Political Theory

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Chasing Greatness

On Russia's Discursive Interaction with the West over the Past Millennium

By Anatoly Reshetnikov
Subjects: History, Russian History, Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

How a millennia idealizing political greatness has affected Russia

How Informal Institutions Matter

Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres

with a foreword by B. Guy Peters

By Zeki Sarigil
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Governance

Informal institutions are core to political life

Life, Earth, Colony

Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography

By Ian Klinke
Subjects: German Studies, History, Intellectual History, Political Science, Political Theory

A critical exploration of Friedrich Ratzel and the relationship between colonial and fascist necropolitics

Where FDI Goes in Decentralized Authoritarian Countries

The Politics of Taiwanese Site Selection for Investment in Mainland China

By Kelan Lu
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Asian Studies, China, Political Theory

Explores the conditional effect of fiscal decentralization on FDI inflows at county level in China and explores whether FDI sourced from adversarial states is more dependent upon local government fiscal autonomy than those sourced from the non-adversarial states

Mediterranean in Dis/order

Space, Power, and Identity

By Rosita Di Peri & Daniel Meier
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Political Theory

Multidisciplinary rethinking of space and power

Still a Hollow Hope

State Power and the Second Amendment

By Anthony D Cooling
Subjects: Political Science, Race And Politics, Political Theory, American Politics

Federalism still matters

Twisting in the Wind

The Politics of Tepid Transitions to Renewable Energy

By Oksan Bayulgen
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Nature/environment, Environmental Studies, Political Theory

Political barriers to clean energy transitions

The United States and International Law

Paradoxes of Support across Contemporary Issues

By Lucrecia García Iommi & Richard W Maass
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory

Why U.S. support for international law is so inconsistent

Bound Together

The Secularization of Turkey's Literary Fields and the Western Promise of Freedom

By Baris Buyukokutan
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Theory

Secularization in non-western contexts

Bound Together

The Secularization of Turkey’s Literary Fields and the Western Promise of Freedom

By Baris Buyukokutan
Subjects: Sociology, Political Science, Political Theory

Secularization in non-western contexts

The Philosophy of Parochialism

Originally published as Filosofija Palanke

By Radomir Konstantinovic
Volume editor Branislav Jakovljevic
Translated by Ljiljana Nikolic & Branislav Jakovljevic
Subjects: Literary Studies, European Literature, European Studies, Balkans, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Theory

Available for the first time in English—an essay with important insights on the sources of totalitarianism, intolerance, and racism

Physical Space and Spatiality in Muslim Societies

Notes on the Social Production of Cities

By Mahbub Rashid
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy, Political History, African Studies

The conscious construction of urban space

Concepts at Work

On the Linguistic Infrastructure of World Politics

By Piki Ish-Shalom
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations

Interrogating the language that gives meaning to IR theories and practice

A Question of Voice

Philosophy and the Search for Legitimacy

By Ron Scapp
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, American Studies

Philosophy in an age of multiculturalism

The Dangerous Class

The Concept of the Lumpenproletariat

By Clyde Barrow
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Political Economy, Economics, Economic Theory, Class Studies

The lumpenstate dystopia of the Trump/Brexit era

Shaping the Future of Power

Knowledge Production and Network-Building in China-Africa Relations

By Lina Benabdallah
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political Theory, African Studies, Asian Studies, China

Probes the power mechanisms that build, diffuse, and project China’s power in Africa

Climate Change Solutions

Beyond the Capital-Climate Contradiction

By Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson, and Brian Petersen
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Nature/environment, Environmental Studies

Capitalism and climate change solutions are incompatible

Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats, and World Politics

Religious Sources of Conflict and Cooperation in the Modern Era

By Zeev Maoz & Errol A Henderson
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Religion, Political Theory

Religion can be a detriment to human security

Interspecies Politics

Nature, Borders, States

By Rafi Youatt
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations
Series: Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics

Politics “with” the environment

Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the Prism of Chess

By Florian Vauleon
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Philosophy

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in checkmate

Formal Modeling in Social Science

By Carol Mershon & Olga Shvetsova
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology, Political Theory

How to move from textbook exercises to using formal modeling in real research.

Punishment and Political Order

By Keally McBride
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law And Society
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An incisive, eminently readable study of the evolving relationship between punishment and social order

Concepts of International Relations, for Students and Other Smarties

By Iver B. Neumann
Subjects: Political Science, International Relations, Political History, Political Theory

An engaging and sophisticated new IR text that will inspire a new generation of scholars and practitioners

Beyond the Veil of Knowledge

Triangulating Security, Democracy, and Academic Scholarship

By Piki Ish-Shalom
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations

Calls on the academy to rethink constructivism and its interpretations of the sociopolitical world

Archiving Sovereignty

Law, History, Violence

By Stewart Motha
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Law, Law And Society, African Studies, Asian Studies
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

An account of how courts repeat historical fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power.

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