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This work examines the conflict between movements and regimes using dynamic mathematical modeling methods. It is hoped that scholars will improve their understanding of these conflicts, and thus help to reduce the costs.

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Is liberal democracy a universal ideal Proponents of 'Asian values' argue that it is a distinctive product of the Western experience and that Western powers shouldn't try to push human rights and democracy onto Asian states. This book attempts to chart a middle ground between the extremes of the international debate on human rights and democracy.

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Statesman, political thinker, orator and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. His ideas and principles were expressed in the great debates over liberty, the rights of man and the American and French Revolutions, and are among the most important in modern history.

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Finally, it relates the political heritage of the American Founders to the politics of today.

Eight Ways identifies four main traditions in the American political experience: republican constitutionalism, stressing traditional values and decentralized power;

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The energy is the most important commodity in the world. Yet our basic energy security is threatened by an ideological social agenda driven more by myth than reality. This book reveals the energy and climate myths, from the West's war on carbon to the concept of peak oil and renewable energy.

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Considers the moral problems associated with improving the social and economic position of disadvantaged groups. This title includes discussion on compensation, liability, victimization, the significance of group membership, the intrinsic importance of racial, sexual, or meritocratic criteria, and the overall effects of preferential policies.

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Governments and institutions, perhaps even more than markets, determine who gets what in our society. This title offers a systematic explanation of what we mean by fairness in distributing public resources and burdens, and applies the theory to actual cases.

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The authors in this volume demonstrate that Voegelins erudition on topics such as revolutionary change, ideological fervor, industrialization, globalism, and the place for reason and how it may be cultivated in complex time's remains as meaningful today as it was in the 1950s.

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Eric Voegelins Asian Political Thought brings together scholars from both Asia and the West to reflect upon the political philosophers thought about China, Japan, Korea, Central Asia, and India, showing how Voegelins approach can illuminate the region but also what are the possibilities that Asia offers in the twentieth-first century.

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The author presents a sustained argument in favour of a particular perspective on the relationship between normative judgements or arguments and policymaking. The author approaches his complex subject by developing the intellectual requirements for directing actions.

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Topics are approaches to the study of ethics in government, ethical dilemmas and standards for public officials, techniques for incorporating ethical considerations in policy-making, and several substantive problems--professional ethics, the ethical use of quantitative analysis, several forms of corruption, and morality in foreign policy-making.

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Analyzing encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment, this book illustrates that adopting an intercultural perspective in western political theory is necessary because the Wests cultural others have played a foundational role in developing a distinct western cultural self-understanding.

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Highlights the differences between U.S. and European politics and discusses such topics as ethnic and religious conflict, electoral procedures and the nature of government, the transformation of the former communist nations, and the European Union.

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Highlights the differences between U.S. and European politics and discusses such topics as ethnic and religious conflict, electoral procedures and the nature of government, the transformation of the former communist nations, and the European Union.

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