Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> General

Margaret Thatcher (1925 2013) was the dominant British political leader of our age. No postwar prime minister has equalled the impact she made on modern British history, nor matched her influence on the European and world stages. But, as she becomes a historical figure, how to distinguish myth from reality? The daunting quantity (and variable quality) of literature already available on Thatcher makes it decidedly difficult to discriminate the significant from the tendentious, superficial, and otiose. Moreover, because no comparable British politician has had such profound effects on...

In the fifty or so years since the Treaty of Rome, the European Union has evolved far beyond the scope of any other comparable entity. The EU is now a unique model of international cooperation and integration, and its reach extends into almost every sphere of the lives of its half a billion citizens. As well as the establishment of a single market, the Union has its own currency, is developing a foreign policy, and has a growing role in justice and cultural matters.

Scholarly work on the European Union has undergone a similarly rapid evolution. For example, with the major...

Since at least the time of Plato, political scientists and philosophers have been concerned about what citizens and rulers should know if they are to be governed--and govern--well. Moreover, the increasing complexity of modern societies has revivified thinking about and around the critical concept of political knowledge. Vital questions arise, such as:

• does effective democracy demand an informed electorate?
• is such an aspiration realistic, given the size and reach of modern governments?
• how can electorates compensate for their...

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The Cold War dominated international politics between 1945 and 1990, when the two superpowers, the United States and Soviet Union, vied for supremacy. Their clash profoundly influenced the main trends of the time, including economic development, technological change, and decolonization. It divided Europe, with the fault line running through Germany. Although it never erupted into a major superpower conflagration, it was a vicious struggle that was often fought through proxies in the Third...

Stimulated anew in the 1990s by the slaughter and the so-called ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia, and by the horrors of Rwanda, research about and around genocide flourishes as never before. Genocide studies has now accrued a large, sophisticated, and growing, body of scholarly literature. This growth looks set to continue: historians and social scientists are increasingly casting their analytical nets further into the past to investigate whether group destruction and population expulsions have been constitutive of imperial and state expansion over millennia. And, moreover, events...

This is a collection of titles written by a range of international authors that seeks to get at the heart of the political experience in the Middle East, an endeavour that is as crucial today as it was when these books were first published.

• first ever facsimile reprint of the leading English newspaper published in Yokohama throughout the Meiji era.
• complete collection provided by Yokohama Archives of History and other institutions.
• playing an important role for the Meiji Japan s exchange with Western society, it covers not only articles on politics, commerce and economics, but also on the cultural activities of early Japanologists and the Asiatic Society of Japan.
• contributors include George Aston, Ernest Satow, Basil Hall Chamberlain, Lafcadio Hearn, Fenollosa,...