Presents a timely discussion of the core problems faced by peasant communities under neo-liberal economics.

A critical reflection on the limitations of Carl Schmitt's political theology, reconsidered in light of the current crisis of the liberal democratic order.

Explains the complexities of policy implementation and why attempts to translate new laws into effective and enduring policy sometimes succeed and sometimes fail.

Argues that states substitute unwanted policy changes dictated by globalization with politically feasible ones, leading to policy convergence.

Analyzes the history of legislative party switching and its regulation in the Israeli Knesset.

Claims unconscious desire plays a constitutive role in global political economy.

Comprehensive examination of the goals, strategies, and motives of the six parties involved in North Korea denuclearization talks through the lens of negotiation theory.

This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators' roles in carrying them out.

The personal and legal struggle of eight enslaved people for freedom in New York in the period just before the Civil War.

Interpretations of critically important texts in political philosophy from Greek antiquity to modern times on the tension between human excellence and equality and its possible resolution.

The first comprehensive study of village government formation and dissolution in New York State.

Analyzes the nature, processes, and political consequences of the asymmetrical relationships between China and its six small neighbors in Asia.

Detailed assessment of the People's Republic of China as an alternative mode of political system and as a distinctive model of socioeconomic development.

Explores the importance of political judgment in the work of Bernard Stiegler, and argues his approach to judgment marks an important break with continental political thought.

Traces the influence of the stock market on Americans' beliefs about politics.

Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.

Explores the effects of the cyber revolution for security in the Americas.

Investigates, by way of Derrida's engagements with Kant, how the foundations of modern constitutionalism can be differently conceived to address some of the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Offers a renovated form of Confucian liberalism that forges a reconciliation between the two extremes of anti-Confucian liberalism and anti-liberal Confucianism.

Five innovative essays demonstrating how Aristotle's biology is an integral part of Aristotle's understanding of the universe.

Explores the political and theoretical significance of the use of salvaging discarded materials by social movements during their protest activities.

First history of New York's women legislators within the larger story of New York State politics.

Examines how the new wave of Generation Y public service employees are affecting the dynamics of continuity and change in public management ethics.

Essays providing a multi-disciplinary look at Derrick Bell's thesis of racial realism.

A searing, personal look at conditions on Texas's Death Row—told in the words of the prisoners themselves.