199 products in Political Science

In this overview of politics in Singapore since self-governance, the authors explore the nature of the Singaporean government, its history, as well as major issues such as ethnicity, human rights and the

This book is one of the first studies of how the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'knowledge bank'.

Thoroughly revised and updated edition of this key text which offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the Soviet system from its rise in 1919 to the 1991 collapse.

Helpful for anyone interested in problems associated with ethnicity and nationalism - this title offers a guide to understanding the ethno-national forces that underpin much of recent terrorist activity.

By analysing Rousseau's conception of the general will, Trachtenberg recounts his attitude of civic virtue.

In light of the sudden collape of communist systems in Eastern Europe in 1989-90, this book attempts to explain their democratization from a variety of theoretical perspectives.

This provides a concise and comprehensive account of the place of national identity in modern life. Poole offers us a new analysis of the concept of identity, arguing that we are now

Watson explores independence in Europe and beyond and shows how freedom of action is limited not only by a tightening net of interdependence and by the rules of international society, but also

Charts the emergence of the environment as an issue of public debate in the region of Southeast Asia. The volatile tensions between the winners and losers in this struggle for the environment

As the public face of America has changed, so has its foreign policy. This text grapples with multiculturalism in America and multi-polarism in the international state. The articles tackle the expansion of

A re-thinking of the main issues of the political issues of change in the Middle East and North Africa. It revolves around the themes of the rationale and the strategies for reform,

The plethora of inquiry reports published in the fields of health and welfare in the 1990s covered the full range of user groups, individuals and institutions. How effective were they in bringing

"Empire's New Clothes" examines the crucially important title "Empire" in all its complexity as a work of legal and political theory that diagnoses our era and urges liberatory action.

This book looks at the role of the Association for Monetary Union in Europe's role in the construction of the Euro.

This book explores the role of coercion in the relationship between the citizens and regimes of communist Eastern Europe.

This book provides a systematic and thorough examination of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process which brings together the fifteen EU member states, the European Commission and ten East and Southeast Asian countries.

This text offers a comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical framework for studying nationalism,