China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish...
This far-reaching study gives a concise and coherent overview of the debates surrounding the analysis of social power. The concept of power is...
What’s Wrong with China is the most cogent, insightful and penetrating examination I have read on the paradoxes and self-deceptions of Modern China...
Modern societies set limits, on everything from how fast motorists can drive to how much waste factory owners can dump in our rivers. But incomes in...
Human rights have fallen on hard times, yet they are more necessary than ever. People all over the world – from Amazonian villages to Iranian prisons...
Nearly a third of the world’s population suffers from hunger or malnutrition. Feeding them – and the projected population of 10 billion people by 2050...
People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we...
Introduction to any complex international conflict is enriched when the voices of the adversaries are heard. The Israel/Palestine Reader is an...
Since 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to be offset by the...
Russia is back as a major force in global politics, but what does this mean? Is Russia the dangerous revisionist foe that meddles in Western elections...