Social & political philosophy books

This book finds and explores a gender gap in political support in the Occupied Palestinian Territories whereby more...  Read More >>

This book explores some of the disconcerting realities of fanaticism by analyzing its unique dynamics and considering...  Read More >>

This book expounds the dialectical conception of science largely implicit in the writings of Marx and Engels, offering...  Read More >>

This book determines why current Asian democracies have become less stable and less resilient to increasing authoritarianism....  Read More >>

"Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the ""Limits of the State,"" this book brings together...  Read More >>

This volume focuses on the modernist and avant-garde engagement with workers’ sport events that were organised or...  Read More >>

This book offers an in-depth critical account of the state’s responses to the biosecurity and the economic crises....  Read More >>

Women, Migration, and Aging in the Americas analyzes how immigrant women have coped with life after they settled...  Read More >>

This edited volume seeks to contest prevailing assumptions about torture and to consider why, despite its illegality,...  Read More >>

Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, underline common aspirations....  Read More >>

This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan, one of several...  Read More >>

Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes...  Read More >>

"Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies,...  Read More >>

This book addresses the impact of a range of destabilising issues on minority rights in Europe and North America....  Read More >>

This book analyses the conceptual and concrete relationships between rhythm and law.  Read More >>

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously...  Read More >>

This book studies India’s foreign policy through the lens of Kautilya’s Arthashastra, an ancient Indian treatise...  Read More >>

Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie sexual violence...  Read More >>

This book reassesses the relationship between human dignity, law and specifically the ‘personalist’ school of agency....  Read More >>

This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights...  Read More >>

Affect and Belonging in Political Uses of the Past examines key political events of the past decade, to analyse...  Read More >>

This book examines how the European Convention of Human Rights system and the Strasbourg Court interact with states...  Read More >>

This volume examines cases of accommodation and recognition of minority practices: cultural, religious, ethnic,...  Read More >>

Peace Settlements and Political Transformation in Divided Societies examines what happened to Northern Ireland and...  Read More >>

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens the power to deliberate...  Read More >>