Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? This work takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should reappropriate several lost causes, and looks for the kernel of truth in the totalitarian politics of the past.

Argues that the ignorance and lethargy of the poor are the direct result of the whole economic, social and political domination. This book suggests that in some countries the oppressors use the system to maintain a 'culture of silence'.

'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.' When Machiavelli's brief treatise on Renaissance statecraft and princely power was posthumously published in 1532, it generated a debate that has raged unabated until the present day. Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand ...

Paints a fantastical picture of a distant island where society is perfected and people live in harmony. This work is also an attack on the author's own corrupt, dangerous times, and on the failings of humanity.

This book presents a serious and workable solution to the grave problem of climate change, grounded in practical cosmopolitan ethics. In particular it addresses a key aspect of climate change politics and policy that is often overlooked: the role of individuals.

Assesses Congress' role in US foreign policy making.

Aims to provide a clear and accessible introduction to some of the most important questions of political philosophy. Organized around major issues, this book provides the structure that beginners need, while also introducing some distinctive ideas of the author.

International researchers examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in political language in the UK, USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore. They draw on a variety of corpus data to determine to what extent conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differ with, or remain the same as that of men.

Tackles subjects ranging from the strikes of angry British workers to insurrection in Europe, from the American Civil War to the misery of colonial rule in India. This book demonstrates the radical spirit and outrage at social injustice that would make Karl Marx one of the most influential political philosophers of all time.

Using The Soldier and the State as a point of departure, this title asks what has been learned and what more needs to be investigated in the relationship between civilian and military sectors in the 21st century.

This book develops an account of 'inclusive multicultural governance' which is contrasted with assimilationist and separatist/differentialist approaches to the political management of and accommodation of multicultural diversity in liberal democracies.

Rousseau's explosive cry for human liberty helped to spark the French Revolution and has haunted our discussions of how we should rule one another ever since - seen as both a blue-print for political terror and as a fundamental statement of democracy.

The world is increasingly taken to be divided between religions (or 'cultures' or 'civilizations'), ignoring the relevance of other ways in which people see themselves through class, gender, profession and language. This book argues that conflict and violence are sustained today, no less than the past, but by the illusion of a unique identity.

Now in its second edition, this comprehensive introduction to the history of Western political thought includes two new chapters on Cicero and Kant.

The Western tradition of a sovereign state, which roots go back to antiquity, inherited a centre vouching for virtuous moderation. This book compares this tradition with what it quintessentially objects to: political extremes.

This edition of Andrew Heywood's introductory text to political theory covers a large range of ideas and issues. No matter how abstract the idea, he always makes it intelligible and relevant to the modern world of politics.

Explores the limits of politics as a subject of study at Cambridge, an academic discipline, and a practical activity.

Explores the way the fear of enemies shapes political groups and helps to preserve them in times of crisis.

This volume unpacks the relationship between constitutionalism and judicial power in China. It explores how court behaviour intersects with - affects and is affected by - China's evolving notions of constitutionalism.

The problems of life and government which are the central theme of the Republic are with us but the views presented in it were the outcome of strenuous discussion and they come to the modern reader as a challenge. This book help him on his way.