We live in dangerous times, when a new kind of leadership is required. Visionary and ruthlessly strategic, Warrior Politics extracts the best of the wisdom of the ages for modern lead- ers who are faced with the complex life-and-death challenges of today's world-and determined to win. Sun-Tzu urges leaders to "plan and calculate like a hungry man." Machiavelli defines a policy not by its excell…
Contents: 1. Weekend teach-in: Opening session 2. Teach-in: Over coffee 3. Teach-in: Evening 4. Colloquy 5. Ruling the world 6. Community activists etc.
The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure? Considering this political puzzle, they also answer the related economic question of why some countries experience successful economic development and others do not.
The new third edition of the highly successful text has been revised and updated throughout to take account of new issues such as identity and difference, globalization and multiculturalism. The book provides a clear and accessible introduction to political theory and key concepts in political analysis. Each chapter discusses a cluster of interrelated terms, examines how they have been used by …
Indonesia was in a parlous condition in 1998. Only a few years earlier, in of the Third World's the mid-1990s, it had often been portrayed as one of success stories.¹ President Soeharto's military-backed New Order was certainly authoritarian but it had underwritten political stability for almost three decades since the bloody upheaval surrounding the collapse of President Soekarno's Guided Dem…
Known for its comparative approach and its strong balance between theory and practical real-world examples, Power and choice continues as a best-seller, offering a brief but rich introduction to Political Science. Organized topically, this text maintains its use of extended examples of appropriate countries and its strong underlying theme: the contrasting purpose of political institutions as a …
This text embraces a comparative approach with a balance of theory and practical examples. Updated to reflect the current global condition, the book is aimed at lecturers who like to use a core main text and supplement it with readers, handouts, and other classroom activities.
The fifth edition continues with an eclectic approach that avoids selling any single theory, conceptual framework, or paradigm as the key to political science. Attempts to impose a methodological grand design are both unwarranted by the nature of the discipline and unconducive to the broadening of students in- tellectual horizons Instructors with a wide variety of viewpoints should have no trou…
This book is in a way the final chapter of my D.Phil. thesis on pragmatism and truth, which was submitted at Oxford University over a decade ago. I had intended then to say something about moral judgement, but David Wiggins, who supervised that thesis, showed me just how far I had to go before I got anything close to right enough.
Presenting humanistic, ethical approach to the study of government, The Great Issues of Politics clarifies the fundamentals of politics in terms of five universal issues, each offering a choice that remains constant over time. The first issue deals with the reciprocal rights and duties of members of the state; the second, with the scope of governmental functions; the third, with the birthplace…