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In the history of human conflict, battles fought with weapons and armies often leave the deepest scars in memoryーbut the battles waged in silence, through manipulation, subversion, and hidden power……続きを見る

This book examines how the thinking towards international relations of political leaders, researchers, the media and the public is fundamentally metaphorical in nature: the abstract and far away con……続きを見る

History teaches a quiet truth: Armies win battles. Intelligence wins civilizations. Empires have fallen not because they lacked strength, but because they lacked foresight. The most powerful rulers ……続きを見る

Most political books speak loudly. Very few think deeply. Modern politics is often portrayed as charisma versus money, ideology versus populism, or media versus reality. Yet history tells us somethi……続きを見る

Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners increasingly work in a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repressed……続きを見る

The book presents a comprehensive analysis of internal security systems in the Visegrad Group countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. The authors discuss key institutions respon……続きを見る

Ontdek de verborgen schatten van een meesterwerk dat de tijd trotseert! Duik in de wereld van Multatuli's "Minnebrieven; Over Vrijen-Arbeid in Nederlandsch Indië; Indrukken van den dag" en laat je m……続きを見る

What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction ……続きを見る

English republicanism has long been a major theme in the history of political thought, but the years of the English free state are often overlooked. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the……続きを見る

Estonians for Europe provides a unique insight into nearly eighty years of the history surrounding European unification. Concentrating on Estonian aspirations for an integrative organization in inte……続きを見る

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has seen major advances in recent years. While machines were always central to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, AI is a new kind of machine that Marx could not have a……続きを見る

Opposites in almost every way, mortally suspicious of each other at first, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., were thrust together in the aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination……続きを見る

Public administration and policy analysis education have long emphasized tidiness, stages, and rationality, but practitioners frequently must deal with a world where objectivity is buffeted by, repr……続きを見る

This is the first English translation of Ikki Kita's The Theory of Japan's National Polity and Pure Socialism (1906), also known as Kokutairon and Pure Socialism. Volume 3 has all the chapters from ……続きを見る

This is the first English translation of Ikki Kita's The Theory of Japan's National Polity and Pure Socialism (1906), also known as Kokutairon and Pure Socialism. Volume 2 has all the chapters from ……続きを見る

This is the first English translation of Ikki Kita's The Theory of Japan's National Polity and Pure Socialism (1906), also known as Kokutairon and Pure Socialism. Volume 1 comprises Parts 1 and 2. T……続きを見る

Rhetoric, Politics and Popularity in Pre-Revolutionary England provides an account of the political thought and culture of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It examines the centrality of humanis……続きを見る

This provocative Element is on the 'state of the art' of theories that highlight policymaking complexity. It explains complexity in a way that is simple enough to understand and use. The primary aud……続きを見る

What can we say about the shape of things to come in world politics, the probability of different possibilities, and the reflexivity of our anticipations? Building on post-Keynesian economic theory ……続きを見る

The award-winning author of Second Acts and The Last Republicans draws on interviews and conversations with seven presidents to identify the essential leadership lessons, character, and legacy that ……続きを見る

Two leading scholars of democracy make the case for political bargaining and define its proper limits. Bargainsーgrand and prosaicーare a central fact of political life. The distribution of bargaini……続きを見る

During the last two decades, there has been much scholarly and popular interest in the financialization of the American economy--why the turn to finance has taken place, what constituted it, and wha……続きを見る

This book introduces the concept of ‘knowledge alchemy’ to capture the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies of governance into competitive ones following imagined global go……続きを見る

This book deals with a central aspect of Marx’s critique of society that is usually not examined further since it is taken as a matter of course: its scientific claim of being true. But what concept……続きを見る

The death of the ruler poses a significant threat to the stability of any polity. Arranging for a peaceful and orderly succession has been a formidable challenge in most historical societies, and it……続きを見る

By analysing case studies through the lens of new constructivist Institutionalist perspective, this book sheds new light on the failure of EU policies in the Mediterranean. It suggests that these fa……続きを見る

European regional organisations have spent significant amount of time, energy and money in supporting Russia's transition towards the western liberal-democratic model since the end of the cold war. ……続きを見る

While there is plenty of historical, sociological, and polemical literature on neoconservatism, there is relatively little that treats it philosophically. Misguided Guardians illustrates neoconserva……続きを見る

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most influential of the fundamentalist radio broadcasters and anticommunists of the……続きを見る

Rachel Carson’s 1962 Silent Spring is one of the few books that can claim to be epoch-making. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides in American agriculture helped thrust environmental……続きを見る