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  • Waves of War

    Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World

    by Andreas Wimmer ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy to answer these questions. The nationalist ideal of self-rule gradually diffused over the world and delegitimized ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Nation Building

    Why Some Countries Come Together While Others Fall Apart

    by Andreas Wimmer ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Global and Comparative Sociology
    A new and comprehensive look at the reasons behind successful or failed nation buildingNation Building presents bold new answers to an age-old question. Why is national integration achieved in some diverse countries, while others are destabilized by political inequality between ethnic groups, contentious politics, or even separatism and ethnic war? Traversing centuries and continents from early ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Facing Ethnic Conflicts

    Toward a New Realism

    by Christopher J. Bakwesegha, Rogers Brubaker, Walker Connor, Andrew Ellis, Milton J. Esman, Hurst Hannum, Michael Hechter, Walter Kälin, René Lemarchand, Michael S. Lund, Hugh Miall, Norbert Ropers, Donald Rothchild, Valery A. Tishkov, Max van der Stoel, Angel Viñas, Peter Waldmann, I. William Zartman ...
    Ethnic conflict is the major form of mass political violence in the world today, and it has been since World War II. Dramatic acts of terrorism and calculated responses to them may distract the attention of policymakers and the public, but ethnic and nationalist conflict continues to pose the greatest challenge to peace and security across the globe. Causes of such conflict and ideas about how to ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Comparative Politics

    Principles of Democracy and Democratization

    by John T. Ishiyama ...
    Series Book 8 - Principles of Political Science
    By revealing the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic development, Comparative Politics shows how democracy may not be the best institutional arrangement given a country's unique set of historical, economic, social, cultural and international circumstances.Addresses the contextual conditions which promote or hinder democratic developmentReveals that democracy may not be the ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Trust beyond Borders

    Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies

    by Markus M. L. Crepaz ...
    Series series Contemporary Political And Social Issues
    Will immigration undermine the welfare state? Trust beyond Borders draws on public opinion data and case studies of Germany, Sweden, and the United States to document the influence of immigration and diversity on trust, reciprocity, and public support for welfare programs. Markus M. L. Crepaz demonstrates that we are, at least in some cases, capable of trusting beyond borders: of expressing faith ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Power, the State, and Sovereignty

    Essays on International Relations

    by Stephen D. Krasner ...
    Stephen Krasner has been one of the most influential theorists within international relations and international political economy over the past few decades. Power, the State, and Sovereignty is a collection of his key scholarly works. The book includes both a framing introduction written for this volume, and a concluding essay examining the relationship between academic research and the actual ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Power in the Changing Global Order

    The US, Russia and China

    by Martin A. Smith ...
    Power has been compared to the weather: people discuss it all the time, but very few really understand it. This book seeks to demystify this complex concept by providing students with an incisive and engaging introduction to the shifting configurations of power in the contemporary global order.Drawing on the work of leading international relations scholars, philosophers and sociologists, the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Handbook of War Studies III

    The Intrastate Dimension

    by Manus I. Midlarsky ...
    "Midlarsky has done it again, another state-of-the art handbook on the most recent developments in the study of war. This volume is entirely new with a focus on internal war. It is a 'must-read' for scholars and students of conflict. Even the most knowledgeable will learn a great deal from the book."---John A. Vasquez, Thomas B. Mackie Scholar in International Relations, University ofIllinois at ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Democracy

    by Charles Tilly ...
    Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • New Critical Writings in Political Sociology

    Volume Three: Globalization and Contemporary Challenges to the Nation-State

    by Alan Scott ...
    Series series New Critical Writings in Political Sociology
    In the third and final volume of this series, we examine the implications of the accelerating globalization process for the nation-state. Are globalization, the rise of regional and international institutions, and the international agreements on human rights actually reducing and transforming state sovereignty? Clearly ethnic, racial, and religious identities remain salient, but how do they ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics

    Edited by Martin Griffiths ...
    The study of international relations has changed rapidly in recent years. Firstly as a consequence of major political and economic change – the end of the cold war and the fall of communism, the resurgence of nationalism, terrorism and forms of fundamentalism, globalization – and secondly, linked with these developments, because of the vitality of the discipline, with ongoing debates on the ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Is Democracy Exportable?

    Edited by Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser ...
    Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise ... Read more

    $36.89 USD