Politics

This book is the first comprehensive study of how and why the European Union has enlarged to become northern Europe’s leading power. Pami Aalto presents a new approach to the under-theorized field of …

The Asian financial crisis has distracted attention from the realities of a growing affluent class in Asia. this latest volume in the New Rich in Asia series the authors examine the cultural reconfig …

Characteristically readable, controversial and full of insights, Alec Nove”s new book is essential reading for anyone concerned with evaluating the relevance of Marxism to contemporary social and ec …

This study explores the formation of the European Union”s tax policy and asks why member states did not raise objections to it. The author”s analysis is enriched by two further levels of inquiry. F …

This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security. In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an e …

Popolo applies Foucauldian methodology to the understanding of Complexity Science for the purposes of generating new understandings related to International Relations in general and to the Kosovo con …

Using case studies from Africa, South America, Asia and the Caribbean, this book examines the progress made in uniting national aspirations of sustainable development strategies with their local impl …

”Environmental skepticism” describes the viewpoint that major environmental problems are either unreal or unimportant. In other words, environmental skepticism holds that environmental problems, es …

”Peace Without Consensus” demonstrates that the rise of Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) was not ”inevitable”. Rather, it argues that critics who blame Northern Ireland”s power- …

In the post-2001 context of economic and political conflict, this book presents a timely and detailed examination of the role of the criminal law in the protection of the existing order from politica …