Political Science
Explore a comprehensive selection of political science books, including essential titles on the fundamentals and principles of the field. Discover the best political science booklist and best-selling books at our online bookstore.
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Plowshares Into Swords: Weaponized Knowledge, Liberal Order, and the League of NationsAn in-depth look at how the ideas formulated by the interwar League of Nations shaped American thinking on the modern global order. In Plowshares into Swords, David Ekbladh recaptures the power of knowledge and information developed between World War I and World War II...
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Delivering on Promises: The Domestic Politics of Compliance in International CourtsA timely investigation into the conditions that make international agreements--and the institutions that enforce them--vulnerable. When do international institutions effectively promote economic cooperation among countries and help them resolve conflict? Although the international system lacks any central governing authority, states have created rules, particularly...
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Circular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It Is the Green Way or the HighwayCircular Design for Zero Emission Architecture and Building Practice: It is the Green Way or the Highway presents the main concepts of circular architecture and building design, focusing on emerging trends in zero-emission buildings, particularly zero- and minus- carbon practice. The book is structured...
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Media Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of SpeechMedia Dictatorship: How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech outlines how the American media amasses enormous power and uses it to control every aspect of the people's lives--including schools, elections, science, and freedom of thought. Even religious institutions, supposedly answerable to God...
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Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese 'Revolution'Tripoli, Lebanon's 'Sunni City' is often presented as an Islamist or even Jihadi city. However, this misleading label conceals a much deeper history of resistance and collaboration with the state and the wider region. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork and using...
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Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Living on the Edge of BurnoutCaroline Alphin presents an original exploration of biopolitics by examining it through the lens of cyberpunk science fiction.Comprised of five chapters, Neoliberalism and Cyberpunk Science Fiction is guided by four central themes: biopolitics, intensification, resilience, and accelerationism. The first chapters examine the political possibilities...
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Blasphemies Compared: Transgressive Speech in a Globalised WorldThis volume examines both historical developments and contemporary expressions of blasphemy across the world. The transgression of religious boundaries incurs more or less severe sanctions in various religious traditions. This book looks at how religious and political authorities use ideas about blasphemy as a...
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Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-MarxismIn the past two decades, Marxism has enjoyed a revitalization as a research program and a growth in its audience. This renaissance is connected to the revival of anti-capitalist contestation since the Seattle protests in 1999 and the impact of the global economic and...
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Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State, and WarThis book offers a multidisciplinary analysis of emerging technologies and their impact on the new international security environment across three levels of analysis. While recent technological developments, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and automation, have the potential to transform international relations in positive...
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Economic Liberalisation in Latin AmericaThis book explores the process of economic liberalisation in Latin America and revises the transition from the import substitution industrialisation model to market-oriented reforms. It explains the theoretical foundations of the neoliberal paradigm and the implications of the policies that were labelled as the...
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Schools and National Identities in French-Speaking Africa: Political Choices, Means of Transmission and AppropriationSchools and National Identities in French-speaking Africa showcases cutting-edge research to provide a renewed understanding of the role of schools in producing and reproducing national identities. Using individual case studies and comparative frameworks, it presents diverse empirical and theoretical insights from and about a...
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River Basin Organizations in Water DiplomacyWill tensions and disputes among states sharing international water courses and lakes turn into active conflicts? Addressing this question, the book shows that these concerns are more prominent due to the locations and underlying political dynamics of some of these large rivers and the...
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China's Grand Strategy Under Xi Jinping: How History Complicates Beijing's Global OutreachThis book attempts to identify change and continuity in PRC grand strategy, and the extent to which Chinese imperial history complicates PRC global outreach in the Xi Jinping era. Empires convey the wish to make the world a better place - even in the...
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The Ethics of War and the Force of Law: A Modern Just War TheoryThis book provides a thorough critical overview of the current debate on the ethics of war, as well as a modern just war theory that can give practical action-guidance by recognizing and explaining the moral force of widely accepted law.Traditionalist, Walzerian, and revisionist approaches...
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Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered WorldClimate change confronts us with our most pressing challenges today. The global consensus is clear that human activity is mostly to blame for its harmful effects, but there is disagreement about what should be done. While no shortage of proposals from ecological footprints and...
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The Politics of Well-Being: Towards a More Ethical WorldThe Politics of Well-Being argues that the relationship between well-being and ethical life has been overlooked. The more specific argument of the book is that ethical life requires political engagement, and the emergence of a society committed to critical thinking. It is argued that...
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Understanding Mexico's Security ConundrumUnlike other analyses which aim to explain the notion of national security in Mexico and at the same time address the security challenges facing the country, this short text describes the distinction between national, internal and public security in Mexico. It is the first...
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Legislative Deliberative Democracy: Debating Acts Restricting Freedom of Speech during WarFreedom of speech is a basic right in a democracy. During war, however, national legislatures tend to enact laws that restrict this basic right. Under what circumstances can such laws be democratically legitimate? Avichai Levit argues that the degree of democratic legitimacy of laws...
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Changing Bureaucracies: Adapting to Uncertainty, and How Evaluation Can HelpIn Changing Bureaucracies, international experts provide an unparalleled look at how public sector bureaucracies can better adapt to the reality of unprecedented levels of uncertainty and complexity, and how they can better respond to the emerging needs and demands of citizens and beneficiaries. In...
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Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders: The Case of Contemporary SpainCapitalism, Institutions and Social Orders develops a novel political economy approach by establishing a dialogue between the Social Structures of Accumulation (SSA) theory and Ernesto Laclau's post-Marxism theory. Using this synthesis, it provides an in-depth analysis of Spain's recent socio-economic evolution since the early...
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