Category Archives: Political History

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect: Who Should Intervene?

This book considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently. The doctrine of the responsibility to protect asserts … Continue reading

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Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals (The Founders)

In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean-Jacques Rousseau presents us with a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: A Free Community … Continue reading

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Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy: Cosmopolitanism and Moral Theory (Ideas in Context)

Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy pursues Adam Smith’s views on moral judgement, humanitarian care, commerce, justice and international law both in historical context and through a twenty-first century cosmopolitan lens, making this a major and timely contribution not … Continue reading

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Documents of American Democracy: A Collection of Essential Works

This reference work presents 27 key documents from the historic origins of the United States government through its subsequent expansion and evolution. The book is divided into five sections, the first of which is an introductory essay about American democracy. … Continue reading

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Vital Democracy: A Theory of Democracy in Action

Vital Democracy outlines a theory of democracy in action, based on four elementary forms of democracy–pendulum, consensus, voter and participatory democracy–that are thoroughly analyzed, compared and related to both the literature and the real world of democracy. Just like a … Continue reading

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Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

This book examines the nature of totalitarianism as interpreted by some of the finest minds of the twentieth century. It focuses on Hannah Arendt’s claim that totalitarianism was an entirely unprecedented regime and that the social sciences had integrally misconstrued … Continue reading

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What’s Wrong with the British Constitution?

In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they … Continue reading

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Extreme Politics: Nationalism, Violence, and the End of Eastern Europe

Why do some violent conflicts endure across the centuries, while others become dimly remembered ancient struggles among forgotten peoples? Is nationalism really the powerful force that it appeared to be in the 1990s? This wide-ranging work examines the conceptual intersection … Continue reading

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Conscientious Objection: Resisting Militarized Society

Refusing to take part in war is as old as war itself. This wide-ranging and original book brings together four different bodies of knowledge and practice: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious objection; feminist, LGBT and queer analyses of conscientious … Continue reading

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The British Constitution

In the latter part of the nineteenth century Walter Bagehot wrote a classic account of the British constitution as it had developed during Queen Victoria’s reign. He argued that the late Victorian constitution was not at all what people thought … Continue reading

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