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Hardcover. Many of the present problems of 'globalization' are mirrored in the historical expansion of the European state system. This title is a structured, comparative case study analysis of four regions and examines how these regions and their peoples were absorbed into the expanding European-centered state system from roughly the 1400s through to 1800. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230120884
ISBN
9780230120884
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.26

Hardcover. International researchers examine the interplay between gender and metaphor in political language in the UK, USA, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ireland, and Singapore. They draw on a variety of corpus data to determine to what extent conceptual metaphors used by women in political power differ with, or remain the same as that of men. Editor(s): Ahrens, Kathleen. Num Pages: 288 pages, 40 tables, 2 figures. BIC Classification: CFG; CFP; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 22. Weight in Grams: 462.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2009th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230203457
ISBN
9780230203457
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.84

Hardcover. Ronald Dworkin's work on equality has shaped debates in the field of distributive justice for nearly three decades. In this book Alexander Brown attempts to provide a critique but also a defence of that work, and to extend equality of resources globally. Num Pages: 249 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; JPA; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230210158
ISBN
9780230210158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. A Critical Humanitarian Intervention Approach explores ways of reconceptualising security in terms of Ken Booth's Theory of World Security. This approach, focusing on human development more broadly can improve upon the theoretical and practical limitations of solidarist theories on the subject of humanitarian intervention. Series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Num Pages: 230 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVWYK; GTJ; JPA; JPSF; LBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230216563
ISBN
9780230216563
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Hardcover. The Frontiers of Democracy offers a comprehensive examination of restrictions on the vote in democracies today. For the first time, the reasons for excluding people (prisoners, children, intellectually disabled, non-citizens) from the suffrage in contemporary societies is critically examined from the point of view of democratic theory. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; JPHF; JPHV. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219632
ISBN
9780230219632
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover. This book presents the results of a new comparative research project on the trajectories, motivations, perceptions and attitudes of young members (aged 18-25) of 15 different European political parties in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Norway and Hungary. The project combined a mass survey of 2919 young party members with 517 in-depth interviews. Num Pages: 262 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JPA; JPB; JPHF; JPL; JPVH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230219731
ISBN
9780230219731
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.43

Hardcover. This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept. It aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation, focusing specifically on the tension between Marx's theoretical system of the Critique of Political Economy and the theories of capitalist expansion and domination. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBTQ; JPA; KCA; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221000
ISBN
9780230221000
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.79

Hardcover. Yakinthou throws light on the challenges of adopting political settlements in frozen conflicts and divided societies by focusing on the conflict in Cyprus, the resolution of which has for years been held up, in large part by elite intransigence. The book offers answers for why elites in Cyprus are so unwilling to adopt a power-sharing solution. Num Pages: 289 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVC; 1FB; GTJ; HBJF1; JPA; JPB; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230223752
ISBN
9780230223752
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.94

Hardcover. Prozorov offers a radical reinterpretation of contemporary Russian politics in terms of Agamben's philosophy. Reconstructing Agamben's conception of the end of history, that challenges the Hegelian thesis, Prozorov approaches post-communist Russia as a post-historical terrain, in which the teleological dimension of politics has been deactivated. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; HBJD; HPS; JHBA; JPA; JPFC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 221 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224131
ISBN
9780230224131
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.81

Hardcover. This book, some 20 years after the publication of Robert W. Cox's seminal Production, Power and World Order: Social Forces in the Making of History, offers the reader an analytical and comprehensive overview of his work and illustrates the continuing relevance thereof for contemporary research. Series: International Political Economy Series. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 168 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230224797
ISBN
9780230224797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.74

Hardcover. How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This book sets out a fresh interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, it applies a fresh framework to a range of contemporary inequalities. Num Pages: 339 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JFFJ; JHBA; JPA; JPF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230227170
ISBN
9780230227170
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 155.05

Hardcover. This book examines current policy discussions around the migration-development nexus and subjects them to rigorous conceptual and empirical criticism through a transnational lens, placing the current re-discovery of migrants as agents of development nexus into theoretical and historical perspective. Editor(s): Faist, Thomas; Fauser, Margit; Kivisto, Peter. Series: Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Num Pages: 248 pages, 4, 3 black & white tables, 1 figures. BIC Classification: GTF; JFFN; JPA; RGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230228573
ISBN
9780230228573
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.63

Hardcover. Romantic Cosmopolitanism shows how cosmopolitanism in the early nineteenth century offers a non-unified formulation of the nation that stands in contrast to more unified models such as Edmund Burke's which found nationality in, among other things, language, history, blood and geography. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; HBJD1; HBLL; JPA. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230232044
ISBN
9780230232044
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230232112
ISBN
9780230232112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.09

Hardcover. This study of the German right-extremist movement looks at the three rightist political parties, neo-Nazi groups, skinhead gangs, and New Right intellectuals. It poses the question whether, at a time of global recession, the existing democratic system is resilient enough to meet the challenges posed by the xenophobic and racist groups. Series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies. Num Pages: 273 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFFN; JFSL; JPA; JPFQ; JPL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230236394
ISBN
9780230236394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.53

Hardcover. In the post-positivist era in which Cartesian epistemology must be overcome we require a normative criterion of truth. Without it rationality of our beliefs and justifiability of our political acts are in question. This study seeks an epistemological criterion of truth that is attentive to the sociopolitical conditions that determine meaning Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230237674
ISBN
9780230237674
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.11

Hardcover. This book gives a novel understanding of the globalization debate as well as the structure of world politics. Drawing on Foucault and Waltz it suggests 'polity' as a third model of political structure beyond hierarchy and anarchy. Num Pages: 256 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFS; JPA; JPHC; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230238756
ISBN
9780230238756
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.61

Hardcover. In modern democracies, existing moral pluralism conflicts with a commitment to resolve political disputes by way of moral reasoning. Given this fact, how can there be moral resolutions to political disputes and what type of reasoning is appropriate in the public sphere? Fives explores this by closely analysing the work of MacIntyre and Rawls. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230238985
ISBN
9780230238985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.18

Hardcover. Structured around the five most important schools within contemporary political theory: liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and feminism,this is the first introductory level text to offer an accessible overview on the status of animals in contemporary political theory. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 166 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230239258
ISBN
9780230239258
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.83

Paperback. Structured around the five most important schools within contemporary political theory: liberalism, utilitarianism, communitarianism, Marxism and feminism,this is the first introductory level text to offer an accessible overview on the status of animals in contemporary political theory. Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JFFZ; JPA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230239265
ISBN
9780230239265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.21

Hardcover. A discussion of the case study method which develops an integrative framework for causal inference in small-n research. This framework is applied to research design tasks such as case selection and process tracing. The book presents the basics, state-of-the-art and arguments for improving the case study method and empirical small-n research. Series: ECPR Research Methods. Num Pages: 270 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; JHBC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 151 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230240704
ISBN
9780230240704
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 154.53

Hardcover. What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHBA; JPA; TB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362. 224 pages, Illustrations. What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHBA; JPA; TB. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight: 362.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230241022
ISBN
9780230241022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.03

Hardcover. This book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books argues that through Weber, a network of concepts can be developed that can frame a sociological analysis of the present. Num Pages: 161 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPA; JPF; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230242036
ISBN
9780230242036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.61

Hardcover. An exploration of Immanuel Kant's account of war and the controversies that have arisen from its interpretation. This book brings the ideas of Kant's critical philosophy to bear on one of the leading political and legal questions of our age: under what circumstances, if any, is recourse to war legally and morally justifiable? Series: International Political Theory. Num Pages: 222 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JWA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 144 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230244207
ISBN
9780230244207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.31

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