Arctic state identity

This book explores what it means for state personnel from Norway, Iceland, and Canada that their country holds a formal title as an ‘Arctic state’. It asks what an Arctic state identity might look like through geographies, pasts, futures, and geopolitical relations across different scales, from t...

The political ecology of colonial capitalism

The political ecology of colonial capitalism reveals how the co-production of race and nature is a fundamental dynamic of the capitalist world-system.

India and imperial vulnerability

This is a study of disasters – cyclones, earthquakes and famines – in British India, 1770-1934, through a reading of a vast archive of colonial texts.

Power plants

Power Plants exposes the underappreciated stakes of an expanding global bioenergy sector. As the pursuit of net zero climate targets comes to rely heavily on the industrial burning of crops and trees, this book argues that a closer attention to plants could yet foster energy futures concerned not...

The persian gulf triangle

This book explores the relations between Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States through a Neoclassical Realist framework and shows how their dynamic has affected the Persian Gulf regional system and its international relations from the 1970s until today.

Little wars of empire

Little Wars of Empire is first history of British multi-war veterans – the soldiers, nurses, and military families who experienced both colonial wars in the British empire and the First World War. Using their personal archives, it works to understand how at the turn of the twentieth century, colo...

‘survival capitalism’ and the big bang

Survival Capitalism is a cultural history of the 1980s financial revolution. It ranges in scope across the Thatcher government, the Bank of England, London Stock Exchange and member firms, and Lloyd’s of London. It offers timely new perspectives on the City of London’s Big Bang reforms as the Con...

Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism

Water struggles as resistance to neoliberal capitalism is an important intervention into social reproduction theory and eco-socialist debates. It provides a timely analysis of the role of expropriation in the current global water crisis and makes a persuasive argument for understanding class as a...

Children’s rights in crisis

This book explores the intricacies of contemporary children's rights on a global scale, scrutinizing the challenges they face from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Everyday foreign policy

This book offers a framework for analysing grass roots politics in Russia. It challenges the assumption that international relations only happen on the high level and instead focuses on the way general population enacts and re-interprets significant foreign policy concepts such as sanctions, wars...

The first referendum

In 1975 the UK voted 'yes', by 67%, to the European Community (EC). Since 1 January 1973, when the UK first joined, Edward Heath and Harold Wilson sought a fundamental transformation of the UK's relationship with the EC in terms of membership and public opinion. Despite the majority in favour of ...

The official record

The construction, control and preservation of the Official Record is inherently contested. This volume interrogates the boundaries between national security, accountability, oversight, and the Official Record in the context of democratic states.

Rebel populism

Rebel populism is an ethnography of Syrian migrant workers in Lebanon during the Syrian uprising and civil war. It documents the rise and fall of the revolution from the perspective of ordinary men. It explores the role of economic transformation, new technology, and masculinity in the developmen...

Territorial politics in catalonia and scotland

This book compares the developments of territorial politics in Catalonia and Scotland since 2010, paying particular attention to the impact of independence referenda, Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the experiences of state and substate elites in both cases and argues for further re...

A neoliberal revolution?

A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolu...

Depleting democracies

Depleting Democracies examines how radical right parties interact with mainstream politics in Eastern Europe and the extent to which they influence democratic quality. It assesses whether their electoral strength, blackmail potential, and coalition relevance translate into real impact, particular...

Make america sane again

Make America Sane Again is an analysis of Donald Trump’s many travesties, dating back to his first inauguration but concentrating on the last year.

Disappearance

Disappearance has become a defining problem of our times – the disappearance of humans, communities, cultures and life-sustaining ecosystems. This book provides a much-needed critique, which offers new thinking and aesthetic responses to understanding the deep political, cultural and philosophica...

China's energy security in the twenty-first century

Kaho Yu’s China’s Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of Global Governance and Climate Change explores the evolution of China’s energy security from its bilateral going-out strategy to its more multilateral Belt and Road Initiative. By analysing the topic from a multidisciplinar...

The new politics of beijing–hong kong relations

In The New Politics of Beijing–Hong Kong Relations, Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo looks at the diverging changes to the ideologies from both Beijing and Hong Kong, and the ideological conflicts as taken in the form of factional political struggles between 2012 and the present. This book examines the paterna...

Eros of international relations

Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness is a distinctive work that explores the much-neglected Chinese perspective in broader international relations theory. Using the concept of “self-feminizing”—adoption of a feminine identity to oblige and ...

The perfect dictatorship

The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving.Drawing on Chinese and international sources, on extensive collaboration with Chinese scholars, and on the political science of state analysis, the author conclu...

Introduction to the hong kong basic law, second edition

The Hong Kong Basic Law is the constitutional document which sets out the general policies and system of government for Hong Kong under the “one country, two systems” formula. It promises Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy, seeks to preserve a separate common law system with an independent judic...

New asian disorder

In New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of pow...

The public sector in hong kong, second edition

This book describes and analyses the role of the public sector in the often-charged political atmosphere of post-1997 Hong Kong. In this second edition, Ian Scott explores public sector accountability in terms of Hong Kong’s constitutional framework and the structure, functions, and personnel pol...

Dividing asean and conquering the south china sea

The “ASEAN Way” is based on the principle of consensus; any individual member state effectively has a veto over any proposal with which it disagrees. Dividing ASEAN and Conquering the South China Sea analyzes how China uses its influence to divide ASEAN countries in order to prevent them from act...

Underground front

Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the party in 1921, through to the present day. The second edition goes into greater depth on the party’s view on “one country, two systems”, “patriotism”, and “...

The wolf economy awakens

Mongolia, a vibrant democracy landlocked between Russia and China, stands on the edge of becoming Asia’s next boom nation—one of the richest countries per capita in the region.Referred to as the “wolf economy” for its vast natural resources—copper, gold, and rare earth metals—today, it is also ho...

Pax sinica

The book confronts the popular conjecture of a Pax Sinica emerging to replace Pax Americana in the wake of global financial crisis. It argues that by virtue of its overwhelming economic, technological and military clout, US hegemony will continue to prevail, though increasingly less coherently, a...

Painting myanmar’s transition

In Painting Myanmar’s Transition, Ian Holliday and Aung Kaung Myat showcase work produced by local artists during a period of significant reform. In the 2010s, Myanmar moved away from half a century of rigid military rule and a wave of liberalization spread across the country. Artists eagerly emb...

Contemporary hong kong government and politics, third edition

In the third edition of Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics, Lam Wai-man, Percy Luen-tim Lui, Wilson Wong, and various contributors provide the latest analyses in many aspects of Hong Kong’s government and politics, such as political institutions, mediating institutions, and political ...

A city mismanaged

A City Mismanaged traces the collapse of good governance in Hong Kong, explains its causes, and exposes the damaging impact on the community’s quality of life. Leo Goodstadt argues that the current well-being and future survival of Hong Kong have been threatened by disastrous policy decisions mad...

The politicization of gender

This monograph examines how far-right political parties in Europe instrumentalize gender to shape voter mobilization and reinforce exclusionary national identities, with comparative case studies of Italy and the Netherlands highlighting strategies targeting women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and migrants.

Crimes of states and powerful elites

A collection of case studies investigating the crimes of the powerful, the social harms caused and the perpetuation of inequalities through lack of prosecution.

Coronations and defenestrations

How do Tory leadership elections work? Lee Evans takes a lively look at how the Conservatives appoint (and depose) their leader, from the early history of the party to the present day.

Growth, democracy or climate action?

Governments face a conflicting choice between economic growth, democracy and tackling the climate crisis. They cannot achieve all three objectives simultaneously and the growing tensions between them are being played out in countries across the world. It is the new trilemma of advanced capitalist...

Regulating new media in africa

A collection of research on digital media regulatory interventions across Africa, an area that has largely been overlooked in the literature. It considers a range of perspectives from scholars within and outside Africa on the subject, providing a compendium on digital media regulation on the cont...

Migration in the digital age

Considers how the smartphone has transformed the migration experience by examining the various interconnections between mobile media and human mobilities. Reveals how media technologies and human mobility shape one another and exposes the interplay between the social and technological affordances...

Mapping mongolia

Questions the marginalization of countries like Mongolia in area studies, proposing an alternative grouping methodology, the "-scapes" method. Using Mongolia as a case study, experts from various fields explore its history, ecology, genetics, archaeology, and international diplomacy. Over 30 maps...

A critical political economy of inflation

The book is an original critical economy account of the meaning, causes and consequences of inflation.

Whose sovereignty?

In this carefully argued case for a federal Europe, Céline Spector proposes that national sovereignty has become increasingly untenable as mechanisms perpetuating fiscal, social and environmental inequities transcend borders. Indeed, in the face of Russian aggression and America’s apparent retrea...

Shaping migration between europe and latin america: new perspectives and challenges

Focusing on Latin America and Europe, two world regions historically linked by human mobility and cultural exchange, this insightful examination of their changing international migration patterns details their responses to significant demographic changes and new migration trends. The volume exami...

Capitalism, colonisation and the ecocide-genocide nexus

This timely publication examines the drivers of the ecologically induced genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples in the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the genocidal ...

Brazil: essays on history and politics

This volume is published to mark the 80th birthday of Leslie Bethell, a major figure in Brazilian studies. It consists of seven of his essays on important themes in modern Brazilian history and politics. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in ...

Memory, migration and (de)colonisation in the caribbean and beyond

Memory, Migration and (De)Colonisation furthers our understanding of Caribbean migrations and migrants in relation to the histories and cultures of countries of the Northern Atlantic. It focuses on the relationship between Caribbean migrants and processes of decolonisation. At the heart of this b...

Understanding alba: progress, problems, and prospects of alternative regionalism in latin america and the caribbean

This collection analyses the impact and influence of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), whose vision of alternative regionalism has spearheaded Latin America and the Caribbean’s collective challenge to neoliberal globalisation in the twenty-first century. Moving beyond...

Chile and the inter-american human rights system

Creative spaces

The essays within this collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in Latin America and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the production of the new. Viewing them neither as spaces of deprivation nor romanticized spaces of opportu...

The midlife crisis of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) has been the principle legal barrier to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons for the past 45 years. Though there have been many challenges over the years, most would agree it has been largely successful. However, is it suffering a mid-life crisis? Multip...

When parliaments ruled the middle east

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Political islam in the gulf region

This book explores the phenomenon of political Islam in the Gulf region. It investigates the complexities of the relationship of individuals to religion, the state and societies, and the organization of their lives and spiritual affairs in the Middle East with specific emphasis on the unique envi...

The gulf crisis

The Gulf Crisis marks a clear dividing line in the history of the Gulf Cooperation Council, reflecting a change in the political, economic, security, social and media realities of the intra-GCC relationship. The question on everyone's mind: will this Crisis be the final nail in the coffin of the ...

The dilemma of security and defense in the gulf region

The defence and security status of the Gulf region is facing a dilemma between the maintenance of regional security and the preservation of domestic security interests. The consequences for the Gulf and the greater Middle East are addressed in this edited volume, with contributions from practitio...

Revolutionary anxieties

Revolutionary Anxieties sheds light on an unexplored dimension of the 2011 Egyptian revolution: the anxieties experienced by Cairo-based liberal elite who opposed the rise of the Islamists. It illustrates how members of Egyptian liberal and cultural elites insisted on their privilege in a moment ...

The transformation of the organization of american states

This book explores the extent and significance of the transformation of the Organisation of American States since 1991: its roots, the reasons for and extent of its emergence, and the role that the organisation currently plays in the promotion of regional governance.

Democracy after pinochet

Explores how democracy has developed in Chile since the end of the military dictatorship in 1990. This book brings together an examination of international influences on the country's political development with empirically based analyses of Chilean political institutions and change.

German policy-making and eastern enlargement of the eu during the kohl era

The europeanisation of the western balkans

This book deals with the scope and nature of the EU’s external influence over South-Eastern Europe in the present enlargement. Theory-oriented and comparative, the book provides rich insight into the dynamics of the current enlargement and offers comprehensive analysis of the EU’s external lever...

Political discourse and media in times of crisis

This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.

European labour movements in crisis

Prosser argues that labour movements respond to European integration in a manner which instigates competition between national labour markets. The book’s hypothesis has key implications for debates about labour movements and the EU and its engaging style will captivate scholars, students and poli...

Decisionmaking in an enlarged european union

This book discusses EU member state institutions that vote either by unanimity or by two-thirds majority

Democracy in latin america

This book addresses the nature of "democracy" in contemporary Latin and Central America. It offers insight into the processes and institutions of the different types of political systems and the challenges to them from the Left and popular movements. Lievesley questions how embedded democracy is ...

A horizon of (im)possibilities

Since the 2018 presidential election result in Brazil, much debate has ensued about the country’s so-called ‘conservative turn’. A Horizon of (Im)possibilities brings together a myriad of different perspectives to help us better understand the political events that have shaken the country in rece...

The right in latin america

A comprehensive look at radical and mainstream right-wing movements in Latin America, examining their influence and strategies in shaping regional politics.

Judicial institutions in nineteenth-century latin america

Revisiting the falklands-malvinas question

The conflict over possession of the Falklands-Malvinas Islands was waged in an area remote both geographically and geo-politically in an era of cold war and also of tensions within and between sovereign states of the supposed western bloc. It has been broadly perceived as an absurd confrontation,...

Is brazil afraid of the world?

What do you think when someone mentions “Brazil”? Probably the first ideas that come to your mind are samba and football. Maybe you think of Pelé, Neymar, Ayrton Senna and Giselle Bundchen. Maybe you think of the rainforest and Rio. But have you ever thought Brazil to be a country afraid of becom...

Cultures of anti-racism in latin america and the caribbean

This volume asks whether cultural works from the Latin American and Caribbean context showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality have a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism. It also places Latin American and Caribbean racial formations w...

African peace

There was a profound shift in peace and security norms from the African Union (AU) to the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Prevailing explanations of this change focus on the post-Cold War period; whereas this book traces the emergence of norms from the OAU through to the AU arguing that the...

The new motivation and dilemma of china's soft power in the age of noopolitik

The monograph investigates whether China is mindful of exporting its political ideas and whether it considers its governance model to be the pillar of its soft power portfolio. Through framing analysis of media coverage and in-depth interviews with Australian public diplomacy experts, the monogra...

Fashion, women and power

As never before, women are rightfully in positions of political power, and into the maelstrom of mass media challenges to their fashions and their right to govern. An examination of the fraught narratives surrounding the clothing of women in leadership in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdo...

War on terror'

This book covers the many topics of `the war on terror' from legal, philosophical, economic and historical perspectives. The dialogue form of the book (essay-response) allows a broad representation of views, covering the situation in the Middle East, national security, politics of intervention, h...

Global counter-terrorism

This collection proposes a novel contribution to counterterrorism studies by challenging Eurocentrism and methodological nationalism in existing approaches. It explores how colonial epistemes shape everyday practices of counterterrorism.

The politics today companion to west european politics

There is an urgent need for a book of this nature which provides students with all the essential information required and a full definition of terms. A perfect companion to European politics today, written by the same authors, this book presents past events, prominent personalities, important dat...

French welfare state reform

Through a historical and comparative analysis of French, Swedish, New Zealand and Dutch case studies, ‘French Welfare State Reform’ explores the political and economic sustainability of the of the welfare state.

Healthcare reform and poverty in latin america

This volume identifies key problems facing healthcare systems in Latin America and evaluates the reforms that have been implemented to date. It pays particular attention to problems of implementation and the impact that changes to health policy are having on poor and vulnerable groups.

Children’s experiences of welfare in modern britain

This important book brings the history of childhood and welfare in Britain through the eyes of children to light. Focusing on the period 1830 to 1980, it demonstrates how the young were integral to the making, interpretation, delivery and impact of welfare services. The chapters consider a wide r...

Exclusion and engagement

This collection offers a reappraisal of social policy in response to the scale of the challenges confronting Latin America. Divided into four sections it explores the functions of social policy and the prospects of its performing a new and more dynamic role.

Mothering the union

This book investigates the scope of maternity legislation and family-friendly policies in the European Union.

Immigration and social change in the republic of ireland

Immigration and social change in the Republic of Ireland addresses citizenship and constitutional change, returned emigrants, the economic contribution of immigrants, the exploitation of migrant workers, asylum seekers and forced migrants, immigrant communities, politics, integration models and s...

Mutualism and health care

Mutualism and health care presents the first comprehensive account of the establishment and operation of hospital contributory schemes and the organisation of voluntary hospitals in Britain before the creation of the NHS.

Politics, inequality and the australian welfare state after liberalisation

Neoliberalism has made Australia less equal and our welfare system more brutal. But it has also changed the politics of inequality. Using examples from health to housing, unemployment to universities, this book identifiesopportunities to make a more equal Australia.