Making history

Making History is about the complex interaction between human agency and social structures.

Making space for justice

Michele Moody-Adams explores what social movements have shown about the nature of justice and what it takes to create space for justice in the world. She argues that these insights are critical to bridging the gap between discerning theory and effective practice—and should be transformative for p...

Man, the state, and war

In this landmark work of international relations theory, first published in 1959, the eminent realist scholar Kenneth N. Waltz offers a foundational analysis of the nature of conflict between states.

Mandeville’s fable

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In this ...

Marx after marx

Revisiting Marx’s seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.

Marx and the politics of abstraction

Paolucci convincingly argues that by mixing political and scientific analysis, Marx yields a method closest to that of scientific inquiry.

Marx's inferno

Marx’s Inferno reconstructs the major arguments of Karl Marx’s Capital and inaugurates a completely new reading of a seminal classic. Rather than simply a critique of classical political economy, William Roberts argues that Capital was primarily a careful engagement with the motives and aims of t...

Marxism and intersectionality

Ashley J. Bohrer argues that it is only by considering race, gender, sexuality, and ability within the structures of capitalism and imperialism that we can understand power relations. Bohrer explains how the purported incompatibilities between Marxism and intersectionality arise more from miscomm...

Masters of the universe

How radical free-market ideas achieved mainstream dominance in postwar America and BritainBased on archival research and interviews with leading participants in the movement, Masters of the Universe traces the ascendancy of neoliberalism from the academy of interwar Europe to supremacy under Reag...

Max weber: modernisation as passive revolution

Originally published in German, this volume makes available in English the definitive Marxist critique of Max Weber’s politics and method.

Mercenaries, pirates, and sovereigns

The contemporary organization of global violence is neither timeless nor natural, argues Janice Thomson. It is distinctively modern. In this book she examines how the present arrangement of the world into violence-monopolizing sovereign states evolved over the six preceding centuries.

Murderous consent

Murderous Consent details our implication in violence that we do not directly inflict but in which we are structurally complicit. Marc Crépon invites the reader to resist that implication by arguing for an ethicosmopolitics grounded in our receptivity to the pleas for assistance that the vulnerab...

My country is the world

Staughton Lynd’s brilliant and masterful arguments against the Vietnam War and the best tactics and strategies to end it.

Nation-states

Davidson argues that a Marxist understanding of the meaning of contemporary nation-states must begin from the inseparable connections between them.

Nationalism

A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the presentThe current rise of nationalism across the globe is a reminder that we are not, after all, living in a borderless world of virtual connectivity. In Nationalism, historian Eric Storm sheds ligh...

Nationhood at work

Dave Poitras explores how nationhood and the idea of living in a world of nations are experienced in the cities of Montreal and Brussels. Drawing on ethnographic research, he identifies the typical ways of enacting nationhood, exploring marginalization in biethnonational milieus.

Negative emotions and transitional justice

Contributes theoretically and practically to the growing field of transitional justice

Nehru's india

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Ja...

Neoliberalism and national culture

Despite many claims to the contrary, Québec and Canada demonstrate the continued importance of state institutional authority, even under Neoliberalism

No neutrals there

The definitive history of the US labor movement’s complicity in Zionist settler colonialism, and a call for today’s labor militants to organize in solidarity with Palestinians. US trade unionists are often told to keep quiet and remain neutral on Palestine because “Palestine has nothing to do wi...

No politics but class politics

This book argues against the establishment of a demographically representative social elite, and for economic justice for everyone.

Noir affect

Noir Affect defines noir in relationship to negative affect. It traces noir’s negativity as it manifests in different national contexts and a range of different media. The forms of affect associated with noir are resolutely negative: loss, sadness, rage, shame, guilt, regret, anxiety, humiliation...

Nomadic theory

Rosi Braidotti's nomadic theory outlines a sustainable modern subjectivity as one in flux, never opposed to a dominant hierarchy yet intrinsically other, always in the process of becoming, and perpetually engaged in dynamic power relations both creative and restrictive. Nomadic theory offers an o...

Nonviolence and the grand inquisitor

This book introduces a conceptually rich and innovative new framework for the ethics of nonviolence by drawing from Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.” It offers fresh insights into civil resistance and political theory.

Not in our genes

Three eminent scientists analyze the scientific, social, and political roots of biological determinism.

Nothing absolute

Against traditional approaches that view German Idealism as a secularizing movement, this volume revisits it as the first fundamentally philosophical articulation of the political-theological problematic in the aftermath of the Enlightenment and the advent of secularity.

Nowtopia

The future is now! Practical rebels reshape our assumptions about science, technology, and human potential.

October song

This remarkable set of essays on the life and ideas of Luxemburg explores her historic contributions and relevance for today.

Of rule and office

A constitutionalist reading of Plato’s political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected a...

Old whigs

The virtue of prudence suffuses the writings of Edmund Burke and Abraham Lincoln, yet the demands of statecraft compelled both to take daring positions against long odds: Burke against the seemingly inexorable march of the French Revolution, Lincoln against disunion at a moment when the Northern ...

On civic friendship

Women have performed the vast majority of often unpaid friendship labor for centuries. Embodying the freedom, equality, and ideals of the Constitution, civic friendship emerges as a necessary condition for genuine justice. Through a critical examination of social and political relationships from ...

On history

In a wide-ranging conversation, filmmaker Oliver Stone and writer Tariq Ali discuss world history from the seventh century to today.

On niccolò machiavelli

Gabriele Pedullà—a leading Italian expert and acclaimed writer—provides a vivid and engaging introduction to Machiavelli’s life and works that sheds new light on his originality and relevance.

On palestine

Chomsky and Pappé discuss the past and future of Palestine.

On power and ideology

This succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky's foreign policy analysis.

On security

On the difficulty of living together

Manuel Cruz offers a nuanced study of memory and forgetting, defining their forms and uses, political meanings, and social and historical implications. Memory is not an intrinsically positive phenomenon, he argues, but an impressionable and malleable one, used to advance a variety of agendas.