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Those who work with children and young people have a responsibility to safeguard and promote their welfare. Recognizing and detecting signs of emotion…

Guibernau offers a comparative analysis of nationalist movements in nations without states.

At the 2005 UN World Summit, world leaders endorsed the international principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), acknowledging that they had a resp…

The book is based on two research projects on emergency intervention, which were carried out by the author and her colleagues. The studies provide the…

This innovative new text is derived from a highly successful Open University course of the same title. It takes as a dominant theme the contested issu…

Gathering among the best European specialists of welfare state comparisons, this book organises comprehensive and up to date information on European w…

In this book, Amitai Etzioni, public intellectual and leading proponent of communitarian values, defends the view that no society can flourish without…

Since the end of the Cold War, activists and scholars alike have celebrated the phenomenal growth of transnational social movements across the globe. …

A multi-professional approach to safeguarding children, which accompanies the Department of Health’s new training courses. Focuses on the methods of i…

Recent government initiatives and developments in professional practice have been designed to help families in difficulty effectively, in order to pre…

The turn of the century has seen the US greatly enhance its military supremacy across the world. It has also played a key role in shaping the internat…

At a time when so many cracks have emerged within the imagined community of ‘the West', this important new book, by one of the leading social scientis…

The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of…

For almost three decades the troubles in Northern Ireland raged, claiming over 3,600 lives, with civilians accounting for almost half the fatalities. …

A unique approach to human behavior that integrates and interprets the latest research from cell to society Incorporating principles and findings from…

In a world of transnational economics and mass communications, ethnic conflict and nationalism have recently re-emerged as major political forces. Is …

The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.

This book provides seven studies that address major issues such as the human rights and human security nexus, gender aspects of human security, ethica…

Bob Jessop presents an up-to-date account of his distinctive approach to the dialectics of structure and strategy in the exercise of state power. Whil…

In the past 25 years, the distribution of income and wealth in Britain and the US has grown enormously unequal, far more so than in other advanced cou…

In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global po…

Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the …

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the…

This volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agenda …

This thought-provoking introduction to economics exposes readers to the workings of the market in a democratic state. The text explains basic economic…

Seeking reason in the impassioned globalization debate, de la Dehesa examines who stands to win and who stands to lose from the process of globalizati…

The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months – not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and…

Many authors who discuss the idea of globalization see it as continuing pre-established paths of development of modern societies. Post-modernist write…

It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even …

Social activism and dissent have become global phenomena for our times. Ordinary people across the world are fighting back. This newly potent politica…

In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the role of responsibility in politics, morality and the law. In recent years, responsibi…

This book is a highly original and provocative contribution to democratic theory. Zolo argues that the increasing complexity of modern societies repre…

In this book Rajneesh Narula examines the interdependence of globalization and technological innovation at two levels: first, between locations, by ex…

In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics…

Debating Globalization is a short, accessible introduction to the debate about globalization written by many of the most prominent figures in the fiel…

Politics was once regarded as an activity which could give human societies control over their fate. However, there is now a deep pessimism about the a…

The terms 'global' and 'civil society' have both become part of the contemporary political lexicon. In this important new book, Mary Kaldor argues tha…

Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition provides a comprehensive account of the major political ideologies of the past two centuries. Provi…

Many books have been written about war, but few have focused on how wars can be brought to an end. Wars are rarely inevitable however and this book is…

There is a real security gap in the world today. Millions of people in regions like the Middle East or East and Central Africa or Central Asia where n…

A new emphasis on diversity and difference is displacing older myths of nation or community. A new attention to gender, race, language or religion is …

In recent years there has been a tendency to intervene in the military, political and economic affairs of failed and failing states and those emerging…

This comprehensive introduction to the study of war and genocide presents a disturbing case that the potential for slaughter is deeply rooted in the p…

At the end of the Cold War, there was much talk of a new world order in which the sovereign state would be held to democratic account, fundamental rig…

This book explores the development, content, and impact of world culture. Combining several of the most fruitful theoretical perspectives on world cul…