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This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction—and climate change in particular—is the operation of liberal democracy.

In Spies for Hire, investigative reporter Tim Shorrock lifts the veil off a major story the government doesn´t want us to know about - the massive outsourcing of top secret intelligence activities to ...

In this hard-hitting new book, Paul Polak tells why traditional poverty eradication programs have fallen so short, and how he and his organization developed an alternative approach that has succeeded ...

"A brilliant, riveting, funny, terrifying journey into the beating heart of Trumpland." —Liza Mundy, author of Code Girls In this daring work of immersive journalism, based on hundreds of hours of re...

From one of the world’s best-known development economists—an excoriating attack on the tragic hubris of the West’s efforts to improve the lot of the so-called developing world In his previous book, Th...

Federalism and Political Performance compares the political performance of federal and non-federal states and evaluates the impact of different types of federation. The contributors draw together focu...

Hannah Arendt´s definitive work on totalitarianism and an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political history The Origins of Totalitarianism begins with the rise of anti-Semitism i...

We have to stop Obama´s radical agenda. Now. We must act before President Barack Obama fully implements his radical political agenda. Because after Obama has won his war on prosperity and canceled the...

Political Game Theory is a self-contained introduction to game theory and its applications to political science. The book presents choice theory, social choice theory, static and dynamic games of comp...

Regional integration has emerged as one of the most important developments in recent world politics. In this book Walter Mattli examines integration schemes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe...

This is a definitive and unprecedented survey of China´s foreign relations since 1949. The contributors include leading historians, economists.

Leading scholars in the field examine the highly topical issue of the future the welfare state in Europe. They argue that welfare states need to adjust, and examine which kind of welfare architecture ...

A number of new approaches to the subject of international cooperation were developed in the 1980s. As a result, further questions have arisen, particularly with regard to the methods and limits of co...

Quentin Skinner is one of the foremost historians in the world, and in Hobbes and Republican Liberty he offers a dazzling comparison of two rival theories about the nature of human liberty. The first ...

The 41st edition of edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2009 in security and conflicts; military spending and armaments; non-proliferation; arms control; and disarmament. Purchasers...

Plasticity and Geomechanics presents a concise introduction to the general subject of plasticity with a particular emphasis on applications in geomechanics. Derived from the authors´ own lecture notes...

Request an examination copy Hobbes´ Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Since its first publication, Richard Tuck´s edition of Leviathan ...

Economic development requires secure contract enforcement and stable property rights. Normal majority-rule politics, such as bargaining over distributive and monetary policies, generate instability an...

International Migration: Prospects and Policies offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of international migration and the policies employed to manage the flows. It shows that int...

Offering a truly global approach to international relations, Introduction to Global Politics, Brief Edition, brings together an expert team of international scholars to provide students with a current...

This detailed economic history of Mexico presents a theory about how rent seeking permits economic growth and explains why political instability is not necessarily correlated with economic stagnation....

An internationally renowned economist joins the bitter debate over globalization as he refutes critics to describe the potential social benefits of a properly governed form of globalization, including...

War and Change in World Politics introduces the reader to an important new theory of international political change. Arguing that the fundamental nature of international relations has not changed over...

When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Saf...

This book is a translation of a classic work of modern social and political thought, Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Hegel’s last major published work, is an attempt to systematize ethical theory...

Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of Septem...

This is the first full-length presentation of a republican alternative to the liberal and communitarian theories that have dominated political philosophy in recent years. The latest addition to the ac...

Covers and critiques all the key approaches to public policy from the detached observer to the engaged practitioner Engagingly written by an illustrious team of international contributors.