Politics

This book explores the prospects for the emergence of a distinctly European pattern of industrial relations, in which the European-level organisations representing employers and trade unions gain in …

This new study questions whether peacekeeping fundamentally changed between the Cold War and Post-Cold War periods. Focusing on contrasting case studies of the Congo, Cyprus, Somalia and Angola, as w …

This book presents a historical perspective on patterns of human rights abuse in Cuba, El Salvador and Nicaragua and incorporates international relations in to the traditional theories of state repre …

David A. Westbrook argues that we live in ‘the city of gold’–a global, cosmopolitan polity where politics are done through markets, and where global capital markets, not states, have become the domi …

‘Peace Action: Past, Present, and Future’ is a collection of short, lively essays written by prominent leaders and supporters of Peace Action and its two important predecessors the National Committee …

Is patriotism a good thing in an empire? Did General Petraeus betray us or did Moveon? Does morality often serve immoral purposes? Morality Wars shows us how to understand the subtext of these questi …

Integrating the study of individual European nation-states within the framework of the European Union, this unique new text is essentially two books in one: a book on the EU and a comparative introdu …

Murray Weidenbaum has been a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a speaker at meetings at the Brookings Institution, the Cato …

The essays selected for the first part of this volume offer an insight into the development, as distinguished from the history, of international humanitarian law. The focus of the majority of the wor …

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson laid the foundations for today”s political debates between Democrats and Republicans. Hamilton believed that freedom must be married with a strong central gov …