Politics and Current Affairs

This is a pioneering critical intervention into the study of terrorism, language and political thought. Challenging the commonly held idea that ‘su...

In this groundbreaking book, sociologist Andrew Perrin shows that rules and institutions, while important, are not the core of democracy. Instead, ...

As the world s only superpower, America s foreign policy inevitably has a major impact Ð be it positive or negative – on contemporary international...

The G8 runs what South African president Thabo Mbeki and others describe as 'global apartheid'. ... He -- and everyone else -- should read this sup...

"The Baghdad Bulletin was essential reading in the first few months after the end of the war. ... I am only sorry that I cannot read it anymore. Da...

Britain has been a significant voice in global politics in the last two decades and its impact on world events far outweighs its material resources...

After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not ca...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015The term peace process is now widely used to describe attempts to manage and resolve conflict. As the n...

Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space r...

During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of East...

Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India. Drawing on five year...

East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s share of wor...

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book criti...

Worldwide, the construction sector is regularly rated as the most corrupt industry. Even so, the scale and effects of this corruption are frequentl...

"TI has once again shown its ability to combine research and policy analysis not just to shine a light on the deeply embedded problems of corruptio...

List of Plates, List of Figures, Maps, and Tables, Foreword, Notes, Introduction: The Creation of Global Issues, 1. Population, The Changing Popula...

Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individ...

‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only t...

Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most impor...

A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East T...

Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...

International Relations only emerged as a discipline in its own right in the early twentieth century as scholars and practitioners sought to study ...