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This book tells how our welfare is ever more intimately tied up with the welfare of the millions of species that share the One Earth home with us. It presents a synoptic review of the contributions t …

Since the collapse of President Suharto»s New Order regime in 1998 and the international intervention in East Timor in 1999, there has been much speculation in South-east Asia and the West over whet …

»Dalton has succeeded in expressing general economic concepts in simple language» The Economist. The 1971 edition of this famous textbook includes recent material to the general survey on the theor …

A veteran international journalist gives us a concise, readable guide that provides a new vision for the United States in the global community. Since 9/11, the United States has pursued a foreign pol …

‘This book takes an incisive look at the stories we are told — and tell ourselves — about evil forces and American responses. Chernus pushes beyond political rhetoric and media cliches to examine p …

This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon»s contract …

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 …

Raymond Aron, French scholar, journalist, philosopher, sociologist, and historian, is internationally recognized as one of the great thinkers in the modern social sciences, bringing to contemporary h …

This collection examines the justifications for using bills of rights to protect fundamental human rights and the mechanisms for enforcing provisions in those documents. Articles deal with different …

Depending on the breadth or narrowness of the understanding of politics and the political, ‘politics’ in human geography is defined as either the operation of power in all social relations or the wor …