In Who are we? author Samuel Huntington turns his attention from international cultural divides to the cultural rifts in America. The patriotic response to the events of September 11 only highlighted the loss of American identity at home, says Huntington, and already patriotic fervour has begun to subside. The United States was founded by British settlers who brought with them a distinct cultur…
Contents: 1. Blowback 2. OILYgarchy 3. Drilling and killing : Chevron and Nigeria's oil dictatorship 4. Crackdown 5. Smackdown 6. Lockdown 7. Lies of our times 8. State media, American style, etc.
Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling political and economic uncertainty. The scaffolding built around the global order is fragile, and the checks and balances created over centuries to protect liberty are being tested, maybe to destruction. Tom Fletcher, the youngest senior British ambassador for two hundred years, …
This book contains an explanation of politics and the key to understanding politics. Tells what really happens from the moment you register to selecting a candidate that can influence your life.
This classic introduction provides an analysis and description of democracy, political behavior, political evaluation, policy-making, and comparative political systems. Power and influence, pivotal features of the book, are depicted through concrete illustrations of people in power from the relatively powerless to the most powerful. Thus, the reader is invited to enter imaginatively into the ex…
One of the World's most prominent public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky has, in more than fifty years of writing on politics, philosophy, and language, revolutionized modern linguistics and established himself as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and social critics of our time. The Essential Chomsky brings together selections from his most important writings since 1959 - from his…
This volume contains an inquiry into the principles which lie behind the existence and action of National Society and the National State. It is divided into six books.
To do political theory is to tell a story about human beings and their communities. In this elegant book, Michael Brint provides a brilliant reading of some of the greatest stories told in the history of Western political theory. The unifying theme is the issue of differences and the conflicts they generate. Against ironists, deconstructionists, and all the others, Brint urges that ethical diff…
This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.
This book offers a comprehensive guide to identifying the means by which interrelationships of armed services and society can be explored and explained. It indicates the salient variables in these relationships, examines existing theories of civil-military relations, and sets out an overarching theory that seeks to provide both explanations for changes and a tool for prediction.