Political science and theory Books
Palgrave Macmillan Education for Citizenship in Europe
Book SynopsisThis book examines the evolving relationship between the nation-state, citizenship and the education of citizens, exploring the impact European integration had on national policies towards educating its citizens and citizenship.Trade Review“Aril Keating’s Education for Citizenship in Europe is a very well-organised book, concisely written yet with detailed analysis. While on one level a specialist read, it is sufficiently rooted in contemporary debates about citizenship to appeal to a wider audience. The book is primarily focused on European policies to promote citizenship education but as becomes clear these are at times difficult to disentangle from national contexts.” (Chris Gifford, Citizenship Studies, December, 2015)"A close reading of Keating's text provides more detailed discussion than space affords in this review, but for all educators with an interest in CE in Europe, this scholarly work will be an important resource." - Research in International & Comparative EducationTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Governing Education Policy in Europe 3. Theorising and Measuring Citizenship at Multiple Levels 4. Promoting Education For, and About, Europe: The European Dimension 5. The European Dimension to National Curricula 6. European Citizenship and Youth Attitudes 7. Schools, Socialisation, and European Citizenship 8. Conclusions
£58.50
Palgrave Macmillan Ecology and Revolution
Book SynopsisEcology and Revolution: Global Crisis and the Political Challenge is an in-depth exploration and analysis of the global ecological crisis (going far beyond the issue of global warming) in the larger context of historical conditions and political options shaped by the failure (and incapacity) of the existing political system to adequately confront the crisis.Trade Review'After examining the ecological crisis afflicting humanity and the planet, Carl Boggs concludes that only a radical political solution can alleviate our problems. For making such a clear call for systemic change, he will stand as a visionary scholar for generations to come.' - George Katsiaficas, author of Subversion of Politics "Fluent and well-researched, and unsparingly reflective, Boggs never stints when distributing blame where it belongs - with the transnational capitalist class. Ranged against this book is a political establishment hampered by self-interest, entangled in the tentacles of finance capital, and equipped with an astonishingly tin ear. Boggs breaks the liberal taboo of painting an unequivocal portrait of neoliberal capitalism and the plutocratic dimensions of the neoliberal security state. At this critical moment in history, a book by one of the country's most significant writers on politics is welcome indeed and can serve as a spike driven into the concrete calamity of our quotidian existence, illuminating the grave threats to our unbidden lives and reminding us pointedly that we need nothing short of a revolutionary political struggle." - Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles "Carl Boggs outlines a comprehensive critical assessment of the environmental challenges facing the world in the twenty-first century. Grounding his critique in an approach drawn from Western Marxism, nonviolent resistance, and today's new social movements, he persuasively articulates a post-liberal and post-Marxist transformative politics to create a more ecological economy and society based on democratic governance." - Timothy W. Luke, University Distinguished Professor, Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction The Global Crisis Worsens The Political Impasse Liberal Delusions The Struggle For An Ecological Politics A Global Ecological Revolution? Strategic Dilemmas Ecology And Population
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan Narrative and Truth
Book SynopsisIn this book, Emslie establishes that narrative explanations are to be preferred over non-narrative in the humanities. They are more truthful in two senses. They both correspond more closely to reality and allow inference as to normative values. This is particularly the case when aesthetics are added to the mix.Trade Review"An independent scholar and author of Richard Wagner and the Centrality of Love (2010), Emslie argues for the value of narrative explanations in humanistic writing. He develops this argument through the analysis of an unusually wide-ranging mix of theoretical and critical fields that includes Marxist humanism, feminist theory and literary criticism, psychoanalysis, and German idealist philosophy, along with a number of eclectic subjects - such as sports and conspiracy theories - by which he explains the value of the kinds of narrative explanation for which he argues . . . This is not a book for those uninitiated into the language and content of critical theory, but it usefully explores the form and purpose of writing in the humanities. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." - CHOICETable of ContentsAn Overview Marxist Humanism: Hegel, Marx, Lukács, Eagleton, Habermas Women and Writing: Women Theorists, Women Novelists, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë Freud: Science as narrative, a perverse and singular teleology, certainty masquerading as doubt Philosophy and Fatherland: German Transcendentalism, Aesthetics, and Nationalism Realism: Brecht, Sport, the Bible, Lenin, Conspiracy theories Death
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan The Political Process of Policymaking
Book SynopsisPhilippe Zittoun analyses the public policymaking process focusing on how governments relentlessly develop proposals to change public policy to address insoluble problems. Rather than considering this surprising Sisyphean effort as a lack of rationality, the author examines it as a political activity that produces order and stability.Trade Review"Despite much lip-service given to the need to understand the profoundly political nature of public policies, there is a distinct tendency in many studies to address the subject in a mechanical way, treating the definition of policy goals and the articulation of the means to achieve them as technical issues subject to a precise instrumental logic and rationality. This excellent volume by Philippe Zittoun avoids this error and takes on the analysis of the political construction of public policy head-on. It develops and refines key definitions and methods for thepolitical analysis of public policy-making, from problem construction to solution 'bricolage' and the development and analysis of the argumentative strategies used to propagate solutions and legitimize them. This is essential reading for all students of policy-making." Micheal Howlett, Burnaby Mountain Chair, Simon Fraser University, Canada "All too often politics is underplayed in the analysis of the policy process. In The Political Process of Policymaking Professor Zittoun offers a refreshing corrective to this neglect. He is also to be commended for his attention of the role the political construction of policy objects and events, as well as his examination of the role of communication and argumentation as they play out across the policy process as a whole, from agenda-setting to evaluation. Not least important is the fact that the book opens the way to a much needed and long overdue exchange between policy scholars in the English and French speaking worlds. This is by all accounts a seminar service to the field." Frank Fischer, Professor of Politics and Global Affairs, Rutgers University, USA "Philippe Zittoun's book provides an excellent discussion of policymaking in France, and the interactions among levels of government within that political system. This is not, however, just a book on France but provides insights into more general theoretical and analytic questions about public policy." B. Guy Peters, Maurice Falk Professor of Government, University of Pittsburgh, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: The Political Processof Policymaking PART I: CREATING SOCIAL DISORDER CONSTRUCTING, PROPAGATING AND POLICITISING SOCIAL PROBLEMS 1. A Pragmatic Approach to Public Problems 2. Definitional Struggles Around Unacceptable Problems PART II: DEFINING SOLUTION, A COMPLEX BRICOLAGE TO SOLVE PUBLIC PROBLEMS 1. Between Stratagem and Cognitive Bricolage: The Contribution of Simon and Lindblom 2. From Cognitive Bricolage to Language Games 3. The Five Couplings in Defining Solutions 4. From Coupling to Restoring Political Order PART III: PROPAGATING SOLUTION, ARGUMENTATIVE STRATEGIES TO CEMENT COALITIONS 1. Arguing to Persuade 2. Discussion as a Test of Persuasion Strategies 3. From Persuasion to Diffusion, Building Discursive Coalitions PART IV: POLICY STATEMENTS TO LEGITIMISE 'DECISION-MAKERS' 1. The Paradoxes of Taking Positions into Account 2. The Definitional Issues of a Topography of Positions 3. The 'Decision' to Fix Topographies Within Statements 4. An Empirical Example of Decision: Political Decision-making of the Paris Tramway Conclusion: How Public Policy Shapes Politics
£42.74
Palgrave Macmillan Popular Cinema as Political Theory
Book SynopsisThe book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory. The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing about politics.Trade Review'In this insightful analysis, John Nelson examines the intersections of popular culture and politics. Treating film as examples of practical reasoning, Nelson explores the ways in which cinematic texts contribute to public understandings of our communal life. He analyzes film through the lenses of genre (epic, noir, satire) and political theory (with particular emphasis on realism and idealism) and concludes that cinematic myth making both reflects and defines public understanding of politics in interesting ways. Nelson's book provides important evidence that political philosophy is neither dead nor confined to the academy, but is an on-going, shared enterprise, actively engaged in by the mass public. Well-written and provocative, this book will interest students and scholars of film, popular culture, history, rhetoric, and politics.' Mary E. Stuckey, Professor, Communication and Political Science, Georgia State University, USA 'Just what do we see at the movies? Fantasy and fashion aplenty, but political theory? John Nelson's answer to this question is both surprising and compelling. Popular films teach their audiences how to think about politics pragmatically and creatively and by using the ideas, although not the terms, that have defined political philosophy. Nelson provides a detailed and systematic vocabulary for critical study of how this public art mediates political experience. This original book is sure prompt many vibrant discussions about media and politics.' Robert Hariman, Northwestern University, USA, and author of Political Style: The Artistry of Power 'In Popular Cinema as Political Theory Nelson offers a subtle formal analysis of genre, an impressive categorizing of films within his three chosen genres, combined with a series of deft readings of a wide variety of popular films. Most readers of this book will know (and love) some of the films discussed herein and many will know most, but every reader will take away from the book a deeper appreciation for how popular cinema today operates as political theory.' Samuel A. Chambers, Associate Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and Editor, Contemporary Political Theory "John Nelson's latest publication, Popular Cinema as Political Theory, explores the field of political theory through the unconventional lens of popular film and television. Nelson's work classifies the cultural artifacts studied into three areas: epics, noirs, and satires. He uses these narrative demarcations to open up the films under discussion to explore them along side classical texts and conceptions within political theory while highlighting the ways in which contemporary political myths work their way into our common cultural conversation, often unbeknownst to us as citizens. Nelson's astute analysis provides a fresh and convincing exploration of some of the most popular films of the past two decades. He also teaches the reader to be aware of what is communicated through often unexplored or unanticipated cultural avenues. This book makes a significant contribution to the field of political theory by using popular culture texts to examine classical themes and narrative conceits." Lilly J. Goren, Professor of Political Science, Carroll University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Doing Political Theory with Popular Films: Styles in Action in Everyday Life 1. An Epic Comeback? Post-Western Politics in Film and Theory 2. Rhythms of Political Satire: Post-Modern Politics in Words, Musics, and Movies 3. Realism as a Political Style: Noir Insights 4. Noir in Paradise: Testing and Twisting Realist Politics Conclusion: Unsettling Idealism versus Realism: Perfectionism in Two Classics of Neo Noir
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan Designing Democracy
Book SynopsisDesigning Democracy is the first systematic and in-depth study of the effects of the EU''s democratic conditionality, originally set out in the Copenhagen conditions of 1993, on the new political systems of Central and Eastern Europe. Using new material drawn from extensive elite interviews in several of these countries as well as in Brussels, the book throws much light on how far the EU enlargement process has really strengthened these new post-Communist democracies following their transitions in the 1990s.Trade Review'The book is very well researched with extensive notes and source materials...[it] will be most useful for researchers in the area of democracy studies as it explores the recent enlargement in a comparative context and provides valuable insights into the new member states.' - Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsPreface Theoretical Perspectives on European Enlargement and Democratisation The EU's Conditionality Strategy: Its Development Before and After the Fall of Communism EU Enlargement, Democratisation and Domestic Politics in Post-Communist Europe: Patterns and Problems of Motivation Post-Communist Accession Governments: Policy Orientation, Institutional Adaptation and Implementing Democratic Conditionality The Political Arena and Intermediary Actors in Candidate Countries: Political Parties, Opinion Makers and Public Impacts The Socio-Economic Arena and Deepening Democracy: Economic Transformation, Civil Society and Ethnic Minorities in Candidate Countries Conclusion: Europeanisation and Democratisation - Convergent, Parallel or Conflicting Processes? Sources and Bibliography Index
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK Kingship Rebellion and Political Culture
Book SynopsisTaking as its starting point two uprisings in England and Germany (Richard Marshal in 1233-4 and Henry (VII) in 1234-5), this book offers a new take on the political culture of high medieval Europe. Themes include: the role of violence; the norms of political behaviour; the public nature of politics; and the social history of political exchange.Trade Review'Weiler has...written a highly original and very readable book, one which is as important for the questions it asks as for the precise answers given to them. For that reason alone it has a significance beyond the period in which it is set. In terms of engaging with Weiler's ideas and the detailed evidence on which they are based, some readers will doubtless find themselves handicapped by being unable to match his command of the German background and its sources; in itself a reason why the book is so valuable.' - D.A. Carpenter, English Historical Review 'Tremendously useful for anyone interested in thinking about how historians have conceptualized the political structures of the medieval period.' - Jonathan R. Lyon, German History 'Björn Weiler continues to lead the way in comparative studies of medieval European politics, especially in the area of the role of practical symbolism in monarchical government...a thoroughly absorbing and stimulating book full of important insights and scholarly discussion.' - Sean McGlynn, HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: KINGDOMS IN TURMOIL: THE STRUCTURES AND FRAMEWORK OF REVOLT To be king in name as well as deed: the revolt of Henry (VII) in Germany The Marshal rebellion in England (1233-4) Rebellion in Context PART II: THE IDEALS AND NORMS OF POLITICS Loyalty, justice, and honour: Henry (VII) and Frederick II Justice, loyalty and the absence of honour: Frederick II and Henry (VII) as seen by their contemporaries Loyalties true and false: political values in England PART III: THE WAYS AND MEANS OF POLITICS Creating a Public Addressing the public: rituals, gestures and charters Townsmen, clergy, and knights: the public in politics Conclusion
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan EGovernance
Book SynopsisThe e-governance revolution is said to be changing everything, but will all the modelling tools, electronic meeting management systems and online consultations really change political judgement in policy formation? Using case studies from local and federal government in the US and Europe, Perri 6 examines these claims and presents a new theory of how policymakers use and reject information and do and don''t trust each other with information in using the new tools, before analyzing the implications for democracy.Trade Review'This is a path-breaking work on the actual and potential use of electronic tools in public sector decision making. It combines fascinating case studies on leading edge applications with a thought-provoking model of institutional styles of policy making, and challenges us to imagine how the various players in the model would incorporate these electronic tools into their work. It should be required reading for anyone concerned with the future of e-governance.' - Sandford Borins, Professor of Public Management, University of Toronto 'Governments everywhere are pushing the boundaries of technology. In this important new analysis, Perri 6 carefully charts the rise of this movement in political terms and its use in shaping the judgments of policy makers. He provides strong and persuasive arguments on a central puzzle of the information age: if and how it can strengthen governance. The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the effects of modern technology on government.' - Donald F. Kettl, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction The Scope of E-Governance Examples and Initiatives The Forward March of E-Governance Halted? What Difference Could E-Governance Make? Fears, Aspirations and Theories Conducting Policy Judgement Through Information Technologies: Three Cases Policy Making: The Work of Governance The Organization of Policy Makers and the Use of E-Governance Tools Institutional Styles and E-Governance Tools Ways Forward Conclusion Notes References
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK Democracy and Northern Ireland
Book SynopsisDemocracy and Northern Ireland examines the influence of liberal theories of democracy on recent developments in the Northern Irish peace process.Table of ContentsIntroduction Explaining the Belfast Agreement Political Liberalism Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Communication Social Capital, Trust and Civil Society Feminism and the Politics of Difference Radical Democracy Conclusion
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Global Governance Conflict and Resistance
Book SynopsisSince the turn of the millennium, resistance to the liberal project of global governance has come to occupy centre stage in global and international politics.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction; J.Selby PART I: STATES, WAR AND CAPITALISM Global Liberal Governance: Networks, Resistance and War; M.Dillon Global Governance and State Collapse; C.Clapham Global Governance and Conflict Prevention; H.Miall Against Global Governance? Tracing the Lineage of the Anti-Globalization Movement; P.Wilkin PART II: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN POST-CONFLICT ZONES Global Governance and Resistance in Post-War Transition: The Case of Eastern Slavonia and Bosnia; J.Large Governance and Resistance in Palestine: Simulations, Confrontations, Sumoud ; J.Selby Bowling Together Within a Divided Community: Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Conflict: F.Cochrane PART III: RESISTANCE TO GLOBAL REGIMES Global Environmental Governance and Local Resistance: The Global Trade in Ivory; R.Duffy Economic Governance in the Information Age: Counter-Hegemonic Challenges and Sub-Hegemonic Adaptations in East Asia; N-L.Sum A Provocative Dependence? The Global Financial System and Small Island Tax Havens; M.P.Hampton & J.Christensen Conclusion; R.Duffy & F.Cochrane Bibliography Index
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK The Dual Transformation of the German Welfare State
Book SynopsisIncreasingly, the state reduces its social policy commitments towards securing the achieved living standard of former wage earners, which in the past had been the key normative principle of social policy in Germany, while at the same time public support and services for families are expanded.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART I: THE POLICY DIMENSION Evaluating Policy Change: Some Theoretical and Methodological Remarks Historical, Normative and Institutional Foundations of the German Welfare State in the Golden Post-World War II Era Socio-Economic Developments since the mid-1970s The Changing Normative and Institutional Design of Social Policy PART II: THE POLITICAL DIMENSION Theories Explaining Welfare State Change Changing Interpretative Patterns PART III: CONCLUSIONS Can Germany Still be Considered a Conservative Welfare State? Endnotes Bibliography
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Legitimating the European Union
Book SynopsisThis is a study in EU legitimacy from the perspective of EU citizens. Mather argues that legitimacy is empirical: 'legitimacy only exists if people feel that it does' and that the EU is a unique and dynamic institution, hence legitimating factors are also evolutionary.Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Legitimacy and Legitimation in the Old Europe Adapting Legitimacy to the European Union Liberal Representative Democracy and EU Legitimacy Acting and Interacting: Participatory Democracy and EU Legitimacy A Citizens' European Union The EU's External Performance Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK Social Movements and Symbolic Power
Book SynopsisThe important theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Touraine, discussed in this book, seek to explain and resolve the 'crisis of democracy'.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Social Critique: Discrimination and Inequality Touraine and Bourdieu: Two Perspectives Social Change: Radicalism or Reform Rights of Women: A Case Study Conclusion Appendix: Structure/Action Theories of Alain Bourdieu, Touraine, Giddens and Archer: A Comparison
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK British Politics and European Elections 2004
Trade Review'this is a highly readable, comprehensive and detailed account of the 2004 European elections in the UK. It is essential reading for anyone interested in British elections and the role of the EU in British politics.' - Richard Whitaker, RepresentationTable of ContentsBackground, 1999-2004 Framework and Preparations National Campaign Local Campaigns and IT Outcome Consequences and Questions Appendix : An Analysis of the Results; J.Curtice, M.Steed & S.Fisher Bibliography Index
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Europeanization and Regionalization in the Eus Enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis book is a study of EU conditionality and compliance during the enlargement to the Central and Eastern European candidate countries.Trade Review'well-structured and convincing book...at last, I have finally encountered a book that deals with the complexities of European Union conditionality without surrending to the easy depiction of the colonial-type pure power asymmetry which leaves no room for counteractions...this book constitutes one of the most in-depth and best documented studies on not only the standing criteria to comply with and the difficulties of implementation, but also the informal pressures (page 2) which offer a deeper understanding of enlargement process as a dynamic ineraction between institutional incentives and rules and domestic transition factors...the main interest lies in the dynamic research methods of the authors, largely based on a number of very valuable interviews with EU officials and the local and regional elites'. - Cristina Blanco Sio-Lopez - Environment and PlanningTable of ContentsIntroduction The Logic of Enlargement Conditionality and Europeanization Communist Legacies and Regionalization The Commission, Conditionality and Regional Policy Monitoring Conditionality and Compliance Transition, Enlargement and Regionalization: A Comparison of Hungary and Poland Elites and the Capacity for Europeanization Conclusion Bibliography Statistical Appendix
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan On World Politics
Book SynopsisThis book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously situated activities conducted by individuals as members of diverse associations of their own. Within contemporary International Relations it entails a theoretical position, neotraditionalism, as a reformulation of the initial ''traditionalist'' approach in the wake of rationalism and subsequent reflectivist critique.Trade Review'Alexander Astrov is a remarkable scholar who has command of two very different literatures - contemporary International Relations theory in all its variants, positivist and non-positivist, and the aesthetically-oriented political philosophy and theories of history of figures such as Collingwood and Oakeshott. In On World Politics he manages to combine these two literatures to create a fascinating study of what International Relations theory could have been and should still be. This is a fascinating and deeply rewarding book, highly recommended to political theorists of all persuasions.' - Chris Brown, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, UKTable of ContentsPART 1: PROLOGUE PART 2: ANOTHER CASE FOR THE CLASSICAL APPROACH Politics Poetry Civilization Tradition PART 3: POLITICS Contemplation and its modes The Scale of Contemplation Action Utility, Rightness, Duty Choices, Practices, Politics Politics and Poetry PART 4: POETRY The Mill-Race Action Contemplation The Dry Wall Action Contemplation Poetry and Civilization PART 5: CIVILIZATION Laws and Manners The Mill-Race The Dry Wall Policy and Politics The Mill-Race The Dry Wall Civilization and Tradition PART 6: TRADITION Word Order Policy and Politics Laws and Manners Word Politics Policy and Politics Laws and Manners Tradition and Neotraditionalism PART 7: NEOTRADITIONALISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS Tradition Civilization Poetry Politics PART 8: EPILOGUE Notes Bibliography
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK Using History Making British Policy
Book SynopsisThe extent to which history has been used to inform policy remains a neglected topic. Focusing upon the 1957 Whitehall policy initiative, this book enhances our knowledge of post-1945 Britain, illuminates debates about the nature and the use of history in the contemporary world, most notably the relationship between history and policy.Trade Review'This interesting, well-written and clearly-organised book will be of value to those interested in British governmental policymaking in the third quarter of the last century and, more generally, to those concerned with the potential relevance of historical study in the public sphere. 'Drawing on a wide range of sources and reflecting a sound grasp of administrative practice and culture, Beck ably demonstrates the extent of the neglect by government in its deliberations of the historical work it had commissioned. His meticulous scholarship demonstrates that, despite claims of the value of the historical perspective, policy, instead, was the function of what was negotiable within Whitehall. 'At times, the perspective seems very recent. The historical report on what Burke Trend termed the deplorable history of the Festival Gardens project, established as part of the 1951 Festival of Britain, would have been useful reading for those considering the Millennium Dome. Similarly, Rohan Butler's 1962 History of the Abadan Crisis of 1951 offers an interesting viewpoint on the more recent Iraq crisis' 'This first-rate study deserves wide attention as an exemplary treatment of its subject.' - Professor Jeremy Black, University of Exeter, and author of Using History (2005). 'Beck's book draws into question the practicality of marrying history with policy making. It provides case studies into the limited abilities of academic historians to write administrative histories. Additionally, it serves as an implicit warning to historians who seek to make history the justifier of war or specific policy. Should historians stay away from political debates? This book does not seek to answer that question. The question it does ask how did the British government use histories to determine policy - should at least make people and policy makers think twice before calling for or writing individual histories to explain everything. In the end Beck achieves for policy makers what a positive historical narrative could not: doubt about the uses of history in policy. Paradoxically, this solidly written book provides exceedingly practical lessons to historians and policy makers alike.' - British Scholar (Book of the Month) 'Quite apart from illuminating my father's career, most notably his belief in the value of the historical dimension in the conduct of government, this book reminds policymakers like me about the merits of making history a more significant part of the policymaking process. At the same time, by pointing to the frequent tendency merely to pay lip service to the concept, the book makes policymakers more aware of the constant need to overcome the difficulties of using history in government.'' - Charles Clarke, Home Secretary in the Blair Government, 2004-2006 'A fascinating and genuinely original study by Peter Beck...He has researched the subject thoroughly in The National Archives and among private papers, he writes in a lucid style and...he has succeeded in opening up an area about which most historians of post-war Britain have hitherto said little. Indeed, this is a book that could be read with profit by a wide range of historians...because it raises questions about the value and application of history in the modern world.' Professor John Young, University of Nottingham, Archives: The journal of the British Records AssociationTable of ContentsList of Tables and Boxes Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations PART I: INTRODUCTION: USING HISTORY IN BRITAIN British Policymakers and History Using Official Histories and Public Records to Present Britain's Past to a Global Audience PART II: USING HISTORY IN THE TREASURY The Treasury Becomes 'Very Historically Minded' 1957-1960 Pushing Ahead with 'Funding Experience', 1960-62 The Public Enterprises Division (PE) as a Case Study, 1962-65 The 'New Stage' in the Treasury's Historical Work, 1965-68 Retuning the Treasury's Historical Activities after Fulton, 1968-70 Moving Towards the Closure of the Treasury's Historical Section, 1971-76 Using History in the Treasury PART III: USING HISTORY IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE The Foreign Office's 1962 Abadan History Using Butler's Abadan History to Reappraise British Foreign Policy Using History in the Foreign Office PART IV: CONCLUSION Making British Policy, Using and Ignoring History Appendix: Treasury Historical Memoranda Notes Select Bibliography Index
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK The National Interest in International Relations Theory
Book SynopsisThis is the first systematic and critical analysis of the concept of national interest from the perspective of contemporary theories of International Relations, including realist, Marxist, anarchist, liberal, English School and constructivist perspectives.Trade Review'Scott Burchill has introduced a new and fresh approach to International Relations and conflicts between states. He is objective but also exceedingly insightful, and whoever reads his book will grasp the differences - as well as the weaknesses - between the various schools of thought on world affairs and war and peace.' - Gabriel Kolko, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, York University, Canada 'The topic of 'National Interest' has been central to the study of international affairs for a long time, and is of great current concern, as part of ongoing discussion and controversy concerning the role of the state in the evolving international political-economic order. To my knowledge, this is the first comprehensive study of the topic within the various frameworks of International Relations theory that have become a very productive area of research in the post-World War II period. Burchill provides a lucid critical account of leading ideas of the major perspectives that have been developed, tracing their origins back to the Enlightenment and beyond. He carefully analyzes the place of the concept of national interest within these perspectives, arriving at conclusions that are well-argued and thought-provoking. It is a very valuable study, with many implications for policy and interpretation.' - Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Origins and Antecedents Conventional Perspectives: Realist Approaches Critical Perspectives: Marxist and Anarchist Approaches Progressive Perspectives: Liberal Approaches Progressive Perspectives: The English School Progressive Perspectives: Constructivism Conclusion Appendix: Tables 1 and 2 Bibliography Index
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us Woodrow Wilson and the Press
Book SynopsisEsteemed journalism historian James Startt has crafted an intriguing case study of the relationship between political leadership and the mass media during its early days, using the political ascendancy of Woodrow Wilson as its focus.Trade Review"Featuring impeccable research and lucid analysis, Woodrow Wilson and the Press offers the first in-depth examination of this important aspect of Wilson's career." - George Juergens, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University "This meticulously documented work sets the foundation for understanding today's political communication. It expands our knowledge of Woodrow Wilson and his era and opens the door to greater appreciation of the interrelationship between political and journalistic history. In studying Wilson's campaign press relations, we find the antecedents for contemporary political leadership, which attempts to shape public opinion through use of the mass media. James Startt's book offers a new perspective on the foundation for the modern Presidency. It should be of interest to historians and journalists alike." - Maurine H. Beasley, Professor of Journalism, Univ. of Maryland, College Park James D. Startt offers an excellent study of public opinion and political leadership. Focusing on Woodrow Wilson's relations with the press prior to his presidency, this book clearly demonstrates the future president's savvy understanding of the media in American democracy. His 1912 campaign, first to win the Democratic Party's nomination, and then to defeat the Republican president William Howard Taft and the Progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt, would not have been possible otherwise. Anyone interested in President Wilson or in the connection between public opinion and political leadership in American democratic government will find Woodrow Wilson and the Press essential reading. Known for his previous books on communications and journalism, Startt brings that expertise to this outstanding new book on Woodrow Wilson, public opinion, and democratic government at the beginning of the 20th century. - Lloyd E. Ambrosius, Professor of History, University of Nebraska-LincolnTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Early Encounters with Journalism The President and the Press, 1902-1910 Emergence of a Public Statesman, 1906-1910 Wilson's Gubernatorial Campaign and the Press Governor Wilson and the Press, 1910-1911 The Wilson Presidential Movement: Publicity and Opposition The Press and Wilson's Preconvention Campaign Wilson and the Press at the Democratic Convention Wilson's Election Campaign of 1912 and the Press On the Threshold of the Whitehouse Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan Landing Votes
Book SynopsisLanding Votes explores the conditions under which democratic Latin American governments address persistent political and economic inequities. The book points out a surprising ''coincidence'': nearly every extension of suffrage to the rural poor occurred at the same time as land reform. Politicians did not merely react to peasants'' demands; rather, they sought political power by extending the right to vote while redistributing land. The book concludes that party institutionalization enhanced the prospects for reforms by holding politicians accountable. More significant reforms occurred which benefited more of the rural poor where institutionalized parties competed for their votes.Trade Review"The originality of [Lapp's] argument and the ability to apply it not only to the three main cases but also elsewhere in Latin America and the rest of the world make Lapp's book a must read for anyone interested in the politics of the poor." - Glen Biglaiser, Bowling Green State University "Professor Lapp provides a most compelling argument, tying together institutional development, democratization, and land reform in Latin America. In addition to Lapp s comprehensive treatment of land reform in Latin America, her theoretical argument holds important implications for democratic theory and the more practical problem Latin America faces currently in addressing the concerns of its poor." - David S. Brown, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado, BoulderTable of ContentsIntroduction: Connecting Suffrage and Land Reform Cases of Reform: An Overview Chile: Accelerating Reforms from Alessandri to Allende Venezuala: Democratization and Reforms Brazil: The Land Reform That Wasn't
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us Designing West Africa
Book SynopsisMany African nations are now described as 'fourth world nations', ones which essentially have no future. Focusing on the six most visible leaders of the period - painting detailed portraits of them both as leaders and as people - Schwab looks at how Africa served as a ground to play out larger international conflicts, namely the Cold War.Trade ReviewPraise for Africa: A Continent Self-Destructs: "For anyone interested in the reality of Africa, this is the book to read." - Amos Sawyer, President of Liberia, 1990-1994 "Offers brief, invaluable descriptions of several countries circumstances...readers will gain much from this astute analysis." - Publishers WeeklyTable of ContentsIntroduction: U.S., European, and West African Ideological Designs The Conservatives William V.S. Tubman: Liberia's Conservative Designer Félix Houphouët-Boigny: A French Client in the Ivory Coast Senegal and Léopold Sédar Senghor: Francophile Nation and Poet Nigeria: The State that Lost its Future The Radicals Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana's Nationalist Icon Sékou Touré: Guinea's Fidel Castro, and His Connection to the Political Thought of Mali's Modibo Keita Conclusion: The Appalling Aftermath
£23.74
Palgrave MacMillan Us The Historical Evolution of WorldSystems
Book SynopsisThis book brings together leading scholars to explore the historical evolution of world systems through examining the ebb and flow of great powers over time, with particular emphasis on early time periods.Trade Review"Professors Chase-Dunn and Anderson have put together a most valuable collection, showing current developments in research on large-scale political economies. The book is wide-ranging, covering cycles of Eurasian political-economic change and dominance over several millennia. And it lives up to its mission, which is to advance and extend research and theory examining historical development on a scale transcending traditional foci on single polities or societies in isolation. The work will of course be of great interest to historical and comparative scholars concerned with the established issues of world-systems thinking. But it also engages all sorts of researchers in the broad area of globalization. And substantively, the specific studies carry large-scale political-economic analyses far back into world history, greatly broadening conceptions of that history. Overall, the work shows how much has been accomplished in recent decades. As well, it opens up fascinating new research issues and foci." - John W. Meyer, Professor of Sociology (emeritus), Stanford University "The essays in this book offer a rich survey of different aspects of world-systems theory, demonstrating that it is currently the most disciplined, vibrant and fruitful way of studying relations between different parts of the world over the last five or six millennia. The book offers the best possible introduction to world-systems thinking and suggests why world-system theories are so important to scholarship in world history." - David Christian, San Diego State University "This sweeping volume examines the rise and decline of cities, empires, and world-systems from the Bronze Age to the Modern Age. Bursting with fresh approaches to global trade, elites and state administrations, these essays are must-read material for scholars and students of global history." - - Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; E.N.Anderson & C.Chase-Dunn C-Wave Crises and Early Classical Era Trade Reorientation; W.Thompson From Harappa to Mesopotamia and Egypt to Mycenae: Dark Ages, Hegemonial Shifts and Environmental/Climatic Changes 2200 B.C. - 700 B.C.; S.Chew Power is in the Details: Administrative Technology and the Growth of Ancient Near Eastern Cores; M.Allen Power and Size: Urbanization and Empire Formation in World-Systems; C.Chase-Dunn , A.Alvarez & D.Pasciuti Lamb, Rice and Mongol Hegemonic Decline; E.N.Anderson The Origins of European Hegemony: The Political Economy of South Asia and Europe Compared (c.1200A.D.-1500); E.Mielants Contentious Peasants, Pateralist State and Arrested Capitalism in Chinas Long Eighteenth Century; H.F.Hung Matter, Space and Technology in Past and Future Hegemonies; S.Bunker & P.Ciccantell
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us Mixed Electoral Systems
Book SynopsisUsing election returns, public opinion surveys, and legislative roll-call data from many mixed systems in every world region, the authors show that contamination systematically affects party strategy, voting behaviour, legislative cohesion and overall structure of partisan competition.Trade Review'Mixed Electoral Systems is the first cross-national study of the combined Single Member District and List Proportional Representation systems. The authors demonstrate that the mixed system is not uniform and its governance consequences are dependent upon several variables. This outstanding book concludes with a research agenda for scholars to pursue to improve our understanding of the functioning of the different varieties of mixed member systems employed by various nations.' - Joseph F. Zimmerman, Rockefeller College, University at Albany "This is a compelling case that the growth in mixed electoral systems represents the emergence of a new breed of electoral institutions. The detailed and comprehensive comparative examination is the state of the art in this emerging subfield of electoral systems research and sets a new standard for empirical research into institutional outcomes." - Kenneth Benoit, Trinity CollegeTable of ContentsA New Species of Electoral Institutions? Relative Causal Inference and the Study of Mixed Electoral Systems A Taxonomy of Mixed Electoral Systems The Logic of Contamination: District-Level Party Systems Going It Alone? Strategic Nominations in Mixed Electoral Systems Interactive Ballots: The Microfoundations of Contamination Voting from their Hearts? Contamination and Strategic Voting Eyeing the Future: Contamination and Legislative Behavior Better, Worse, or Just Different? Legislative Fractionalization in Mixed Systems Conclusion
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan Electoral Politics in South Africa
Book SynopsisTen years into the ''new'' South Africa, how does democracy function? This volume provides a retrospective on a decade of elections and democracy in South Africa. The book analyzes the evolution of the party system and electoral campaigns; tracks changes in public opinion and voter motivations; assesses the political implications of socioeconomic change; depicts the evolution of parliament and the electoral system; probes the often-tense relationship between media and government; analyzes the institutionalization the Independent Electoral Commission; and, finally, argues that South Africa is witnessing a ''normalization'' of politics. The book speaks to a broad range of topics, all linked through the electoral theme, which get to the heart of many issues in contemporary South African politics.Trade Review'An invaluable and lively collection of essays on South Africa's electoral politics by the leading authorities in the field. Essential reading for all those interested in the 'New' South Africa.' - Anthony Butler, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa 'Electoral Politics in South Africa is an excellent guide to the highs and lows of South Africa's first decade of democracy. Piombo and Nijzink have assembled an outstanding cast of writers whose essays illuminate not just the 2004 election but highlight how the nation has grappled with the transition from apartheid to multi-party democracy. The book makes essential reading for anyone wishing to understand where South African democracy is heading.' - Andrew Reynolds, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, and Editor of Election '94 South Africa and Election '99 South Africa '...this is a worthwhile book, with two excellent introductory chapters and much useful information, especially on the smaller parties...' - The Round Table 'As South Africa moves towards its next democratic election, it is important to understand the electoral trends that have emerged in the past decade. Electoral Politics in South Africa makes a valuable contribution to the body of work that contributes to that understanding.' - FocusTable of ContentsPART I: A DECADE OF DEMOCRACY A Voice for Some; S.Friedman The Electoral Implications of Social and Economic Change since 1994; J.Seekings Voted Information, Government Evaluations and Party Images in the First Democratic Decade; R.Mattes Parliament and the Electoral System: How Are South Africans Being Represented?; L.Nijzink & J.Piombo The Administration of Election '04; C.Kabemba PART II: THE PARTY CAMPAIGNS The African National Congress; T.Lodge Peaking at a Plateau?; S.Booysen Torn Between the Nation and the Homeland; L.Piper Election '04; C.Schulz-Herzenberg Struggling to Represent the Left; T.Hoeane The Smallest Parties; S.Naidu & Mbongeni Manqele PART III: THE RESULTS AND ASSESSMENT Media Coverage in Election '04; G.Davies The Results of Election '04; J.Piombo
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan The Problem of Order in the Global Age
Book SynopsisThis important contribution to the study of the problem of order, which figures prominently in today''s globalization debate, focuses on the role of sovereignty. It advances arguments based on psychocultural perspectives and looks at postcommunist transformations and changes in political, economic and cultural orders at all levels of social life.Trade Review'Professor Pickel's book is exceptional in three respects. First, it deals with problems in the real world instead of presenting one more pseudo-mathematical model about highly idealized situations. Second, Pickel respects data but does not worship data-gathering. Instead, he attempts to explain facts in terms of mechanisms, or processes in complex systems. Last, but not least, Pickel knows that science is not done in a philosophical vacuum: he makes his philosophical assumptions explicit. And his main principles rationality, scientific realism, and systemism are tailored to successful scientific research. For all these reasons I warmly recommend this book to anyone interested in understanding the momentous political changes we are witnessing these days.' - Mario Bunge FRSC, Frothingham Professor of Logic and Metaphysics"No one can accuse Andreas Pickel of timidity! In a single compact book, he takes up how people relate to sovereign states, what transitions from socialism meant, how we should understand globalisation, the (in)adequacy of social science as it now exists, and the general problem of explaining social order. The wonder is double: that he brings fresh insight to each of these questions, and that he shows how they connect with each other." - Charles Tilly, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction PART 1: TOOLS FOR THE STUDY OF ORDER Framework: Systems and Mechanisms The Problem-oriented Approach to Order: The Case of the Theory of Sovereignty Homo Nationis: The Psychosocial Infrastructure of the Nation-state Order PART 2: THE CHALLENGE OF POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSFORMATION Changing Orders: Intervening, Framing, and Explaining Explaining and Designing Order: Social Science and Social Technology PART 3: THE CHALLENGE OF GLOBALIZATION Nationalizing Mechanisms in a Globalizing World Nation and Social Order in the Global Age
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan Us Rousseaus Theory of Human Association
Book SynopsisThe book explores the characteristic features and political consequences of social interaction when the parties' intentions are transparent, and when they are opaque. The author develops a theory of association and uses it to elucidate, assess and extend Rousseau's views of human nature, civil society, the market economy and the republican state.Trade Review"A rational-choice interpretation of Rousseau? And one that even people bored by rational-choice theory will want to read? That is the miracle Greg Hill has pulled off. Rousseau's Theory of Human Association is an engaging read and a challenge - not only to conventional interpretations of Rousseau - but to defenses of unfettered capitalism. Hill writes well and thinks hard, and the results will be worthwhile for anyone with an interest in Rousseau or in the nature of modern interpersonal relationships." - Jeffrey Friedman, Editor, Critical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction Transparency and Opacity in Nature, Society, and State Association and Civil Society in Transparent and Opaque Societies Opaque Traders and the Invisible Hand Transparency, Opacity, and Political Theory Conclusion
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis blends history, economics, and politics to challenge the prevailing accounts of the rise of U.S. militarism. While acknowledging the contributory role of some of the most widely-cited culprits, this study explores the bigger, but largely submerged, picture: the political economy of war and militarism.Trade Review'Ismael Hossein-zadeh's penetrating analysis of the role of the military-industrial complex in driving U.S. foreign policy and rearranging domestic priorities could not be more timely. With U.S. military spending at levels higher than the peak years of the Vietnam War, Hossein-zadeh provides the most cogent explanation yet of how we got to this point.' - William D. Hartung, Senior Research Fellow, World Policy Institute at the New School 'America has been overrun not by military force, but by the force of militarism. Using statistics, analysis and historical references, Hossein-zadeh reveals the troubling picture that America may have succumbed to militarism despite the warnings of Washington, Eisenhower and Butler. Hossein-zadeh reveals the true cost of Pentagon programs by adjusting the federal budget for Social Security and unmasking the insatiable, consuming maw of spending run amok. He reveals how budgetary militarism is defeating the New Deal, even as it musters a long term assault on the Bill of Rights and other foundations of American democracy. The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism is a must-read for patriots concerned about the future of the United States.' - Grant F. Smith, Director of Research, Institute for Research, Middle Eastern Policy 'Writing in a scholarly but accessible manner, Ismael Hossein-zadeh provides an impressive overview of policy trends, their historical background and their political and economic influences. In examining the recent tendencies towards war and militaristic responses to foreign policy issues, the author looks past the now dominant neo-conservative justifications, focusing on the powerful interests that lie beneath.' - David Gold, Associate Professor, International Affairs Program, The New School 'Ismael Hossein-zadeh has produced an original and powerful synthesis of previous explanations of contemporary U.S. militarism. He locates the relevant economic, political, and ideological forces within a power-elite military-industrial complex framework firmly grounded in a structural analysis of capital accumulation. By steering past the twin dangers of conspiracy theory and economic reductionism, this framework clearly reveals the parasitic, class-biased, and systemic character of the Bush administration's unilateralism. Along the way, Hossein-zadeh provides a challenging analysis of the cyclical fluctuations of U.S. military spending since World War II.' - Paul Burkett, Professor of Economics, Indiana State University 'This is an interesting and timely book...a fine mixture of analysis and detailed research, as well as being an entertaining read.' - LobsterTable of ContentsIntroduction The Military-Industrial Giant: An Empire in Itself Imperial Militarisms: Past and Present The Rise of U.S. Militarism Inventing 'Threats to Our National Interests' Militant Islam, Terrorism, and 'Clash of Civilizations' Behind the Invasion of Iraq Waste, Inefficiency and the Spoils of Military Spending The Political Economy of U.S. Military Spending Limits of U.S. Militarism
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan The Second Term of George W. Bush
Book SynopsisSecond term presidencies are distinctive, not least as the president no longer has to run for re-election. Placing the second term of George W. Bush in comparative perspective, this fascinating book explores the political, institutional and policy implications of a second term. Combining topicality with analytical richness, this is an important resource for scholars and students.Trade Review"From White House veteran Bradley Patterson, to well-established political scientists, to young up-and-coming presidency scholars, the editors have put together an insightful set of perspectives on the Bush Presidency. If you want a guide to President Bush's second term, this is it." - James P. Pfiffner, George Mason University and author of The Strategic Presidency, and The Character Factor "Timely, illuminating, and perceptive essays. Prominent scholars dig deep to explore the likely prospects for Bush in his remaining years in office." - Louis Fisher, author of Presidential War Power "This is a comprehensive analysis concerning the institutional, leadership and policy objectives of an administration determined to operate both inside and outside a beltway-driven conservative political culture. This lucid account is a 'must read' for scholars, policy makers and students of Bush's legacy as a two-term president of a polarized country, with the additional dimension of confronting the fallout of an increasingly unpopular war in Iraq." - John Davis, Howard University"This collection of scholarship is timely and much-needed. It is a well-written, well-researched, and worthwhile addition to the scholarly literature on the presidency in general and on George W. Bush in particular. I believe this text is well-suited to advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students." - Denise von Herrmann, University of Southern Mississippi "This book lays to bare key questions and issues that plague all second term presidents and provides a powerful lens to understand the context, constraints and capacities which presidents must confront. This book will appeal to an advanced undergraduate audience and find a home in political science and history courses on the presidency." - Victoria A. Farrar-Myers, The University of Texas at ArlingtonTable of ContentsSECTION I: THE SETTING Are Second Terms Second Best? Why George W. Bush Might (or Might Not) Beat the Expectations; R.Maranto, D.Brattebo, T.Lansford & J.Johnson Presidential Elections and Presidential Governance; R.H.Davidson SECTION II: THE INSTITUTIONS The Organization of the White House Staff of 2005-2006: New People? YES: New Structures? NO; B.Patterson The President's Cabinet: Choices for Structuring the Bush Cabinet; S.A.Warshaw The New President and the New Congress; A.Rudalevige The Bully Pulpit; J.R.Greene The President, the Courts, and Legal Policy; A.Steigerwalt & L.Johnson SECTION III: THE POLICIES Domestic Policy: The President's Agenda Revisited; M.Genovese Homeland (In?)Security; A.M.Khademian The Middle East Peace Process and the War on Terrorism; A.M. Lesch Economic Policy: Responsibility with Limited Authority; J.Cohen The Best Defense? Iraq and Beyond; T.Lansford SECTION IV: LEADERSHIP Character, Leadership and Transformation: The Third Presidency of George W. Bush; S.A.Renshon
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us Germanys Civilian Power Diplomacy
Book SynopsisThis book assesses the diplomatic path of influence taken by German decision-makers during the early nineties in pursuit of their cautiously articulated interest in and commitment to the eastward enlargement of NATO.Trade Review"Chaya Arora has given us a superb analysis on the German influence on NATO's enlargement process towards the East. Her well-researched and well-argued book rectifies the widespread belief that granting membership to Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic had been an primarily an American project. Her work will be essential reading for those who wish to understand the significant impact German diplomacy had on NATO's membership question." - Karl-Heinz Kamp, Security Policy Coordinator, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, BerlinTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: GERMANY'S ACADEMIC FOREIGN POLICY DEBATE The Question of Germany's Normalizing Ambitions Germany - Still Not A Civilianizing Power PART II: GERMAN DIPLOMACY AS COMMUNICATIVE ACTION In The Habermasian Practice of Reasoning The Smyser-Habermasian Navigational Aid for Analysis PART III: GERMANY'S INFLUENCE ON THE U.S. DECISION TO ENLARGE NATO: THE PROCESS FROM 1993-1997 The Year 1993: Initiating the Debate on NATO Enlargement The Year 1994: The Holbrooke-Factor The Year 1995: Keeping the Process Afloat The Years 1996/7: Winning Moscow's Approval
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan Democratic Foreign Policy Making
Book SynopsisLeading scholars from the United States and the European Union examine how democracies make foreign policy when their citizens disagree. The authors focus in particular on differences of opinion between the legislature and the executive - often called ''divided government'' - and the constraints of public opinion on a leader''s actions.Trade Review'The so-called Schelling conjecture, named after Nobel laureate Thomas Schelling, is a key proposition in the applied bargaining literature. This 'paradox of weakness' suggests that the weak negotiator is often more successful than its resourceful and unconstrained counterpart. This volume explores in an exemplary fashion the relevance of the Schelling conjecture and some related hypotheses on how democracies negotiate with other states and how successful they are at the bargaining table. The theoretical and empirical work presented by this truly international research team offers new challenges and is presented with hallmark rigor and sophistication. Their collective tour de force will shape the negotiation and cooperation literature for years to come.' - Gerald Schneider, University of Konstanz, and Executive Editor European Union PoliticsTable of ContentsDivided Government and International Cooperation: An Overview; R.Pahre Domestic Veto Institutions, Divided Government, and the Status Quo: A Spatial Model of Two-Level Games with Complete Information; T.H.Hammond & B.Prince Do Democracies Trade More Freely?; B.P.Rosendorff Divided Government and International Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century; R.Pahre Divided Government and the Ratification of the Amsterdam Treaty; S.Hug & T.König Divided Government and Territorial Disputes; T.Allee & P.Huth Conclusion: Democracy and Foreign Policy; R.Pahre
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan Us The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity
Book SynopsisThis book offers a theoretically-informed analysis of the way in which Israeli national identity has shaped Israel's foreign policy. By linking domestic identity politics to Israeli foreign policy, it reveals how a crisis of Israeli identity inflamed the debate in Israel over the Oslo peace process.Trade Review"Rejecting standard 'realist' accounts of foreign policy, which center almost exclusively on a state's 'national interests' and security concerns, The Pursuit of Peace and the Crisis of Israeli Identity argues that national identity is at the heart of Israel's policies regarding the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Foreign policy, in Dov Waxman's view, is less the product of a small number of high officials conferring in smoke-filled rooms, than a broader set of struggles in society over the definition of national identity. This must-read book argues persuasively that resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict demands first that Israelis solve their own roiling conflict over national identity." - Joel Migdal, Robert F. Philip Professor of International Studies, University of Washington"This is a masterful study; seldom if ever have the internal and external dimensions of Israeli politics been tied together so persuasively. Waxman goes to the roots of the Jewish dilemma - which is also the Zionist dilemma - between the pull of universalism and the claims of particularity. But this is not a work mired in abstractions; rather, it traces this dilemma in Zionist and Israeli history with an extraordinary precision and command of events. The analysis of the Oslo peace process, in particular, explains its ultimate collapse with a depth of understanding that few other analyses have approached. This is a book that will be of value to readers on all levels, from the uninitiated to the expert. It should be on everyone's short list of books on Israel." - Alan Dowty, Kahanoff Professor in Israel Studies, University of Calgary, and President, Association for Israel Studies "Waxman's engrossing account of Israel's foreign policy as a site of conflict over collective identity in analytical and historical perspective is not only a must read for everyone interested in a deep perspective of Israel's passionate search for meaningful national existence, but also a milestone in the development of a 'constructivist' school of Israel Studies." - Emanuel Adler, Andrea and Charles Bronfman Professor of Israeli Studies, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction The Construction of Israeli Identity: From Jews To Israelis and Back Again Between Isolation and Integration: Foreign Policy and Israeli National Identity Out Of The Ghetto The Crisis of Israeli Identity The Return of The Other Conclusion: Israel's Identity Crisis in Global Perspective
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan Us Pragmatic Liberalism
Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the problems of U.S. politics and public policy and proposes a solution rooted in a deep American consensus that often goes unrecognized. The authors critique three dominant ideological perspectives - conservative, radical, and liberal - and propose a fourth eclectic 'outcomes' perspective rooted in American pragmatism.Trade Review'In Pragmatic Liberalism, Albert Hunter and Carl Milofsky bring hope in a dark time. This lively and scholarly book expands our vision of what a civil society can and should accomplish. The authors' pragmatic ideas of citizenship will help move social thought beyond tiresome ideological arguments and will renew readers' desire to break policy stalemates by shouldering the responsibilities of leadership. With well-chosen examples, Hunter and Milofsky demonstrate how we can bring about positive social change in organizations, communities, and nations.' - William Kornblum, Chair, Center for Urban Research and Professor of Sociology, Graduate Center, C.U.N.Y."Courageous and innovative, yet sensitivity balanced, Hunter and Milofsky cut through the isms and excuses to formulate clear, reasoned solutions to fundamental policy issues. Social scientists, mayors, foundation officials, journalists, and talk show hosts should read and discuss this fresh new perspective." - Terry Nichols Clark, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsPrologue Malaise Rights Why Help? Markets, Inequality, and Social Efficiency: The Conservative View Class Conflict and the Radical View of the Common Good The Constructive Chaos of Pluralism Institutions, Social Policy, and the Death of the Old Social Science Moral Policy Implementing Pragmatic Liberalism: Leadership, Citizenship, and Community
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us Identity and Change in East Asian Conflicts
Book SynopsisThis book examines the changing national identities that are transforming East Asia - pushing China and Taiwan apart and toward a showdown, while propping up a weakened North Korea. Accomplished contributors analyze the dynamics and the U.S.'s policy response.Trade Review"The break-up of the Yugoslav federation, civil war and genocide in Rwanda and Sudan, consolidation of the European Union, and the phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism are all symptomatic of the importance of identity politics in contemporary world affairs. While most current scholarly and policy discourse tends to frame international and intranational conflicts in terms of clashes of interests, there is much to be said about these interests themselves being constructed from the relevant groups' self-identities and their identification (or the lack thereof) with their counterparts: interests are derivative of identities. This volume takes on the important topic of evolving identities across the Taiwan Strait and on the Korean peninsula, and offers a penetrating series of analyses that goes beyond the current headlines." - Steven Chan, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder "This fascinating volume is a major contribution to the literature on national identity. Focusing on identity reformation/change in one of the world's most dynamic regions, East Asia, this book shows how changes in political institutions interact with internal and international events to change national identities and conceptions of national interests. Such changes have destabilized the long-frozen, Cold War-era conflicts between China and Taiwan and between the Koreas, making them much more difficult to control. To understand these fast-changing conflicts and the current struggles of U.S. foreign policy, policy-makers, scholars, and students alike should read this book." - Suisheng Zhao, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, and author of A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism "Analysts and commentators regularly cite East Asian national identities and identity crises as driving the region's conflicts, but do not specify how. This book goes well beyond simply taking note of the identity dimension. By making it the central element of a reevaluation of the East Asian security situation, this book provides a deeper understanding of the international politics of this crucial region today." - Patrick Morgan, Tierney Chair in Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine"Recommended." - CHOICETable of ContentsDemocratization and National Identity in the China-Taiwan and Korean Conflicts; S.Horowitz , U.Heo & A.C.Tan The Evolution of China's National Interest: Implications for Taiwan; P.Moody Taiwan: Political and National Security of Becoming 'Taiwanese'; H. Stockton Economic Interdependence between China and Taiwan: Implications for Identity and National Security; C.Clark * Explaining U.S. Policy towards China and Taiwan; S.B.Redd Rising China vs. Estranged Taiwan; S.Horowitz , U.Heo & A.C.Tan North Korea in Crisis: Regime, Identity, and Strategy; T.Roehrig South Korea's Response: Democracy, Identity, and Strategy; J.H.Woo U.S. Strategy in the Korean Conflict; M.Begovic & K.DeRouen Japan's Response to Asia's Security Problems; D.Patterson The North Korean Nuclear Crisis; I.Taek Hyun & Sung Deuk Hahm * The United States and East Asia: Past and Future; S.Horowitz
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us New Deal Theater
Book SynopsisNew Deal Theater recovers a much ignored model of political theater for cultural criticism.While considered to be less radical in its aesthetics and politics than its celebrated Weimar and Soviet cousins, it nonetheless proved to be highly effective in asserting cultural critique.Trade ReviewWinner of the2008 SAMLA Studies Award! "Thisstudy will be a very important contribution to the field. What Saal does so well is to identify an American tradition she calls vernacular theater. It has often been described as a naive American theater tradition unworthy of comparison to its more sophisticated European contemporaries. Saal successfully identifies the complex and sophisticated reasons why the American stage chose a vernacular route, in the process of explaining its strengths and weaknesses with an intellectual sophistication that supports her sympathetic predecessors who have been less than fully successful at articulating the movement's roots, successes, and justifications.She is, in short, presenting what I would suggest is the final word on what has oft been thought but never so well expressed. This book is likely to find both a sympathetic readership while at the same time converting those among the scholarly theater community who have frequently turned away from American theater to study and engage European traditions often seen to be more interesting, dynamic, and politically/aesthetically engaging." - William W. Demastes, Louisiana State University "For Saal, these theatrical movements - themselves tied to the political movements: the United Farm Workers and antiwar organizing - meld the American vernacular traditions with avant-gardist stagings, offering another way of conceiving modernism and arguing against U. S. government intervention into art." - Theater Survey "Saal's analyses comprise rich material from rarely researched areas and will be important to the understanding of American political theater as well as to comparative approaches in theater studies of that subject" - Buchbesprechungen Book Reviews "[A] superb study...It will certainly be of interest to both scholars of interwar theatre and drama and those who grapple with the vagaries of political theatre" - Theatre Journal "New Deal Theater offers its readers a much needed and long awaited revision of political theater in the West." - South Atlantic ReviewTable of ContentsThe Failure of Epic Drama: Reconsidering Political Theater * Disjunctive Aesthetics: A Genealogy of Political Theater * Strike Songs: Working and Middle Class Revolutionaries * Plays of Cash and Cabbage: From Proletarian Melodrama to Revolutionary Realism * Why Sing of Skies Above?: Labor Musicals and Living Newspapers * Towards Postmodernism: The Political Theater of the 1960s
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan Gender Identity and Imperialism
Book SynopsisAn ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers constructed new identities in a Muslim community. Cook shows how these transnational migrants both perpetuate and resist unequal global power relations in everyday life, tracing the legacy of this from the colonial period to the present.Trade Review"An enjoyable and insightful read with a strong, interesting narrative. Cook provides a well-researched ethnographic study that centers on issues of migration, ethnicity and racial identity, and assimilation." - Nupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University "An ethnographic study showing how Western women living in Pakistan as international development workers built new identities." - The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction: Points of Arrival and Departure Bazaar Situations Vulnerable and Spatialising Subjects "Free" Travellers and Developers Navigating Boundaries Another One in the Oven Conclusion: Ruptures and Recuperations?
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan From Revolutionary Movements to Political Parties
Book SynopsisThis volume is a series of original articles analyzing eleven case studies (from Africa and the Americas) of revolutionary movements that have reconstituted themselves into formal political parties. The book''s analyzes the factors influencing the success and failure of these former politico-military movements within their new democratic contexts.Trade Review'This volume will fill a large void in the academic literature and make a hugely important contribution to Latin American Studies, African Studies, and in the study of revolutions and democratization.' - Hector Perla, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ohio University 'The contributors to this timely volume provide a valuable service by examining these groups in the 'post revolutionary' phase.' - SurvivalTable of ContentsIntroduction: From the Battle Field to the Political Theatre; D.Close& G.Prevost The Evolution of the African National Congress in Power: From Revolutionaries to Social Democrats?; G.Prevost Born Powerful: Authoritarian Politics in Post-Liberation Eritrea; S.Rich Dorman The Mozambican Experience: FRELIMO and RENAMO; C.Manning The Angolan Triangle: The FNLA, the MPLA and UNITA; A.Malasquias From Guerrillas to Government to Opposition: The Sandinistas since 1979; D.Close Guatemala: From the Guerilla Struggle to a Divided Left; C.Figueroa Ibarra& S.Marí i Puig Uruguay and the Movimiento de Participación Popular; M.Weinstein The Colombian Contradiction: Lessons Drawn from Guerilla Experiments in Demobilization and Electoralism; L.Carroll& S.Wilson El Salvador and the FMLN; A.Martinez-Uribe The PPP in Guyana: From the Political Wilderness to Political Power; K.Deonandan Lessons from the Revolutions: How to Get from There to Here; K.Deonandan
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan The African Press Civic Cynicism and Democracy
Book SynopsisThis book explores the thesis that civic cynicism in African countries is a major obstacle to the consolidation of democracy, and that the African press should address the problem not just among leaders, but also among the general populace.Trade Review"This book makes a significant contribution to the discussion and debate on the role of the media in the consolidation of democracy in Africa. The author analyzes the topic from a perspective that has been too often ignored by many scholars. The author points out that therole of the pressin [re]orientation and inculcation ofcivic, moral, and other values are important elements in democratic consolidation. It is an outstanding piece of research work for students and scholars of media studies, African studies, political science, historians, and others." - Chris W. Ogbondah, Professor of Journalism, University of Northern Iowa "With this book, Minabere Ibelema sheds much-needed light on Nigeria s unsung heroes of its democracy movement: the nation s irrepressible media. Ibelema s urging the Nigerian media to take a greater role in disseminating civic values in the public in order to combat cynicism is sure to stir a provocative and necessary debate among observers of the media both in Nigeria and across Africa. Scholars and practitioners promoting democratic deepening in Africa are certain to find this book to be not only an important tool for understanding the Nigerian media, but also a useful roadmap for assisting the Fourth Estate in meeting its democratic responsibilities to the public. Ibelema s work is certain to contribute to a vigorous debate on the civic role of the African press." - Darren Kew, Assistant Professor of Dispute Resolution, University of Massachusetts, Boston.Table of ContentsUncertain Prospects for Democracy The Emergent Independent Press Journalism Values and the African Press Civic Cynicism and African Press's Mission Consolidating Democracy: Issues and Challenges The Press and Democracy in Nigeria's First Republic Press Support for Military Interventions Press Re-embrace of Democracy Civic Cynicism and Chaotic Democracy Combating Civic Cynicism
£999.99
Palgrave MacMillan Us Fragile States and Insecure People
Book SynopsisThis book provides a unique account of the pursuit of security at the edge of the global order. It sheds light on reform of state police and armed forces, and analyses the alternative security structures that emerge in the absence of the state. This book remains open-minded as to which 'model' for security is better.Trade Review'This important book explores security needs in areas where the formal state has little or no presence and hence where our normative ontology of the sovereign, territorial state does not apply. It doing so, it challenges conventional notions of peace-building, state-building and the assumptions that underpin most of our approaches to development and security. This is an overdue debate that is set to have a profound impact upon security sector reform and post-conflict reconstruction in general.' - Jakkie Cilliers, Executive Director, Institute for Security Studies"This book should drive those who are involved in the conceptualization, design and implementation of security sector reform in post-conflict situations to rethink the current approach which is wholly state-centric and frequently offers up a one-size-fits-all model that can only be sustained with external resources and control. Though focused on security sector governance, the essays in this book provide an insightful departure from current post-conflict governance orthodoxy and constitute an articulate call for a more appropriate paradigm for constructing systems of self-governance in post-conflict countries." - Amos Sawyer, Co-Director, Workshop in Political Theory & Policy Analysis, Indiana University and Chairman, Governance Reform Commission, LiberiaTable of ContentsPreface Security Arrangements in Fragile States What To Do? The Dilemmas of International Engagement in Fragile States The Organization of Violence: A Historical Perspective Local Security Systems in Somali East Africa Protectors and Predators: Why Is There a Difference among West African Militias? Non-state Providers of Every-day Security in Fragile African States Security Sector: An instrument of the State-Building Project Integrating Former Enemies into National Armies Insecurity, State and Impunity in Latin America Towards a Multi-Layered Approach to Security
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan Us The Politics Economics and Culture of MexicanUs Migration
Book SynopsisImages and accounts of the Mexican - US migration process and the border region abound.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Edward Ashbee, Helene Balslev Clausen& Carl Pedersen * PART I: AMERICAN IDENTITIES * Somos Americanos : Mexican Immigration and US National Identity in the Twenty-first Century - Carl Pedersen * Mexican Mestiz Identity in the Twenty-first Century - Helene Balslev Clausen * PART II: CAPITAL AND LABOR * The Other Side of the Migration Story: Mexican Women in the US - Silvia E. Giorguli Saucedo, María Adela Angoa Pérez& Selene Gaspar Olvera * From Precarious, Low-Paying Jobs in Mexico to Precarious, Low-Paying Jobs in the United States - Elaine Levine * Sending Money Home: The Dynamics of Mexico-US Remittances - Mario Villarreal & Megan Davy * The Impact of NAFTA on the Mexican-US Border Region - Elena Labastida-Tovar * Transnational Social Networks and International Trade - Magdalena Barros Nock * PART III: THE BORDER REGION * Beyond Border Crossing and Soulless Places: The Role of Mexico's Northern Border Cities in the Construction of Transnational Social Spaces - Cristóbal Mendoza * Changing Representations of the Border - Mario Alberto Velázquez * Boundaries in Border Films: The Other as "Our" Redemption - Jan Gustafsson * Baldwin Park, Historical Narratives, and American Identities - Anne Magnussen * Textual Representations of the Border and Border-Crossers: Constructing Latino Enemies in The New York Times - Ken Henriksen * Mexican Immigration and the Question of Identity in the United States - Raphael Gomez * PART IV: POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY * Immigration and the 2006 US Mid-Term Elections - Edward Ashbee * Immigration, Social Policy, and Politics in the US - Alex Waddan * From the Margin to the Middle?: The Origin, Transformation, and Direction of the Minutemen - Pia Møller * Migrants, Votes, and the 2006 Mexican Presidential Elections - Helene Balslev Clausen & Mario Alberto Velázquez * Sovereignty along el Río Bravo / the Rio Grande: Changes in US Immigration Law and Mexican Foreign Relations Law - Ernesto Hernández-López
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Transforming Political Leadership in Local Government
Book SynopsisBased on original research in eleven countries the book assesses these changes in terms of their implications for political accountability, the role of lay politicians, political recruitment, the professionalization of leadership, and relations with the bureaucracy.Trade Review'Berg and Rao have provided us with a valuable and righ collection of comparative materials on local political leadership...there is much that academics and professionals can learn from this collection'. - Michael Goldsmith, Public AdministrationTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Figures Acknowldgements Institutional Reforms in Local Government: A Comparative Framework; R.Berg & N.Rao The Reform of the Political Executive in Dutch Local Government; B.Denters, P.J.Klok & H.van der Kolk The Directly-elected Executive Mayor in German Local Government; H.Wollmann From Committees to Leaders and Cabinets: The British Experience; N.Rao From Aldermen to Ministers: The Oslo Model; H.Baldersheim Municipal Presidentialism and Democratic Consolidation in Spain; J.M.Ferran & X.B.Horta From Cabinets to Committees; The Danish Experience R.Berg Laymen and Executives in Swiss Local Government; A.Ladner The Swedish Model: Many Actors and a Few Strong Leaders; S.Montin Institutional Form and Political Leadership in American City Government; J.H.Svara The Powerful French Mayor: Myth and Reality; E.Kerrouche Transformation of the Political Executive in Belgian Local Government; J.Ackaert Institutions Count But Resources Decide: American Mayors and the Limits of Formal Structure; C.N.Stone Transforming Political Leadership: Models, Trends and Reforms; H.O.Larsen Bibliography Index
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Ulster Unionism and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Book SynopsisThe politics of Ulster Unionism is central to the success or failure of any political settlement in Northern Ireland. This book examines the relationship between Ulster Unionism and the peace process in reference to these questions.Trade Review'...a very well-researched and detailed piece of work, it is also well written and commendably readable...provides a considerable contribution to the analysis of the unionist position within the Northern Ireland peace process.' - James Condren, Political Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures and Table Acknowledgements Abbreviations INTRODUCTION The Structure of the Book PART 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIONIST IDEAS Who? What were they Saying? The Critiques Party Political Effects Conclusion PART 2: THE CHALLENGE OF THE ANGLO-IRISH AGREEMENT AND THE UNIONIST RESPONSE The Unionist Withdrawal of Consent The Integration Debate Devolution and North-South Relations Conclusion PART 3: UNIONISM IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT Local Government Politics Unionists Political Parties and Local Government Relationships with Nationalism Conclusion PART 4: UNIONISM AND THE PEACE PROCESS The Unionist Analysis of the Peace Process Consent The Limits of a Settlement Conclusion PART 5: UNIONISM AND THE POLITICS OF THE AGREEMENT The Politics of the Agreement Party Politics Conclusion Conclusion: Questions of Unity Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan Governing New European Democracies
Book SynopsisGoverning New European Democracies is a fully comparative study of decision-making processes in the cabinets of ten post-communist countries of East-Central and South-Eastern Europe. It is based on interviews collected from over 300 ministers. This book provides the first comprehensive panorama of life in cabinet governments.Trade Review' Governing New European Democracies provides a comprehensive and scholarly account of the changing political decision-making processes of "New Europe"...will become one of the standard texts in its field.' - Hortenzia Hosszu, Central European Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Cabinet as a New Form of Government in Post-Communist Democracies PART 1: THE GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS The End of Communism and the New Party System The Anatomy of Central Eastern European Cabinets The Rules and the Operating Procedures in Cabinet An Overall Descriptive View: What Ministers Think about Cabinet Government PART 2: PARTIES AND TYPES OF CABINETS IN THE VIEW OF MINISTERS Party Government and Cabinet Decision-Making Coalitions, Single-Party Governments and Cabinet Decision-Making PART 3: MINISTERS AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT OF CABINETS How Ministers View the Role of Prime Ministers' Offices Ministers and the Role of Civil Servants in Cabinet Decision-Making PART 4: THE MEMBERS OF THE CABINET IN THE VIEWS OF THE MINISTERS Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making Finance Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making Prime Ministers and Cabinet Decision-Making Conclusion
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK The Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory
Book SynopsisThe Radical Attitude and Modern Political Theory focuses on the appearance of modernity that can be best described as radical. First appearing in the sixteenth century, the attitude is best seen not as a coherent ideology or tradition but as a series of conceptual resources that continue to inform political discourse in the present.Table of ContentsIntroduction The Reformation and the Radical Attitude: Luther, Müntzer and Calvin The Politicisation of Man: The Levellers and Hobbes Enlightenment, Law and Nature: Montesquieu and Rousseau Conservatism and Radicalism: Burke and Paine Democracy and Revolution: Tocqueville and Marx Crisis and Decision: Lenin and Schmitt Conclusion
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK The Europeanization of French Foreign Policy
Book SynopsisThis study examines the record of French and EU interactions with China, Japan and Vietnam in the areas of economic exchanges, political security relations and human rights to establish if there has been a trend of converging 'European' politics and collective European conceptions of interest and identity.Trade Review'...a stimulating and thought-provoking book. The case studies on the EU, China, Japan, and Vietnam stand alone as examples of vigorous comparative policy analysis.' - International Studies Review 'This volume is a welcome addition to the literatures of Europeanization and of French foreign policy. In the case of Europeanization, there is always scope for detailed demonstration of the process at work; in the case of France, new empirical evidence of French action in parts of the world not traditionally associated with French influence here, Japan and China is valuable, particularly given the revival of French interest in Asia in the twenty-first century; this is Wong's starting point.' - European Foreign Affairs ReviewTable of ContentsList of Maps and Tables List of Grid Tables Abbreviations Preface PART 1: INTRODUCTION PART 2: FRENCH AND EU OBJECTIVES IN EAST ASIA: WHICH AFFECTS WHICH? French Objectives in East Asia The European Union's Objectives in East Asia Interplay between French and European Foreign Policies PART 3: CHINA: A GAULLIST PARTNER? Trade and Investment Relations Political and Security Relations Human Rights Conclusions PART 4: JAPAN: BEYOND FASCINATION AND SUSPICION Economic and Trade Relations Political-Strategic Relations Human Rights Conclusions PART 5: VIETNAM: RELATIONS PRIVILEGIEES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA? Trade and Aid Political-Security Objectives Human Rights Conclusions PART 6: CONCLUSION Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
£999.99
Palgrave Macmillan The French Communist Party During the Fifth Republic
Book SynopsisThe demise of the French Communist Party (PCF) has been a recurrent feature of overviews of the Left in France for the past two decades, and yet the Communists survive. This study examines the factors that undermined the position of the PCF as the premier party of France, but also highlights the challenges that the party faces in a society disillusioned with politics, and the new strategies that it is developing in order to revive its fortunes.Trade Review'Raymond's book thus complements the works of Jacques Fauvet, François Fejtö, Philippe Robrieux, Maxwell Adereth, Irwin Wall, Marc Lazar, and others. Scholars will find this book useful as a resource. Instructors of history and political science should also consider Raymond's book for use in the classroom, as he provides a sophisticated analysis of one of France's most complex political parties.' - W. Brian Newsome, H-France ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE PREMIER PARTY OF FRANCE Political Credibility Dynamics of the Counter-Culture The Anti-System Party PART II: THE SEEDS OF FAILURE The Rise of the Socialists Failing the Presidential Challenge Speaking for the Party: George Marchais and the Discourse of Declining Authority PART III: A PARTY WITHOUT A ROLE? A Tale of Clashing Counter-Cultures The End of Ideology
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Democracy and Social Peace in Divided Societies
Book SynopsisThis unique comparative study examines minority representation and powersharing in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, Fiji, India, Malaysia, and Yugoslavia. Presenting a new concept of the 'consociational party', Bogaards explores how diversity differs within parties and why it matters for social peace and democracy.Trade Review"This new book by Matthijs Bogaards makes a significant and highly original contribution to the literature on consociational democracy by studying the seven major political parties that have been internally consociational. It constitutes a crucial theoretical advance that will be of great interest to all scholars and students who study the problems of divided societies." - Arend Lijphart, University of California, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Consociational Party 2. The Alliance Model 3. The Congress Model 4. Non-democratic Consociational Parties 5. From Inter- to Intraparty Consociationalism in South Africa? 6. The Origins and Institutional Environment of Consociational Parties Conclusion
£40.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Foucault on Politics Security and War
Book SynopsisFoucault on Politics, Society and War interrogates Foucault's controversial genealogy of modern biopolitics. These essays situate Foucault's arguments, clarify the correlation of sovereign and bio-power and examine the relation of bios, nomos and race in relation to modern war.Table of ContentsIntroduction; M.Dillon& A.W.Neal PART I: SITUATING FOUCAULT Strategies for Waging Peace: Foucault as Collaborateur; S.Elden PART II: POLITICS, SOVEREIGNTY, VIOLENCE Goodbye War on Terror? Foucault and Butler on Discourses of Law, War and Exceptionalism; A.W.Neal Life Struggles: War, Discipline, and Biopolitics in the Thought of Michel Foucault; J.Reid Security: A Field Left Fallow; D.Bigo Revisiting Franco's Death: Life and Death and Bio-Political Governmentality; P.Palladino PART III: BIOS, NOMOS, RACE Law Versus History: Foucault's Genealogy of Modern Sovereignty; M.Valverde The Politics of Death: Race War, Bio-Power and AIDS in the Post-Apartheid; D.Fassin Security, Race, and War; M.Dillon
£40.49
Palgrave Macmillan To Kill a Sultan A Transnational History of the Attempt on Abdlhamid II 1905
a huge range and FREE tracked UK delivery on ALL orders.
£999.99
