Critical Concepts in Political Science

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1. Law and Politics

   Edited by Keith Whittington

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Law and politics are deeply intertwined. Law is an essential tool of government action, an instrument with which government tries to influence society. Law is also the means by which government itself is structured, regulated, and controlled. It is no surprise, then, that law is an important prize...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Political Knowledge

   Edited by Jeffrey Friedman, Shterna Friedman

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Since at least the time of Plato, political scientists and philosophers have been concerned about what citizens and rulers should know if they are to be governed—and govern—well. Moreover, the increasing complexity of modern societies has revivified thinking about and around the critical concept of...

   Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Al Qaeda

   Edited by Paul Cruickshank

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   This new Routledge Major Work collection of the best scholarly research and serious writing on Al Qaeda will be welcomed by researchers, students, and counter-terrorism specialists as the go-to resource. The gathered materials are mainly drawn from scholarly journals of the first rank and chapters...

   Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. International Political Economy

   Edited by Benjamin J. Cohen

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   International Political Economy is a thriving interdisciplinary area of study and research based on the combined insights of international economics and international relations theory. It has become one of the fastest growing fields of study in the social sciences, and this new title in the...

   Published April 5th 2011 by Routledge
5. The European Union

   Edited by Simon Usherwood

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   In the fifty or so years since the Treaty of Rome, the European Union has evolved far beyond the scope of any other comparable entity. The EU is now a unique model of international cooperation and integration, and its reach extends into almost every sphere of the lives of its half a billion...

   Published March 3rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Islamic Political Thought and Governance

   Edited by Abdullah Saeed

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Islam has had a significant impact on world history, not only as a major religion that has directed the personal beliefs and actions of individuals, but also as the basis of a distinct system of government that has developed its own institutions, practices and philosophies. This new Routledge Major...

   Published November 15th 2010 by Routledge
7. The West and the Middle East

   Edited by Barry Rubin

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Why is the Middle East the only part of the world which has drawn the West into wars in the last thirty years? With a sequence of events since 1945, including the Six-Day War, the Iranian revolution, the Iran-Iraq war, and the two Gulf wars, the Middle East has been the most important region of...

   Published October 17th 2010 by Routledge
8. Civilization

   Edited by Brett Bowden

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Especially since the end of the Cold War, the concept of ‘civilization’ has been frequently deployed by those who seek to describe and explain the world in which we live. The events of 11 September 2001, and the subsequent ‘war on terror’, have further elevated the concept's use in the...

   Published June 24th 2009 by Routledge
9. War

   Edited by Alex Bellamy

   Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

   Contrary to the optimistic predictions at the turn of the last century about ‘the demise of major war’, the War on Terror, major civil wars in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere, and the continuing conflict in the Middle East suggest that the study of warfare has never been so urgent. War stubbornly...

   Published September 29th 2008 by Routledge
10. Human Rights

    Series: Critical Concepts in Political Science

    One of the most notable advances of the last half century was the development of international human rights norms and procedures, with some degree of institutionalization within the United Nations. Human rights, perhaps as much as any topic of global significance, has reflected the influence...

    Published July 30th 2007 by Routledge