Brian D. Taylor 
State Building in Putin’s Russia [PDF ebook] 
Policing and Coercion after Communism

Democracy, Law and Governance details the transformation of the modes of governance of contemporary developed democracies and aims to define the conditions required for promoting public interest in t …

First Published in 1968. This study was written to provide a more modern day look at the history of British Foreign policy since 1658 and the second half of the seventeenth century. It includes inves …

The book offers a counter-model to the classical liberal theories of civil disobedience, as developed by authors such as John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin. Based on a strict opposition between liberalism …

This volume seeks to propose a reinvention of freedom under contemporary conditions of globalization, cross-border mobility, and neo-liberal dominance. There are currently two predominant myths circu …

Understanding the institutions of the European Union is vital to understanding how it functions. This book provides students with a user-friendly introduction to the main institutions, and explains t …

This authoritative volume assesses how the recently democratized political system in Poland is adapting to the challenges posed by the country”s adhesion to NATO which it joined in 1999. The contrib …

This comprehensive volume examines the future effectiveness of regional institutions as well as key questions concerning the attempts to overcome ongoing serious problems of security, governance and …

Whether we talk about human learning and unlearning, securitization, or political economy, the forces and mechanisms generating both globalization and disintegration are causally efficacious across t …

This innovative volume analyzes historical, strategic and domestic political influences on the character and dynamics of the European Union”s eastern enlargement. Its main focus is on interactions b …