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Geopolitics: A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
2019 || Paperback || Klaus Dodds || Oxford University Press
Encompassing everything from great power politics to everyday objects such as smart phones, geopolitics affects citizens, governments, and international bodies, and is far more than simply the impact of geographical features on political developments. This book considers both geopolitics' intellectual historical origins and its current concerns.
Public Policy Analysis / 6th edition
An Integrated Approach
2021 || Paperback || William N. Dunn || Taylor & Francis
Public Policy Analysis, the most widely cited book on the subject, provides students with a comprehensive methodology of policy analysis. It starts from the premise that policy analysis is an applied social science discipline designed for solving practical problems facing public and nonprofit organizations. This thoroughly revised sixth edition contains a number of important updates: Each chapter includes an all-new "big ideas" case study in policy analysis to stimulate student interest in ti...
Perspectives on International Relations - International Student Edition
Power, Institutions, and Ideas
2021 || Paperback || Henry R. Nau || SAGE
Henry R. Nau's bestselling book, Perspectives on International Relations is admired for its even-handed presentation of realism, liberalism, constructivism, and critical theory-and for expertly applying those perspectives in every chapter. Students focus on the ways the different perspectives shape our understanding of the root causes of historical events and current controversies in world affairs, and learn to think critically about the world's most urgent issues. The new Seventh Edition inc...
Political Ideologies : An Introduction / 7th edition
2021 || Paperback || Andrew Heywood || Bloomsbury Publishing
Offering an unparalleled, sweeping survey of the political ideologies that have shaped our world, the seventh edition of Andrew Heywood's seminal undergraduate textbook continues to lead the way in guiding students through the political creeds and doctrines that have dominated politics past and present.
Human Security / 1st edition
Theory and Action
2018 || Paperback || David Andersen-Rodgers e.a. || Rowman & Littlefield
Human security refers in its broadest sense to the protection of individuals from harm. Human Security: Theory and Action explores the theory and application of concepts central to this notion of security. It examines the conceptual roots of human security, connecting its origins to its applications and challenges in war and peacetime.
With a unique focus on the evolving notion of responsibility for security, the text introduces the critical questions and priorities that underpin policies and...
Public Management
Performance, Professionalism and Politics
2022 || Paperback || Mirko e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing
This major new text on the theory and practice of public management moves away from descriptive accounts of its evolution to provide a systematic treatment of the key paradigms of public management today. It examines their competing outlooks, values, tools and assumptions and - using a wide range of examples from different areas of management around the world - their implications for practice. The text sets out three contrasting 'logics' for management - performance, professionalism and polit...
Making Sense of Media and Politics / 2nd edition
Five Principles in Political Communication
2022 || Paperback || Gadi Wolfsfeld || Taylor & Francis
Extremely well written and organized in an accessible way without talking down to the reader, drawing the reader in with its conversational, exploratory style. Provides a unique, brief set of conceptual tools (the five principles) that is pulled through the entire text to help make sense of the broader field of political communication. Excellent use of examples and case studies that illustrate major concepts, including framing and media effects.
A multi-perspective approach (political elites,...
Political Economy and Policy Analysis
2018 || Paperback || Antonio Merle || Taylor & Francis
Most of economics takes politics for granted. Through some (often implausible) assumptions, it seeks to explain away political structures by characterizing them as stable and predictable or as inconsequential in understanding what goes on in an economy. Such attempts are misguided, and this book shows how governments and political institutions are composed of people who respond to incentives and whose behavior and choices can be studied through the lens of economics.
This book aims to bridge ...
Theories and Practices of Development / 3rd edition
2020 || Paperback || Katie Willis || Taylor & Francis
The newly updated third edition provides a clear and user-friendly introduction to the complex debates around how development has been understood and achieved. It has been fully updated and expanded to reflect global political and economic shifts, as well as new approaches to development. The book deals with the evolution of development ideas and policies, focusing on economic, political, social, environmental and spatial dimensions.
It highlights how development cannot be considered as a neu...
Governance and Politics of the Netherlands / 5th edition
2021 || Paperback || Rudy B. Andeweg e.a. || Bloomsbury Publishing
The new fifth edition of this leading textbook provides a clear and comprehensive account of governance and politics in the Netherlands. The book has been revised throughout to provide full coverage of recent developments and events, including the latest proposals for constitutional reform. The Netherlands has often been characterized as a place of political calm, with a culture of cooperation and compromise in dealing with key political issues.
Now, at a time when climate change and immigrat...