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Why We're Losing the War on Terror Paul Rogers (University of Bradford) 9780745641973
RRP: £14.99£13.78The 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... -
The Politics of Rights and Southeast Asia by Lynette J. Chua
RRP: £17.00£14.72In 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... -
Clouds of Secrecy: The Army's Germ Warfare Tests Over Populated Areas by Leonard A. Cole 9780847675791
RRP: £110.00£96.03Apologies 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... -
Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics by Katherine Beckett 9780195136265
RRP: £38.99£26.91Most 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... -
The Political by Stefano Bartolini
£36.31Apologies 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 -
Britain and the Balkans: 1991 until the Present by Carole Anne Hodge 9780415586641
RRP: £43.99£38.44An 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... -
India's Grand Strategy: History, Theory, Cases Kanti Bajpai (National University of Singapore) 9781138663978
RRP: £47.99£42.21As 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... -
The Democratic Challenge: Rethinking Democracy and Democratization by Jorge Nef
£42.04This 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... -
Life on the Other Side of My Neighbourhood by Angeleen Chenesai Magwizi 9781035825271
RRP: £7.99£5.98Apologies 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)... -
Why Can't You Afford a Home? Josh Ryan-Collins 9781509523252
RRP: £40.00£34.80Throughout 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... -
Punishment and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger by Lawrence T. Nichols
RRP: £45.99£40.53While 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... -
Truth Commissions and State Building by Bonny Ibhawoh 9780228018995
RRP: £35.00£30.74More 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... -
Beyond Westphalia?: National Sovereignty and International Intervention Gene M. Lyons (Dartmouth College) 9780801849541
RRP: £28.00£27.60Under 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... -
The Education Of Brett Kavanaugh by Robin Pogrebin
RRP: £25.99£16.98Apologies 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 -
The Congressional Endgame: Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise by Josh M Ryan 9780226582238
RRP: £28.00£27.39Congress 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... -
Forced Migration and Global Politics Alexander Betts (University of Oxford, UK) 9781405180320
RRP: £30.95£27.24Using 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... -
Scorecard Diplomacy: Grading States to Influence their Reputation and Behavior by Judith G. Kelley
RRP: £30.99£26.77What 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... -
Signs of the Times: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of World Events by Ray Grasse 9781571743091
RRP: £11.99£11.91Apologies 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 -
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine, 1931-2013 by Lev Luis Grinberg 9781618113788
RRP: £24.99£24.14In 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... -
The Ones We Let Down: Toxic Leadership Culture and Gender Integration in the Canadian Forces by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine 9780228011262
RRP: £27.99£24.14In 2021, a sexual misconduct scandal struck the Canadian military, leading to a profound crisis in leadership. While some more recent allegations came to light before the #MeToo movement, these latest revelations have historical roots in the 1990s, an... -
Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century Cynthia C. Combs 9781032077970
RRP: £76.99£67.05Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century helps readers understand terrorism, responses to it, and current trends that affect the future of this phenomenon. Putting terrorism into historical perspective and analysing it as a form of political violence, this... -
Reporting the Partition of Punjab 1947: Press, Public & Other Opinions by Raghuvendra Tanwar
£82.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788173046742Author Raghuvendra TanwarFormat HardbackPage Count 622Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors -
Not a Choice, Not a Job: Exposing the Myths About Prostitution and the Global Sex Trade by Janice G. Raymond
RRP: £27.99£21.70A generation ago, most people did not know how ubiquitous and grave human trafficking was. Now most people agree that the $35.7 billion business is an appalling violation of human rights. But when confronted with prostitution, many people experience an... -
The Real Utopias Project: v. 4: Deepening Democracy - Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance by Archon Fung
RRP: £20.99£20.98The institutional forms of liberal democracy developed in the nineteenth century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the twenty-first. This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume... -
Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall
RRP: £44.99£40.49Alfred Marshall, Principles of Economics (1890) - Founder of Modern (Neo-classical) Economics. His book Principles of Economics was the dominant textbook in economics for a long time and it is considered to be his seminal work.About the AuthorAlfred... -
Complex Political Decision-Making: Leadership, Legitimacy and Communication Peter Bursens 9781032097428
RRP: £39.99£35.06Political and societal elites are increasingly confronted with complex environments in which they need to take collective decisions. Decision-makers are faced with policy issues situated at different intertwined levels which need to be negotiated with... -
Social Policy Review 32: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2020 James Rees 9781447341666
RRP: £79.99£60.86Bringing together the voices of leading experts in the field, this edition offers an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship over the past year. Published in association with the SPA, this comprehensive analysis of the... -
Toleration, Power and the Right to Justification: Rainer Forst in Dialogue by Rainer Forst
RRP: £30.00£27.15Rainer Forst's Toleration in Conflict (published in English 2013) is the most important historical and philosophical analysis of toleration of the past several decades. Reconstructing the entire history of the concept, it provides a forceful account of... -
Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India by Steven I. Wilkinson
RRP: £30.99£28.28Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots,... -
Social Enterprise, Health, and Wellbeing: Theory, Methods, and Practice by Michael Roy 9780367647315
RRP: £39.99£35.06In recent decades, governments have promoted social enterprise as a means to address welfare and tackle disadvantage. Early academic work on social enterprises reflected this development and engaged with their ability to deliver and create jobs, work... -
Defending the West James Gow (Late of Kings College, London) 9780745632353
RRP: £16.99£15.46What is the West? Why does it need to be defended? From what, by whom, and how? These are thorny questions that international society must grapple with in order to meet the security challenges of the 21st Century. This little book provides answers to... -
The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of the Service Economy Anthony Lloyd (Teesside University) 9781529204018
RRP: £85.99£65.58As the percentage of people working in the service economy continues to rise, there is a need to examine workplace harm within low-paid, insecure, flexible and short-term forms of 'affective labour'. This is the first book to discuss harm through an... -
Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia by Roselyn Hsueh
RRP: £22.99£19.96What is the relationship between internal development and integration into the global economy in developing countries? How and why do state-market relations differ? And do these differences matter in the post-cold war era of global conflict and... -
Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan Nicolas Martin (University College London, UK University College London, London, ENG University College London, UK) 9780815392989
RRP: £47.99£42.13This book offers unique insights into the changing nature of power and hierarchy in rural Pakistan from colonial times to present day. It shows how electoral politics and the erosion of traditional patron-client ties have not empowered the lower classes... -
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker from the Crimea to Iraq by Phillip Knightley 9780801880308
RRP: £37.00£34.99"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the... -
Den of Lions by Terry Anderson 9780345467928
RRP: £23.00£17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467928Author Terry AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)... -
Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights by Sonia Cardenas
RRP: £74.00£64.85National human rights institutions-state agencies charged with protecting and promoting human rights domestically-have proliferated dramatically since the 1990s; today more than a hundred countries have NHRIs, with dozens more seeking to join the global... -
Understanding Mega Free Trade Agreements: The Political and Economic Governance of New Cross-Regionalism Jean-Baptiste Velut (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, France) 9781032096469
RRP: £39.99£35.33The rise of cross-regional trade agreements is a defining trend of the current international trade system as shown by the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2015, the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership... -
Media Analysis and Public Health: Contemporary Issues in Critical Public Health by Lesley Henderson
RRP: £38.99£34.22This volume showcases new approaches to studying public health in traditional and emerging media, suggesting that we need more analyses that focus on the production of media and on power dynamics, as well as studies of audience reception of media... -
The Geography of Rural Change by Brian W. Ilbery 9780582277243
RRP: £58.99£47.84The Geography of Rural Change provides a thorough examination of the processes and outcomes of rural change as a result of a period of major restructuring in developed market economies. After outlining the main dimensions of rural change, the book...