Politics & International Relations
The Politics and International Relations programme offers thought-provoking and incisive studies on politics, international relations and public policy. Titles provide precise and original analysis on economic and political issues of global importance, directed toward academics, policymakers, students and interested readers. This programme includes a variety of book series.
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The Science and Politics of Extractive Industries in the Ocean and Beyond
Minerals Under Water
Edited by Pradeep A. Singh
This edited volume provides extensive coverage of the extraction of underwater minerals, ranging from lakes, rivers, continental shelves of coastal states, and the deep ocean. The volume features interdisciplinary contributions on topics relating to the science, environment, technology, politics, and law and governance of underwater mining.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984419
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This edited volume provides extensive coverage of the extraction of underwater minerals, ranging from lakes, rivers, continental shelves of coastal states, and the deep ocean. The volume features interdisciplinary contributions on topics relating to the science, environment, technology, politics, and law and governance of underwater mining.
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The Ethics of Internationalisation
Strangers in the House of Reason
Bregham Dalgliesh
The internationalisation of higher education gives rise to the curious entity of the global university. Like any organisation within an institutional environment undergoing change, the global university is riddled with numerous contradictions and The Ethics of Internationalisation undertakes a critique of the ethical elements.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982545
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The internationalisation of higher education gives rise to the curious entity of the global university. Like any organisation within an institutional environment undergoing change, the global university is riddled with numerous contradictions and The Ethics of Internationalisation undertakes a critique of the ethical elements.
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Esotericism, Mysticism and the Politics of Transcendence in Modern Asia
Edited by Dr. Soumen Mukherjee, Prof. Toshio AKAI
In this seminal edited collection, scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, paving eventually the way for the so-called ‘New Age’.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990427
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00In this seminal edited collection, scholars from different fields critically examine histories of esotericism, mysticism and occultism in modern Asia, understood here as the period roughly stretching from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, paving eventually the way for the so-called ‘New Age’.
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Political Authority
Contract and Critique
Peter Winch
Edited by Michael Campbell, Lynette ReidThis volume makes available Peter Winch’s previously unpublished manuscripts on political philosophy. Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch’s thinking over time and situate the manuscripts within the broader context of Winch’s work.
Hardback
9781839991653
December 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This volume makes available Peter Winch’s previously unpublished manuscripts on political philosophy. Editorial notes and an interpretive essay show the development of Winch’s thinking over time and situate the manuscripts within the broader context of Winch’s work.
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Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh
50 Years On
Edited by Nusrat S Chowdhury, Lotte Hoek
‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273414
November 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
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Sensibilities, Digital World and Emotion on Trans-Globalization Era
£110.00 / $110.00Edited by Adrian Scribano
Hardback
9781839992438
November 2024
Forthcoming
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Poetry of the Civil Rights Movements in Australia and the United States, 1960s–1980s
Ameer Chasib Furaih
This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982170
September 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book scrutinizes the poetries of Aboriginal poets Oodgeroo Noonuccal (formerly Kath Walker; 1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958–), and African American poets Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones; 1934–2004), and Sonia Sanchez (1934–) and aims to show how these poets collaborated with other civil rights activists in voicing the demands of their people, and how they used their poetry to reflect the realities they experienced and to imagine new possibilities.
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The Persistent Poverty of African Americans in the United States
The Impact of Public Policy
Daphne M. Cooper
This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.
Paperback
9781839991882
August 2024
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.
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Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony
Wanjala S. Nasong’o
This book examines the governance and politics of Kenya since independence with a particular focus on the betrayal by the political class of the aspirations of anticolonial nationalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980275
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book examines the governance and politics of Kenya since independence with a particular focus on the betrayal by the political class of the aspirations of anticolonial nationalism.
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Confronting the Irish Past
The 1912-1924 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement
Edited by James G. Murphy
Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland’s 1912–1923 decade.
Hardback
9781839991103
July 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland’s 1912–1923 decade.
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Defining Hybrid Heroes
The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint
Inge Brokerhof, Stephan Sonnenburg, Greg Stone
Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785274312
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Defining Hybrid Heroes: The Leadership Spectrum from Scoundrel to Saint defines the hero (and his or her journey) from a hybrid perspective, exploring the spectrum from scoundrel to saint. It utilizes a more dynamic and situational outlook, regarding heroism not only as a personal characteristic, but also as a series of heroic acts within a given situation.
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Power of Sage
An Antithesis to Machiavellian Prince
Waqas M Awan
The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct power.
Hardback
9781839992131
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00The book constructs a new model for attaining power, challenging the traditional Machiavellian approach to construct power.
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Consumer Nationalism in China
Examining its Critical Impact on Multinational Businesses
Maggie Ying Jiang
This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982859
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book will be the first book that systematically analyzes the different waves of consumer nationalism in China, the types of its nationalistic consumer actions, and the critical impact of the new wave which has increased the possibility of a consumer base that could turn hostile at any moment.
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Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History
Edited by Ronald J. Stephens
Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History represents the only full-length volume that includes key documents (i.e., speeches, letters, interviews, testimonials, etc.) by and about Robert F. Williams in a single volume.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984570
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Robert Franklin Williams Speaks: A Documentary History represents the only full-length volume that includes key documents (i.e., speeches, letters, interviews, testimonials, etc.) by and about Robert F. Williams in a single volume.
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The U.S. Military in the Print News Media
Service and Sacrifice in Contemporary Discourse
Dr. Luke Peterson
This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988714
April 2024
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book analyses the history of the popular discourse in the United States concerned with the U.S. military and its engagement in foreign wars from the Spanish-American War through to the U.S. invasions of Iraqand the War on Terror.
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Ron DeSantis
Biography of a New Republican Strongman
Flore Kayl, Laure Pallez
This book is a biography of Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Governor who dared oppose Donald Trump and who inspires other Republican governors. The authors propose a non-partisan biography of the ambitious new Republican strongman.
Paperback
9781839992049
April 2024
Active
£19.95 / $19.95This book is a biography of Ron DeSantis, Florida’s Governor who dared oppose Donald Trump and who inspires other Republican governors. The authors propose a non-partisan biography of the ambitious new Republican strongman.
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Revolution and the Global Struggle for Modernity
Volume 1 - The Atlantic Revolutions
Frank Jacob
The present book provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and will show that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278402
March 2024
Active
£110.00 / $110.00The present book provides a comparative ten-step model for revolutions and will show that these must be considered a global phenomenon of modernity.
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Montesquieu’s ‘The Spirit of the Laws’
A Critical Edition
Edited and translated by W. B. Allen
The Spirit of the Laws is the canonical text of modern republicanism and the English translation – always deficient heretofore – is critical to an appreciation of those deliberations that led to adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The present update recovers the sense of the original French.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982941
February 2024
Active
£165.00 / $165.00The Spirit of the Laws is the canonical text of modern republicanism and the English translation – always deficient heretofore – is critical to an appreciation of those deliberations that led to adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The present update recovers the sense of the original French.
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Human Rights, Security Politics and Embodiment
Aneira J. Edmunds
How have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glossed over such abuses and been complicit in security politics which see the Muslim body, especially the Muslim woman’s body, as an object of control.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839984471
December 2023
Active
£24.95 / $24.95How have human rights been entangled with state control of the body? And how have they failed to intervene effectively on tipping points such as the US’s endorsement of torture that removes the victim’s control over their own body? This book explores the way institutional human rights have glossed over such abuses and been complicit in security politics which see the Muslim body, especially the Muslim woman’s body, as an object of control.
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Public Diplomacy on the Front Line
The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings´
Hayle Gadelha
The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues, had never been academically investigated. The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode and claims that the initiative was intended and managed to achieve a substantial impact on views about Brazil, by means of conveying a well-planned message.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989391
November 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00The Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, held at the Royal Academy of Arts of London and seven other major venues, had never been academically investigated. The research unearthed abundant firsthand documents to reconstruct the episode and claims that the initiative was intended and managed to achieve a substantial impact on views about Brazil, by means of conveying a well-planned message.
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Thucydides’ Meditations on Fear
Examining Contemporary Cases
Raymond Taras
Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides’ fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989483
September 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00Adapting Greek philosopher Thucydides’ fivefold classification of fear, this book analyses fears emerging in contemporary great-power states facing existential crises in their identity politics.
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Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia
Yong-Shik Lee
Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983764
September 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00Sustainable Peace in Northeast Asia examines the causes of lasting and complex tensions in the region and explores possible solutions to build lasting peace here.
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Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand
Edited by Jessica Terruhn, Shemana Cassim
Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely and necessary for a just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the challenges of structural discrimination, integration and migrant rights framed within larger regional and global concerns.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839983436
August 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00Transforming the Politics of Mobility and Migration in Aotearoa New Zealand is a future-focused book that formulates alternative paradigms timely and necessary for a just and ethical politics of mobility and migration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Examining a variety of topics, the book addresses the challenges of structural discrimination, integration and migrant rights framed within larger regional and global concerns.
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Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era
Ronald Bruce St John
Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839982231
July 2023
Active
£24.95 / $24.95Peruvian Foreign Policy in the Modern Era is a chronological treatment of Peruvian foreign policy from 1990 to the present. It focuses on the impact of domestic politics, economic interests, security concerns, and alliance diplomacy on contemporary Peruvian foreign policy.