Political Theory

Identity, Self-Determination and Secession..

This book explores how free social cooperation helps to mobilize our knowledge and develop methods of discovery in which we can explore the unknown, correct errors, accept criticism, aid our rationality and further political and economic development...

This book explores how free social cooperation helps to mobilize our knowledge and develop methods of discovery in which we can explore the unknown, correct errors, accept criticism, aid our rationality and further political and economic development...

This book establishes a defence of human rights that can be shared by both non-religious and religious people...

The culmination of a major trilogy, this study of socialism, liberalism and conservatism - and then of Marxist communism - confronts the work of great political philosophers and exposes the assumptions underpinning each ideology...

Opening with the landmark Mabo High Court case in Australia and with detailed reference to other significant debates of judgement of the twentieth century Max Deutscher seeks to explore and explain approaches to the concepts of what is good, right and legal. Describing a connection between reason an..

Opening with the landmark Mabo High Court case in Australia and with detailed reference to other significant debates of judgement of the twentieth century Max Deutscher seeks to explore and explain approaches to the concepts of what is good, right and legal. Describing a connection between reason an..

Are India and Pakistan rivals or enemies? Duncan McLeod theorizes the levels and culture of violence between India and Pakistan since partition and independence in 1947, moving the debate away from historical reiteration to instead theorize on the nature and culture of violence between these two sta..

Are India and Pakistan rivals or enemies? Duncan McLeod theorizes the levels and culture of violence between India and Pakistan since partition and independence in 1947, moving the debate away from historical reiteration to instead theorize on the nature and culture of violence between these two sta..

Benoît Godin lucidly examines the idea and representations of innovation from antiquity to the present. He studies the meaning(s) of innovation over time, its diverse uses, and the contexts in which the concept emerged and changed. This history is organized around three periods or episteme: the proh..

Contemporary politics are characterised by the impossibility of agreement on fundamental values. This book examines the institutional alternatives available to democratic politics to determine which institutional structures are most likely to produce a democratic social order in which agonistic citi..

Focusing on contemporary social issues-- the environmental crisis, population growth and demographic change, and the question of whether reparations are owed to indigenous peoples--this study presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, an..