Providing students with all the essential information required and a full definition of terms, this companion to Western European politics presents past events, prominent personalities, important dates, organizations and electoral information in an accessible, easy-to-read format.
How should we treat animals? The field of animal rights raises pressing questions about how humans treat the other animals as livestock farming exerts an increasing toll on the planet, and we learn more about their capacity to think and experience pain. This book shows what the world might look like if animals had greater rights.
A collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. It tells their stories chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing an autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people.
'Britain's funniest writer' (Jon Ronson) makes some sense of the delusional fever-dream of recent times. 'Marina Hyde is a joyous rallying voice in British journalism .
Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of individuals, this book emphasises the centrality of the social contexts that make fighting possible. It will appeal to students and scholars of war, violent crime, and inter-personal violence.
Attempting a national picture of the Indian electorate, this book is based on a comprehensive and comparative ethnographic exploration conducted across India to probe and explain the motivations of ordinary voters. Examining in detail what people think about politicians, the electoral process, democracy and their own role within it, it marks an innovation in anthropological research.
Investigates into the 'tectonic plates' of global history and state relations. This book explains the attitudes that states and empires have taken to the rest of the world from the formation of Europe to our own times.
Written specifically for undergraduate students, this text equips students with all necessary conceptual and theoretical knowledge of world politics, including most relevant issues and structures. It is the essential introduction for all students of International Relations and Global Politics.
THE STATE WE'RE IN affected government policy, THE WORLD WE'RE IN affects us all as we decide on Britain's future. 'Will Hutton's ability to articulate contemporary anxieties borders on genius' Martin Wolf, PROSPECT
The author is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. In this book, he takes us to the heart of the struggle, meeting everyone from politicians, pirates, extremists and mercenaries to aid workers, civilians and refugees.