For sale in CIS only! Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book present...

Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in "The Common Cause", Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of...

The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretat...

How did the US judiciary become so powerful – powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In "The Cloaking of Power",...

For sale in CIS only! Since the start of the 2000s, the People's Republic of China has become an increasingly important player on the Central Asian scene, both diplomatically and strategically, in particular through the Shanghai Cooperation Organiza...

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote – or mouse – we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choic...

This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe – both West and East – to appear since the end of the Cold War. Skilfully blending intellectual, political, and cultural history, Jan-Werner Muller elucidates the i...

In "Change", Mo Yan – China's foremost novelist – personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice-versa). Unlike most historical narratives from China, which are...

The articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the impact of cross-national migration, changes in political borders, collective mem...

It is hard to imagine a book, essay or pamphlet outside of the Bible that has been more influential, and widely read, than Marx and Engels' "Communist Manifesto". Written in 1848, this small book has become one of the world's most influential politic...