A behind-the-scenes look at diplomacy and international relations in post-communist Eastern Europe.

Identifies the many ways in which unexpected outcomes are endemic to international relations due to the complexity of world politics.

Presents a new way of thinking about fundamental political concepts such as freedom, justice, and the common good.

Assesses the place of non-military national service in Israeli politics and society.

Brings to life the dramatic and colorful career of William Sulzer (1863–1941), former governor of New York State.

Offers a dialogue about the future of the nature of the human, technology, metaphysical foundations, globalization, and social and political oppression.

Offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought.

Develops a theory of spiritual freedom and explores its relationship to problems of liberal political regimes.

An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation.

Confronts the ethical challenges of warfare carried out by artificial intelligence.

Examines how state courts change public policy through an analysis of their influence on state education finance reform.

First translation into English of Fichte’s major work on the French Revolution.

Analyzes the Israel-Palestinian conflict by looking at its interactions with seven regional and global powers and the way the conflict is framed at the international level.

Examines how events in the Cold War and post–Cold War periods shaped the intellectual projects of Perry Anderson and Immanuel Wallerstein.

Investigates Turkey and Israel's contrasting treatment of religion and demonstrates how this treatment has had a significant impact on these countries' democratic performance.

The intellectual autobiography of a leading scholar in the field of African American Studies.

Argues for refocusing attention on publicness and the critical exploration of underlying assumptions that are foundational to the study and practice of public affairs.

Analysis of this important Mexican philosopher's social, cultural, and political writings.

Applies a variety of scholarly approaches to analyze the long-term impact of President Obama as a leader and policymaker.

Argues that we need to reinvent sovereignty as a motive for democratic political action while remaining alert to its dangers, specifically its relationship to violence.

Shows how Israeli Communists developed a distinctive national identity outside the boundaries of Zionism.

A fresh look at Aristotle’s political theory with attention to the resonance of his thought for contemporary concerns.

Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism.

Analyzes contemporary capitalism through the products of culture and art for fresh insight into emancipatory possibilities concealed within capitalism’s darkest dynamics.

Examines the limitations of rights-based mobilization and litigation for advancing the interests of trans individuals in the contemporary United States.

Argues that concern with the nation and national community will be a key factor in redefining twenty-first-century politics.

This archive-based study of the philosophy of Leo Strauss provides in-depth interpretations of key texts and their larger theoretical contexts.

Situates Schmitt's legal scholarship in the context of debates regarding whether his thought was more theological or technocratic.

The first history of the US Travel Bureau, which set the precedent for federal involvement in promoting tourism and travel, an activity which continues today.

Essays reflecting on the prolific, pioneering, and wide-ranging scholarship of Fred Dallmayr.

Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development.

A study of novelty through analyses of the language of announcement in revolutionary texts.

Explores how improv-based teaching and training methods can bridge differences and promote the communication, leadership, and civil skills our world urgently needs.

Explores the civic activism of the Palestinian minority in Israel for a better understanding of the relationship between civic activism and democratization in ethnic states.

Timely and provocative asessment of various cultural, moral, and political problems in "post-constitutional" America.

Reflects on the legacy and limits of suffrage in New York State as a way to understand present-day issues with women's social and political rights, as well proposes ideas for future progress.

Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.

Emphasizes the importance of metaphysical necessity to both philosophical theology and, through it, to moral and political theory.

Argues that images are at the heart of the dialogue’s philosophical argumentation.

Inspiring collection narrating how peace activists found their calling and why the world still needs peace activism.

A compelling gathering of perspectives on the intersection of servant-leadership and forgiveness.

Explores the cultural dimensions of protest and dissent in China, focusing on dramatic forms of bodily, spatial, strategic, and artistic performativity.

Expert advice on how any citizen can fight government fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption.

Draws on Plato to argue that Homer elevated private life as the locus of true friendship and the catalyst of the highest human excellence.

Offers a powerful new interpretation of Engels’s contributions to modern social and political theory.

Offers a careful analysis of how Aristotle understands civil war, partisanship, distrust in government, disagreement, and competition, and explores ways in which these views are relevant to contemporary political theory.

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

The first detailed examination of African Americans and First Amendment rights, from the colonial era to the present.

Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.

Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.

Inside account of the negotiations between the football Bills, New York State, and Erie County to sign a long-term stadium lease and thereby keep the team in Buffalo.

Examines the political dynamics behind anticorruption efforts in Asia.

Examines why some politicians take the drastic step of becoming a carpetbagger and how that shapes their campaigns and chances for victory.

Uncovers long-ignored political themes—ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history—at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

A study of John Marshall's political thought with special emphasis on his views of constitutional legitimacy, sovereignty, citizenship, and national identity.

Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.

Bridges Western and non-Western political thought to address the problem of democracy and political decadance in contemporary Iran and, by implication, similar Islamic societies.

Compares the political activities of African Americans who settled in Ghana in the 1950s and 1960s with those who settled in the 1980s to the present.

Systematically addresses the philosophical implications of the postcolonial.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Considers the impact of neo-racism during the Obama presidency.

Illuminates transgender activists' successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US.

Studies the revolutionary theory of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s through ʼ70s, placing it within the broader social theory of black revolution in the United States since the nineteenth century.

Examines how our diverse understandings of property impact real-world governing strategies.

Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.

Offers a history of the role of investigations in radical political struggles from the nineteenth century forward.

First book in English to offer a thorough introduction to key concepts and figures in Spanish feminist thought.

Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.

A distillation of the historian’s finest writings on modern Indian historical themes.

Explores how journalists think and talk about changes in the news environment, with a focus on the increase in opinion and commentary.

Reveals how presidents deploy a rhetoric that attempts to attract many racial and ethnic groups, but ultimately directs itself to an archtypal white, Middle-American swing voter.

Introduction to American politics and government, intended for students of political science. Provides a critical examination of both political institutions and political behavior.

Examines the many issues raised by TIF, the most widely used tool of local economic and community development.

A multidimensional approach captures the complexities of African American racial identity.

A Marxist history of Israeli literature, tracing the relations between economic, social, and aesthetic transformations.

Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.

Traces the US Supreme Court’s effect on federal government growth from the founding era forward.

Explores the current and future trajectories of the paradigm of postsocialism.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Examines how Diasporic Black women engage in politics.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Traces the genealogy of the Western philosophic concept of the civil state, how that concept was assimilated into Egyptian political thought, and how it affected the 2013 coup against President Mursi.

Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe’s leading philosophers.

An especially accessible introduction to Hegel’s moral and political philosophy.

An original philosophical exploration of the limits of Hegel's thought.

Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management's Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.

Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.

Discusses the conservative ideological and political attack on welfare in the United States.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Tells the story of the nation's largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.

A memoir and selected writings by the former Chief Judge of New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals.

Editorials, op-eds, and other writings by a memorable newspaperman.

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities.

An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.

Argues that affirming the irreducible differences between men and women can lead to more transformative politics than the struggle for abstract equality between the sexes.

Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges.

Analyzes long-term interest group/party alliances, with a focus on the part played by federal advisory committees.

Examines the continuing ethnic diversification of black America and its impact on black political empowerment.