Politics category: 19839 books
Decolonising Governance
Archipelagic Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated ‘parochially’...
by Julian Bernauer
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Ethnicity and ethnic parties have often been portrayed as a threat to political stability. This book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups has potential to increase regime support and reduce conflict.
Malcolm X at Oxford Union
Racial Politics in a Global Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford University. The topic of debate that evening was the infamous phrase from Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican Convention speech:"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."...
by Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This ebook has been ported from theanarchistlibrary.org.
I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.
—Emma Goldman, 1931
An anarchist is someone who rejects the domination of one person or class of people over another....
Negotiating Minefields
The Landmines Ban in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Against all odds, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines helped to enact a global treaty banning antipersonnel mines in 1997. For that achievement it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In this volume, Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries...
Hobbes and America
Exploring the Constitutional Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
This path-breaking study seriously shakes the credibility of the prevalent interpretations of American government and politics. It exposes the real American constitutional morality, one embodied in a code adhered to by those in political life.
Frank Coleman makes a persuasive case that the...
Militants or Partisans
Labor Unions and Democratic Politics in Korea and Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2011
The exceptional experiences of South Korea and Taiwan in combining high growth and liberal democracy in a relatively short and similar timetable have brought scholarly attention to their economic and political transformations. This new work looks specifically at the operation of workers and unions...
Korea's Developmental Alliance
State, Capital and the Politics of Rapid Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
South Korea is often cited as a case of miraculous transformation from poverty to prosperity. Korea’s achievement of moving from one of the world’s poorest countries as recently as the early 1960s to the ranks of the ten biggest economies only four decades later has rightly attracted interest...
Raised to Rage
The Politics of Anger and the Roots of Authoritarianism
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
An argument that voter anger and authoritarian political attitudes can be traced to the displacement of anger, fear, and helplessness.
Politicians routinely amplify and misdirect voters' anger and resentment to win their support. Opportunistic candidates encourage supporters to direct their...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns, and communication in developed and developing nations, but available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this imbalance head-on, compiling cutting-edge research...
by Si Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
FDR's 1936 reelection represented his greatest political triumph. Yet the election remains largely unstudied despite the fact that critical decisions by some of the most colorful—and controversial—characters in American history make it one of the most significant ever to take place. This landmark...
Visual Politics and North Korea
Seeing is Believing
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
In the realm of international relations, there are seemingly few states like North Korea. Whether it is the country’s human rights situation, its precarious everyday life or its so-called foreign policy of coercion and nuclear brinkmanship, no matter what this ‘pariah’ nation says and does it...
The Politics of Destroying Surplus Small Arms
Inconspicuous Disarmament
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Although it receives much less attention than better known disarmament processes, the destruction of small arms is reshaping the military arsenals of the world. Out of roughly 200 modern military small arms world-wide, about 500,000 are destroyed every year. The commitment of major governments and...
by Michael Corbett, Julia Corbett-Hemeyer, J. Matthew Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong role that religion has played in its major social movements and ongoing political life. This book...