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Financial Crises and the Politics of Macroeconomic Adjustments

This book explains why governments respond differently to macroeconomic problems and why necessary reforms are sometimes delayed until a ...

European Identity

European economic integration has advanced faster and further than anyone could have predicted, yet hopes are fading for a single Europea...

The Miracle of the Kurds - A Remarkable Story of Hope Reborn in Northern Iraq

The story of one American's Quixote-like vision for Kurdistan following Saddam's barbarous attacks of the early 1990s - encouraging the K...

Liberalism - A Counter-History

In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a...

Bananas, Beaches and Bases - Making Feminist Sense of International Politics

This radical analysis of globalization reveals the crucial role of women in international politics today. Cynthia Enloe pulls back the cu...

Gujarat Riots - the True Story: The Truth of the 2002 Riots

The 2002 violence in Gujarat, Godhra and after was reported widely by the media, both Indian and Global. The nature of the violence, the ...

Labour Market and Precarity of Employment - Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Data from Hungary and Russia

The book reflects with heterogenous contributions - one presenting purely theoretical reflections, the other two looking more focussed on...

Labor Economics

The new edition of a widely used, comprehensive graduate-level text and professional reference covering all aspects of labor economics, w...

What Diplomats Do - The Life and Work of Diplomats

What do diplomats actually do? That is what this text seeks to answer by describing the various stages of a typical diplomat's career. Th...

Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination

Early in his career, Hitler took inspiration from Mussolini¿this fact is widely known. But an equally important role model for Hitler has...

Illusions Dystopias & Monsters

Illusions, Dystopias & Monsters: How the Truths Of Our Time May Be Stranger Than Fiction is a unique, captivating and thoroughly disturbi...

World Order

"Dazzling and instructive . . . [a] magisterial new book." -Walter Isaacson, Time Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation...

World Order - Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History

The summation of Henry Kissinger's thinking about history, strategy and statecraft, WORLD ORDER examines the great tectonic plates of his...

Political Order and Political Decay - From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisatin of Democracy

If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent...

Forward! - The Story of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

In Poland it was an unparalleled success before soon becoming a 2013 bestseller in Hungary and later being translated into German; now it...

Political Order and Political Decay - From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress cal...

The Economics of Inequality

An introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic equality over time, by the author...

This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs. the Climate

Explains why the environmental crisis should lead to an abandonment of "free market" ideologies and current political systems, arguing th...

Human Rights: A Very Short Introduction

What are our human rights? What are their philosophical justifications and historical origins? Focusing on highly topical issues such as ...

Governing the Commons - The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state c...

Is a Universal Morality Possible?

I am impressed by the rich plurality of approaches, and the convergence ont he central theme of universal morality, displayed by the dive...

No Place to Hide - Edward Snowden, the NSA and the U.S. Surveillance State

A groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the A...

Without You, There Is No Us - Undercover Among the Sons of North Korea's Elite

A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every ...

No Hero - The Evolution of a Navy SEAL

The companion volume to the multimillion-copy bestseller No Easy Day by former Navy SEAL Mark Owen reveals the evolution of a SEAL Team S...

Blackstone's EU Treaties & Legislation 2015-2016

Market-leading and first choice with students and lecturers, Blackstone's Statutes have an unrivalled tradition of trust and quality. Wit...

CiviC Disobedience: Taking Politics Seriously - A Democratic Theory of Political Disobedience

The book offers a counter-model to the classical liberal theories of civil disobedience, as developed by authors such as John Rawls and R...

Still the Century of Overkill? - Strengthening the Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Contrary to ill-founded expectations, the end of Cold War did not eliminate the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Although we ...

The Conservative Mind, from Burke to Santayana - From Burke to Eliot

2015 Reprint of 1953 Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In attempting to ...

Forward!

In Poland it was an unparalleled success before soon becoming a 2013 bestseller in Hungary and later being translated into German; now it...

Racism - A Short History

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth cen...

Postcolonial Transitions in Europe - Contexts, Practices and Politics

Is the notion of postcolonial Europe an oxymoron? How do colonial pasts inform the emergence of new subjectivities and political frontier...

The 'War on Terror' and the Framework of International Law

Helen Duffy's analysis of international law and practice in relation to terrorism and counter-terrorism provides a framework for analysin...

International Human Rights Law - Cases, Materials, Commentary

This fully updated edition offers coverage of new topics and a more student-friendly design, while retaining the original style and featu...

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism - The Puzzle of Distributive Politics

Brokers, Voters, and Clientelism studies distributive politics: how parties and governments use material resources to win elections.

Constitution Of The State Of Kansas - Adopted At Wyandotte July 29, 1859

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. T...

Another Brick in the Barricade: The Gezi Resistance and Its Aftermath

¿After more than two years, what has remained of the Gezi Park protests?¿ ¿Is Gezi`s critique of political power still valid?¿ ¿What has ...

Societies Under Siege - Exploring How International Economic Sanctions (Do Not) Work

This book is the first ever comparative study of how international economic sanctions work - or do not work - to achieve their political ...

Renminbi Internationalization - Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges

"A Brookings Institution Press and Asian Development Bank Institute publication Meet the next global currency: the Chinese renminbi, or t...

The Fog of Peace - A Memoir of International Peacekeeping in the 21st Century

" No small number of books laud and record the heroic actions of those at war. But the peacekeepers? Who tells their stories? At the begi...

Flashpoints - The Emerging Crisis in Europe

New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman delivers a fascinating portrait of modern-day Europe, with ...

Kissinger: Volume 1 - 1923-1968: The Idealist

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on un...

Imagined Communities - Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

The defining, best-selling book on the history, origins and development of nationalism

Boko Haram - Inside Nigeria's Unholy War

An insurgency in Nigeria by the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has left thousands dead, shaken Africa's biggest country and worried ...

Trump revealed - An American Journey of Ambition, Ego, Money and Power

He most current and definitive investigation into the life and times of the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Trump Revealed ...

Politics and Vision - Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought. With a New Foreword by Wendy Brown

Politics and Vision is a landmark work by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. This is a significantly expanded edition of...

Women's Empowerment and Youth Entrepreneurship in Agriculture and Rural Development Sector in Ghana - South-South and Triangular Cooperation

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, Mohammed...

Islamic Law and Transnational Diplomatic Law - A Quest for Complementarity in Divergent Legal Theories

This book, in its effort to formulate compatibility between Islamic law and the principles of international diplomatic law, argues that t...

Bashar Al-Assad. The Web of Interests Surrounding Syria¿s Dictator

Essay from the year 2015 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 1,0, , course: Writing Skills, language: Englis...

The International Politics of Human Trafficking

This book explores the international politics behind the identification of human trafficking as a major global problem. Since 2000, tackl...

The Politics of Evidence-Based Policy Making

'This is essential reading for anyone interested in how evidence and policy interact in the real world. Paul Cairney plots an entertainin...

South West England

Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire - The Historian Mustafa Ali (1541-1600)

Mustafa Ali was the foremost historian of the sixteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Most modern scholars of the Ottoman period have focused o...

Governance for Development - Political and Administrative Reforms in Bangladesh

Analyzing Bangladesh's governance problems and drawing insights that will be relevant to other developing countries, this book sharpens o...

A Black Man in the White House - Barack Obama and the Triggering of America's Racial-Aversion Crisis

In this book Cornell Belcher, award-winning pollster who twice served on President Barack Obama's presidential election team, presents st...

Freedom & Responsibility - Readings for Writers

Progress in American society comes through careful analysis of the past, choosing the best path forward by interrogating what has come be...

Hydropolitics, Interest Groups and Governance - The Case of the Proposed Epupa Dam

This book investigates the role that interest groups have played over the years in influencing the government of Namibia, the World Bank,...

The Golden Age of Southern Cameroons - Prime Lessons for Cameroon

This book argues that since the emergence of the Cameroon National Union (CNU) and the one-party state in 1966, Cameroonians have progres...

China's Future

China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs. Having enjoyed unprecedented levels of growth, China is at ...

Prisoners of Geography

ON THE RUSSIA/UKRAINE CRISIS - What is driving Russia's foreign policy? Why do Putin's actions mirror those made in the past? Prisoners o...

Military Leadership Lessons for Public Service

Military veterans have had some of the most intensive leadership training available. Many return to their communities seeking to apply wh...