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This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in weste

Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister and known to his supporters as 'Mr. Security'. This book explains the paradox of the in

Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundr

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Globe & Mail Book of the Year "A stimulating work on the politics of language." LA Review of Books As globalisat

Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an acc

Rethinking Political Islam offers a fine-grained and definitive overview of the changing world of political Islam in the post-Arab Uprising era.

The people who live in border towns often have closer relations with people across their immediate borders than with people in the same country as the

How does a democracy die?What can we do to save our own?What lessons does history teach us?In the 21st century democracy is threatened like never befo

This book demonstrates that populism's threat to democracy is less severe than often feared. The comprehensive, systematic analysis of contemporary La

We have politics on our mind—or, rather, we have politics in different parts of our brains. In this path-breaking study, Matt Qvortrup takes the reade

Part-biography, part-political thriller, The Unaccountability Machine is a rousing expose of how management failures lead organisations to make catast

Seneca the Elder (?55 BCE-40 CE) collected ten books devoted to controversiae (some only preserved in excerpt) and at least one (surviving) of suasori

An insightful examination of how intersecting individual motivations and social structures mobilize spontaneous mass protests. Between 15 and 26 milli

A large and widening gap has opened between Western democracies' international ambitions and their domestic political capacity to support them. On iss

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social r

As we stand at the brink of a terminal decline in the world’s languages, and the rise of the hegemonic 'super-tongue', this is a personal and engagi

Israel and South Africa assesses the parallels between the Zionist and apartheid regimes, as well as their implications for international law, activi