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Hobbes: Leviathan
Revised student edition
1996 || Paperback || Thomas Hobbes || Cambridge University Press
Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan is arguably the greatest piece of political philosophy written in the English language. Written in a time of great political turmoil (Hobbes' life spanned the reign of Charles I, the Civil Wars, the Commonwealth and the Protectorate, and the Restoration), Leviathan is an argument for obedience to authority grounded in an analysis of human nature. Since its first publication in 1991 Richard Tuck's edition of Leviathan has been recognised as the single most accurate and...
Global Politics in the 21st Century
2013 || Paperback || Robert J. Jackson || Cambridge University Press
Objective, critical, optimistic, and with a global focus, this textbook combines international relations theory, history, up-to-date research, and current affairs to give students a comprehensive, unbiased understanding of international politics. It integrates theory and traditional approaches with globalization and research on such topics as terrorism, new economic superpowers, and global communications and social networking to offer unusual breadth and depth for an undergraduate course. The...
Locke: Two Treatises of Government / Student edition
1988 || Paperback || John Locke || Cambridge University Press
A version of Peter Laslett's acclaimed Two Treatises of Government, widely recognised as one of the classic pieces of recent scholarship in the history of ideas. This 1988 edition revises Dr Laslett's second edition (1970) and includes an updated bibliography, a guide to further reading and a fully reset and revised introduction which surveys advances in Locke scholarship.
Global Climate Governance
2021 || Paperback || David Coen e.a. || Cambridge University Press
This Element takes stock of the current state of the global climate change regime, illuminating scope for policymaking and mobilizing collective action through networked governance at all scales, from the sub-national to the highest global level of political assembly.
Global Distributive Justice
An Introduction
2020 || Paperback || Chris Armstrong || Cambridge University Press
This is the first textbook to focus exclusively on issues of distributive justice on the global scale. It gives clear and up-to-date accounts of the major theories of global justice and spells out their significance for a series of political issues, including climate change, international trade, human rights and migration.
Comparing Media Systems
Three Models of Media and Politics
2004 || Paperback || Daniel C. Hallin e.a. || Cambridge University Press
Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems, and to explore the ...
The Politics of Crisis Management / 2nd edition
Public Leadership under Pressure
2016 || Paperback || Arjen Boin e.a. || Cambridge University Press
Crisis management has become a defining feature of contemporary governance. In times of crisis, communities and members of organizations expect their leaders to minimize the impact, while critics and bureaucratic competitors make use of social media to blame incumbent rulers and their policies. In this extreme environment, policymakers must somehow establish a sense of normality, and foster collective learning from the crisis experience.
In the new edition of this uniquely comprehensive analy...
Competitive Authoritarianism / 1st edition
Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War
2010 || Paperback || Steven Levitsky e.a. || Cambridge University Press
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was w...
International Organizations / 4th edition
Politics, Law, Practice
2020 || Paperback || Ian Hurd || Cambridge University Press
As international organizations become ever more prominent in global politics it is increasingly urgent to understand their power, their limits, and their effects. Now in its fourth edition, this leading textbook provides the definitive introduction to modern international organizations, from the legal charters of their beginnings, to the issues they engage with in the contemporary world. In his analysis of the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the International Criminal Court and ...
International Organizations / 5th edition
Politics, Law, Practice
2024 || Hardcover || Ian Hurd || Cambridge University Press
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.