Stephen E. Hanson & Jeffrey Kopstein 
Comparative Politics [PDF ebook] 
Interests, Identities, and Institutions in a Changing Global Order

This new study shows how environmental issues represent a deep problem in conceptualising the relationship between human beings and nature. This key relationship grounds the implicit ethical and poli …

China”s immersion in the world economy and trading system is a continued source of great interest throughout the globe.The book is divided into three parts, the first being an overview of the Chines …

The economic crisis of 1997 called East Asia”s economic miracle into question and generated widespread criticism of the region”s developmental models. However, the crisis did little to alter the gr …

At the end of the current millenium the best description of Europe”s relations with the developing countries of the South is: all change. Since 1957 the European Community has operated special polic …

This book explores the relationships between fundamentalist religious belief, political extremism and outbreaks of religiously inspired violence. Is the post-Cold War world increasingly violent and i …

This volume deals with the domestic effects of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights as a challenge to the various levels of legal orders in Europe. The starting point is the divergent impa …

European External Action provides a critical assessment of the practice of EU diplomacy in a key site of Africa-European relations and the global development industry – the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. …

J. Bowyer Bell”s Beseiged is built on the premise that as long as men have constructed walls, other men have tried to scale them. From ancient Jericho and Joshua”s trumpet to London and the onslaug …

Across America today, conservatism is being hotly debated both across the political spectrum and within the conservative movement itself. Much of the public debate is without definition or historical …

What is administrative reform? How is it differentiated from other kinds of social reform? Who are administrative reformers and how do they approach their task? And who benefits and who suffers from …