Essays on the formation of Israeli state and society during the twentieth century.

Explores the limits of Kantian approaches to the study of international affairs.

Explores the relationship between sport and national identities within the context of globalization in the modern era.

Uses the history of Trieste and the Italo-Yugoslav border to examine how representations of difference have affected the politics of sovereignty during the twentieth century.

The first defense of Marxian political economy against the common interest claims of "lean production. "

Christopher Hemmer offers a model for how U. S. decision makers use the lessons of history to diagnose and make policy choices.

Explores the many factors shaping the level of political involvement displayed by urban Protestant clergy.

Renowned theorists address the interconnections between those who engage in political struggle and those who study it.

A new translation of Pierre Bayle's first great work, which undermines the influence of "superstition" in political life and laid the groundwork for the separation of church and state.

Presents the first major study of Marx and Engels in two decades and the only study since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the recognized crisis of global capitalism.

Uses case studies of Jerusalem and Belfast to explore how cities function in the midst of nationalistic conflict.

Introduces the cutting edge issues and current scholarship in the interdisciplinary field of Israel Studies.

Explores the role that public opinion plays in the development of social policy in the United States.

Two decades after Harvey Molotch’s “city as a growth machine,” this book offers a unique, critical assessment of his thesis.

Offers a fresh, distinctive, and compelling analysis of the United States's continuing dilemma of race.

Argues that Plato's dialogues contain a surprisingly neglected account of Socrates' education about the love of noble virtue and that recovering this education could help broaden and deepen liberalism's moral and political horizon.

Argues that rebuilding ethical communities will require a cultural reorientation from visually dominated to oral/aural experience and develops a speech-based conception of moral place that can set limits on the actions of individuals and communities.

Examines how a more democratic, participatory policy analysis could be conceptualized in theory and administered in practice.

This book draws mutually enlightening parallels between controversial themes in contemporary feminist thought and Hegel's political philosophy. Jeffrey A. Gauthier argues that feminism can gainfully employ ...

Tells the story (in the participants' own words) of how a determined southern filibuster was turned back in the U. S. Senate and the 1964 Civil Rights Act made into law.

Defends a libertarian social ethic that can support government action in pursuit of social goals and offers a new perspective on the relationship between social ethics, personal ethics, and environmental ethics.

Presents alternative and often opposing viewpoints on the major national and international environmental controversies that will be with us well into the twenty-first century.

Addresses issues concerning race, ethnicity, and nationlism in both their domestic and international dimension.

Examines the relationship between technical experts and elected officials, challenging the prevailing view about how experts become politicized by the policy process.

Constructs a cohesive picture of political theorist C. B. Macpherson's democratic vision, arguing that Macpherson's central message regarding the economic prerequisites of democracy is just as relevant today as when he first presented it.