In the 1980s, the arrests of a group of teachers, doctors, and other professionals triggered a wave of protests, helping to pave the way for Somalilands self-declaration in 1991. Drawing on over 100 oral histories and archival materials, this book w...Loe edasi...
Constitutional structures are an important mechanism for structuring the politics of multinational democracies, especially the political jousting between sub-state demoi and the state demos in plurinational polities....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197692769)
What does it mean for something to be public? Its not always clear what this ever-important word means. Are we using the same idea of public when we talk about public education, or public safety, or public works? And how should we think a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197799253)
Every year, the United States authorizes dozens of bureaucracies to craft and implement foreign policy. This fragmentation of authority can result in chaos and infighting when agencies fail to communicate or outright undermine each other. Conventiona...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236872)
A captivating history of diplomacy—and an urgent reminder of why we need to revive its lost arts to survive in a dangerous era of great power competitionFrom the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by...Loe edasi...
In many countries politicians rely on employers to influence the voting behavior of their employees, but this type of voter mobilization is remarkably understudied. Workplace Mobilization: How Politicians and Employer Subvert Elections draws on uniq...Loe edasi...
This is a brief introduction to the life, thought, work, and legacy of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), but it is not a traditional biography. Public curiosity about Hamilton, his life, and his work has swelled, particularly among those intrigued by p...Loe edasi...
This book discusses EU member state institutions that take all their decisions by unanimity (i.e., individual countries can and do hold all others hostage in order to extract concessions for their vote). On the other e...Loe edasi...
Fareed Zakaria first warned of the threat of illiberal democracy two decades ago. In Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, he sets our era of populist chaos into the sweep of history. Based on deep research a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198918776)
Humanities Theory pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a suite of forceful new challenges and are in a period of significant change. For these reasons, it has become...Loe edasi...
Humanities Theory pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a suite of forceful new challenges and are in a period of significant change. For these reasons, it has become...Loe edasi...
Katarzyna Walecka, Simona Guerra, Fernando Casal Bértoa
Sari: Oxford Handbooks
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192873149)
The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics provides students, researchers, practitioners, and interested readers with the most complete analysis of Polish politics and society yet published. The Oxford Handbook of Polish Politics...Loe edasi...
Sari: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190942588)
In the last half century since the height of the rights revolution - a period marked by significant rights expansions but limited government capacity to enforce them - efforts to defend individuals and communities rights have hinged on the effectiv...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198947486)
This book explores the economic and social trajectories of advanced political economies in Europe, the United States, China, and Russia in the twenty-first century. The chapters offer theoretical, typological, and empirical comparisons between advan...Loe edasi...
Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Chiung-Chiu Huang, Jung H. Pak, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Jung H. Pak, Ketian Zhang, Yuichi Hosoya, Jung H. Pak, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Seong-Ho Sheen...
An in-depth exploration of the strategic dynamics shaping East Asias future on the world stageEast Asia is the epicenter of twenty-first-century geopolitics, where military, economic, and diplomatic strategies intersect in complex and ofte...Loe edasi...
Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Chiung-Chiu Huang, Jung H. Pak, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Jung H. Pak, Ketian Zhang, Yuichi Hosoya, Jung H. Pak, Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Seong-Ho Sheen...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Georgetown University Press, ISBN-13: 9781647126247)
An in-depth exploration of the strategic dynamics shaping East Asias future on the world stageEast Asia is the epicenter of twenty-first-century geopolitics, where military, economic, and diplomatic strategies intersect in complex a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804027)
Chronicles the history of Zionism, Israel, and the United States.Fleeing from History offers an understanding of Zionism not as ideology or movement but rather as a multidimensional cosmopolitan arena for Jewish political deba...Loe edasi...
The book argues that public sector innovation improves many societal challenges in Southern Africa and demonstrates how innovative practices are addressing governance gaps. These insights will be an essential resource for development practitioners...Loe edasi...
This book, originally published in 1967 looks at political institutions in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Gambia a the time of the establishment of alien rule and goes on to discuss in detail constitutional developments from 1919 to the...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1976, this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africas twentieth-century history....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1989 and written by a long-time peacemaker who commanded respect from most political camps in South Africa, this book advocated constructive intervention in the South African conflict. It showed the growing element of pragm...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1972, this book examines the way in which the military/police regime in Ghana, which overthrew President Nkrumah in February 1966, performed two overlapping tasks – those of establishing itself as a recognised govern...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1974, this book is a readable account of Botswana from the time of the first European visitors to the modern era of emergence as an independent African state. Originally published in 1974, this book i...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina history, culture and archaeology. The reasons for, and the chronolo...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1959 by a former Governor of Uganda and Head of the Africa Division of the former Colonial Office, this book is a concise exposition of British aims and methods in colonial Africa and the extent of British influence....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009330053)
In this paradigm-shifting history, two leading historians of India re-examine the making of the Indian constitution from the perspective of the nations people. They argue that the deep sense of ownership diverse publics assumed over the constitutio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009662291)
Provides a novel perspective into Chinas political economy. It reveals how the Chinese state regularly makes businesses serve political goals, and identifies when, where, and why this occurs. Combining academic rigor with exceptionally rich data, i...Loe edasi...
The Chinese state has never granted businesses full autonomy, even amid efforts to establish market-supporting institutions. Instead, the state and its officials view business as primarily political actors, demanding political services from firms to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009646901)
Explains why some revolutions fail and succumb to counterrevolutions, while others go on to establish durable rule. Killian Clarke combines original global data with a close analysis of Egypts 2013 counterrevolution. During an era of resurgent auth...Loe edasi...
Explains why some revolutions fail and succumb to counterrevolutions, while others go on to establish durable rule. Killian Clarke combines original global data with a close analysis of Egypts 2013 counterrevolution. During an era of resurgent auth...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197776360)
Dictating the Agenda: Authoritarian Resurgence and Influence in the World examines how authoritarian states have repurposed tools, norms, and actors previously used to promote U.S.-backed liberalism, now turning them against liberal ideas. After the...Loe edasi...
Venal Origins uncovers the legacy of 18th-century office-selling in Spanish America and its effects on local governance and subnational economic disparities. It shows how venal colonial officials fueled indigenous segregation, violent conflict, and...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009635158)
Venal Origins uncovers the legacy of 18th-century office-selling in Spanish America and its effects on local governance and subnational economic disparities. It shows how venal colonial officials fueled indigenous segregation, violent conflict, and...Loe edasi...
International treaties and regulations have flourished over the past century. But why are some states more likely to ratify international treaties than others? And d...Loe edasi...
Apartheid and Fragmented Protest in Contemporary Southern Africa examines protest movements through the lens of Apartheid Studies, the first general theory of apartheid which explores how oppression, harm, injustice, poverty, loss, and ineq...Loe edasi...
This open access edited book connects two strands of federal studies, fiscal federalism, and diversity accommodation, to answer two closely interrelated questions. The first of these is to what extent has the need to accommodate diversities determ...Loe edasi...
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of China’s Global Initiatives launched between 2021 and 2023 as elements of a coherent strategy intended to construct a Chinese-led international order. This highly ambitious enterprise was initiated...Loe edasi...
Negative images of Africa which define the continent as being riven with poverty, crime, or war, are increasingly being challenged. Examples of soft power such as Nigeria’s Nollywood, athletic successes in Kenya, Rwanda’s commercial diplomacy, and...Loe edasi...
This book explains how and why Zimbabwe’s extractive industry indigenisation over-promised its benefits yet under-delivered upon implementation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural res...Loe edasi...
David P. Auerswald, Philippe Lagassé, Stephen M. Saideman
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503643420)
War is too important to be left to the generals, declared French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau over a century ago. But which civilians, exactly, play the most important roles in controlling the armed forces? When civilian control is studied,...Loe edasi...
Kristoffer Kolltveit, Elin Haugsgjerd Allern, Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Bjørn Erik Rasch
Sari: Oxford Handbooks
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198888581)
The Oxford Handbook of Norwegian Politics provides a comprehensive examination of Norways political institutions, politics, public policy-making, and international relations. As the introductory chapter highlights, Norway has tradit...Loe edasi...
This book interrogates the nexus between the state and development in post-apartheid South Africa. Highlighting current problems, and suggesting ways of consolidating state capabilities, improving public institutions and enhancing governance and d...Loe edasi...
For far too long, views of Eastern Europe as an entrenched, deprived and peripheral region have shaped common perceptions of this area of the world. Presenting important contemporary research, Globalizing Eastern Europe: Politics, Cultur...Loe edasi...
