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Explores how China's youth will influence the country's future. Focusing on millennials - those born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s - the book examines the status, lifestyles, attitudes, values, and behaviours of this key segment of the country's population.

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Every country must make choices about foreign policy and national security. Sometimes those choices turn out to have been the correct ones, other times not. In this insider's account, Shivshankar Menon describes some of the most crucial decisions India has faced during his long career in government - and how key personalities often had to make choices based on incomplete information.

(Hardback)

This outstanding volume brings together major arguments on what constitutes the best electoral system, particulary on the relative merits of plurality and proportional representation.

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(Paperback)

This is the first major study of the Communist Party of Great Britain between the wars when it adopted the militant strategy of 'class against class, in its struggle to be the effective alternative to both the Labour Party and TUC.

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In this riotously entertaining collection of true stories from Westminster and beyond are tales of such political ineptitude, scandal, blunder and impropriety to make even the most gaffe-prone minister blush.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

Congressional Lions examines twelve trailblazing members of Congress throughout American history to understand their role in shaping the life of the nation. The book focuses on historical figures stretching from the founding of the nation into the twenty-first century.

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Explains why we must hold political and military leaders accountable for genocide, torture and mass murder. This book shows how human rights standards can be enforced against cruel governments, armies and multi-national corporations. It contains a critical perspective on events, such as the invasion of Iraq, the abuses at Abu Ghraib and more.

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Crowdsourcing the Law engages in-depth qualitative analysis of online discussions of contemporary sexual assault cases to explore how law is interpreted and applied by everyday participants on social media.

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Presenting a history of oil, from its birth to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of life, this is the story of the black gold that eclipsed King Coal, decisively won the Great War and propelled the West from the Industrial Revolution to the Plastic Age. It blends the science, economics, politics, and social history of oil.

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This book explores how violent jihadi and neo-Nazi ideologues have transformed violent extremism over the past six decades.

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Somit and Peterson seek to explain two apparently contradictory yet well-established political phenomena: First, throughout human history, the vast majority of political societies have been authoritarian.

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(Hardback)

This book examines how the struggles for democracy over the past quarter century have affected the resilience of states in the region of the West African Sahel. Distinguished scholar-practitioners from the region provide detailed insights into these processes in Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad.

(Hardback)

Development was achieved in the West by capitalism and industrialisation before liberal democracy was introduced as a viable form of government. This text argues that a collective approach based on economic reforms is required in order to protect human rights and the system of democracy in Africa.

(Hardback, 9th edition)

(Paperback, 9th edition)

(Hardback)

This book shows how late-night political comedy transformed from personality-focused humor to substantive critique. The analysis includes transcripts from Saturday Night Live, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report during the presidential elections from 1980-2008, and newspaper commentary about them.

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This book explores the factors that explain incumbent and opposition behavior in electoral authoritarian regimes. It focuses on states in the post-Soviet region and finds variation in the types of manipulation, the formation of opposition coalitions as well as election boycotts.