Monthly Review Press, 1998 — 160 p. Samir Amin, one of the most influential economists today, has produced another groundbreaking work. Spectres of Capitalism cuts through the current intellectual fashions that assume a global capitalist triumph, taking the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Marx and Engels’s classic tract, The Communist Manifesto, to focus upon the...
Monthly Review Press, 2004 — 128 p. Samir Amin’s ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European liberalism, but has developed certain features of liberal ideology in a new and uniquely dangerous form. Where European political culture since the French Revolution has given a central place to...
Monthly Review Press, 2013 — 96 p. In this slim, insightful volume, noted economist Samir Amin returns to the core of Marxian economic thought: Marx’s theory of value. He begins with the same question that Marx, along with the classical economists, once pondered: how can every commodity, including labor power, sell at its value on the market and still produce a profit for...
2nd edition. — Monthly Review Press, 2010. — 240 p. Since its first publication twenty years ago, Eurocentrism has become a classic of radical thought. Written by one of the world’s foremost political economists, this original and provocative essay takes on one of the great "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 321 p. This book is unusual in bringing together the work of historians and political theorists under one cover to consider the subject of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dictatorships. A distinguished group of authors examine the complex relationship among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism, paying...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. — 449 p. The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians...
Cambridge, 2016. — 365 p. — ISBN10: 1107176905. Nearly all of those who want to make the world a better place are engaged in paternalism. This book asks how power is intertwined with practices of global compassion. It argues that the concept of paternalism illuminates how care and control are involved in the everyday practices of humanitarianism, human rights, development and...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 664 p. 'Stefano Bartolini has written a large, intimidating monster of a book, but there is beauty in this beast. This work of substantial scholarship encompasses over a century of politics in about 600 p. of closely argued text … this is a book that should be essential rewarding for any scholar interested in European politics, including...
Ediciones Nowtilus, 2007. - 352 p. - (Edición electrónica (epub). - ISBN-13: 978-84-9763-452-6. Breve historia del fascismo analiza su evolución desde su aparición tras la Primera Guerra Mundial y su rápido ascenso en los años de entreguerras. Estudia la conquista del poder de Mussolini con la marcha sobre Roma, el fracasado golpe de estado de Hitler en 1923 y su posterior...
Findhorn Press, 2018. — 276 p. ISBN: 1844097536. Explores the body as a map of consciousness, where physical symptoms reflect stresses on our minds, emotions, and Higher Self Offers a comprehensive guide to 800 physical symptoms with the description of their inner cause and the message they are sending to our consciousness Explains how learning a symptom's message empowers the...
New York: Wiley Blackwell, 2019. — 651 p. Offers a comprehensive survey and interpretation of contemporary Christian political theology in a newly revised and expanded edition. This book presents the latest thinking on the topic of contemporary Christian political theology, with original and constructive essays that represent a range of opinions on various topics. With...
Routledge, 2019. — 288 p. While there has been much focus in recent times on the rise of right-wing populism in Europe, there has been surprisingly little material on the phenomenon of left-wing populism. This edited collection seeks to fill that gap with an investigation of the relationship between the radical left and populism. Featuring a broad range of historical and...
University of Michigan Press, 2016. — 243 p. — ISBN10: 0472119931. — ISBN13: 978-0472119936 As a nation makes the transition from communism to democracy or another form of authoritarianism, its regime must construct not only new political institutions, but also a new political ideology that can guide policy and provide a sense of mission. The new ideology is crucial for...
New York: Palgrave Pivot, 2013. — 96 p. — ISBN10: 1137298685; ISBN13: 978-1137298683. Beginning with the premise that democracies are often deeply implicated in their own downfall, The Theory of Democide challenges the conventional view of how and why democracies collapse by demonstrating that democratic collapse is often a direct result of the inherent logic of democracy...
Abstract. This article analyzes the realist support for the current regime as well as the support for democracy as a set of idealist principles in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It also analyzes political support for nondemocratic regimes as alternatives to democratic governance. The main conclusion of this article is that mass...
Cambridge University Press, 2013. — 294 p. — ISBN: 1107691966, 9781107691964 Is it allowable for your government, or anyone else, to influence or coerce you 'for your own sake'? This is a question about paternalism, or interference with a person's liberty or autonomy with the intention of promoting their good or averting harm, which has created considerable controversy at least...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 254 p. Does democracy decrease state repression in line with the expectations of governments, international organizations, NGOs, social movements, academics and ordinary citizens around the world? Most believe that a 'domestic democratic peace' exists, rivalling that found in the realm of interstate conflict. Investigating 137 countries from...
Routledge, 1994. — 348 p. — (One World Archaeology 12). — ISBN10: 0415095549. 'History is written by the winners' is the received wisdom. This book explains why historical interpretation has to incorporate perspectives from those other than 'winners', and demonstrates archaeology's crucial role in this wide-ranging approach. The book draws more on Africa, Afro-America,...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 350 p. “Thad Dunning has produced an outstanding book, founded on a theoretically-sophisticated re-evaluation of the popular and academic consensus linking oil and resource wealth to political authoritarianism. By showing – both in game theoretic and empirical terms – how resource wealth can promote both democracy and authoritarianism, albeit...
Verso, 1991. — 258 p. Ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept as it is today. In this now classic work, originally written for both newcomers to the topic and for those already familiar with the debate, Terry Eagleton unravels the many different definitions of ideology, and explores the concept’s torturous history from...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1138091375; ISBN13: 978-1138091375 The contributions to this volume Politics, Social Movements and Extremism take serious the fact that populism is a symptom of the crisis of representation that is affecting parliamentary democracy. Right-wing populism skyrocketed to electoral success and is now part of the government in several...
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 603 p. Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. But no one has yet satisfactorily explained the nature of ideologies themselves. Michael Freeden here offers a ground-breaking approach to the subject. Drawing on the political experience of Britain, France, Germany, and the USA over the past two...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 160 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a...
Arktos, 2015. — 138 p. The Right is coming back. After decades of humiliation and political failures, the opposition is reorganising, catching up with the times, and getting itself in order. It is none too soon. Europe faces numerous challenges, challenges which the entrenched, incompetent elites of politics, academia, and the mass media are unable and unwilling to confront....
The authors surveyed Anglo, African American, Latino, and Native American eighth-grade students in six middle schools from one U.S. county in 2003 and 2004. The goal of the project was to compare the attitudes of young people about politics and government at an early age to determine whether differences existed before high school. The authors found that minority and Anglo...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 258 p. Often dismissed as window dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in non-democratic regimes. In a comprehensive cross-national study of all non-democratic states from 1946 to 2002 that examines the political uses of these institutions by dictators, Jennifer Gandhi...
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015. — 224 p. – (Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies). — ISBN: 9780822963684. Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of “electoral authoritarianism” which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. — 416 p. — ISBN10: 0804760349; ISBN13: 978-0804760348. This work traces the changes in classical Marxism (the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels) that took place after the death of its founders. It outlines the variants that appeared around the turn of the twentieth century — one of which was to be of influence among the...
Americans have long prided themselves on living in a country that serves as a beacon of democracy to the world, but from the time of the founding they have also engaged in debates over what the criteria for democracy are as they seek to validate their faith in the United States as a democratic regime. In this book John Gunnell shows how the academic discipline of political...
Penguin, 2004. — 448 p. Empire (2000) - the surprise hit that made its term for U.S global hegemony stick and presciently set the agenda for post–9/11 political theory on the left - was written by this same somewhat unlikely duo: Hardt, an American political scientist at Duke University, and Negri, a former Italian parliament member and political exile, trained political...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 304 p. This book aims to provide an important insight into the essence of Putinism and the political system he has established in Russia over the past decade. Van Herpen compares in detail the many and often surprising parallels that exist between Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia and that of Weimar Germany and Mussolini's Italy indicating the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. — 287 p. Written from an international perspective and ranging from traditional nineteenth-century ideologies like liberalism, conservatism and socialism to more contemporary ones such as feminism, ecologism and political Islam, this book offers a clear exposition of both the historical development of each ideology and the impact each has had on...
London: Phoenix, 1994. — 278 p. — ISBN: 1-85799-129-X. Recent years have seen a remarkable growth of interest in revolution and social upheaval, Marxism and other ideologies of the left, and the movements inspired by them. As a Marxist of long standing Professor E. J. Hobsbawm, one of the most distinguished historians of our day, has been much involved in the discussion of...
Cambridge University Press , 2017. — 340 p. — ISBN10: 1107071038, 13 978-1107071032. During the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, political dictators were not only popular in their own countries, but were also admired by numerous highly educated and idealistic Western intellectuals. The objects of this political hero-worship included Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Joseph...
London, New York: Routledge. — 2005. — 272 p. — ISBN10: 0415357365; ISBN13: 978-0415357364. Recent claims that civic republicanism can better address contemporary political problems than either liberalism or communitarianism are generating an intense debate. This is a sharp insight into this debate, confronting normative theory with historical and comparative analysis. It...
Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1986. - 173 p. Written in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya & Grace Lee, this is another pioneering critique of Lenin and Trotsky, and reclamation of Marx, from the West Indian scholar and activist. This edition includes the original introduction from Martin Glaberman, a new introduction from Paul Buhle, and one from the author...
Lexington Books, 2015. — 210 p. The collective work deals with the problems of if, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism should and could be situated within one coherent narrative. As historical phenomena, can Communism and Nazism fruitfully be compared to each other? Do they belong to the same historical contexts? Have they influenced, reacted to or...
Oxford University Press, 2010. - 256 p. Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection of nationalist ideology, social violence, and the political...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 348 p. — ISBN: 9780190934996. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington, London and Brussels chase...
Temple University Press, 2010. - 200 p. ISBN: 1439902720 Does talking about civic issues encourage civic participation? In his innovative book, Civic Talk, Casey Klofstad shows that our discussions about politics and current events with our friends, colleagues, and relativeso"civic talk"ohas the ability to turn thought into actionofrom voting to volunteering in civic...
İstanbul, Sarmal Yayınevi, 1999. — 368 s. — ISBN: 975-8304-08-9. Bu çalışma Türki gruplar arasında uyanan milliyetçilik arkaplanmda çerçevesinde Türkiye ve başka yerlerdeki Pantürkçülüğün tahlil ve muhasebesine yönelik bir girişim olma . çabasındadır. Aynı zamanda sadece Türk milliyetçiliği ve siyase tinde Pantürkçülüğün rolünü gözden geçirme niyeti de taşımıyor. Geniş çaplı...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 289 p. — ISBN10: 1137556781; ISBN13: 978-1137556783. The results of the last European Elections of 2014 confirmed the rise of right and far right 'populist' parties across the EU. The success of a range of parties, such as Denmark’s Dansk Folskeparti, Slovenia’s Slovenska demokratska stranka, France’s Front National, Greece’s Golden Dawn, the United...
Billing & Sons Ltd., 1937. — 402 p. This book was written before the war. It was written in order to define the principles which may guide us in the postwar world. The first eight chapters of the book may now be tested by hindsight, and the reader will readily see where they were correct and where they were not.The remainder of the book is a constructive affirmation of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. — 232 p. — ISBN10: 3319711911, ISBN13: 978-3319711911. This book is a comparative study of two major Shīʿī thinkers Ḥamīd al-Dīn Kirmānī from the Fatimid Egypt and Mullā Ṣadrā from the Safavid Iran, demonstrating the mutual empowerment of discourses on knowledge formation and religio-political authority in certain Ismaʿili and Twelver contexts. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 256 p. This book offers a novel interpretation of Russian contemporary discourse on Islam and its influence on Russian state policies. It shifts the analytical perspective from the discussion about Russia's Islam as a potential security threat to a more comprehensive view of the relationships of Muslims with Russia as a state and a civilization. The...
VIKING, Penguin Random House LLC, 2017. — 130 p. — ISBN: 1101979984. In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score. If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling...
Kitchener: Batoche Books, 2001. — 109 p. On Liberty is a philosophical work by British philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of...
2nd Edition — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 136 p. Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is...
Melville House, 2010. — 208 p. Here B.R. Myers, a North Korea analyst and a contributing editor of The Atlantic, presents the first full-length study of the North Korean worldview. Drawing on extensive research into the regime’s domestic propaganda, including films, romance novels and other artifacts of the personality cult, Myers analyzes each of the country’s official myths...
Transmedia Publishing, 2015. — 28 p. In this brochure Öcalan's political project, the Democratic Confederalism, is developed systematically. A fundamental criticism of the nation state is followed by a description of its possible alternative, a transnational grass-roots democracy. The texts that form this brochure have been compiled from several of Öcalan's, as of today, still...
248 p. Rights of Man (1791), a book by Thomas Paine, including 31 articles, posits that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard its people, their natural rights. Using these points as a base it defends the French Revolution against Edmund Burke's attack in Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). It was published in two parts in...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 p. Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical regions: Europe, Latin America and the United States. Based on the detailed comparison of all significant cases of populist governments (including Argentina, Greece, Peru,...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 250 p. This book provides a new, comprehensive analytical framework for the examination of majority-minority relations in deeply divided societies. Hegemonic states in which one ethnic group completely dominates all others will continue to face enormous pressures to transform because they are out of step with the new, emerging, global...
JCMS 2003 Volume.41. Number.4. pp. 665–86. In view of the shortcomings of both ‘Westphalian’ and ‘cosmopolitan’ approaches to. European integration, it seems advisable to follow a different path in order to grasp. the relationship of political and cultural identities in the European Union (EU). The. regulation of cultural pluralism at the European level is characterized by the...
Yale University Press, 2009. — 400 p. In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To discern the meaning of this malaise we must investigate the nature of liberal democracy, says the...
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005 (reprint of 1971). — 607 p. — ISBN: 0-674-01772-2. Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. Rawls aims to express an essential part of the common core of the democratic tradition-justice as fairness-and to provide an alternative to utilitarianism, which had dominated the Anglo-Saxon...
Oxford University Press, 2006, 816 p. Series: Oxford Handbooks of Political Science The study of political institutions is among the founding pillars of political science. With the rise of the 'new institutionalism', the study of institutions has returned to its place in the sun. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of where we are in the study of political institutions,...
The moral nature and ideals of Machiavelli, as portrayed in his work The Prince, have long been discussed and debated. Machiavelli has been characterized to such extremes as to be considered both the embodiment of political treachery and a civic visionary. The focus of this analysis is to investigate the moral considerations of Machiavelli’s model prince and to examine the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 176 p. — (Very Short Introductions). Fundamentalism is seen as the major threat to world peace today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11, 2001. But what does "fundamentalism" really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term "fundamentalist" has...
Librairie Ghibellinum, 2011. MATIÈRES. Les sept objectifs de l’Action Européenne . Rétablissement de la liberté d’expression. Départ de toutes les troupes étrangères. Rapatriement des immigrés d’origine extra-européenne. Autodétermination pour les Allemands et les Autrichiens. Création d’une confédération européenne.Objectif 6 : Transfert de la monnaie et des médias dans la...
Azərbaycan, Milli Virtual Kitabxananın e-nəşri, 2014. — 326 p. Sel Ibo (Ibrahim). What is Americanism? Collection of political articles (in Azeri) I. Sel is a modern Azerbaijani publicist, philosopher and political figure. In this book, he outlines his vision of issues related to globalism, neoliberalism and American expansion and provides criticism from Eurasian and...
BILGESAM, Report No. 23, İstanbul, 2010, 62 p. First Section: Preliminary Remarks Common Points on Why Republic and Democracy Have Developed in Western Societies Distinction Between Republic and Democracy Distinction Between The Rule Of Law and The State of Law Development in Turkey and The Democracy Problem Today’s Turkey Second Section: Transformation Impediments to be...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 274 p. During the past two decades, virtually all developing countries shifted from state-led to market-oriented neoliberal economic policies. This book analyzes fresh evidence from Southern Mexico about the effects of this global wave of policy reforms. The evidence challenges the widely held view that these reforms have set countries on a...
Tim Duggan Books, 2017. — 128 p. — ISBN10: 0804190119; ISBN13: 978-0804190114.The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not unlike the totalitarianism of the twentieth century. We are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or...
Tim Duggan Books, 2017. — 66 p. — ISBN: 0804190119. "We are rapidly ripening for fascism. This American writer leaves us with no illusions about ourselves." Svetlana Alexievich, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The Founding Fathers tried to protect us from the threat they knew, the tyranny that overcame ancient democracy. Today, our political order faces new threats, not...
Éditions Blanche. 2011. – 239 p. Language: French Quality: Scanned pages ISBN: 9782846282482 Alain Soral, de son nom complet Alain Bonnet de Soral , est un essayiste français né le 2 octobre 1958 à Aix-les-Bains. Comprendre l'Empire sous-titré "Demain la gouvernance globale ou la révolte des Nations?" est un essai d'Alain Soral dans les domaines de l'histoire de l'économie...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 336 p. Neoliberalism. Neoconservatism. Postmarxism. Postmodernism. Is there really something genuinely new about today's isms? Have we moved past our traditional ideological landscape? Combining political history, philosophical interpretation, and good old-fashioned story-telling, Manfred B. Steger traces ideology's remarkable journey from Count...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 344 p. For a half-century or more, political theory has been characterized by a pronounced distrust of metaphysical or ontological speculation. Such a disposition has been sharply at odds with influential currents in post-war philosophy – both analytic and continental – where metaphysical issues have become a central preoccupation. The Idea...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 237 p. Sometimes politicians run for office promising one set of policies and then, if they win, they switch to very different ones. Latin American presidents in recent years have frequently run promising to avoid pro-market reforms and harsh economic adjustment, then win and transform immediately into enthusiastic market reformers. Does it...
Zed Books, 2016. — 305 p. — ISBN10: 1783608897. — ISBN13: 978-1783608898 Turkey is a nation of contradictions and contrasts. Though considered democratic, the Erdogan government has increasingly begun to resemble a dictatorship, jailing it opponents and violently suppressing dissent. And though Turkey is notionally secular, the Justice and Development Party's power has fed the...
Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1969. — 483 p. Massimo Teodori: Historical And Critical Notes The Beginning of the Movement The Emergence Of The New Left The Radicalization of the Movement Beyond Politics-Social Revolution? Documents The Beginning of the Movement The Emergence of a New Left Position The Radicalization of the Movement Problems and Perspectives Chronology, Glossary, and...
SAGE Publications, 1998. — 390 p. Cognition Ideas and beliefs Social beliefs Structures and strategies Structures of ideologies Values Mental models Consistency Consciousness Common sense Knowledge and truth Identity Social cognition Society Ideology and society Groups Group relations Elites Dominant ideologies? Institutions Discourse The relevance of discourse Discourse...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 312 p. "Wittenberg weighs in on a long-standing puzzle: Why, like a watermark on the printed page, do partisan loyalties survive within a society across generations and notwithstanding vast historical change -- in France, for example, from back across the Fifth, Fourth, and Third Republics, back even to the French Revolution, and maybe...
Columbia University Press, 2019. — 157 p. — ISBN 9780231190305, ASIN 0231190301. A quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia once again looms large over world affairs, from Ukraine to Syria to the 2016 U.S. election. Yet how power works in present-day Russia-how Vladimir Putin came to power and maintains his rule-remains opaque and often misunderstood. In The...
A Theoretical Analysis, New York, Columbia University Press, 1959, 218 p. 上海译文出版社出版 作为一位国际政治学的学者，我的重要兴趣一直在于了解发生战争的根源和实现和平的条件。当然，战争并不是唯一重要的国际问题，然而却是个带根本性的问题。如果集中注意力于研究在不同程度上可能导致战争的国际政治结构以及最后转化成战争或者和平的过程，我们就可以对国际政治有一个总体上的认识。 第一章导言 第二章第一种基本概念 国际冲突与人类行为 第三章第一种基本概念的若干含义行为科学与减少国家间暴力
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