Maghreb regional and global integration

Increasing terrorist activity has led the Maghreb countries—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Libya—to focus on antiterrorism efforts, unintentionally at the expense of full-fledged economic reform. These countries have tightened their border restrictions on the flow of people and goods,...

A good tax

In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers rec...

River republic

Daniel McCool not only chronicles the history of water development agencies in America and the way in which special interests have abused rather than preserved the country's rivers, he also narrates the second, brighter act in this ongoing story: the surging, grassroots movement to bring these ri...

On security

Property in land and other resources

This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural resources. It is a rich source of information for those involved in conservation, land dispute resolution, land market regulation, public pol...

The present as history

The Present as History is a rare opportunity to hear world-renowned scholars speak on the new imperialism, feminism and human rights, secularism and Islam, post-colonialism, and the global economy. They treat the United States as an object to be historically and politically interrogated rather th...

Gmo china

Cong Cao presents a comprehensive and systematic analysis of how China’s policy toward research and commercialization of genetically modified crops has evolved that explains how China’s changing GMO stances reflect its shifting position on the world stage.

Radical cosmopolitics

Reconfiguring cosmopolitanism to adapt to the moral and political challenges of globalization.

Political rights in post-mao china

Political Rights in Post-Mao China provides an engaging overview of political changes in China in the later decades of the twentieth century and early years of the twenty-first century, highlighting the growing rights consciousness movement among China’s citizens. Professor Goldman explains how d...

The new muslim brotherhood in the west

In Europe and North America, networks tracing their origins back to the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist movements have rapidly evolved into multifunctional and richly funded organizations competing to become the major representatives of Western Muslim communities and government interlocutor...

Russian cultural diplomacy under putin

This collection discloses how the Kremlin’s foreign propaganda institutions support the Russian authoritarian regime and its expansionist policies.

Envisioning the world: mapping and making the global

The “global” is continually made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, language, and literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets.

Blood of extraction

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a r...

Homeschooling the right

Heath Brown provides a novel analysis of the homeschooling movement and its central role in conservative efforts to shrink the public sector. He traces the aftereffects of the passage of state homeschool policies in the 1980s and the results of ongoing conservative education activism on the broad...

Contemporary japanese politics

Tomohito Shinoda tracks slow yet steady changes in the operation of and tensions between Japan’s political parties and the public’s behavior in Japanese elections, as well as in the government’s ability to coordinate diverse policy preferences and respond to political crises.

Democracy and islam in indonesia

Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organ...

Putin’s war, russian genocide

Putin’s War—Russian Genocide will provoke intense debate, for it uncovers the latitude of Putin’s violence.

The united states and the origins of the cold war, 1941–1947

John Lewis Gaddis' acclaimed history of U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union during and immediately after World War II is now available with a new preface by the author. This book moves beyond the focus on economic considerations that was central to the work of New Left historians, examining the m...

Russia's overlooked invasion

In his new book, Jakob Hauter investigates the escalation of violence in the spring and summer of 2014 to demonstrate that the pre-2022 conflict was not a civil war.

The international politics of intelligence sharing

The cross-border sharing of intelligence is fundamental to the establishment and preservation of security and stability. The American invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based in part on flawed intelligence, and current efforts to defeat al Qaeda would not be possible without an exchange of information ...

Understanding east asia's economic "miracles"

Revised and Expanded Second Edition. Concise yet comprehensive, Zhiqun Zhu’s book is the perfect introduction to the political economy of East Asia for undergraduate and advanced high school classes. Zhu’s analysis of the economic ‘miracles’ of Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan takes into acco...

Freedom undone

Michael Davis takes us on the constitutional journey of Hong Kong’s vigorous defense of freedom and its repressive undoing.

Financing metropolitan governments in developing countries

This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report includes policy recommendations and explores the effective use of metropolitan revenue instruments,...

Al-qaeda's revenge

A Spanish best-seller, the definitive report on the people and organization responsible for Spain’s worst experience with modern terror.

Opposing desires

Dynamic and continuous alike: the framing strategies, networks, and hegemonic struggles of conservative Christians’ anti-LGBT activism in South Korea.

Planning support systems for cities and regions

Editor Richard K. Brail has brought together the wisest of the field’s thinkers, the most inventive of the toolmakers, the most experienced of those working at the interface with real clients, and the most battle-seasoned practicing planners (and many of these individuals occupy more than one of ...

From resilience to revolution

Based on comparative historical analyses of Iran, Jordan, and Kuwait, Sean L. Yom examines the foreign interventions, coalitional choices, and state outcomes that made the political regimes of the modern Middle East. A key text for foreign policy scholars, From Resilience to Revolution shows how ...

Divided

Divided is a collection of essays that offers multiple windows into the origins and impacts of the current state of populism and hyper-partisanship in Saskatchewan and beyond.

The fair trade handbook

How fair is fair trade? This handbook brings together leading fair traders, activists, advocates, and commentators in Canada and internationally, reflecting on the shortfalls of conventional business, production, and global trade and how we can change our policies, practices, and behaviours.

Land in conflict

Published in collaboration with the Consensus Building Institute, this book calls for a mutual gains approach to land disputes. The authors detail techniques that allow stakeholders with conflicting interests to collaborate, voice concerns constructively, and reach successful agreements that bene...

Power and its logic

Drawing on two decades of international experience in political consulting, Dominik Meier and Christian Blum give profound and honest insights into the inner workings of power. Introducing their Power Leadership Approach, the authors provide a conceptual analysis of power and present the tools to...

United states in a world in crisis

Building on the pioneering work of radical dependency theory, Valencia unpacks how super-exploitation functions under highly financialized, 21st-century capitalism.

Child labour in the global human rights regime

Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime is about children’s rights, labour and slavery in modern and modernizing societies in the context of what has been summarized as a well-established and increasingly sophisticated framework of treaties, institutions, networks and ambitious standards w...

Collective action and civil society

Unpacking the dynamics at play between CSOs, social movements, and governance in the European context, Claudia Harris Coveney offers an essential understanding of the potential for social change at a time of social turbulence.

How propaganda works

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence the way we think and reason about public issues. Even so, many of us believe that propa...

The political economy of banditry in nigeria

The Political Economy of Banditry in Nigeria explores the escalation of new areas of political economy triggered by banditry in Nigeria, where new strategies of bandits have turned crime into a multi-billion Naira business.

Too much stuff

Where has capitalism gone wrong? Why are advanced capitalist economies so sick and why do conventional policy solutions, such as reduced taxes and increased money supply, produce only wider income disparity and inequality? We now live in a new world in which we enjoy the highest living standard i...

South africa’s democracy at the crossroads

South Africa's democracy faces increasing challenges from within, whether from protest, bad governance or general public dissatisfaction. South Africa´s Democracy at the Crossroads explores the question; what are the challenges to future democratization in South Africa?

Humanities perspectives in peace education

This book explores the role of humanities in peace education, highlighting unique contributions from philosophy, literature, language, rhetoric, religion, history, and music. It addresses the gap in peace studies by emphasizing empathy, creativity, justice, and nonviolence. Each chapter offers pe...

Latin american politics in the neoliberal era

Challenging centuries-old systems and barriers as the only study on the contemporary dynamics of the class struggle within the context of this region, this text fights back against the homogenous tides of class and capitalism to envision a richly diverse continent with more to offer than ever.

How russians understand the new russia

The issues that are the most and the least divisive in RussiaThe collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 created a new Russia, with new territorial boundaries and new political and economic systems. The hybrid political economy that emerged incorporated commitments to markets and democracy that were...