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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Internal Orients; Literary Representations of Colonial Modernity and the Kurdish 'Other' in Turkey, Iran, and IraqThe author demonstrates sophisticated knowledge and understanding of Kurdish history and of postcolonial, poststructuralist, and related literary theories. This book gives rich contextual detail about Turkish, Iranian, and Iraqi nation states, in which Kurds live and where, the author argues, they are systematically oppressed....
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On the Breakout of Chinese EconomyReform has long been a consensus in China, but after decades of rapid growth, there still remain numerous intractable barriers and institutional constrains to solve, and new problems are continuously emerging, all these hinder the implementation of China's deepening reform. How can China break...
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Reconstructing Japan's Security: The Role of Military CrisesSystematically analyses the impact of external military crises on Japanese security policy expansion in the post-Cold War period. Focuses on the widening of Japan's security posture in external security affairs and investigates the causes of this critical change Identifies the external military crisis as...
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Politics and the People: Scotland, 1945-1979This book reappraises Scottish politics in the decades after 1945, augmenting existing accounts of this period by foregrounding the importance of ideology and language. Founded upon original archival research, the book recovers the central role played within modern Scottish politics by an individualist, anti-bureaucratic...
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Global Displacement in the Twenty-First Century: Towards an Ethical FrameworkIn this book Phillip Cole calls for a radical review of what international protection looks like and who is entitled to it. The book brings together different issues of forced displacement in one place to provide a systematic overview. It draws attention to groups...
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Marx's Theory of Land, Rent and CitiesBringing together Marx's original writings on land, rent and the landed property class, this book applies them to contemporary cities in the Global North and Global South. The book shows how landed property, and not just labour and capital, directly affects urban economic development,...
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Wanderings of a Captive MindDiagnosed with ALS in March 2015 and confined to a wheelchair by late 2016, the author occupied himself with meditation, reading and watching operas through Met On Demand. But, an active mind in an increasingly useless body needed some affirmative participation in the world,...
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The Struggle of Entertainment and Neoliberal Postcolonial Capitalist Politics in New Saudi Arabia: The Cultural Production of Modernity in the GlobalAnas M. Alahmed argues that the Entertainment Authority of Saudi Arabia created in 2016 was meant to introduce a "new Saudi" to the Western outsider audience and that the "new Saudi" state is on a mission to transform the country from a traditional and...
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Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the HolocaustPolitics, Violence, Memory highlights important new social scientific research on the Holocaust and initiates the integration of the Holocaust into mainstream social scientific research in a way that will be useful both for social scientists and historians. Until recently social scientists largely ignored the...
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Responses to a Pandemic: Philosophical and Political ReflectionsWhat does it mean to be in the middle of a pandemic-for us, for our country, or for the world? How do our current inequalities and injustices become amplified by the demands of the pandemic and what, if anything, can be done? Who is...
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Human Security: Theory and ActionHuman security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of security. It examines the conceptual roots of human security, connecting its origins to...
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Institutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-MakingInstitutions and Incentives in Public Policy: An Analytical Assessment of Non-Market Decision-Making explores, both in theory and in practice, the consequences of using public policy as a tool to achieve specific individual and social goals, as well as its impact on private solutions to...
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World Report 2023: Events of 2022The best country-by-country assessment of human rights. In this signature yearly report, Human Rights Watch will document and address human rights abuses in more than 100 countries. Executive director Ken Roth's lead essay will cover the global contest between democracy and autocracy--with a call...
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Europeanisation in Turkish Water Management Policy: A Sociological Institutionalism PerspectiveRational institutionalism's theoretical explanations for external Europeanisation focus on material incentives such as accession conditionality in determining change in non-EU states. However, such exogenous explanations struggle to interpret ongoing Europeanisation where accession incentives have declined or even reversed ('stalled' accession), but institutional adjustment still...
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Contested Representation: Dalits, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Public SpherePopular Hindi cinema has become a significant signpost of contemporaneity due to its construction of social language. Generally, Hindi cinema has been understood through internal (auteur or genre or cinéma verité) and external aspects (consumption spheres and moviegoers' complex response in the form of...
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The Rohingya Crisis and the Two-Faced God of Janus: What Lies AheadThe Rohingya Crisis is now in its fifth year with no end in sight. While the international community has supported the displaced Rohingyas in Bangladesh by providing humanitarian assistance, what is needed now is to investigate the short-and long-term implications of the crisis from...
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Crossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the SubalternCrossing Racial Borders: The Epistemic Empowerment of the Subaltern explores critically the racial, socioeconomic, historical, and political contemporary conditions of the lived experiences of the subaltern, the oppressed. Through the lens of the decolonial school of thought developed by Latin American thinkers and scholars,...
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Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts MostIn his impassioned-yet-measured book, Rafael A. Mangual offers an incisive critique of America's increasingly radical criminal justice reform movement, and makes a convincing case against the pursuit of justice through mass-decarceration and depolicing.After a summer of violent protests in 2020--sparked by the deaths of...
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The Republic of PlatoThe definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophyLong regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed translation by Allan Bloom was the first to take a strictly...
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Civil Society Narratives of Violence and Shaping the Transitional Justice Agenda in ZimbabweIn Civil Society Narratives of Violence and Shaping the Transitional Justice Agenda in Zimbabwe, Chenai G. Matshaka shows the shaping of the transitional justice agenda in Zimbabwe from a civil society perspective. Based on the understanding that transitional justice approaches are seen through the...
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