Explores how individuals and groups adapt to the challenges of globalization.

New edition of the provocative history of the tenuous relationship between the scientific study of politics and the real world of American democracy.

Explores the ideological and emotional trauma created after the withering of the socialist utopia in Cuba.

Addresses the power of oligopolistic corporations in contemporary society.

An ambitious and radically original reading of philosopher Francis Bacon.

Chronicles JFK’s growing confidence and ambition while a member of the US Senate.

Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by “illegal” and displaced peoples.

Examines democracy in the Philippines using the political thought of Jürgen Habermas.

Examines the origins, spread, and effectiveness of the initiative.

Examines and measures the extent to which statutory language affects judicial behavior.

Investigates how leaders’ personalities shape important foreign policy shifts.

The first full-length biography of America’s youngest, and perhaps most underrated, First Lady.

Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counternarcotics initiative.

Examines the organized efforts to reshape the law relating to young women’s sexuality in the United States.

Examines Antigone’s influence on contemporary European, Latin American, and African political activism, arts, and literature.

Expanded and revised edition of the first book devoted solely to black fraternity hazing.

Analysis of Plato’s influence on the political thinking of Kant, Hegel, and Fichte.

Some of the world’s foremost thought leaders consider the role of leadership, love, and power in the midst of political and social upheaval.

Innovative examination of the tensions between universal and more uniquely American definitions of cherished rights.

Inspiring oral history of the impact of cultural and educational exchange between South Africa and the United States during apartheid.

An account of Hegel's political insights and their contemporary relevance.

Seeks to understand and explain the behavior of party elites during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race.

Develops an alternative framework for describing and explaining African American politics and the American political system and applies it to a number of case studies.

Proposes a post-Straussian reading of Plato to advance a reconciliation of ancient and modern theories of natural right.

Examines the political dimensions of Aristophanes’ comic poetry.