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Download this eBook The End of Representative Politics
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The End of Representative Politics


Simon Tormey


Representative politics is in crisis.  Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parliamentary politics is declining fast.  Even oppositional and radical parties that should be benefitting from...

Publication date: 2015-05-19
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What is Politics?


Adrian Leftwich


What is politics? Is it a universal feature of all human societies, past and present? Is it tied to specific institutional arenas? Or is it found in all groups and organizations, large or small, formal or informal? This new textbook seeks to provide answers to these...

Publication date: 2015-05-18
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Download this eBook Party and State in Post-Mao China
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Party and State in Post-Mao China


Teresa Wright


In recent decades, China has become a quasi-capitalist economic powerhouse. Yet it continues to be ruled by the same Communist Party-dominated government that has been in power since 1949. But how has China’s political system achieved such longevity? And what does its...

Publication date: 2015-05-06
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Collection: China Today
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China's Social Welfare


Joe C. B. Leung , Yuebin Xu


The extraordinary rise of China is one of the greatest global stories of recent times. However, China's development has been described as ‘uneven, uncoordinated, and unsustainable’, and has now reached a critical turning point. To transform itself into a successful...

Publication date: 2015-04-21
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Collection: China Today
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Download this eBook China's Social Welfare
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China's Social Welfare


Joe C. B. Leung , Yuebin Xu


The extraordinary rise of China is one of the greatest global stories of recent times. However, China's development has been described as ‘uneven, uncoordinated, and unsustainable’, and has now reached a critical turning point. To transform itself into a successful...

Publication date: 2015-04-21
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Collection: China Today
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Civic Capitalism


Colin Hay , Anthony Payne


As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism, Colin Hay and...

Publication date: 2015-04-17
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Download this eBook China's Coming War with Asia
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China's Coming War with Asia


Jonathan Holslag


China?s ambition is to rise peacefully. Avoiding fierce conflicts with its Asian neighbors is essential to this goal. Jonathan Holslag makes a brilliant case for the geopolitical dilemma facing the rising China, and his argument that China will likely enter into major...

Publication date: 2015-03-17
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Download this eBook Can Financial Markets be Controlled?
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Can Financial Markets be Controlled?


Howard Davies


The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before.   But...

Publication date: 2015-03-06
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Publisher: Polity
Collection: Global Futures
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Download this eBook Critical Approaches to International Security
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Critical Approaches to International Security


Karin M. Fierke


During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new...

Publication date: 2015-03-06
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Download this eBook Is the American Century Over?
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Is the American Century Over?


Joseph S. Nye


For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War between the two...

Publication date: 2015-03-05
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Collection: Global Futures
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Globalization and Technology


Rajneesh Narula


In this book Rajneesh Narula examines the interdependence of globalization and technological innovation at two levels: first, between locations, by examining the role of cross-border initiatives in the innovation process; second, between corporate entities, by studying...

Publication date: 2015-03-03
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Theories of International Relations


Stephanie Lawson


Since the field of International Relations was established almost a century ago, many different theoretical approaches have been developed, each offering distinctive accounts of the world, why it has come to be the way it is, and how it might be made a better place. In...

Publication date: 2015-02-12
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Download this eBook Climate Wars
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Climate Wars


Patrick Camiller , Harald Welzer


Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on ideological...

Publication date: 2015-02-03
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Download this eBook Writings on War
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Writings on War


Timothy Nunan , Carl Schmitt


Writings on War collects three of Carl Schmitt's most important and controversial texts, here appearing in English for the first time: The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War, The Großraum Order of International Law, and The International Crime of the War of...

Publication date: 2015-02-03
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The Human Rights Enterprise


William T. Armaline , Davita S. Glasberg , Bandana Purkayastha


Why do powerful states like the U.S., U.K., China, and Russia repeatedly fail to meet their international legal obligations as defined by human rights instruments? How does global capitalism affect states’ ability to implement human rights, particularly in the context...

Publication date: 2015-02-03
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Collection: Political Sociology
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Europe Entrapped


Claus Offe


Today Europe finds itself in a crisis that casts a dark shadow over an entire generation. The seriousness of the crisis stems from one core political contradiction at the heart of the European project: namely, that what urgently needs to be done is also extremely...

Publication date: 2015-01-30
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Download this eBook War and Power in the Twenty-First Century
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War and Power in the Twenty-First Century


Paul Hirst


Future developments in war, armed conflict and international relations are central to our collective fate in this century. This book looks forward by considering the forces that will drive changes in military organizations, sources of conflict, the power of states and...

Publication date: 2015-01-28
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Political Theology II


Michael Hoelzl , Carl Schmitt , Graham Ward


Political Theology II is Carl Schmitt's last book. Part polemic, part self-vindication for his involvement in the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), this is Schmitt's most theological reflection on Christianity and its concept of sovereignty following the...

Publication date: 2015-01-28
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Download this eBook Globalization in Question
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Globalization in Question


Simon Bromley , Paul Hirst , Grahame Thompson


'Globalization' is one of the key concepts of our time. It is used by both the right and the left as the cornerstone of their analysis of the international economy and polity. In both political and academic discussions, the assumption is commonly made that the process...

Publication date: 2015-01-28
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Models of Capitalism


David Coates


The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.

Publication date: 2015-01-28
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