Paradoxes of utopia

A social history of revolutionary ideas and lifestyles.

Sparking a worldwide energy revolution

The earth's not dying, it's being killed. Only a movement for renewable energy will save it.

The price of fire

Bolivia's powerful social movements and the forces they're up against.

The longest romance

Fidel Castro jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Alone among world leaders, Castro came to within inches of igniting a global nuclear holocaust...

Dispersing power

Building power beyond the state.

Common ground in a liquid city

An unapologetic defense of city life in a time of environmental crisis.

Making the future

Making the Future presents more than fifty concisely argued commentaries on U.S. politics and policies, written between 2007 and 2011.

Terror in france

The virulent new brand of Islamic extremism threatening the WestIn November 2015, ISIS terrorists massacred scores of people in Paris with coordinated attacks on the Bataclan concert hall, cafés and restaurants, and the national sports stadium. On Bastille Day in 2016, an ISIS sympathizer drove a...

America in the age of trump

America in the Age of Trump is a bracing, essential look at the failure of a great nation to meet the needs of its people and the challenges of the age—and the resulting collapse of public trust in government, as well as a pervasive crisis of national values, from broken families to a loss of fa...

Syria, press framing, and the responsibility to protect

The Syrian Civil War has created the worst humanitarian disaster since the end of WWII. Early calls for R2P inspired humanitarian intervention went unheeded. This book examines the role of influential media in the West in framing the conflict, including their role in promoting, or on the contrary...

On freedom

From New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein, a brisk, provocative book that shows what freedom really means—and requires—todayIn this pathbreaking book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein asks us to rethink freedom. He shows that freedom of choice isn’t nearly enough. To be ...

Fascist interactions

Differentiates and explores various modes of interaction—between fascists and conservatives in particular countries, between diverse fascist or quasi-fascist formations on the supranational level, between fascists and the liberal democracies, and between fascists and communists. Shows ho...

The marxism of manuel sacristán

The key texts by a brilliant, yet neglected, Marxist thinker made available for the first time in English.

Global political economy and the modern state system

In this ambitious and masterful polemic ten Brink contributes to an understanding of the modern state-system, its conflicts and transformation

European bloc imperialism

Debates on contemporary imperialism have focused on the U.S., to the exclusion of E.U. countries, this book corrects these trends

The dialectic of position and maneuver

An illuminating examination of the role that the metaphors ‘war of position’ and ‘war of maneuver’ play in Gramsci’s theory.

The types of economic policies under capitalism

One of the most important works of the legendary Japanese Marxist, Kôzô Uno, finally available in English translation.

Marx's economic manuscript of 1864-1865

With this volume, Marxist scholars can finally compare Engels’s Volume III with Marx’s original manuscript and evaluate the differences.

A new world in our hearts

A collection of writings on contemporary revolutionary anarchist issues.

The dimensions of hegemony

In this highly original and engaging text, Craig Brandist unearths the Russian roots of Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony.

Anarchism and its aspirations

An accessible and thorough overview of anarchist figures and tendencies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Black faces in the mirror

Here, Katherine Tate examines the significance of race in the U.S. system of representative democracy for African Americans. Presenting important new findings, she offers the first empirical study to take up the question of representation from both sides of the constituent-representative relation...

Investigating the president

Although congressional investigations have provided some of the most dramatic moments in American political history, they have often been dismissed as mere political theater. But these investigations are far more than grandstanding. Investigating the President shows that congressional investigati...

Political economy for public policy

The ideal introductory textbook to the politics of the policymaking processThis textbook uses modern political economy to introduce students of political science, government, economics, and public policy to the politics of the policymaking process. The book's distinct political economy approach h...

Green tyranny

Climate change was political long before Al Gore first started talking about it. In the 1970s, the Swedish Social Democrats used global warming to get political support for building a string of nuclear power stations. It was the second phase of their war on coal, which began with the acid rain sc...

Undoing border imperialism

Cutting-edge practice and theory from the front lines of the movements for indigenous and transnational freedom.

Striking power

Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as dron...

Nimby is beautiful

Offers new perspective on "Not in my Back Yard" protests. Demonstrates that NIMBY protests, although always arising from a local concern in a particular community, often result in broader political, social, and technological change. Argues that NIMBY movements can have a positive and...

Latin america at the end of politics

After decades of ideological struggle, much of it in the service of an elusive socialist ideal, Latin America has embraced liberalism--democracy and unfettered markets. But liberalism has triumphed more by default than through exuberance. The region's democracies are fragile and lethargic. Despit...

The state and development in the third world

Marxism and the crisis of development in prewar japan

Arguing for our lives

With public discourse more skewed than ever by big money's propaganda, our future hinges on our capacity for critical thinking.

International trade and political conflict

This book unveils a potent new approach to one of the oldest debates in political economy--that over whether class conflict or group competition is more prevalent in politics. It goes further than any study to date by outlining the conditions under which one type of political conflict is more lik...

Change they can't believe in

How the political beliefs of Tea Party supporters are connected to far-right social movementsAre Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Chang...

The corruption cure

Why leadership is key to ending political and corporate corruption globallyCorruption corrodes all facets of the world’s political and corporate life, yet until now there was no one book that explained how best to battle it. The Corruption Cure puts some thirty-five countries under an anticorrupt...

In-your-face politics

How political incivility broadcast in close-up by the media affects public opinionAmericans are disgusted with watching politicians screaming and yelling at one another on television. But does all the noise really make a difference? Drawing on numerous studies, Diana Mutz provides the first compr...

The challenge of modernizing islam

The entire foreign policy and much of the domestic policy of the United States and other Western governments are based on the proposition that the vast majority of Muslims are moderate and peaceful, including those who are emigrating in large numbers to Europe and North America. But as Islamist g...

One nation undecided

How to think intelligently about the most divisive public issues confronting us todayWe’ve all expressed opinions about difficult hot-button issues without thinking them through. With so much media spin, political polarization, and mistrust of institutions, it’s hard to know how to think about th...

Up, down, and sideways

It is the definitive work summarizing and applying Laura Nader’s anthropological theories. It provides contemporary anthropological examples of "studying up, down, and sideways". It demonstrates how anthropology can be used to address urgent 21st century challenges. It addresses ...

Distant proximities

Has globalization the phenomenon outgrown "globalization" the concept? In Distant Proximities, one of America's senior scholars presents a work of sweeping vision that addresses the dizzying anxieties of the post-Cold War, post-September 11 world. Culminating the influential reassessment of inter...

Rethinking private authority

Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states del...

Liberty's first crisis

When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic was on the verge of collapse: Partisanship gripped the government, Briti...

The claims of culture

How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts ab...

Abuse of discretion

Based on 20 years of research, including an examination of the papers of eight of the nine Justices who voted in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, Abuse of Discretion is a critical review of the behind-the-scenes deliberations that went into the Supreme Court's abortion decisions and how the mistake...

A time for governing

Democracy and difference

The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the countries of east and central Europe to the former Soviet Union, to the politics of cultural separatism ...

The spirit of compromise

Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics todayTo govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of C...

What is anarchism?

For those who have questions about Anarchism, or seek a better world, Berkman has the answers.

At war with asia

Indispensable look at American military involvement in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos until 1970.

Radical priorities

An inspiring journey through the social and political philosophy of Noam Chomsky.