John Hatchard & Muna Ndulo 
Comparative Constitutionalism and Good Governance in the Commonwealth [PDF ebook] 
An Eastern and Southern African Perspective

The field of strategic management has developed significantly since its birth from ‘business policy’ and ‘business planning’ in the 1960s. Pioneering studies were essentially normative, prescriptive, …

Calculating Political Risk is rich and illuminating, and much more than a political science treatise. Althaus draws on diverse literature, extensive interviews and intriguing case studies to offer in …

This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 – the ”countdown of time”, and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibiti …

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists committed the largest and deadliest terrorist attack in the United States of America. The response from the inter-national community, and in particular the US, wa …

This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertak …

This book investigates the characteristics of today”s built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport …

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this analysis a step fu …

Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised, excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of liberal inter …

A striking feature of atrocities, as seen in genocides, civil wars, or violence against certain racial and ethnic groups, is the attempt to dehumanize — to deny and strip human beings of their humani …

This book analyses Russia-Europe/EU relations by exploring their practical essence and conceptualizing them in terms of the main categories of international relations research. It argues that the lib …