Politics

A son's tribute. His father waged war without bullets, triumphing over communist oppression during Dictator Ceauşescu's final decade in rural Romania. Communism robbed freedom, so Nicolae's father led the family to subtle and overt resistance to...

ABOUT THE BOOK: Anyone fascinated by true crime and legal thrillers will want to read The Sky's The Limit: People v. Newton, The Real Trial of the 20th Century? In comparing the 1968 trial of Black Panther Party leader Huey Newton to other riveting...

Named one of Newsweek's 25 Must-Read Fall Fiction and Nonfiction Books to Escape the Chaos of 2020The critically acclaimed journalist and bestselling author of The Rage of a Privileged Class explores one of the most essential rights in America--free...

Uncompromising journalist and political commentator Mondo Frazier divulges little-known details and raises unsettling questions about the man elected to the highest position in this country--now with an updated Afterword from the author! Who is Barack...

South Sudan is currently facing a serious economic crisis occasioned by: the oil shutdown which began at the beginning of 2012; the civil conflict which erupted in December 2013; declining international crude oil prices which went down by almost 62%...

Some political commentators have started to say that the American Right acts on its id, not on its ego of "principled" conservatism. But what does this mean? In The Right's Road to Serfdom, first-time author Christopher F. Arndt unpacks the riddle. The...

The future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social...

Shocking in description and crammed with detail, this book is about where and how geopolitics plays out in the twenty-first century. Drawing on the authors' three decades of international field work and seasoned policy analysis, The Real Population Bomb...

Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2015.In the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the Ethiopian student movement became the major oppositionforce against the imperial regime in...

An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country's leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter "Excellent and provocative . . . a gateway [to] urgent debates...

What is a democracy? Why do we form democratic systems? Can democracy survive in an age of distrust and polarisation?The Psychology of Democracy explains the psychological underpinnings behind why people engage with and participate in politics. Covering...

A timeless resource that describes the evolution of the US military in the first half of the 20th century. More than 50 years after its publication, The Professional Soldier remains a path-breaking study of civil-military relations. In the Cold War era,...