Politics and Current Affairs

Liberalism by Paul Kelly, 0745621007, 9780745621005, Polity Pr

Karl Marx's classic definitions of class and society under capitalism are still widely used today. Ideas such as class, revolution, production and ...

This classic book explores the intellectual, political and social foundations of Islamism, and current Islamist groups across the Arab and Muslim w...

The term 'nation-building' has experienced a remarkable renaissance since the early 1990s. It has been used to describe and to justify the military...

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade ...

Who was Martha Bernays, the Hamburg-born woman who, after a long and turbulent engagement and against the opposition of her mother, married the Vie...

Preface , Introduction , Part I: Pakistan-US Relations, 1: Changing dynamics: Islamic Orientation of the Pakistani State & the Islamic Reaction...

As peace operations become the primary mechanism of conflict management used by the UN and regional organizations, understanding their problems and...

Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and ...

This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najaf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today...

Social Movements in Global Politics is a timely new account of the unconventional, ‘extra-institutional’ activities of social movements. In the f...

In the West, the suicide bomber has become a familiar image in newspapers and on television. In Palestine, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and elsewh...

Few phenomena in the Arab world are more controversial than Al Jazeera – the satellite television news channel that, despite its brief history, has...

The Encyclopedia of Political Thought is the most comprehensive and rigorous treatment of significant political thinkers, political theories, conce...

Despite Washington's military supremacy, its economic foundations have been weakening since the Vietnam war – accelerated by the great recession an...

This book explores the crisis in fossil fuels. Oil, gas and coal are precious resources that define modern life. Without them, mass-produced food a...

With oil reaching $100 a barrel in January 2008 and the US facing challenges to dollar hegemony, few people would now deny that there is an energy ...

The political history of the twentieth century can be viewed as the history of democracy’s struggle against its external enemies: fascism and commu...

The International Studies Encyclopedia and its online version, International Studies Online , published in association with the International Studi...

The Islamophobia Industry reflects the rising tide of anti-Muslim feeling sweeping through the United States and Europe. Lean takes us inside the ...

Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unific...

After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin s moti...

Immigration is one of the most contested issues on the political agenda of liberal states across Europe and North America. While these states can b...

Never before has the idea of democracy enjoyed the global dominance it holds today, but neoliberalism has left the practice of democracy in deep cr...