Politics/Current Affairs

With "race" being discredited as a rallying cry for populist movements because of the atrocities committed in its name during World War II, "culture" has been adopted by right-wing groups instead, but used in the same exclusionary manner as racism was. This volume examines the essentialism, which is ...

Featutres the voices and stories of everyday Indians and presents a personalised account of the changes as they are unfolding. Travelling the length and breadth of the country, this book leads readers off the tourist trail and onto the streets of modern day India.

This work provides an in-depth analysis of the institutional development and behaviour of political parties and of the emerging party system in Russia, 1990-1996.

'The first attempt by any organisation to map the global fight against corruption.' Guardian

Special focus on political corruption.

Multiculturalism has been one of the dominant concerns in political theory over the last decade. To date, this inquiry has been mostly informed by, or applied to, the Canadian, American, and increasingly, the European contexts. This volume explores for the first time how the Australian experience both relates and contributes to political thought...

Nearly 4,000 people were killed over the thirty or so years of the Northern Irish Troubles. Old enemies are now in government together in Belfast, and the killing has all but stopped, but peace can only endure if the dead can finally be laid to rest.

A collection of the greatest quotes from the inimitable politician

Examines the political role played by armed forces in South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Taiwan. This work analyzes how security threats have shaped the military's organization, doctrine, and domestic political role at various stages of political development, from the state-building period to today's post-democratization era.

In the forty-year span between 1968 and 2008, the United States underwent great change in nearly every avenue of life -economics, social mores, demographics, technology, and, of course, politics.

In this groundbreaking work, the Nobel Peace Prize-winner and founder of the Green Belt Movement offers a new perspective on the troubles facing Africa today. Too often these challenges are portrayed by the media in extreme terms connoting poverty, dependence, and desperation. Wangari Maathai, the author ...

Journeying to the dusty heartlands of America's Bible Belt, Nicholas Guyatt goes in search of the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans believe the apocalypse will take place in their own lifetimes.They're convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven.

While American national security policy has grown more interventionist since the Cold War, Washington has also hoped to shape the world on the cheap. Misled by the stunning success against Iraq in 1991, administrations of both parties have pursued ambitious aims with limited force, committing the country's ...

Rapidly increasing global demand for electricity, heightened worries over energy and water security, and climate-change anxieties have brought the potential merits of nuclear energy squarely back into the spotlight.

This 2008 edition of the OECD Information Technology Outlook analyses recent developments in the IT goods and services industries, and suggests that the outlook is for constrainted but continued long-term growth.

Examines fundamental societal, economic, political, and security trends affecting the EU and the US over the next decade. It posits what such trends could mean for the transatlantic partnership by 2020, and, using policy scenarios, recommends the choices likely to influence those patterns.

Revealing the relationship between presidential campaign agendas and policymaking

How effective are public managers as they seek to influence how public organizations deliver policy results? In this book, two award-winning researchers develop a systematic theory on how effective public managers are in shaping policy results and test the theory with evidence from many different public organizations.

Proposes a careful middle path for a deeply fraught topic

A former Secretary of Energy challenges popular misconceptions about the energy crisis, proposing a blended approach to key problems and outlining conservation plans that reflect present economic challenges.

Like most years in the 50-year history of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), 2008 saw events that could have significant consequences for international relations and global balances of power. These included the election of Barack Obama as US president; the brief war in Georgia, ...