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Politics and Governance in the Middle East
2022 || Paperback || Vincent Durac e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
This textbook offers a systematic and up-to-date introduction to politics and society in the Middle East. Taking a thematic approach that engages with core theory as well as a wide range of research, it examines postcolonial political, social and economic developments in the region, while also scrutinising the domestic and international factors that have played a central role in these developments. Topics covered include the role of religion in political life, gender and politics, the Israel-...
Forged in War
A military history of Russia from its beginnings to today
2024 || Hardcover || Mark (New York University Galeotti || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Public Policy
A New Introduction
2020 || Paperback || Christoph Knill e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of classic works alongside the most recent developments in the field, this book is guided by the following three crucial questions: What is public policy? Who participates in making and putting public policy in practice as well as in assessing its succ...
Global Politics / 3rd edition
2023 || Paperback || Ben Whitham e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In turbulent global times, your study of this subject is increasingly necessary and urgent.
Featuring a new chapter on critical theories, and revised to take a less Eurocentric approach to concepts and case studies, this new edition allows you to tackle global politics' important concepts, debates and problems:
-How can theories help us to understand the politics of a global pandemic?
-Do we live in a 'post-truth' world of 'fake news' and disinformation?
-Does international aid work?
-Does t...
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How to Lose the Information War
Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict
2024 || Hardcover || Nina Jankowicz || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Since the start of the Trump era, the United States and the Western world has finally begun to wake up to the threat of online warfare and the attacks from Russia, who flood social media with disinformation, and circulate false and misleading information to fuel fake narratives and make the case for illegal warfare. The question no one seems to be able to answer is: what can the West do about it?
Central and Eastern European states, including Ukraine and Poland, however, have been aware of th...
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Darkness Falling
The Strange Death of the Weimar Republic, 1930-33
2024 || Paperback || Peter Walther || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A dramatic account of Germany's slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship, and the history of Weimar Berlin in the three years before the Nazi takeover.
Planning Theory
2017 || Paperback || Philip Allmendinger || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In the 3rd edition of the leading introductory textbook to planning theory, Allmendinger provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date analysis of planning theories, how these relate to planning practice, and their significance. Moving away from a linear, chronological model of progress over time from one paradigm to another, Allmendinger explains how and why different theories have gained dominance in particular places at particular times, giving the reader a holistic view of the field of scholarsh...
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Big Caesars and Little Caesars
How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson
2024 || Paperback || Ferdinand Mount || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
'Wry, informative but deadly - a great book'
Will Hutton
'Fast-paced and impassioned'
Sunday Telegraph
Who said that dictatorship was dead? The world today is full of Strong Men and their imitators. A fascinating exploration of how and why Caesars seized power and why they fell.
There is a comforting illusion shared by historians and political commentators, that history progresses in a nice straight line towards liberal democracy or socialism, despite the odd hiccup.
Every democracy, however ...
The Political System of the European Union
2022 || Paperback || Simon Hix e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing, researching and teaching the EU. Using the general theories of political science to understand how the EU works, this text covers each of the main processes in the EU political system - executive, legislative and judicial politics, public opinion, interest groups and democracy, and regulatory, monetary and foreign po...
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How Britain Ends
English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations
2024 || Paperback || Gavin Esler || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A book about the rise of English nationalism and the impending breakup of the United Kingdom.