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Stanley Cavell is a leading figure in American philosophy and one of the most exhilarating and wide-ranging intellectuals of our time. In this book...

State and Society in Post-War Japan integrates the previous work of disciplinary specialists into a coherent account of how Japanese society has ch...

This is a major textbook in European politics. Comparative in approach, it examines the problems of West European democracies in the era of the Sin...

Newly published for the first time in English translation, Carl Schmitt’s 1934 tract, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victo...

Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that set...

Today we hear much talk of crisis and comparisons are often made with the Great Depression of the 1930s, but there is a crucial difference that set...

This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world a...

This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world a...

Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. W...

Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. W...

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agen...

After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions t...

After civil wars end, what can sustain peace in the long-term? In particular, how can outsiders facilitate durable conflict-managing institutions t...

This book addresses the role of political institutions in economic performance, examining the changing state-economy relationships through a compar...

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, h...

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, h...

Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This engagin...

Since the late eighteenth century, politics, protest, and the state have evolved together, each shaping the other in significant ways. This engagin...

Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of...

The spectre of poverty, disease and ignorance still haunts much of the developing world today. But not everywhere. Some societies, such as Botswana...

In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regul...

In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regul...

Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries. It operates behind the scenes, encouraging us to consume, vote, bel...

Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries. It operates behind the scenes, encouraging us to consume, vote, bel...