Political Theory

Using the words of Norman Angell and David Mitrany, this book explores the liberal roots of international relations and argues that there was no Realist-Idealist 'Great Debate'...

Dan Webb explores an undervalued topic in the formal discipline of Political Theory (and Political Science, more broadly): the urban as a level of political analysis and political struggles in urban space...

Criticism is at the heart of any political discussion, and criticism of old policies is central to the development of new ones. In its analysis of political decision-making, this reissue, first published in 1991, examines the principles which control the process of policy criticism...

This book surveys the political history and pre-history of the 'Asian values' debate. Barr explores the histories and conceptual essences of the world religions involved in or affected by the debate...

Decentring the West aims to demonstrate the urgent need to revisit the foundations of the global democratic consensus. By examining the views of democracy that exist in the countries on the semi-periphery of the world system such as Russia, Turkey, Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil and China, as well as wi..

Traces an alternative strand of cosmopolitan thinking that cuts across centuries and civilisations, and suggests some important lessons for the contours of globalization in our own time.  Divided into two parts, Adam K. Webb digs into some fascinating currents of thought and practice in the ancient ..

Traces an alternative strand of cosmopolitan thinking that cuts across centuries and civilisations, and suggests some important lessons for the contours of globalization in our own time.  Divided into two parts, Adam K. Webb digs into some fascinating currents of thought and practice in the ancient ..

The highly anticipated new edition of Michael J. Shapiro's Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to American historical imagination from the founding to the present using disparate disciplines and genres...

The highly anticipated new edition of Michael J. Shapiro's Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to American historical imagination from the founding to the present using disparate disciplines and genres...

A critical and provocative exploration of the political, conceptual and cultural points in Deleuze's minor politics and Marx's critique of capitalist dynamics, engaging with Deleuze's missing work The Grandeur of Marx...

Some of the leading writers on green political thought discuss the status of democracy within Green political thought, and the institutions that might be necessary to ensure democracy in a sustainable society...

Before the publication of Nature’s Metropolis in 1991, historians generally treated urban and rural areas as distinct from one another, following separate lines of development and maturity...