By: Carl Schmitt
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646480, Pub Date US Aug 2013, Pub Date RoW Jul 2013, Pub Date Aus Aug 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646473, Pub Date US Aug 2013, Pub Date RoW Jul 2013, Pub Date Aus Jul 2013

Description: Now available in English for the first time, Dictatorship is Carl Schmitt’s most scholarly book and arguably a paradigm for his entire work. Wr...

By: Craig Calhoun (New York University), Eduardo Mendieta (State University of New York, Stony Brook) and Jonathan VanAntwerpen
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653273, Pub Date RoW Jun 2013, Pub Date Aus Jun 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653266, Pub Date RoW Jun 2013, Pub Date Aus Jun 2013

Description: To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence ...

By: Judith Butler (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and Athena Athanasiou
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653815, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Feb 2013, Pub Date Aus Feb 2013
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653808, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Feb 2013, Pub Date Aus Feb 2013

Description: Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-prov...

By: A. J. Pyle
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650678, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Dec 2012, Pub Date Aus Dec 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745664453, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: John Locke (1632-1704) has a good claim to the title of the greatest ever English philosopher, and was a founding father of both the empiricist trad...

By: Dan Lainer-Vos
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662657, Pub Date US Jan 2013, Pub Date RoW Nov 2012, Pub Date Aus Nov 2012
E-book, ISBN: 9780745664415, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos...

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: Stephen C. Angle
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745661308, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745661292, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW Jun 2012, Pub Date Aus Jun 2012

Description: Confucian political philosophy has recently emerged as a vibrant area of thought both in China and around the globe. This book provides an accessib...

By: Michael Bacon
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646657, Pub Date US May 2012, Pub Date RoW Apr 2012, Pub Date Aus Apr 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646640, Pub Date US May 2012, Pub Date RoW Apr 2012, Pub Date Aus Apr 2012

Description: Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the Americ...

By: Jurgen Habermas (Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745662428, Pub Date US Jun 2012, Pub Date RoW Apr 2012, Pub Date Aus Apr 2012
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745662435, Pub Date US Oct 2013, Pub Date RoW Jun 2013, Pub Date Aus Jun 2013

Description: Translated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jü...

By: Timothy Murphy
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643205, Pub Date US Mar 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745643199, Pub Date US Mar 2012, Pub Date RoW Feb 2012, Pub Date Aus Feb 2012

Description: The Italian philosopher and militant Antonio Negri has been a provocative and controversial figure for over forty years. He has been a professor of l...

By: Peter Wagner (Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652917, Pub Date US Feb 2012, Pub Date RoW Jan 2012, Pub Date Aus Jan 2012
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652900, Pub Date US Feb 2012, Pub Date RoW Jan 2012, Pub Date Aus Jan 2012

Description: We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world...

By: Jeffrey C. Goldfarb (New School for Social Research)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646374, Pub Date US Dec 2011, Pub Date RoW Nov 2011, Pub Date Aus Nov 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637488, Pub Date US May 2013, Pub Date RoW May 2013,

Description: The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation...

By: Roberto Esposito (University of Naples)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649146, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649139, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011

Description: This book by Roberto Esposito - a leading Italian political philosopher - is a highly original exploration of the relationship between human bodies a...

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
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745655147, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Oct 2011, Pub Date Aus Oct 2011

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: Anders Strindberg and Mats Warn
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640624, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640617, Pub Date US Nov 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011

Description: Islamism has emerged as one of the most significant political ideologies of the 21st century. From the Islamic Revolution in Iran to the grinding str...

By: Sridhar Venkatapuram (University College London) and Sir Michael Marmot
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650357, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011, Pub Date Aus Sep 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637501, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Social factors have a powerful influence on human health and longevity. Yet the social dimensions of health are often obscured in public discussions ...

By: Raewyn Connell (University Professor, University of Sydney)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745653518, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011,
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745653501, Pub Date US Oct 2011, Pub Date RoW Sep 2011,

Description: What does social equality mean now, in a world of markets, global power and new forms of knowledge? In this new book, Raewyn Connell combines vivid r...

By: Catherine Malabou (University of Paris-X Nanterre)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651095, Pub Date US Sep 2011, Pub Date RoW Aug 2011, Pub Date Aus Aug 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651088, Pub Date US Sep 2011, Pub Date RoW Aug 2011, Pub Date Aus Aug 2011

Description: Translated by CAROLYN SHREAD In the post-feminist age the fact that ‘woman' finds herself deprived of her ‘essence' only confirms, para...

By: Sylvia Walby (Lancaster University and UNESCO Chair in Gender Research)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745647579, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jul 2011, Pub Date Aus Jul 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637426, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era. Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over. Feminism is a success, althoug...

By: Carl Schmitt
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745652979, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745652962, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011

Description: Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to th...

By: Herman Paul (Leiden University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745650142, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637655, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: This new book offers a clear and accessible exposition of Hayden White's thought. In an engaging and wide-ranging analysis, Herman Paul discusses Whi...

By: Carol Gilligan (New York University)
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651699, Pub Date US May 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745676241, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men and the relati...

By: Peter Lassman
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745616186, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745616179, Pub Date US Aug 2011, Pub Date RoW Jun 2011, Pub Date Aus Jun 2011

Description: The problem of value pluralism permeates modern political philosophy. Its presence can be felt even when it is not explicitly the central topic under...

By: Giorgio Agamben (Professor of Philosophy, Università IUAV di Venezia)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745649726, Pub Date US Feb 2012, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745649719, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011

Description: Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists,...

By: Richard Beardsworth (American University of Paris)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745643243, Pub Date US Jun 2011, Pub Date RoW May 2011, Pub Date Aus May 2011
E-book, ISBN: 9780745637303, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Globalization has been contested in recent times. Among the critical perspectives is cosmopolitanism. Yet, with the exception of normative theory, in...

By: Joachim Radkau
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641485, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Mar 2011, Pub Date Aus Mar 2011
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745641478, Pub Date US Mar 2009, Pub Date RoW Jan 2009, Pub Date Aus Jan 2009

Description: Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences – there is simply no one ...

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: Michael A. Freeman (University of Essex)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639666, Pub Date US Apr 2011, Pub Date RoW Feb 2011, Pub Date Aus Feb 2011

Description: Human Rights is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. It invites students to think conceptually about one of the most importa...

By: Sebastiano Maffettone
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646510, Pub Date US Jan 2011, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646503, Pub Date US Jan 2011, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010

Description: Rawls: An Introduction is a uniquely comprehensive introduction to the work of the American philosopher John Rawls (1921-2002), who transformed conte...

By: Garrett Wallace Brown (Lecturer in the Department of Politics; University of Sheffield) and David Held (Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance; London School of Economics and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648729, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648712, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010

Description: The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overla...

By: David West (Australian National University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745645827, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Nov 2010, Pub Date Aus Nov 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745645810, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2010, Pub Date Aus Dec 2010

Description: This book is a fully updated and expanded new edition of An Introduction to Continental Philosophy, first published in 1996. It provides a clear, con...

By: Susan George
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745651385, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745651378, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010

Description: Crisis? Whose crisis? Today we are in the midst of a multifaceted crisis which touches the lives of everyone on the planet. Whether it's growing pove...

By: David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648361, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745648354, Pub Date US Dec 2010, Pub Date RoW Oct 2010, Pub Date Aus Oct 2010

Description: This book sets out the case for a cosmopolitan approach to contemporary global politics. It presents a systematic theory of cosmopolitanism, explicat...

By: Antonio Negri (formerly Professor of State Theory at the University of Padua.

Description: n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hard...

By: Otfried Hoffe (University of Tubingen)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745634821, Pub Date US Jan 1995, Pub Date RoW Aug 2010, Pub Date Aus Aug 2010

Description: Otfried Höffe is one of the foremost political philosophers in Europe today. In this major work, already a classic in continental Europe, he re-...

By: Dale Miller
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745625843, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745625836, Pub Date US Aug 2010, Pub Date RoW Jul 2010, Pub Date Aus Jul 2010

Description: This book offers a clear and highly readable introduction to the ethical and social-political philosophy of John Stuart Mill. Dale E. Miller argues...

By: Gareth Dale
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640723, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW May 2010, Pub Date Aus May 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745640716, Pub Date US Jun 2010, Pub Date RoW May 2010, Pub Date Aus May 2010

Description: Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century...

By: Richard Shapcott (University of Queensland

Description: Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human be...

By: Thomas W. Pogge (Australian National University)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638935, Pub Date US May 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745638928, Pub Date US May 2010, Pub Date RoW Apr 2010, Pub Date Aus Apr 2010

Description: Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empow...

By: Ed Pluth (California State University, USA)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745642789, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Feb 2010, Pub Date Aus Feb 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745642772, Pub Date US Mar 2010, Pub Date RoW Feb 2010, Pub Date Aus Feb 2010

Description: Alain Badiou is one of the leading philosophers in the world today. His ground-breaking philosophy is based on a creative reading of set theory, offe...

By: Jeremy Rifkin (the Foundation on Economic Trends)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745641461, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745641454, Pub Date RoW Jan 2010, Pub Date Aus Jan 2010

Description: In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profou...

By: Karl Cordell (Reader in Politics at the University of Plymouth) and Stefan Wolff (Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre for International Crisis Management and Conflict Resolution at the University of Nottingham)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745639314, Pub Date US Jan 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745639307, Pub Date US Jan 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009

Description: Why does ethnic conflict remain one of the major security challenges in today’s world? Can we avoid another Rwanda in the future? How was it po...

By: Hélène Cixous (Centre de Recherches en Études Féminines at Paris VIII University, France)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745644363, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745644356, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009

Description: In So Close, the internationally renowned writer Hélène Cixous recounts a return to her native Algeria after a more than thirty-year absenc...

By: Jacques Ranciere
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745646442, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745646435, Pub Date US Feb 2010, Pub Date RoW Dec 2009, Pub Date Aus Dec 2009

Description: This book is not concerned with the use of Freudian concepts for the interpretation of literary and artistic works. Rather, it is concerned with why ...

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: David Halpern (Institute for Government)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745648026, Pub Date US Dec 2009, Pub Date RoW Nov 2009, Pub Date Aus Nov 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745656274, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Richer nations are happier, yet economic growth doesn't increase happiness. This paradox is explained by the Hidden Wealth of Nations - the extent to...

By: Susan Mendus (University of York UK)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745629681, Pub Date US Nov 2009, Pub Date RoW Oct 2009, Pub Date Aus Oct 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745654454, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: Public disenchantment with politics has become a key feature of the world in which we live. Politicians are increasingly viewed with suspicion and di...

By: Alex Callinicos (University of York)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745640464, Pub Date US Jul 2009, Pub Date RoW Jun 2009, Pub Date Aus Jun 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745658230, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global p...

By: William E. Scheuerman (Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, IN)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745636368, Pub Date US Jun 2009, Pub Date RoW May 2009, Pub Date Aus May 2009
E-book, ISBN: 9780745657974, Pub Date US Apr 2013, Pub Date RoW Apr 2013,

Description: The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative o...

By: Karen Wells (Goldsmiths College)
Paperback, ISBN: 9780745638379, Pub Date US Jun 2009, Pub Date RoW Apr 2009, Pub Date Aus Apr 2009
Hardcover, ISBN: 9780745638362, Pub Date US Jun 2009, Pub Date RoW Apr 2009, Pub Date Aus Apr 2009

Description: This compelling new book offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives throughout the world. It shows how the notion of childhood is b...