Politics category: 19839 books
by Elizabeth Dauphinee
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured identity,...
Eduard Bernstein on Social Democracy and International Politics
Essays and Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book presents three later works by the German social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English in full for the first time: Social Democracy and International Politics: Social Democracy and the European Question; League of Nations or League of States; and International...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges advanced industrial democracies faced, as well...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2013
This Handbook provides an in-depth overview of how China is governed, how its domestic political system functions and the critical issues that it currently faces. Governed by the world’s largest political party in the world’s longest-ruling Communist regime, China is undergoing a transitional...
German politics today
Third edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This revised and updated third edition provides readers with a comprehensive description and analysis of the German political system, and of the political behaviour within the context of that system. It surveys the historical development of German politics, including the background, processes and...
by Paul W. Kahn
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In this wide-ranging interdisciplinary work, Paul W. Kahn argues that political order is founded not on contract but on sacrifice. Because liberalism is blind to sacrifice, it is unable to explain how the modern state has brought us to both the rule of law and the edge of nuclear annihilation. We...
Stay the Hand of Vengeance
The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
International justice has become a crucial part of the ongoing political debates about the future of shattered societies like Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Cambodia, and Chile. Why do our governments sometimes display such striking idealism in the face of war crimes and atrocities abroad, and at other times...
Couch Potato Politics
Why America Is Screwed Up And Why It's Our Own Damn Fault
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
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Uninformed
Why People Seem to Know So Little about Politics and What We Can Do about It
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Research polls, media interviews, and everyday conversations reveal an unsettling truth: citizens, while well-meaning and even passionate about current affairs, appear to know very little about politics. Hundreds of surveys document vast numbers of citizens answering even basic questions about government...
The New Politics of Indian Gaming
The Rise of Reservation Interest Groups
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The advent of gaming on Indian reservations has created a new kind of tribal politics over the past three decades. Now armed with often substantial financial resources, Indigenous peoples have adjusted their political strategies from a focus on the judicial system and the Bureau of Indian Affairs...
by Alain Badiou
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
One of the world’s leading radical philosophers analyses the failure of the Syriza experience in Greece
Over the last six years, Greece has provided the world with “an open-air political lesson.” The country’s deep economic and social crisis has exposed the fundamental contradictions...
by Stephanie Hoover
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Politics in Kelayres turned deadly on November 5, 1934. When Republican boss "Big Joe" Bruno sensed his grip on Pennsylvania's anthracite coal region slipping away with the night's election, he and a few family members opened fire on a peaceful Democratic parade passing Bruno's home. The carnage was...
The Present Politics of the Past
Indigenous Legal Activism and Resistance to (Neo)Liberal Governmentality
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2004
This work applies Jacques Derrida's framework of "spectropolitics" to (post)coloniality in order to investigate the emergence of indigenous peoples' movements, advances a poststructural approach to the analysis of liberal politics based upon the historical sociology of Michel Foucault, and...
Hate, Politics, Law
Critical Perspectives on Combating Hate
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
References to hate have become ubiquitous in the modern response to group defamation and violence in liberal democracies. Whether expressed in speech, acted out in criminal conduct, or seen as the fuel of terror and extremism, hate is persistently considered a vice, an evil, and a threat to the modern...