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What is the relationship between the principles of social justice and global justice? How can we best reconcile the quest for greater social justice ‘at home’ with greater social justice in the world …

In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating ’associative democracy’; the belief that human welfare and liberty are best served when as many of the affairs of …

Europe is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically unique form of international community cannot be explained in t …

The European Union seems incapable of undertaking economic reforms and defining its place in the world. Public apathy towards the EU is also increasing, as citizens feel isolated from the institution …

Three out of five Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, feel our country is headed in the wrong direction. America is at the edge, a critical place at which we can either renew and revitalize or …

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of ’the West’, this important new book, by one of the leading social scientists in Europe, examines the intellectual history o …

Until the late 1980s, there were very few democratically elected governments in the developing world. These areas were characterized by a range of authoritarian regimes from military administrations …

Guibernau offers a comparative analysis of nationalist movements in nations without states. Das E-Book Nations without States wird angeboten von John Wiley & Sons und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen ka …

In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced countries. The book, which is aimed at both an acade …

Europe’s social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of soc …