Offers a new perspective on the first dynasty of imperial China and the reasons for its collapse.

Looks at how digitalization has changed the way we produce and interact, and the implications for working classes and countries of the Global South.

Essays that describe the efforts of several groups in a variety of political settings to achieve greater control over the policies that affect them, the strategies they employ to do so, and their status today.

Traces the history of the concept of democracy in the United States.

Explores the role of democracy in NATO expansion decisions throughout the organizations history and looking forward into the future.

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.

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

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

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

Relates Chinese Realism to contemporary political and ethical challenges, such as in international relations and the morality of the public sector.

Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.

Traces the Trump administration's surprising support for LGBTI human rights abroad to Trump's indifference and the cynicism and political interests of Christian conservative elites.

Looking at Japan, traces crisis narratives across three decades and ten policy fields, with the aim of disentangling discursively manufactured crises from actual policy failures.

Describes the profound social impact of the overthrow of the Thai absolute monarchy in 1932, and explains the importance of democracy in a country long known for authoritarian politics.

Examines how the national pastime of baseball has the capacity to shape politics and American democracy.

Intensive look at restrictive new voting laws ostensibly designed to target voter fraud but criticized as being racially-based voter suppression.

First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director from 1939 to 1945.

Explains why Turkey embraced the Arab Spring despite the risk both domestically and internationally.

Analyzes Turkey’s Kurdish conflict since post-Ottoman nation-building through recent peace attempts, from a novel perspective highlighting the dilemmas of the Turk majority and reshaping our understanding of ethnic conflicts, and offers solutions for a sustainable peace.

Offers a cosmopolitan account of war that blends sharp inquiry into interspecies politics with original poetry on animals, loss, and war.

A close examination of the complexity inherent in Michael Jackson's ambiguous racial identity.

Examines how race-neutral programs and policies harm, rather than improve, the lives of blacks in the United States.

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

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

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