While migration and population settlement have always been an important feature of political life around the world, the dramatic changes in the pace, direction, and complexity of contemporary migration flows are undoubtedly unique. This volume takes stock of these trends by canvassing the globe to r..
Establishing policing systems in young democracies is profoundly difficult. It is further complicated by the emergence of the new security agenda, the issues of transnational organised crime and international terrorism, and problems with the rule of law and the role of security services and the mili..
Establishing policing systems in young democracies is profoundly difficult. It is further complicated by the emergence of the new security agenda, the issues of transnational organised crime and international terrorism, and problems with the rule of law and the role of security services and the mili..
This text demonstrates that there is a "politics model" that unifies the discipline and structures its relationship to the other social sciences. It shows how this model underlies important works of applied research in all the main political science subfields...
This volume aims to provide a clear and instructive introduction to the skills of the rhetorical arts. It seeks to survey critically the place of rhetoric in contemporary public life and assess its virtues as a tool of political theory...
Simply not another book on nuclear proliferation, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani provides refreshingly new empirical evidence and theoretical analysis on how epistemic communities have affected nuclear non-proliferation policy formulation. ..
Washington's failure to foresee the collapse of its superpower rival ranks high in the pantheon of predictive failures. Drawing on declassified documents, interviews, and contemporaneous literature, this book analyses this predictive failure at the paradigmatic, foreign policy, and intelligence leve..
This book examines Chinese power, comparing China with other important world powers, and considering how this is likely to develop in the future. It identifies the foremost problems facing the Chinese state today, considers whether China is capable of overcoming these challenges, including whether c..