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This is an introduction to Central and Eastern Europe since its emergence from the Soviet bloc. Using theories of democratization, this book shows how to distinguish between processes of democratization and redemocratization, and introduces the issues of nation building.
An introduction to theories of European integration in the contemporary study of Europe, the European Union and European integration.
An account of the competing schools of thought in international theory. It examines mainstream approaches in international relations and applied ethics, and introduces the central debates. It also draws conclusions for transcending the theoretical deadlock in international relations.
This text provides a critical introduction to the debates and politics surrounding welfare reform in the UK, Europe and the US. The author demonstrates how values derived from the family and voluntary associations are in danger of running counter to the principles of liberal democracy.
Focuses on topics in 'green' political theory and educates those anxious to be good citizens and challenges those responsible for public policy! This analysis of ecological morality, individual stewardship, and collective responsibility provides an original and seminal treatise that advances the discipline as a whole.
Provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key tenets of liberalism developed through Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Rawls to contemporary theories and debates. This text introduces and explores dominant theories of public reason, namely, pluralism, Neo-Hobbesianism, pragmatism, deliberative democracy, and political democracy.
This text provides a comprehensive introduction to local government and urban politics in contemporary Western Europe. It is the first book to map and explain the change in local political systems and to place these in comparative context.
Presents a comprehensive introduction to perhaps the most key intellectual trend in contemporary critical theory. This book helps you explain and review many of the key figures behind the rethinking of the legacy of Marxism in theory and practice.
`Darryl Glaser supplies an illuminating overview of the scholarship since 1970 on South Africa's political history. His emphasis is on the debates between liberals, Marxists, and to a lesser extent "post-structuralists" about the origins and the course of South Africa's racial order' - Tom Lodge, University of Witwatersrand
This wide-ranging overview of the processes of democratization in post-Communist Europe, places the transitions of East-Central Europe within a broad European and global context. The authors introduce the concept and theories of democracy, and then analyze the emerging politics of the new democracies to set the post-Communist transitions in longer-term comparative perspective.
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