Politics/Current Affairs

This book examines Polish migration to Ireland in the context of 'new mobilities in Europe'. It includes detailed accounts of the working lives of a group of mainly skilled Polish migrants in Dublin, and traces their careers and aspirations as Ireland moved from 'boom to bust'.

Chronicles changes in American political party behavior between 1996 and 2008.

Examines how the president balances the competing demands of leading his political party and leading the nation.

Timely analysis of the ways in which women grassroots activists, the European Union, and the Turkish state are involved in shaping gender policies in Turkey. Shaping Gender Policy in Turkey uncovers how, why, and to what extent Turkish women, in addition to the Turkish state and the European Union, have ...

This book provides a comprehensive study of asymmetric territorial conflict combining game theory, statistical empirical analysis and historiographic analysis. Using the Israeli-Palestine conflict as a case study, it tests the model on a database of almost four hundred territorial conflicts.

Argues that the left/right divide which for 200 years has served as the rationale for advancing social progress in sustaining democracy is now destroying it, as partly witnessed through the collapse of both party memberships and voting figures in most advanced industrial economies.

Imad Moosa addresses contentious issues including: whether the Chinese currency is undervalued, whether the undervaluation of the yuan, should it exist, is the cause of the US trade deficit with China (hence revaluation being a justifiable cure) and whether Chinese economic policies are immoral and illegal according to IMF and WTO rules.

Drawing on the findings of a wide-ranging survey conducted in 2002, Irish Social and Political Attitudes analyses the societal changes that have resulted from the unprecedented economic expansion of the 1990s.

Feared by conservatives and embraced by liberals when he entered the White House, Barack Obama has since been battered by criticism from both sides. Obama, the author argues, represents the values of a lesser-known third tradition in American political thought that defies the usual left-right categorization.

Not since Pearl Harbor has an American president gone to Congress to request a declaration of war. Nevertheless, since then, one president after another, from Truman to Obama, has ordered American troops into wars all over the world. This book deals with this topic.

In American Marriage, Priscilla Yamin argues that marriage is a political institution to which actors turn either to stave off or to promote change over issues of race, gender, class, or sexuality. In the political struggle, certain marriages are pushed as necessary for the good of society, while others are contested or prevented.

An eye-opening survey of the recent Arab revolutions and their political consequences, comparing them to those of a previous generation.

For the first time, Andrew Adonis gives his own account of the failed Lib - Lab coalition talks that followed the historic 2010 election.

We live in a digital, globalised world - this statement has become a banal truism but never before have the implications of this new world been more frightening nor important for our daily lives. It is a world that has become a law enforcement nightmare and every criminal's dream. The Internet and the ...

Freedom of expression, a fundamental right in any democracy, has often been denied to Americans whose beliefs challenge the status quo. "We Will Be Heard" features over 90 stirring portraits and first-person accounts of Americans targeted for speaking out against government policies and actions. America's ...

Takes an in-depth look at the hugely significant relationship between China and the USA from a Chinese perspective. Offering insights and analysis on China's approach to America and its relationship with the American government, this book reveals China's current thinking and strategies towards China-US relations and trade policies.

A fictionalized account of twelve Russians who participated in the 2007 "march of the dissidents" in St. Petersburg, Russia.

This revised edition offers a comprehensive overview of the challenges confronting the political system as well as the international politics of the European Union. It draws from a spectrum of regional integration theories to determine what the Union actually is and how it is developing.