Politics

The European Court of Human Rights is one of the main players in interpreting international...

How do political regimes respond to the challenges emanating from youth mobilization? This book seeks...

This book describes the rules governing appeals before the Court of Justice of the European...

Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems that challenge public...

If it impossible to conceive of democracies sans elections, why is it impossible to imagine...

The Pax Americana---the global order established after the collapse of the Soviet Empire---is increasingly being...

This books surveys the evolution of the international order in the quarter century since the...

Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it features prominently...

While much has been written on both political obligation and the justification of punishment, there...

The peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa was a monumental event in late twentieth...

Inspired by Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, this book tells a story about epochal...

What difference does gender make to foreign diplomacy? What do we know about women's participation...

What is Vladimir Putin up to? This book shows how the mentality of Putin and...

Rising food prices, climate change, and the ravages of global capitalism have made the poor...

Political theorist Wendy Brown has argued recently that contemporary neoliberalism, with its relentless obsession on...

Why is social protest a normal, almost routine form of political participation in certain Latin...

National security is pervasive in government and society, but there is little scholarly attention devoted...

Race is one of the most elusive phenomena of social life. While we generally know...

This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an interpretative history ecological history of the...

Examining the relationship between sedition and liberal democracies, particularly in India, this book looks at...

This book reviews the recent internal security challenges facing Pakistan. It is a timely and...

Separatism in East Pakistan: A Study of Failed Leadership provides an academic perspective on the...

Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of democracy as...

Water is a basic human need and a scarce commodity with increasing value to farmers,...

The persistent objector rule is said to provide states with an 'escape hatch' from the...

First published in 1917, Satow's Diplomatic Practice has long been hailed as a classic and...

What do Beppe Grillo, Silvio Berlusconi, Emmanuel Macron (and also Donald Trump) have in common?...

This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing...

Why have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lasted longer than any others in American...

A human right to higher education was included in the International Covenant on Economic Social...

Modern-day markets do not arise spontaneously or evolve naturally. Rather they are crafted by individuals,...

Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their...

Over the last 40 years, the leadership industry has grown exponentially. Yet leadership education, training,...

Constitutional rights protect individuals against government overreaching, but that is not all they do. In...

Foreign aid organizations collectively spend hundreds of billions of dollars annually, with mixed results. Part...

The book provides rule-by-rule commentaries on European contract law (general contract law, consumer contract law,...

Many government bodies relate to each other through contracts: government departments and agencies; government departments...

International regulatory relations have commonly been viewed through the prism of international organizations, on the...

Judicial intervention in social, economic, and political issues ('judicialization') has increased substantially in democracies in...

With the introduction of a single currency in 1999 and the negotiations for the fifth...

The Japanese government is becoming less involved in shaping industrial policyDSbut what does this imply...

How severe a problem is what many call the 'democratic deficit' of the European Union?...

The new democracies of the Southern Cone have publicly professed to reject and condemn the...

New communication technologies have reshaped media and politics. But who are the new power players?...