This engaging text helps students consider global issues through the lens of the many kinds of borders they cross daily.

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...

Activism in Hard Times in Central and Eastern Europe elevates the voices of civic activists from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and analyzes a wealth of information to generate new insights into how activism in the region manages to be vibrant, diverse, and consequential.

This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation, and internalisation of democratic norms in selected post-Soviet countries.

The Rise and Decline of Modern Democracy assesses the rise of, subsequent political challenges to, and decline of, contemporary liberal democratic processes, in particular since the ‘third wave’ of democratisation from the 1990s.

The Indian Constitution has held the country together for 75 years now. This volume demonstrates the Constitution is not a static document and has seen several amendments and interpretations over the years.

Fifth edition of the leading textbook on international organizations that mixes international law, politics, and case studies in an accessible package. It presents the most important global institutions, from the UN to the WTO and FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, explaining the legal treaties and their political controversies for each.

The Fifth Edition of A Stata® Companion to Political Analysis by Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards teaches your students statistics by analyzing research-quality data in Stata. It follows the structure of Essentials of Political Analysis with software instructions, explanations of tests, and many exercises for practice.

An expert and accessible exploration of the increasing number and influence of authoritarian regimes. It explains the realities of recent trends to ‘autocratization’, the tools these regimes use, what we can do to resist, and why we might even allow ourselves some optimism.

Is There Such a Thing as Populism? calls into question our understanding of populism, and addresses key theoretical, methodological, and comparative questions within populism. Five subject experts react to Arditi’s theses in conversations on studying populism and the ways populism has been used in contemporary comparative analysis.