin A HassettFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Regnery PublishingPublisher Regnery PublishingWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 231mm... -
Command and Persuade: Crime, Law, and the State across History by Peter Baldwin
RRP: €38.08€22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262045629Author Peter BaldwinFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd -
Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed bin Laden and Devastated Al Qaeda by Aki Peritz
RRP: €21.41€17.28On 9/11 the U.S. had effectively no counterterrorism doctrine. Fast forward ten years: Osama bin Laden is dead al Qaeda is organizationally ruined and pinned in the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan there has been no major attack on American soil... -
Propaganda and Counter-Terrorism: Strategies for Global Change by Emma Briant
RRP: €101.15€72.08This 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: €52.35€45.74A 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... -
Brazil and Climate Change: Beyond the Amazon Viola Eduardo 9781138106253
RRP: €47.59€41.72Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience. As the problem worsens, the cooperative dilemma that the issue carries has become evident: climate change is a complex problem that systematically gets insufficient answers from the... -
International Organizations and Small States: Participation, Legitimacy and Vulnerability Jack Corbett (University of Southampton) 9781529207699
RRP: €32.12€25.18International Organizations (IOs) are vital institutions in world politics in which cross-border issues can be discussed and global problems managed. This path-breaking book shows the efforts that small states have made to participate more fully in IO... -
Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe by James F. Hollifield 9780674444232
RRP: €95.14€75.42This timely study of the recent migration tides explores the political and economic factors that have influenced the rise of immigration in postwar Europe and the United States. It seeks to explain immigration in terms of the globalization of labor... -
Memory Politics in Contemporary Russia: Television, Cinema and the State by Marielle Wijermars
€47.71This book examines the societal dynamics of memory politics in Russia. Since Vladimir Putin became president, the Russian central government has increasingly actively employed cultural memory to claim political legitimacy and discredit all forms of... -
COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK: Responses, Impacts and Adaptation James Rees (University of Wolverhampton) 9781447365518
RRP: €35.69€27.39The voluntary sector was central to the COVID-19 response: fulfilling basic needs, highlighting new and existing inequalities and coordinating action where the state had been slow to respond. This book curates rigorous academic, policy and... -
Palestine in Turmoil: The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1933-1939 (Vol. II) by Monty Noam Penkower 9781618113177
RRP: €92.81€89.94This comprehensive account examines the growing conflict between Arab and Jew in Palestine that first surfaced clearly in the pivotal years 1933-1939, and which proved to be an irreconcilable rift once the leadership of both peoples refused to accept... -
Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics by Nancy Fraser
€29.64Historically, leftwing accounts of injustice focused primarily on economic harms, such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality. Recently, however, with the collapse of Communism and the rise of identity politics, attention has turned toward cultural... -
The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy: Chronicling Continuity and Change by Victor Strazzeri 9781642599893
RRP: €35.70€23.66The Young Max Weber and German Social Democracy examines the formative years of the classic social thinker once called the 'bourgeois Marx,' specifically focusing on his relationship to the foremost working-class organization of his time. Offering...