Politics and Current Affairs

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror or unpredictable violence against governments, public or individuals to attain a political objective. It ...

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

The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the discipline’s core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of...

This book looks at the process of cultural enlightenment in the context of Pakistan. It undertakes an interesting and in-depth research focusing on...

Dr. Ambedkar played a seminal role in the framing of the Indian Constitution, and is therefore called the architect of the Indian Constitution. The...

Working after the war, Hayek's writing was very much against the tide of mainstream Keynesian economic thought. But in the 1970s and 1980s - the er...

Lively, shrewd, bursting with reforming ideas, and refreshingly informed by a vast knowledge of current diplomatic practice in Asia and Africa as w...

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times wi...

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged...

This book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have...

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

The arena of global politics is a fast-changing and fascinating one, encompassing as it does the accelerating processes of globalisation, the ever-...

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 ...

This text traces the lineage and development of Russian foreign policy with the insight that comes from a historical perspective. Now fully updated...

This book is an introduction to complex systems thinking at the global governance level. It offers concepts, tools, and ways of thinking about how ...

The last two years have seen a huge amount of academic, policy-making and media interest in the increasingly contentious issue of land grabbing - t...

The book is a brilliant collection of articles written with reference to particular happenings in the Indian political scenario. Most of the articl...

This book studies the internal framework of the Indo-Pacific region and examines the strategic issues faced by the countries that belong to it. Ove...

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

This fully revised fourth edition of Michael Yahuda’s successful textbook brings the subject up-to-date, introducing students to the international ...

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 ...