Writings for a democratic society

The best of Tom Hayden's writings from the turbulent 1960s to the Iraq War.

Suffled how it gush

A book of beauty, about a region known for its turmoil and ugliness.

Dancing with dynamite

One step forward, two steps back: When social movements win state power.

Decolonizing anarchism

Non-nationalist anti-colonialism?

Eyes to the south

A comparative study of the porous intellectual and political borders between a colonial power and the colonized.

Past and present

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” wrote William Faulkner. In Past and Present, an eminent American historian and cultural critic shows the truth of that statement. The common theme of the twenty essays gathered here is the intriguing, often unexpected ways in which the past continues ...

Dirty truths

Essays are enjoying renewed popularity, from the personal essays of Lewis Thomas, to the intellectual treats of Marguerite Yourcenar, to the political and social commentary of Michael Parenti in this superb collection. Parenti covers the myth of the liberal media, terrorist hype, John F. Kennedy ...

America 3.0

America’s greatest days are yet to come. We are in a painful transition period. Our government is crushingly expensive, failing at its basic functions, and unable to keep its promises. It does not work and it cannot continue as it is. But the inevitable end of big government does not mean the ...

The dependency agenda

Each year, the United States spends $65,000 per poor family to “fight poverty” – in a country in which the average family income is just under $50,000. Meanwhile, most of that money goes to middle-class and upper-middle-class families, and the current U.S. poverty rate is higher than it was befor...

Sustainable development

Focus on sustainable development in the Middle East region. Utilises the wide range of contributors’ disciplinary backgrounds. The interdisciplinary integration across the volume, is essential to meaningful discussion of sustainable development.

Counterfactual thought experiments in world politics

Political scientists often ask themselves what might have been if history had unfolded differently: if Stalin had been ousted as General Party Secretary or if the United States had not dropped the bomb on Japan. Although scholars sometimes scoff at applying hypothetical reasoning to world politic...

The spirit of the laws

Examines the confiscation of Armenian properties during the Genocide and subsequent attempts to retain seized Armenian wealth. Reveals that decrees issued during the Genocide constitute central pillars of the Turkish system of property rights, retaining their legal validity. Demonstr...

My journey into the heart of terror

ISIS, IS, the Islamic State. The name is chilling. The images are horrific. This is a group that beheads journalists—and yet one, the German Jürgen Todenhöfer, went out of his way to get an invitation to visit ISIS fighters in Mosul in 2014 to ask them to explain their beliefs. This book is the r...

Civil society revisited

We challenge, or in other instances qualify, dominant claims about civil society in Poland as weak and bureaucratized, showing the potential for grassroots mobilization and collective action. Thus, even though the volume was submitted for publication before 2015 elections, our analysis helps to...

National insecurity

Former CIA analyst reveals why pumping more money into US military spending destabilizes both the economy and long-term national security

Nine-tenths of the law

A toolbox for housing justice, a guide to American property law, and the squatter-rebels that dot our landscape.

Escape from north korea

From the world’s most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast A...

Occupy the economy

A hot-button primer on the taboo subject impacting most Americans today: the failure of capitalism to deliver public good.

Crusade 2.0

Why anti-Muslim sentiment is on the rise in the US and Europe, and what can be done to stop it.

The emperor's old clothes

Constitutional history as history of rituals. History of German political culture and its changes 1500-1800. Symbolic communication in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Micro-historical perspective on early modern political history.

Game theory for political scientists

Game theory is the mathematical analysis of strategic interaction. In the fifty years since the appearance of von Neumann and Morgenstern's classic Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (Princeton, 1944), game theory has been widely applied to problems in economics. Until recently, however, its u...

The republic of virtue

Public corruption is the silent killer of our economy. We’ve spawned the thickest network of patronage and influence ever seen in any country, a crony capitalism in which business partners with government and transfers wealth from the poor to the rich. This is a betrayal of the Framers’ vision fo...

Civilization is possible

Drug war capitalism

Drug wars are good business.

The quotable machiavelli

A collection of insightful and revealing quotations on a wide range of subjects from the father of modern politicsNiccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527) is the father of modern political thought, but he is also one of the greatest writers of the Renaissance and his wisdom and style extend far beyond pol...

Whose memory? which future?

A unique approach to the history of ethnic cleansing with focus not on victims or policies but on the present-day remembrance of the people that took the place of the expelled and murdered. In-depth studies of a number cities that experienced ethnic cleansing and expulsions. Comparis...

Big agenda

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDonald Trump’s victory in the 2016 election was more than a historic upset. It was the beginning of a major political, economic, and social revolution that will change America — and the world.One of the nation’s foremost conservative commentators, New York Times bestsell...

Economy for and against democracy

Economic inequality is the antithesis of democracy, but the conditions for achieving economic democracy are rarely discussed. The book moves from showing how economy subverts democracy today through people’s struggles to realize democracy in practice to more abstract visions of possible ...

Presidential primaries and the dynamics of public choice

An illuminating look at how national political parties nominate presidential candidatesThis innovative study blends sophisticated statistical analyses, campaign anecdotes, and penetrating political insight to produce a fascinating exploration of one of America's most controversial political insti...

The decolonial mandela

A significant contribution to the emerging literature on decolonial studies. Lays out a groundbreaking interpretation of the “Mandela phenomenon.” The author identifies transformative political justice and a reimagined social order as key features of Nelson Mandela’s legacy.

Germans against nazism

This re-issued volume examines opposition to National Socialism by Germans during the Third Reich in its broadest sense. It considers individual and organized nonconformity, opposition, and resistance. It looks at how disparate groups such as the Jewish community, churches, conservat...

The event of charlie hebdo

Investigates how the attacks unveil themselves in the field of representations, and which material consequences these representations may bring about. Looks at how an event is produced, and how it can achieve a wide resonance. Critically addresses egalitarian concepts such as democra...

European products

Illuminates how heritage management has provided  inroads for the Europeanization of societies in southern Europe - this is unique and has hardly been tackled, neither in European Studies nor in Heritage Studies. Does not only address the notion that "heritage" is the outcome of processe...

The gamble

A unique "moneyball" look at the 2012 U.S. presidential contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney"Game changer." We heard it so many times during the 2012 U.S. presidential election. But what actually made a difference in the contest—and what was just hype? In this groundbreaking book, John Si...

The merkel republic

Brings together German politics experts from both sides of the Atlantic. Addresses the campaign, results and consequences of the 2013 Bundestag election. Explores structural trends such as the Europeanization and cosmopolitanization of German politics.

Making ubumwe

Approaches post-genocide governance, citizenship and nation building through a unique lens – the local uses of the concept of ubumwe or unity. Outlines the productive ambiguity at the root of this concept by tracing its deployments in diverse arenas from rhetoric, office work, street tal...

How to win an election

A primer on campaigning in ancient Rome that reads like a strategy memo from a modern political consultantHow to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (t...

China in oceania

It is important to see China’s activities in the Pacific Islands, not just in terms of a specific set of interests, but in the context of Beijing’s recent efforts to develop a comprehensive and global foreign policy. China’s policy towards Oceania is part of a much larger outreach to the develo...

The making of the greek genocide

Provides a much-needed analysis of the Greek genocide during and after World War 1 (when over one million Ottoman Greeks were expelled from Turkey) as cultural trauma. Sjöberg irecounts how it emerged as a meaningful but contested collective memory with both nationalist and cosmopolitan ...

The neoliberal landscape and the rise of islamist capital in turkey

The contributors to this volume offer a detailed history on the Turkish economy and the rise of Islamist capitalism. This study explores the underlying tensions behind the Taksim Square conflicts. Argues that capitalism is the driving force behind the division of the Turkish Bourgeoi...

Reproducing class

Civil society in the age of monitory democracy

seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and East in the context of the twenty-first century’s challenges addresses political activism and the state and nature of contemporary democracy in various different contexts presents a novel ...

Fault lines

From an economist who warned of the global financial crisis, a new warning about the continuing peril to the world economyRaghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it's tempting to blame what happe...

Powerless science?

Examines the historical, social and political dynamics of chemical contamination. Brings new insights into and analysis of how chemical substances regulation has over the last half century contributed to transform toxicants into a major threat for our health and environment. Investig...

Empire, global coloniality and african subjectivity

Grounded in critical decolonial theory Inter-and trans-disciplinary Deals with empire and global coloniality from the vantage point of its arrival in Africa Is empirically grounded, with specific case studies

Death by a thousand cuts

This fast-paced book by Yale professors Michael Graetz and Ian Shapiro unravels the following mystery: How is it that the estate tax, which has been on the books continuously since 1916 and is paid by only the wealthiest two percent of Americans, was repealed in 2001 with broad bipartisan support...

The dark side of nation-states

An encompassing, comparative study of all major cases of ethnic cleansing in modern Europe and contains case studies from global history. Not only covers Eastern Europe, but also the motivation of western countries and statesmen and their involvement in large scale population removals. ...

Spying blind

In this pathbreaking book, Amy Zegart provides the first scholarly examination of the intelligence failures that preceded September 11. Until now, those failures have been attributed largely to individual mistakes. But Zegart shows how and why the intelligence system itself left us vulnerable. Z...

Embedded autonomy

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state a...

Christian political ethics

Christian Political Ethics brings together leading Christian scholars of diverse theological and ethical perspectives--Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anabaptist--to address fundamental questions of state and civil society, international law and relations, the role of the nation, and issues of...