Politics & government books

This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyses the experiences of African migrants in Thailand....  Read More >>

This book considers how law is always enacted, or performed, in ways that can be analysed in relation to fiction,...  Read More >>

In contrast to the extensive contemporary literature about anarchist politics and ideas, this book focuses on the...  Read More >>

This book considers the role of experts and expertise in contemporary politics and the ways in which digitalization...  Read More >>

This book marks the first comprehensive examination of contemporary British influence in Oman and Bahrain, analysing...  Read More >>

"Using ""risk"" as a conceptual lens, this book analyzes how communities across East Asia responded to the disruption...  Read More >>

This book illuminates the way in which measures of intercession, inspired by the ideals of Responsibility to Protect...  Read More >>

This book explores the complicated relationship between constitutions and transitional justice. It brings together...  Read More >>

This second edition examines judicial independence as an aspect of democratization, based on the premise that democracy...  Read More >>

This book interrogates the extent to which regional civil society organisations have evolved as actors in West Africa....  Read More >>

This book provides a systematic overview and in-depth analysis of the effects of rebel group inclusion on democracy...  Read More >>

This book focuses on border deaths at sea and unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction...  Read More >>

The book addresses and clarifies various misunderstandings about the notion of political theology, in its multiple...  Read More >>

This book provides empirically grounded insights into the causes, trajectories, and effects of a severe decline...  Read More >>

Doss critically examines the fundamental connections between colonial forms of knowledge, ‘modernisation’ and decolonisation...  Read More >>

Analyzing the multifaceted receptions of Machiavelli from early modernity to the present history of Northeast Asia,...  Read More >>

This book examines environmental issues through the lens of security studies and presents a comprehensive analysis...  Read More >>

This powerful new book looks at how private institutions governing and organising sport restrict political expression....  Read More >>

This book outlines the main security threats, actors and processes in the Western Balkans following the dissolution...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the ECOWAS Commission, both as an autonomous actor, as well as a policy-making nexus for its...  Read More >>

This book shows how social work can be an agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global...  Read More >>

This book highlights how the consensual orchestration of sustainability in China’s biggest city, Shanghai, affects...  Read More >>

This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how...  Read More >>

This volume analyses Karl Marx’s understanding of science and technology and how it is associated with his focus...  Read More >>

This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with...  Read More >>