Politics

The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United...

Calls by political leaders, social activists, and international policy and aid actors for accountability reforms...

The twin questions at the heart of political philosophy are "Why may the state forcibly...

America is the one of the wealthiest nations on earth. So why do so many...

Strangely enough, while the pictures used to illustrate the most recent wave of protests for...

Refugee and Forced Migration Studies has grown from being a concern of a relatively small...

Three decades after the election of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, it is perhaps time...

Forging a Discipline analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations...

A key component of democratic accountability is that citizens understand 'who is to blame'. Nonetheless,...

Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political,...

Since the Arab Spring, Arab states have become the new front line in the struggle...

In the past few years, India has given its citizens four important socio-economic rights-the right...

This book offers a theory of democratic justice. According to the theory, justice emerges from...

Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume...

The book explores the ways in which social cohesion -- measured as trust in unknown...

Dictatorship is not what it was once. Military and single-party regimes have been withering away....

The 44th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2012 in Security and conflictsMilitary...

The debate between cosmopolitans and non-cosmopolitans flourishes. Contributors continue to disagree over at least fourteen...

Why are allies so unpredictable? In American Allies in Times of War, Stéfanie von Hlatky...

The legitimacy of international and regional organizations and their actions is frequently asserted and challenged...

The European Commission started out in the 1950s as a technocratic international organization. Today, it...

This book addresses one of the enduring questions of democratic government: why do governments choose...

Britain has become increasingly diverse over the last fifty years and she has been fortunate...

Has male dominance in political life been broken? Will gender balance in elected assemblies soon...

Why did Machiavelli write the Prince - and why did religious and political authorities find...

Who are the vulnerable, and what makes them so? Through an innovative application of English...

New Parties in Old Party Systems addresses a pertinent yet neglected issue in comparative party...

In posing challenging questions about the relationship between state and society, theories of governance have...

The story of China's spectacular economic growth is well known. Less well known is the...

Although the idea that politics is influenced by its cultural setting is so plausible as...

This volume examines the governing structure and finances of metropolitan areas in federal systems. Taking...

A century ago, the average Canadian lifespan was 60; today, we can expect to live...

Making policy is what governments do, but there are some fascinating and hotly debated issues...

Despite its recognized significance in social life, leadership is a notoriously elusive subject that generates...

The importance of international politics in Niccolò Machiavelli's thought cannot be denied. Although the familiar...

The Manifesto data are the only comprehensive set of policy indicators for social, economic and...

No country in Asia in recent years has undergone so massive a political shift in...

The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more...

Social scientists have regularly proclaimed the end of territory under successive waves of modernization, yet...

In this timely volume, two leading experts on India's foreign policy bring together essays written...

Many non-African states and international organizations have a significant influence on political and economic development...

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

The democratic legitimacy of the European Union has become an increasingly urgent issue. In searching...

The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a...