Politics

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former...

George Curzon was post-Mutiny India's most imperialistic Viceroy. From 1899-1905, he attempted to single-handedly implement...

During the 1970s, American foreign policy faced a predicament of clashing imperatives-US decision makers, already...

The European Commission is at the center of the European Union's political system. Within its...

This book advances a new distributional framework to guide the evaluation and design of environmental...

Ever since the Congress system finally collapsed and the post-Congress polity emerged in 1989, state...

The Oxford India Short Introductions are concise, stimulating, and accessible guides to different aspects of...

Globalization and Deregulation makes a contribution to the literature on economic change by exploring the...

This volume presents an analytical history of India's struggle for freedom and the role played...

Dadabhai Naoroji (1825-1917), popularly known as the 'Grand Old Man of India', was thrice elected...

In the nineteenth century, European states conquered vast stretches of territory across the periphery of...

Finding the way to peace in the Middle East continues to be one of the...

In life, delegation is fundamental. But it is difficult, especially when attempted internationally, as in...

The early 21st century has presented considerable challenges to the problem-solving capacity of the contemporary...

The European Union and Global Financial Regulation examines the influence of the European Union (EU)...

Good Democratic Leadership: On Prudence and Judgment in Modern Democracies explores whether, in the current...

Winner of the 2015 Award for Concept Analysis in Political ScienceAmerican political science has been...

Most literature on international arbitration is practice-oriented, technical, and promotional. It is by arbitrators and...

A significant amount of International Relations scholarship examines the role of international norms in world...

Elections and Democracy addresses the contrast between two different views on representative democracy. According to...

In 1964 Malcolm X was invited to debate at the Oxford Union Society at Oxford...

This books examines the institutional foundations of coalition government in the ten post-communist democracies of...

We live in a global age, an age of vast scale and speed, an age...

Seemingly from its birth, Pakistan has teetered on the brink of becoming a failed state....

The Dynamics of Social Welfare Policy uses the lens of an innovative policy model and...

States, Debt, and Power argues for the importance of situating our contextually influenced thinking about...

The denial of voting rights to certain types of persons continues to be a moral...

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has moved from a religion-dominated protest party to a pragmatic...

Modern democracy is organized as a representative democracy in which those representing the people are...

This book proposes a new approach to studying the effectiveness of peace operations. It asks...

Millions of enfranchised people live in abject poverty in democracies around the world. Yet in...

Europe's trade policies matter in global politics. Despite the recent focus on Brazil, India, and...

The 45th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2013 in Security and conflictsMilitary...

The development of antidiscrimination policy in Europe closely mirrored European Union deepening in the 1990s,...

Democratic governance faces unprecedented challenges across the OECD world and beyond. Enormous strains will be...

Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel's famous policy...

In early 2012, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh claimed that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown University...

First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account...

After nearly six centuries of emergence and world dominance, the sovereign state now has a...

The Procedure of the UN Security Council is the definitive book of its kind and...

The Right and the Welfare State studies the welfare state policies of conservative and liberal...

The idea of a cultural defense in criminal law is often ridiculed as "multiculturalism run...

Voters on the Move or on the Run? addresses electoral change, the reasons, and the...

Legislatures are political bodies essential to democracy and the rule of law. They present social...

In conflict-affected regions, delays in international response can have life or death consequences. The speed...