Politics category: 19839 books
Role Theory and the Cognitive Architecture of British Appeasement Decisions
Symbolic and Strategic Interaction in World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain’s...
Business and Politics in Asia's Key Financial Centres
Hong Kong, Singapore and Shanghai
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book provides unique insights into the politics of finance and the socio-political relations which drive financial policymaking in Hong kong, Singapore, and Shanghai. While the existing literature in the field focuses mainly on economic explanations for financial centre development, this book...
The Politics of Borders
Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Borders sit at the center of global politics. Yet they are too often understood as thin lines, as they appear on maps, rather than as political institutions in their own right. This book takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and...
Politics and Conceptual Histories
Rhetorical and Temporal Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The international expansion of conceptual historical research during last 20 years is a remarkable turn in the academia. The conceptual confrontation of different approaches, themes and forms of research has reached several academic fields in numerous countries. From the 1990s to the present Kari...
Origins of Liberal Dominance
State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
How did liberal movements reshape the modern world? Origins of Liberal Dominance offers a revealing account of how states, churches, and parties joined together in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany to produce fundamentally new forms of organization that have shaped contemporary politics.
Modern...
Politics in Africa
A New Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Democracy, prosperity and self-rule, this was the vision of African independence. Across the continent, however, the 'optimism' that characterized the immediate post-independence period has largely faded. Meanwhile, ordinary Africans lurch between undemocratic, unaccountable and unresponsive governments...
Talking Politics
Bhikhu Parekh in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
One of the most distinguished political philosophers of our time, British-Indian academic and peer Lord Bhikhu Parekh's work continues to deeply influence our understanding of identity, politics, and multiculturalism. Based on a series of interviews of Bhikhu Parekh by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo,...
Protest and the Politics of Blame
The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather limited. The relative passivity...
Political Bargaining
Theory, Practice and Process
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2001
This book brings an exciting and innovative new approach to the study of politics today. It introduces political bargaining, a process at the heart of all political and economic exchanges in contemporary society and the very essence of politics itself, to provide a new framework and fresh insights...
by Francis A. O'Connell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
The theory of democratic pluralism has long provided the dominant ideal and description of politics in industrial societies with competing party systems. The purpose of this classic collection, including some of the leading theorists of the late 1960s, is to subject this theory to systematic scrutiny....
The Right in Latin America
Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Most current analysis on Latin American politics has been directed at examining the shift to the left in the region. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the reactions of the right to this phenomenon. What kind of discursive, policy, and strategic responses have emerged among the right...
Crony Capitalism in the Middle East
Business and Politics from Liberalization to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2019
The popular uprisings in 2011 that overthrew Arab dictators were also a rebuke to crony capitalism, diverted against both rulers and their allied businessmen who monopolize all economic opportunities. While the Middle East has witnessed a growing nexus between business and politics in the wake of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
The 2016 election has inspired millions of U.S. citizens—and struck panic in the hearts of millions more. This book explains the allure of Trump, examines how Trump's success ties into the hopes and fears of many Americans, and calls into question the limitations of our democratic system.
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The Politics of Consolation
Memory and the Meaning of September 11
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
What meaning can be found in calamity and suffering? This question is in some sense perennial, reverberating through the canons of theology, philosophy, and literature. Today, The Politics of Consolation reveals, it is also a significant part of American political leadership. Faced with uncertainty,...