By: Karl Schlogel (European University of Viadrina)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650760, Pub Date US Aug 2012, Pub Date RoW Oct 2012, Pub Date Aus Oct 2012

Description: Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin’s dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this ...

By: Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649269, Pub Date US Nov 2012, Pub Date RoW Oct 2012, Pub Date Aus Oct 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649252, Pub Date US Nov 2012, Pub Date RoW Oct 2012, Pub Date Aus Oct 2012

Description: Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about...

By: Judith Shapiro (American University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745660912, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW Aug 2012, Pub Date Aus Aug 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745660905, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW Aug 2012, Pub Date Aus Aug 2012

Description: China’s huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future ...

By: Alan Dowty (Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame and former Kahanoff Chair of Israel Studies at the University of Calgary)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745656120, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745676005, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: What explains the peculiar intensity and evident intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Of all the "hot spots" in the world today, the...

By: Peter Nolan (University of Cambridge)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745660783, Pub Date US Apr 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745660790, Pub Date US Oct 2013, Pub Date RoW Jun 2013, Pub Date Aus Jun 2013

Description: China has become the world's second biggest economy and its largest exporter. It possesses the world's largest foreign exchange reserves and has 29...

By: Martin A. Smith
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745634722, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2012, Pub Date Aus May 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745661339, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Power has been compared to the weather: people discuss it all the time, but very few really understand it. This book seeks to demystify this complex ...

By: Eli Zaretsky (New School for Social Research, New York)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644844, Pub Date US Mar 2012, Pub Date RoW Apr 2012, Pub Date Aus Apr 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745656564, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been ...

By: Robert M. Entman (George Washington University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647630, Pub Date US May 2012, Pub Date RoW Mar 2012, Pub Date Aus Mar 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745647623, Pub Date US May 2012, Pub Date RoW Mar 2012, Pub Date Aus Mar 2012

Description: This timely and engaging book challenges the conventional wisdom on media and scandal in the United States. The common view holds that media crave ...

By: Harald Welzer
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651453, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Mar 2012, Pub Date Aus Mar 2012

Description: Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth’s poorest countries, endless flows of ...

By: Stephanie Lawson (Macquarie University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650951, Pub Date US Mar 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745650944, Pub Date US Apr 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012

Description: International Relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century as scholars and practitioners sought to address the ...

By: Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651576, Pub Date US Jan 2012, Pub Date RoW Dec 2011, Pub Date Aus Dec 2011

Description: Translated by David Fernbach The 21st century will be the century of Africa. This continent was once seen as empty, rural, animist, poor, and forgo...

By: Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745655154, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654645, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: "A landmark study in the struggle to contain climate change, the greatest challenge of our era. I urge everyone to read it."Bill Clinton, 42nd Presid...

By: Paul D. Williams (George Washington University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645452, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645445, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011

Description: After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of ar...

By: Beverley Milton-Edwards (Queens University Belfast)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652313, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652306, Pub Date US May 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011

Description: The third edition of this dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Mid...

By: Beatrice Hibou (CNRS, Paris)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651804, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651798, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011

Description: The events that took place in Tunisia in January 2011 were the spark igniting the uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East, toppl...

By: Florence Aubenas (Éditions du Seuil)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651996, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011

Description: The idea was simple: pack a suitcase, go to another city where you have no connections and try to find a job, anonymously. That was the idea that too...

By: Stephen Driver (Roehampton University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640785, Pub Date US May 2011, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640778, Pub Date US May 2011, Pub Date RoW Apr 2011, Pub Date Aus Apr 2011

Description: The 2010 general election caught many by surprise as it swept away the old certainties of two-party politics. But, as Stephen Driver shows in this ne...

By: William E. Scheuerman (Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, IN)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650302, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Feb 2011, Pub Date Aus Feb 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637792, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Does a hard-headed Realist approach to international politics necessarily involve skepticism towards progressive foreign policy initiatives and globa...

By: Tim Bale (Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Sussex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648583, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Jan 2011, Pub Date Aus Jan 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745659374, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: The Conservatives are back - but how did they do it and what took them so long? What happened between the party's decision to dump one of the world's...

By: Leslie Stein (Macquairie University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644677, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644660, Pub Date US Apr 2009, Pub Date RoW May 2009, Pub Date Aus May 2009

Description: On May 14, 1948 the State of Israel was declared, announced by David Ben-Gurion at a small gathering that assembled in the main hall of the Tel Aviv ...

By: Geoffrey Pigman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642802, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642796, Pub Date US Feb 2011, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010

Description: Contemporary Diplomacy offers a comprehensive introduction to the changing actors, venues, processes and functions of diplomacy in the 21st Century. ...

By: Andrew Jones (Birkbeck College, London)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643229, Pub Date US Jul 2010, Pub Date RoW Jun 2010, Pub Date Aus Jun 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643212, Pub Date US Jul 2010, Pub Date RoW Jun 2010, Pub Date Aus Jun 2010

Description: Globalization: Key Thinkers offers a critical commentary on the leading thinkers in the contemporary globalization debate, as well as new arguments a...

By: Paul Viotti (University of Denver, USA)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642413, Pub Date US Apr 2010, Pub Date RoW Mar 2010, Pub Date Aus Mar 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642406, Pub Date US Apr 2010, Pub Date RoW Mar 2010, Pub Date Aus Mar 2010

Description: As the world’s only superpower, America’s foreign policy inevitably has a major impact Ð be it positive or negative - on contemporary...

By: Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell (The New York Times)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642963, Pub Date US Apr 2010, Pub Date RoW Mar 2010, Pub Date Aus Mar 2010
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654683, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Declared a terrorist menace yet elected to government in a free election, Hamas now stands as the most important Sunni Islamist group in the Middle E...

By: Anthony Payne (University of Sheffield, UK) and Nicola Phillips (University of Manchester, UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630687, Pub Date US Jan 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745657356, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Just about everyone is 'for' development as an assumed 'good', yet few seem to have a concrete idea of what the term actually entails. Development of...

By: Sara Davies (Queensland University of Technology)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640426, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640419, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009

Description: International responses to the outbreak of SARS, the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the promotion of health as a human right all demonstrate how global poli...

By: Kendra King
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745632810, Pub Date US Jan 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2009, Pub Date Aus Nov 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745632803, Pub Date US Jan 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2009, Pub Date Aus Nov 2009

Description: African-American Politics is a cutting-edge introduction to the political successes, failures, and persistent challenges of African-American politica...

By: Shannon Meehan (Formerly Virginia Military Institute)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646725, Pub Date US Sep 2009, Pub Date RoW Oct 2009, Pub Date Aus Oct 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637624, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innoc...

By: Jean-Francois Bayart
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644370, Pub Date US Jul 2009, Pub Date RoW Jun 2009, Pub Date Aus Jun 2009

Description: The State in Africa is one of the important and compelling texts of comparative politics and historical sociology of the last twenty years. Bayart re...

By: Jürgen Habermas (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646497, Pub Date US Jul 2009, Pub Date RoW Jun 2009, Pub Date Aus Jun 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646404, Pub Date US Jul 2009, Pub Date RoW Jun 2009, Pub Date Aus Jun 2009

Description: The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a de...

By: Lisa Garcia Bedolla (University of California, Berkeley)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633855, Pub Date US Jun 2009, Pub Date RoW May 2009, Pub Date Aus May 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633848, Pub Date US Jun 2009, Pub Date RoW May 2009, Pub Date Aus May 2009

Description: Focusing on five Latino groups – Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Salvadorans, and Guatemalans – this book provides students with a compr...

By: Milton J. Esman (Cornell University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644974, Pub Date US Jul 2009, Pub Date RoW May 2009, Pub Date Aus May 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745675374, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Throughout human history people have moved across national borders. With the advent of globalization, they are now moving in record numbers in search...

By: Christopher Coker (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642888, Pub Date US Feb 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642871, Pub Date US Feb 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009

Description: Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war – when it is justif...

By: Andrew Aoki and Okiyoshi Takeda
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745634470, Pub Date US Mar 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745634463, Pub Date US Mar 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009

Description: This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of Asian American participation in US politics. Written to be easily accessible to stude...

By: Karen E. Smith (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640181, Pub Date US Aug 2008, Pub Date RoW Jul 2008, Pub Date Aus Jul 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640174, Pub Date US Aug 2009, Pub Date RoW Jul 2009, Pub Date Aus Jul 2009

Description: The second edition of European Union Foreign Policy in a Changing World provides a clear introduction to the complexities of contemporary European fo...

By: Peter Holmes (Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745622361, Pub Date US Aug 2008, Pub Date RoW Jun 2008, Pub Date Aus Jun 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745622354, Pub Date US Aug 2008, Pub Date RoW Jun 2008, Pub Date Aus Jun 2008

Description: Introducing Politics for AS Level is a new textbook specifically developed to cover the latest AS specifications. It is suitable for use with the AQA...

By: Susan George
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644615, Pub Date US Jun 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644608, Pub Date US Jun 2008, Pub Date RoW Oct 2008, Pub Date Aus Oct 2008

Description: George Bush leaves the White House in January 2009 and the United States goes back to “normal”, right? Wrong, argues Susan George in this...

By: Andrei Grachev (Political Analyst and Journalist, Former Political Adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643458, Pub Date US Jun 2008, Pub Date RoW May 2008, Pub Date Aus May 2008
E-book, ISBN: 9780745655321, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The sudden ending of the Cold War, surely the dominant feature of the second half of the 20th century, continues to be one of the most unexpected and...

By: Howard Davies (Director of the LSE) and David Green (Adviser for International Affairs, Financial Reporting Council)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643502, Pub Date US May 2008, Pub Date RoW Apr 2008, Pub Date Aus Apr 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643496, Pub Date US May 2008, Pub Date RoW Apr 2008, Pub Date Aus Apr 2008

Description: As international financial markets have become more complex, so has the regulatory system which oversees them. The Basel Committee is just one of a p...

By: Christoph Bluth (University of Leeds)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745633572, Pub Date US Feb 2008, Pub Date RoW Feb 2008, Pub Date Aus Feb 2008
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745633565, Pub Date US Feb 2008, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007

Description: Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international press...

By: Jean-François Bayart
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636689, Pub Date US Feb 2008, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745636672, Pub Date US Feb 2008, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007

Description: Taking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as an impersonal forc...

By: Gerry J. Simpson (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745630236, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745630229, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007

Description: From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milošević and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are...

By: David J. Keen
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640204, Pub Date US Jan 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2007, Pub Date Aus Nov 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640198, Pub Date US Jan 2008, Pub Date RoW Nov 2007, Pub Date Aus Nov 2007

Description: If you thought the point of war was to win, this book will make you think again. David Keen questions the model of war as a contest between two sides...

By: Mark Duffield
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745635804, Pub Date US Dec 2007, Pub Date RoW Oct 2007, Pub Date Aus Oct 2007
E-book, ISBN: 9780745674872, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability – even in the most distant p...

By: Robert Jackson (Boston University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745623382, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745623375, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007

Description: Sovereignty is at the very centre of the political and legal arrangements of the modern world. The idea originated in the controversies and wars, bot...

By: David Held (London School of Economics and Political Science) and David Mepham (Institute For Public Policy Research)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641157, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745641140, Pub Date RoW Dec 2007, Pub Date Aus Dec 2007

Description: In May 1997, the then UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, famously said that foreign policy should have 'an ethical dimension', and that the Labour Gov...

By: Mary Kaldor
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638546, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007
E-book, ISBN: 9780745658018, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: There is a real security gap in the world today. Millions of people in regions like the Middle East or East and Central Africa or Central Asia where ...

By: Rachel Kerr (Kings College, London) and Eirin Mobekk
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745634234, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745634227, Pub Date US Oct 2007, Pub Date RoW Aug 2007, Pub Date Aus Aug 2007

Description: In recent years there has been a tendency to intervene in the military, political and economic affairs of failed and failing states and those emergin...

Edited by: Christopher Ankersen (London School of Economics and Political Science)
By: Christopher Ankersen (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745634609, Pub Date US Jul 2007, Pub Date RoW Jun 2007, Pub Date Aus Jun 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745634593, Pub Date US Jul 2007, Pub Date RoW Jun 2007, Pub Date Aus Jun 2007

Description: International terrorism and the ‘war’ against it have come to define the age in which we live. The threat of terrorist attacks and the me...

By: Anthony Giddens (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642239, Pub Date US Jun 2007, Pub Date RoW Mar 2007, Pub Date Aus Mar 2007
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642222, Pub Date US Apr 2007, Pub Date RoW Mar 2007, Pub Date Aus Mar 2007

Description: Anthony Giddens' The Third Way had a far-reaching impact upon the evolution of New Labour in the UK, and upon left of centre policies in many other c...