Political Science

As the main artery of international commerce, merchant shipping was the world's first globalised industry, often serving as a vanguard for issues touching on labour recruiting, the employment relationship, and regulatory enforcement that crossed national...

Englishwoman Mary McAuley first arrived in Leningrad in the early 1960s, eager to study labor relations for her thesis. Staying at a hostel, she met a number of Soviet students, many born under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Over the half-century that...

In 2006, British forces entered the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in what would become one of the defining military campaigns of the decade. At great cost in blood and treasure, the UK waged a protracted counter-insurgency against a resurgent Taliban...

The rights and responsibilities of the individual are at the centre of today's armed conflicts in a way that they have never been before. This process of 'individualization', which challenges the primacy of the sovereign state, is driven by normative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560030Author Marjorie CohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851249162Author Antonio GramsciFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman Books

Dozens of books are published each year on leadership, but as pundits, scholars, philosophers, and public intellectuals note, what is written is too often shallow and facile, oriented toward quick fixes for performance enhancement or internal...

This volume examines the complex international system of the twenty first century from a variety of perspectives. Proceeding from critical theoretical perspectives and incorporating case studies, the chapters focus on broad trends as well as...

The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country-with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had moulded his Court. He had...

The liberal state is dead, long live the partner stateAcross the world, the liberal nation state is on its knees. Rising inequality, deep political polarization, and the pervasive power of corporations are tearing apart the social contract and...

Through the study of civil society, the evolution of social relations, and the breakdown of social order, Order and Anarchy re-examines the role of violence in human social evolution. Drawing on anthropology, political science, and evolutionary theory,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717808267Author Tony PecinovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 426Imprint International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595231024Author Jonah GoldbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint SentinelPublisher Sentinel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579949Author Douglas MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury ContinuumPublisher Bloomsbury ContinuumWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

As the UK negotiates Brexit, what are the effects, implications and challenges that lie ahead? Janice Morphet takes a long term view on the range of institutional and operational options that may be deployed by the UK, EU and other international...

A provocative debunking of accepted economic wisdom which offers a new pathway to a sustainable, survivable economy.Confronted by the devastating trends of the early twenty-first century - widening inequality, environmental destruction, and...

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive practices...

Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262539753Author Laura DeNardisFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

From an acclaimed musician comes an inside look at one of the most controversial and influential civil rights movements of our time.Nights in Tents is a memoir of the profoundly moving, and often hysterical, circumstances a fifty-one-year-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942426097Author Maria WirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint ATOM PressPublisher ATOM Press

The war on terror is a lost cause. As the war heads towards its second decade, American security policy is in disarray - the Iraq War is a disaster, Afghanistan is deeply insecure and the al-Qaida movement remains as potent as ever with new generations...

In this Element, I introduce the socio-legal study of politics of rights as the theoretical framework to understand rights in the culturally and politically diverse region of Southeast Asia. The politics of rights framework is empirically grounded and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorLeonard Cole is professor of political science at Rutgers University.ReviewsCole's book addresses a serious structural problem of constitutional democracy. It is...

Most Americans are not aware that the US prison population has tripled over the past two decades, nor that the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the industrialized world. Despite these facts, politicians from across the ideological spectrum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786613097Author Stefano BartoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint ECPR PressPublisher ECPR PressWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 151mm * 13mm

An incisive analysis of Britain's decision-making role in the Yugoslavian conflict of the 1990s and in the formation of its successor states. Tracing the evolution of British policy from the onset of war in Croatia and Bosnia to the NATO action in...

As India prepares to take its place in shaping the course of an 'Asian century', there are increasing debates about its 'grand strategy' and its role in a future world order. This timely and topical book presents a range of historical and contemporary...

This text provides a critical but systematic overview of democratic theory and practice in the contemporary world. The authors show that recent developments are more complex than admitted by proponents of the idea of a democratic world with, what they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035825271Author Angeleen Chenesai MagwiziFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh...

While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This...

More than just an opportunity to uncover fact after conflict, truth commissions can also offer restorative power to nations across the globe. Truth Commissions and State Building presents the first comparative study of the role of its kind, illuminating...

Under the Westphalian system of international order, each nation is understood to be sovereign and its borders are seen as inviolable. "Beyond Westphalia" brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the question of whether recent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593084397Author Robin PogrebinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint PortfolioPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate and...

Using real-world examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics systematically applies International Relations theory to explore the international politics of forced migration. Provides an accessible and thought-provoking...

What can the international community do when countries would rather ignore a thorny problem? Scorecard Diplomacy shows that, despite lacking traditional force, public grades are potent symbols that can evoke countries' concerns about their reputations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571743091Author Ray GrasseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing CoWeight(grams) 1g

In Mo(ve)ments of Resistance , Grinberg summarizes both his own work and that of other political economists, providing a coherent historical narrative covering the time from the beginning of Socialist Zionism (1904) to the Oslo Accords and the...