Politics

The complete text of Machiavelli's best-known work, along with excerpts from some of his other writings and letters, and critical essays by J. R. Hale, Felix Gilbert, Leo Strauss, and others... More

‘This book…ought to be required reading in schools and newsrooms for it cuts through the often subtle propaganda about our times and tells us much about the new world order which, as Chomsky points out, is the old Cold War by another name’ John Pilger A devastating analysis of America's politi... More

This book deals with system dynamics which blends the art of traditional manage-ment with the science of feedback control to conceptualize a problem, map it into easily understandable diagrams, and develop mathematical models using friendly algebra.... More

In this comprehensive revision of the most influential, widely read analysis of the US trade policymaking system, Destler addresses how globalization has reshaped trade politics, weakening traditional protectionism but intensifying concern about trade`s societal impacts.... More

"Advances an analysis of the need to effect social change at a global level and advocates a rights-based approach to economic development.""--Reference and Research Book News," August 2004 *Links development and human rights theory with practice*Written by an award-winning author and expert in the h... More

This book is a collection of essays by authors with different experiences and from diverse analytical traditions, who discuss the relations between science, technology and development in the context of citizenship. It also considers how knowledge is framed and why justice and democracy are essential... More

Best-selling author Sharon Beder unleashes a penetrating expose of how corporations are crafting the global agenda for their own benefit at the expense of billions of people, the environment and democracy.In this brilliantly researched expose, 'communications Rottweiler' Sharon Beder blasts open the... More

The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffe... More

A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote ‘The End of Imagination’. The essay attracted worldwide attention as the voice of a brilliant Indian writer speaking out with clarity and conscience against nuclear weapons. Over the next three and a half year... More

A thorough overview of NATO's post-Cold War military and non-military activities, this comprehensive study also covers its role since September 11.... More

The concept of the millennium encompasses a sense of progress and the hope for a better future. Pursuing this notion, the present collection of essays edited by Romila Thapar, and accompanied by her introduction, explores the challenges before twenty-first-century India in its quest for a democratic... More

Thisbook identifies and explains the security challenges -- both traditional andnontraditional -- confronting Southeast Asia. The author addresses the full spectrum ofsecurity issues, discussing the impact of ethnic tensions and competingpolitical ideologies, the evolving role of ASEAN, and Southeas... More

LeVine presents a groundbreaking exploration of the roots of the current conflict between the United States and the Muslim world.... More

This interdisciplinary volume is designed to expand the agenda of postcolonial studies, assess the field’s past and present foci, and affect its future evolution. The editors ask scholars to consider the intellectual, political, and methodological practices that have shaped—and which should shap... More

Nearly three thousand people died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In Lower Manhattan, on a field in Pennsylvania, and along the banks of the Potomoc, the United States suffered the single largest loss of life from an enemy attack on its soil. In November 2002 the United States Co... More

This book is a huge step forward in the debate over the roles of 'greed' and 'grievance' in recent civil wars. The authors' conceptual essays and case studies carefully examine the ways that economic opportunities and political competition combine to shape the likelihood, character, and duration of... More

A provocative and disturbing account of how soldiers and the military have responded to the sometimes contradictory requirements of peace operations. Whitworth's feminist analysis questions our assumption that warriors are able to bring-or keep-peace.'-Simon Chesterman, International Peace Academy&n... More

In this collection of Greenfeld's essays, we see her tackle the topic of nationalism from an array of angles, each giving us a unique perspective on what Einstein called 'the measles of mankind'. Covering the analogies between nationalism and religion, the political significance of culture, the inci... More