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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Hizb UT-Tahrir: The Untold History of the Liberation PartyAlthough Hizb ut-Tahrir regularly holds conferences attended by tens of thousands of people, little is known about the organisation beyond the West's generalities and conjecture. Its members are repeatedly arrested in Russia, Central Asia, Turkey and across the Middle East, and since the Arab...
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The Activists' Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Participatory DemocracyA priceless resource for everyone ready to make a difference, environmental activist Aidan Ricketts offers a step-by-step handbook for citizens eager to start or get involved in grass-roots movements and beyond. Providing all essential practical tools, methods and strategies needed for a successful campaign...
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Body Politic: Political Metaphor and Political ViolenceThe idea that there is an analogy between the social collective and the human body originated more than twenty-five centuries ago. It was known to Plato and St. Paul, and was adopted by state functionaries in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and by academics...
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The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought--successfully--to feed upon this commerce and--with markedly less success--to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate...
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Getting Somalia Wrong?: Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered StateSomalia is a failed state, representing a threat to itself, its neighbours and the wider world. In recent years, it has become notorious for the piracy off its coast and the rise of Islamic extremism, opening it up as a new 'southern front' in...
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Nuclear Iran: The Birth of an Atomic StateThe Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war. What is Iran's nuclear programme all about? What...
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China's Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive HistoryA concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economic, cultural, and political power is often presented as a story of what Chinese leader Xi Jinping calls the nation's "great rejuvenation," a...
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Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical DevelopmentFiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world...
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The Knowledge EconomyRevolutionary account of the transformative potential of the knowledge economyAdam Smith and Karl Marx recognized that the best way to understand the economy is to study the most advanced practice of production. Today that practice is no longer conventional manufacturing: it is the radically...
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Who Killed Berta Caceres?: Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender's Battle for the PlanetA deeply affecting-and infuriating-portrait of the life and death of a courageous indigenous leader The first time Honduran indigenous leader Berta C ceres met the journalist Nina Lakhani, C ceres said, 'The army has an assassination list with my name at the top. I...
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The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind"Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time." - J. M. Bernstein Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic...
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A Massacre in Mexico: The True Story Behind the Missing Forty-Three StudentsThe definitive account of the disappearance of forty-three Mexican studentsOn September 26, 2014, a party of students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were en route to a protest when intercepted by local police. A confrontation ensued. Come the morning, the students were nowhere...
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Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and RevolutionIn October 2014, huge protests across Burkina Faso succeeded in overthrowing the long-entrenched regime of their authoritarian ruler, Blaise Compaoré. Defying all expectations, this popular movement went on to defeat an attempted coup by the old regime, making it possible for a transitional government...
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Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in ChinaA feminist movement clashing with China's authoritarian government. Featured in the Washington Post and the New York Times.On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a...
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Between the Bells: Stories of Reconciliation from CorrymeelaCorrymeela - a Christian community committed to reconciliation, is bounded by bells. Twice a day - morning and evening - a large bell sounds out over the site. This is a call to attention, a call to pause, a space to reflect on God,...
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The Philosophy of MarxA rich and accessible introduction to Marx's fundamental concepts from a key intellectual--now updated Written by one of political theory's leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx's writings in their wider historical and theoretical context--including the concepts of...
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Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American RadicalismA longtime insider explores the origins of modern protest movements like Black Lives Matter and Occupy Wall Street, offering a groundbreaking history of disruptive protest and American radicalism since the Sixties As Americans take to the streets in record numbers, L.A. Kauffman's timely, trenchant...
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Politics in a Time of Crisis: Podemos and the Future of Democracy in EuropeA manifesto for a new, democratic left: a political programme poised to transform Europe Since 2011, Pablo Iglesias has led Podemos, a new radical left party in Spain that is reframing the nature of modern politics. Under his guidance, the party has unmasked the...
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Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School"Marvelously entertaining, exciting and informative." --Guardian"An engaging and accessible history." --New York Review of Books This group biography is "an exhilarating page-turner" and "outstanding critical introduction" to the work and legacy of the Frankfurt School, and the great 20th-century thinkers who created it (Washington...
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Drones and Terrorism: Asymmetric Warfare and the Threat to Global SecurityIn warzones, ordinary commercially-available drones are used for extraordinary reconnaissance and information gathering. They can also be used for bombings - a drone carrying an explosive charge is potentially a powerful weapon. At the same time asymmetric warfare has become the norm - with...
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