This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what
many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a …

The authors present a theory that seeks to explain why parties change their political
strategies, organizational characteristics and issue positions. Whereas most of the existing …

The fourth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in
international relations. It explains and analyzes each theory, allowing students to …

The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex
variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good …

The state governance system seems to be incapable to address sufficiently global public
goods problems or to regulate global business so that the public interest is served. At the …

The collapse of Communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from
Prague to the Baltic and Black Seas. But the alternatives—dictatorship or totalitarian rule …

Popular perceptions of a state's legitimacy are inextricably bound to its ability to rule. Vast
military and material reserves cannot counter the power of a citizen's belief, and the more …

This study traces the evolution of imperialist ideology in Germany from Bismarck in the mid-
19th century through Hitler and the Third Reich. Although much has been written about the …

This book reviews the political development of Hong Kong before and after 1997, in
particular the evolution of state-society relations in the last two decades, to analyze the slow …

Why did the Lebanese state, the most open and democratic political system in the Middle
East, break down between 1967 and 1976? In this major contribution to the debate, Fazel el …