Politics & International Relations

If what is shaping up to be the worst foreign policy disaster in U.S. history has an upside, it is that the war in Iraq should permanently settle a handful of questions about American conduct in the world. This work traces the recurring American bad habit of starting wars as tryouts for big ideas...

This title provides a reflective assessment of recent developments, social relevance and future of environmental political theory. This book will appeal to students and researchers of the social sciences...

In Liberalism and Pluralism the author explores the challenges conflicting values, interests and identities pose to liberal democracy...

Andrew Williams delivers a detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, examining the main strategies used by liberal states not only to defeat their enemies but also to transform them...

Andrew Williams delivers a detailed study on liberal thinking over the last century about how wars should be ended, examining the main strategies used by liberal states not only to defeat their enemies but also to transform them...

This work shows the importance of analysing the "low" politics of areas that have traditionally been dominated by "high" politics...

The quality and nature of local government varies widely between countries. This introductory text is structured to allow a genuinely comparative approach, looking at eight countries in Europe and North America...

The quality and nature of local government varies widely between countries. This introductory text is structured to allow a genuinely comparative approach, looking at eight countries in Europe and North America...

This volume attempts to respond to both the perspective of academic analysis and the highlighting of the lessons to be learned of the Local Government Review...

A comparative analysis of eight different urban areas examining key urban issues that are high on the policy agenda of every national government...

This collection of essays examines European politics and diplomacy in the 1920's, with special emphasis on the Treaty of Locarno of 1925, often seen as the 'real' peace treaty at the end of the First World War...

This volume guides the reader through a detailed examination of the text to an understanding of Locke’s political ideas in relation to his writings on philosophy, education, religion and economics and the influence these ideas had upon eighteenth-century political theorists. The author shows how Loc..