Politics category: 19839 books
Kosovo
The Politics of Identity and Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2005
Kosovo: The Politics of Identity and Space explores the Albanian-Serbian confrontation after Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power and the policy of repression in Kosovo through the lens of the Kosovo education system. The argument is woven around the story of imposed ethnic segregation in Kosovo's education,...
Domestic Politics and International Narcotics Control
U.S. Relations with Mexico and Colombia, 1989-2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007
This book examines different levels of narcotics control cooperation between the United States, Mexico and Colombia.
Victor J. Hinojosa finds that Mexico is consistently held to a very different standard than Colombia and that the US often satisfies domestic political pressures to be tough...
by Harald Wydra
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
This path-breaking book argues that practices of the sacred are constitutive of modern secular politics. Following a tradition of enquiry in anthropology and political theory, it examines how limit situations shape the political imagination and collective identity. As an experiential and cultural...
by María José Álvarez-Rivadulla
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
This book unveils the political economy of land squatting in a third world city, Montevideo, in Uruguay. It focuses on the effects of democratization on the mobilization of the poorest as well as on the role played by different types of brokers, from radical Catholic priests to local leaders embedded...
Political Communication and Leadership
Mimetisation, Hugo Chavez and the Construction of Power and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
The long-lasting hegemonic rule of President Hugo Chávez not only involved significant rearrangements in the control of political power in Venezuela but also shifts in the way its citizens constructed, connected and interacted with politics. In this book, Elena Block explores the political communication...
Spain's 'Second Transition'?
The Socialist government of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Few would have imagined the developments and the extent of reforms that occurred under Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero between 2004 and 2008. Under Zapatero, Spain rapidly withdrew Spanish troops from Iraq, held a very public political debate on the Spanish Civil War and the...
by Chris Farrands, Imad El-Anis, Roy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
International Relations is a multi-disciplinary and heterogeneous subject which goes to the heart of relations between states and international organisations embracing international politics, economics, political economy, diplomatic and international history. It seeks to explain the mainsprings of...
Pariah Politics
Understanding Western Radical Islamism and What Should be Done
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Pariah Politics breaks new ground in examining the issue of western Islamist extremism from the perspective of government. It links underlying causes to the capacity of governments to respond directly and to influence others. The book contains four main messages. Focusing on causes, not symptoms....
Perverse Politics?
Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective...
Kant's International Relations
The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Why does Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) consistently invoke God and Providence in his most prominent texts relating to international politics? In this wide-ranging study, Seán Molloy proposes that texts such as Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent and Toward Perpetual Peace cannot...
Ethics and the Orator
The Ciceronian Tradition of Political Morality
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
For thousands of years, critics have attacked rhetoric and the actual practice of politics as unprincipled, insincere, and manipulative. In Ethics and the Orator, Gary A. Remer disagrees, offering the Ciceronian rhetorical tradition as a rejoinder. He argues that the Ciceronian tradition is based...
The Politics of Narcotic Drugs
A Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
The Politics of Narcotic Drugs brings together leading experts on the drugs trade to provide an accessible yet detailed analysis of the multiple challenges that the contemporary trade in narcotic drugs and its prohibition pose, from the local to the international community.
Through the...
by Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
French philosopher and Talmudic commentator Emmanuel Levinas (1906–1995) has received considerable attention for his influence on philosophical and religious thought. In this book, Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani provides the first examination of the applicability of Emmanuel Levinas’ work to social...
by Scott G Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order, justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major political theorists of the modern epoch.
Nelson...