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African government, politics, policy
African Military Politics in the Sahel
Regional Organizations and International Politics
Katharina P. W., Döring | Södertörns Högskola, Sweden
Based on extensive empirical research, Katharina P.W. Döring analyses the politics surrounding military deployments in the Sahel since 2012 and stresses the agency of regional organizations in African-led military interventions. Drawing on insights from critical geography, she considers the role that space plays in the power dynamics of the region.
African Studies, 166 290pp

May 2025 9781009362238 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009362269
Bus Station Hustle
Transport Work in Urban Ghana
Michael, Stasik | Universität Basel, Switzerland
Through a detailed ethnography of one of Ghana's busiest long-distance bus stations, this book offers a nuanced perspective on the work and workings of an infrastructural hub of transport and exchange. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The International African Library, 72 228pp

Feb. 2025 9781009486620 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009486651
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The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991
Robin E. Möser | Universität Potsdam, Germany
Reconstructs South Africa's decisionmaking and diplomatic negotiations on nuclear weapons program. Brings new insights to discussions of nuclear energy and foreign policy. Explains the emergence of South Africa's international status by highlighting its unique disarmament experience and analyzing its non-linear path to NPT accession. 237pp

Sep. 2025 9781009307024 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009307062
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Good Governance in Nigeria
Rethinking Accountability and Transparency in the Twenty-First Century Portia, Roelofs | King's College London
Drawing on original fieldwork in Nigeria, Portia Roelofs argues for an innovative re-conceptualisation of good governance. Contributing to contemporary debates over technocracy, populism and the survival of democracy amidst conditions of inequality and mistrust, Roelofs reconsiders what it means for leaders to be accountable and transparent.
356pp

May 2025 9781009235440 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009235471
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In the Shadow of the Global North
Journalism in Postcolonial Africa
J. Siguru, Wahutu | Yale University, Connecticut
Departing from the typical discourse about journalistic depictions of Africa, this book focuses on the underexplored journalistic representations created by African journalists reporting on African countries. The book demonstrates that African journalists are crucial actors in the marginalization of African voices through their coverage of Africa. Communication, Society and Politics 232pp

Apr. 2025 9781009431965 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009431941
Love and Violence in Sierra Leone
Mediating Intimacy after Conflict Luisa T. Schneider | Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Set in post-civil war Sierra Leone, this ethnography explores the complex dynamics of love and violence after legal reforms. Examining the historical constitution and lived experience of love and violence, the book advocates for a nuanced approach, emphasizing local knowledge. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. The International African Library 283pp

Jan. 2025 9781009533034 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009532990
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Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
Laura S. Martin | University of Nottingham
Highlights the agency of local people in enabling transitional justice in postconflict Sierra Leone. Moving past questions of institutional effectiveness, Laura S. Martin explores the diversity of post-conflict experiences and shows how individuals and communities enact justice on their own terms. African Studies, 163 214pp

May 2025 9781009281065 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009281058
Truth and Mediation in the Ethiopia-South Sudan Borderlands
Yotam, Gidron | KU Leuven, Belgium
Traces the rise and evolution of Christian Zionist and Messianic Jewish faiths among Nuer communities in the EthiopiaSouth Sudan borderlands. Drawing on ethnographic research in Ethiopia's Gambella region, Yotam Gidron explores processes of religious change and pursuits of knowledge from the perspective of believers.
The International African Library 292pp

Daniel K. Thompson | University of California, Merced
Analysing the work of Ethiopian-Somali smugglers and return-migrant investors, this study explores the relationship between cities and borders amid Africa's rapid urbanization. Daniel Thompson describes how African city-dwellers' lives are shaped by global border security regimes, and how they contest these borders in daily urban life.
African Studies
259pp
Apr. 2026 9781009689847 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009689816
Peasants to Paupers
Land, Class and Kinship in Central Kenya
Peter, Lockwood | University of Manchester
This study examines the fate of smallholder families in central Kenya during a period of rapid change, as Nairobi's urban sprawl approaches. Peter Lockwood focuses on tensions over land within families and the emergence of a new class of land-poor youth. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
The International African Library 300pp

Jan. 2026 9781009643474 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009643467
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Education and Everyday Politics in Egypt
Hania, Sobhy | Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG), Göttingen
Drawing on rare first-hand accounts from Egyptian schools, Hania Sobhy explores how citizenship was lived, imagined, and contested before and after the 2011 uprising. She uses education as a lens to offer novel insights on everyday governance, legitimation and belonging. Available Open Access on Cambridge Core.
The Global Middle East
284pp

Mar. 2025 9781009556262 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009556286
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The Violence of Law
The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda
Jens, Meierhenrich | London School of Economics and Political Science
'Lawfare' describes the systematic use and abuse of legal procedure for political ends which, in post-genocide Rwanda, contributed to the making of dictatorship.

Jens Meierhenrich explains how and why Paul Kagame's Tutsi-led government in the period 1994-2019 learned to substitute law for war in its consolidation of authoritarian rule.
770pp
Jul. 2025 9781108442282 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99
eISBN 9781108586191
Youth, Pentecostalism,
Andrea Mariko, Grant | University of Victoria, British Columbia
Aimed at postgraduate students and researchers of anthropology, sociology and youth culture in Africa, and Rwanda in particular, this book offers insights into how urban young people in Rwanda navigate everyday life through popular music and new religious practices, finding ways to exert agency in a challenging political context.
The International African Library, 74 318pp

May 2025 9781108958332 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108956031

Jan. 2025 9781009262675 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009262712
The State, Resource Politics and Development
Nathan, Munier | Tokyo International University What happens when states experience a rapid increase in resource wealth? This study examines the significant diamond find in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006, and its influence on the institutional trajectory of the country. Nathan Munier explores how diamond wealth shapes political economy, offering insight into the factional dynamics of ZANU-PF.
200pp

Dec. 2025 9781009674768 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009674782
Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich
John L. Campbell | Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
This book counters conservative claims that taxes in America are too high, especially on corporations and the rich. It argues that US taxes are not too high, do not damage the economy, do not inevitably lead to excessive government wastefulness, are not unfair, and do not jeopardize Americans' freedom.
256pp

Jul. 2025 9781009595131 Hardback GBP 27.00 / USD 35.00 eISBN 9781009595148
Constitutional Law in the Trump-Era Supreme Court
Richard H. Fallon Jr. | Harvard Law School, Massachusetts
For nonlawyers who want to understand constitutional law and today's conservative Supreme Court. It draws on history and political science to explain the emergence of leading doctrines, including blockbuster rulings. It shows how changed interpretations of the Constitution are historically normal, highlighting the distinctiveness of today's Court.
330pp
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When the People Rule
Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice
Ewa, Atanassow | Bard College, Berlin
This volume re-examines popular sovereignty, a vital principle of modern politics jeopardized by deepening polarization and the global rise of authoritarian populism. Eighteen cuttingedge contributions from scholars and practitioners engage with the dilemmas of popular sovereignty through interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives.
SSRC Anxieties of Democracy
412pp

Aug. 2025 9781009533980 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009534024
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The Collaborative
Reaching Common Ground in a Polarized House
Alison W. Craig | University of Texas, Austin
The Collaborative Congress challenges the conventional narrative of a hopelessly dysfunctional legislature by revealing and analyzing the widespread use of collaboration for successful policymaking. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
260pp

Feb. 2025 9781009263795 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009263757
After Equality
LGBT Activism in Argentina and South Africa
Julie, Moreau | University of Toronto
This book examines how LGBT organizations strategize multiple identities to make legal rights a lived reality. Through in-depth analysis of the work of LGBT organizations in South Africa and Argentina, this book develops a novel theory of identity strategizing that explains how activists engage multiple identities to achieve their goals.
Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
252pp

Feb. 2025 9781009338295 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99 eISBN 9781009338288
Allen C. Guelzo | Princeton University, New Jersey
This book brings together within a single volume the most important things Lincoln said and wrote on American democratic politics, especially emancipation and the presidential conduct of war.
The Political Writings of American Statesmen 600pp

Jan. 2026 9781009535915 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00
eISBN 9781009535946

Jul. 2025 9781009593014 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99
Jul. 2025 9781009593007 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009592963
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Bringing War Back In Victory, Defeat, and the State in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Luis L. Schenoni | University College London
This book offers new insights on how war made the state. It shows that wars can affect state-building trajectories long after they end and demonstrates that the relative capacity of Latin American states today can be traced back to nineteenthcentury war outcomes.
325pp

Apr. 2025 9781009442152 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009442145
Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century
Berber, Bevernage | Ghent University, Belgium
Offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twentyfirst century, addressing the questions of how and why populist parties and movements engage with the past.
Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
358pp

Mar. 2025 9781009453639 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009453615
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Education for All?
Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark
Cathie Jo, Martin | Boston University
This book offers a unique look at historical policymaking to explore how nineteenthcentury fiction writers influenced the creation of public-school systems in Denmark and Great Britain. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access.

Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education 290pp
Jan. 2025 9781009419666 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009419673
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Restrained Radicals
Populist Radical Right Parties in Local Government
Fred, Paxton | Università degli Studi di Milano
Comparing cases in Austria, France, Italy and Switzerland, Restrained Radicals explains the different approaches to local government taken by populist radical right parties, the extent of their radicalism and their impact from positions of power as they integrate into the democratic system.
298pp 29 b/w illus. 29 tables

Mar. 2025 9781009379113 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009379069
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States of Ignorance
Governing Irregular Migrants in Western Europe
Christina, Boswell | University of Edinburgh
A comparative analysis of the governance of irregular migrants in France, Germany and the UK since the 1960s. Will appeal to scholars and students of immigration policy, irregular migration, and theories of state knowledge, as well as the growing field of agnotology (the study of ignorance).
294pp
Homesick Nation
Development, Migration and Yearning in Rural China
Linda, Qian | University of Cambridge
Linda Qian introduces xiangchouhomesickness and rural nostalgia – to English-language scholarship, using it as a lens through which to explore rural development in contemporary China. She blends qualitative ethnography with policy analysis to reveal how xiangchou functions as both a "structure of feeling" and a tool of affective governance.
300pp

Dec. 2025 9781009682527 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009682510
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Post-Soviet Brides in the China Dream
Migration, Marriage, and Geopolitics Across Borders
Elena, Barabantseva | University of Manchester
In the first interdisciplinary work on marriage migration from the former Soviet Union to Reform-era China, Elena Barabantseva argues that this particularly gendered and racialised phenomenon is revealing of China's relations within the global world order. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
300pp

Jul. 2025 9781009410151 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009410199
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Voter Backlash and Elite Misperception
The Logic of Violence in Electoral Competition
Steven C. Rosenzweig | Boston University
This book investigates the causes and consequences of election-related violence, analyzing why politicians employ violence and how it affects their?electoral prospects. It offers novel insight into election campaigns, democratic development, and the impact of violence on voters and provides new ideas to combat electionrelated violence.
222pp

Dec. 2025 9781009600170 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009600132
Statism with Chinese Characteristics
A History of China's Reforms and Reversals
Second edition
Yasheng, Huang | MIT Sloan School of Management
This book traces the progress and reversals of Chinese economic reforms and sheds light on the current significant challenges facing Chinese economy. Signs are becoming more and more clear that Chinese economy, and even its politics, may experience rising tumult and this book provides backgrounds and insights on these developments.
350pp

Feb. 2025 9781009354899 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 32.99
eISBN 9781009354905

Feb. 2026 9781009680677 Hardback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009680646
Liberty as Independence
The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal
Quentin, Skinner | Queen Mary, University of London
What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times, exploring when and why the concept of liberty as independence was superseded by the view that liberty is absence of restraint.
332pp

Feb. 2025 9781107027732 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 44.99 eISBN 9781139226677
The United States and the International Criminal Court
Daniel, Krcmaric | Northwestern University, Illinois
The International Criminal Court is often hailed as one of the international community's crowning achievements, but the US views it as a threat. Daniel Krcmaric explains why this is and argues that American fears of the ICC are overblown. For readers interested in American foreign policy and international law.
270pp
The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan
Paul D. Miller | Georgetown University, Washington DC

Dec. 2025 9781009698788 Paperback GBP 28.00 / USD 38.00
Dec. 2025 9781009698801 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 115.00 eISBN 9781009698764
Recognition and Contestation in the Atomic Age
Sidra, Hamidi | Trinity College, Hartford
Examining the social construction of nuclear and non-nuclear states, After Fission explores how material capability interacts with social concepts like recognition and status in international politics.? It will be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the nuclear programs of India, Israel, Iran and North Korea in a new way.
250pp

A unique history of presidential decisionmaking during the war in Afghanistan from George W. Bush to Joe Biden. Choosing Defeat will appeal to military history enthusiasts, readers interested in 9/11 and its aftermath, IR students, as well as veterans, journalists, and public servants involved in national security.
545pp
Oct. 2025 9781009614375 Hardback GBP 35.00 / USD 45.00
eISBN 9781009614382
The Next Level of Global Economic Governance

Jan. 2026 9781009607179 Paperback GBP 32.00 / USD 45.00
Jan. 2026 9781009607155 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 135.00
eISBN 9781009607131
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China's Gambit
The Calculus of Coercion
Ketian, Zhang | George Mason University, Virginia
This book theorizes China's coercion decisions in response to perceived threats to its national security. It leverages empirical evidence, including primary documents and interviews with Chinese and foreign officials and offers policy implications for understanding China's grand strategy, managing China's rise, and avoiding great power conflicts.
246pp

Richard, Clark | University of Notre Dame, Indiana As international organizations have proliferated, so too has cooperation between them. Cooperative Complexity unravels the ties that bind such organizations by revealing which institutions cooperate with one another and how this impacts the form and effectiveness of global economic governance.
198pp
Feb. 2025 9781009563895 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009563840
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Leverage and Cooperation in the US World
The Shrewd Sheriff Giacomo, Chiozza | American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Jul. 2025 9781009423830 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009423816

This book addresses two central questions in current debates about US foreign policy: how did the US sustain its world order, and can this world order persist in the future? Giacomo Chiozza suggests that the answer depends on the relations the US maintains with incumbents and challengers in partner nations.
278pp
Mar. 2025 9781009355094 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009355049
Pragmatic Constructivism, International Practice and the Challenge of Global Governance
Jason, Ralph | University of Leeds Global security, climate and health challenges have called into question our capacity to cope with change. Criticizing mainstream norm, practice and realist theory, Jason Ralph offers a 'Pragmatic Constructivist' theory of learning, which is then used to assess international society's problem-solving capacities.
Cambridge Studies in International Relations
330pp

Mar. 2025 9781009385763 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009385770
NEW IN PAPERBACK Rethinking Warfare in the 21st Century
The Influence and Effects of the Politics, Information and Communication Mix
Iulian, Chifu | National Defence University, Bucharest
A detailed analysis revealing the risks and hazards present and possible in the politics and communication of contemporary warfare in an increasingly unstable international relations environment. Will appeal to scholars, researchers and advanced students of international relations, communications studies and military studies.
372pp

Mar. 2025 9781009355278 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009355247
NEW IN PAPERBACK Systems, Relations, and the Structures of International Societies
Jack, Donnelly | University of Denver
Recent work on complex adaptive systems in the natural sciences, and the growing relational turn in the social sciences both reject the 'systems theories' of earlier generations. This book builds on these entities to advance a relational processual approach to the comparative study of historical and contemporary international systems. Cambridge Studies in International Relations
484pp

Jan. 2025 9781009355209 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009355193
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Military-Civil Fusion
A New Paradigm for Military Innovation?
Yoram, Evron | University of Haifa, Israel
Many advanced commercial technologies offer opportunities to support military modernization. This process of exploiting civilian-based advanced technologies is increasingly referred to as 'military-civil fusion' (MCF). This book addresses MCF from a comparative standpoint, examining how four different countries are attempting to leverage MCF.
274pp 13 b/w illus. 5 tables

Mar. 2025 9781009333320 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009333290
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The Historicity of International Politics
Imperialism and the Presence of the Past
Klaus, Schlichte | Universität Bremen
This book shows how historical trajectories have shaped international politics, covering a wide range of imperial and (post-) colonial settings. For scholars and advanced students of IR, historical sociology and global politics, especially those working on the history of international politics, and the legacies of colonialism and imperialism.
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The Micro-Sociology of Peace and Conflict
Isabel, Bramsen | Lund University
Demonstrates how micro-interaction between people shapes larger patterns of peace and conflict. This book features chapters on the methods of microsociology (including Video Data Analysis) as well as analytical chapters on violence, nonviolence, conflict transformation, peace talks and international meetings. This title is Open Access.
270pp

Jul. 2025 9781009282666 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009282710
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The Time of Global Politics
International Relations as Study of the Present Christopher, McIntosh | Bard College, New York Argues that, despite past events being a valid means of predicting and preparing for the future, the present remains vitally important. This book will engage academics, graduates and undergraduates of international relations and global politics. It will also appeal to historians, sociologists and anthropologists interested in global politics.
346pp

Jul. 2025 9781009386821 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009386838
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The Uncertainty Doctrine
Narrative Politics and US Hard Power after the Cold War Alexandra, Homolar | University of Warwick The first account of narrative politics in US defense policy surrounding the end of the Cold War. This book will appeal to a broad readership group including Foreign Policy Analysis, (Critical) Security Studies, and International Relations. It will also be useful for courses on American politics.
260pp

322pp 20 b/w illus.
Mar. 2025 9781009199063 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009199100

Mar. 2025 9781009355155 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009355131
World Builders
Technology and the New Geopolitics Bruno, Maçães | Flint Global We are experiencing a clash between two competing visions of the world.? Examining geopolitics as a struggle between global powers over these different visions, Bruno Maç?es argues that this struggle is likely to be determined more by technological dominance than control of physical territory.
274pp

Feb. 2025 9781009397384 Hardback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.95
eISBN 9781009397414
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Mobilizing Teachers
Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America
Christopher, Chambers-Ju | University of Texas, Arlington
A novel comparative analysis examining both education politics and the new labor movement in Latin America that illustrates how these developments trigger teacher mobilization. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details. Cambridge Studies in the Comparative Politics of Education
268pp

Apr. 2025 9781009368070 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009368049
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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
The Neoliberal State and Beyond Volume 3
Miguel A. Centeno | Princeton University, New Jersey
This book thoroughly examines the neoliberal state and its era in Latin America and Spain. It explores neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social protest. The book advances neoliberalism as a state model: a power structure configured to implement radical policy proposals. 561pp

Jun. 2025 9781108819411 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781108873031
Working Class Inclusion
Evaluations of Democratic Institutions in Latin America
Tiffany D. Barnes | University of Kentucky Combines original survey experiments from Argentina and Mexico with national surveys from 18 Latin American countries to examine how the near exclusion of working-class citizens from legislatures affects citizens' evaluations of government. The book's findings demonstrate that voters want more workers in office. 266pp

Feb. 2025 9781009349802 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781009349833
Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary
Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran
Lloyd, Ridgeon | University of Glasgow

Lloyd Ridgeon offers an original examination of the writings of radical reformist Muslim thinker, Ahmad Qābel, whose work sought to rationalise and modernise Islamic law. With chapters covering a broad range of topics and extended translations from Qābel's writings, Ridgeon illuminates the significance of Qābel's ideas and arguments. 288pp
May 2025 9781009322232 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009322263
Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State Seçkin, Sertdemir | University of Turku, Finland
This study analyses the aftermath of the 2016 Turkish coup attempt, wherein the AKP government introduced new methods of authoritarian securitisation which saw 152,000 people dismissed from their positions and banned from public service. Seçkin Sertdemir considers the processes by which these citizens were rendered 'dead' in civic terms.
The Global Middle East 248pp

Jan. 2025 9781009524612 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009524599
Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond
Nora, Fisher-Onar | University of San Francisco
This innovative study challenges accounts of Turkey 's politics as driven by 'Islamist vs. secularist' competition, offering a new understanding which centres coalitions for and against pluralism. Utilising rich primary and secondary data, Nora FisherOnar introduces an analytical framework for capturing causal complexity in political contestation.
346pp

Jan. 2025 9781108838702 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781108976183
Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia
Sebnem, Gumuscu | Middlebury College, Vermont
Tracing the evolution of Islamist political parties and their rise to power in Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia, Sebnem Gumuscu explains why some remained committed to democracy while others took an authoritarian turn. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in three countries, Gumuscu considers the impact of party affairs on incumbents' democratic commitments.
312pp

Feb. 2025 9781009178242 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009178259
Transnational Networks and the Making of Post-2003 Iraq
Oula, Kadhum | SOAS University of London
What role did the Iraqi diaspora play in Iraq's state-building process post-2003, and what has been the legacy of their involvement? Drawing on interviews with a wide range of actors, Oula Kadhum argues that diaspora elites and transnational civil society have been central to the evolution of homeland states under modern processes of globalisation.
The Global Middle East, 33 256pp

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Migrants' Journeys through Libya and the Mediterranean Marthe, Achtnich | University of Cambridge Tracing migrants' journeys through Libya to Malta, Marthe Achtnich offers a rich, multi-sited ethnography that foregrounds the voices of migrants in Libya and Europe's borderlands. Highlighting how 'mobility economies' shape migrant lives, she considers the complex relationship between mobility and economic practices under contemporary capitalism.
204pp
Feb. 2026 9781009639149 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009639132
Protest and Resistance in Tunisia and Morocco
Ashley, Anderson | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Exploring how labor unions contributed to the rise (or demise) of the 2011 Arab uprisings, this study offers an institutional explanation for the protests.

Ashley Anderson compares Tunisia and Morocco, examining why some unions engage in politically-motivated collective action, while others are co-opted by the state to sustain undemocratic regimes.
The Global Middle East
394pp
Nov. 2025 9781009634939 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 145.00
eISBN 9781009634915
How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy
özgür, özdamar | Bilkent University, Ankara
Analysing the psychology of fourteen modern leaders from eight countries and three non-state organisations, özgür özdamar and Sercan Canbolat reconsider politics and power in the MENA region.

Observing commonalities and differences between these leaders, the authors offer novel insights into their foreign policy and how best to negotiate with them. 206pp
Jun. 2025 9781009077064 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009076500
Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman
Crystal A. Ennis | Leiden University
Millennial Dreams retells Oman's development story from the perspective of labour, moving beyond traditional discussions of the economics of oil.

Focusing on the experiences of workers, the unemployed, and the governance of labour markets, to explain the Gulf's global labour markets and position in global capitalism.
The Global Middle East, 29 364pp
Jan. 2025 9781009499477 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009499422

May 2025 9781009310895 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009310925
Israel, Palestine, and Masculinities across the Divide
Chloe, Skinner | Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex

A rich ethnographic study, this book explores the gendered politics of settler colonialism through a comparative focus on masculinities across Israel and Palestine. Accessibly written, this will have appeal across a variety of fields, including Gender studies and Middle East studies, with both researchers and policy-makers finding it of interest.
Cambridge Middle East Studies
204pp
Jun. 2025 9781009375214 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00
eISBN 9781009375252
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Wartime Order and Statebuilding in Syria
Marika, Sosnowski | University of Melbourne and German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Hamburg
Using rare primary sources and interviews with over 80 Syrians and other experts, Marika Sosnowski explores the previously unexamined consequences of ceasefires on wartime order and statebuilding in Syria. From rebel governance to citizen and property rights, Sosnowski shows that the impact of ceasefires goes far beyond temporary halts to violence.
216pp

May 2025 9781009347242 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009347204
The Dilemmas of Revolution and the Cost of Leaving
Zeina, Al Azmeh | University of Cambridge
In the wake of the 2011 uprising in Syria, a number of Syrian intellectuals were forced into exile. This study explores how these intellectuals shaped revolutionary discourse, offering fresh insights into cultural trauma, the dilemmas of political engagement from afar, and the broader role of intellectuals in contested political movements.
The Global Middle East
288pp

Feb. 2026 9781009687867 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009687829
Urban Development and Public Life in Contemporary Iran
Jaleh, Jalili | Rice University, Houston
With an interdisciplinary approach, the book is written in a narrative style and in an accessible format to appeal to both academic readers and a broader audience. The book appeals to those who want to learn more about urban processes in Iran through first-hand accounts of daily life.
184pp

Feb. 2025 9781009389051 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00 eISBN 9781009389099
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The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran
Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production
Katrin, Nahidi | Universität Graz, Austria
In a key contribution to postcolonial art history, Katrin Nahidi offers a comprehensive study of Iranian modernist art since the 1950s. Using extensive fieldwork, interviews, and archival research, Nahidi contextualizes these artworks and shows their crucial role in shaping ideas around national identity and anti-colonialism.
The Global Middle East
301pp
Agent-Based Modelling
Giacomo, Gallegati | Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne
This Element works as non-technical overview of Agent-Based Modelling (ABM), a methodology which can be applied to economics, as well as fields of natural and social sciences.
Elements in Complexity and Agent-based Economics
64pp

Jun. 2025 9781009361378 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009361392
The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Power, Institutions, and the Limits of Reform
Hadi, Enayat | Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University
A comprehensive and detail-oriented analysis of the rule of law in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its social, political and historical contexts. The interdisciplinary and comparative nature of the book appeals to readers at the crossroads of comparative law, social science, Middle East and Islamic studies.
507pp

Jan. 2025 9781009547611 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
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Crude
Regime Stability, Economic Liberalization, and the Energy Transition
Oliver, McPherson-Smith | Stanford University, California
This book is essential for students and scholars who are interested in the future economic trajectory of resource-wealthy dictatorships amid the renewable energy transition. The first of its kind to directly compare Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, this book draws from fieldwork in both countries to introduce the rent-conditional reform theory.
250pp

Apr. 2025 9781108481427 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00 eISBN 9781108630603
Active Particles Methods in Economics
New Perspectives in the Interaction between Mathematics and Economics
Nicola, Bellomo | Universidad de Granada
The aim of this Element is to understand how far mathematical theories based on active particle methods have been applied to describe the dynamics of complex systems in economics, and to look forward to further research perspectives in the interaction between mathematics and economics. Elements in Complexity and Agent-based Economics
64pp

Dec. 2025 9781009580038 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009580045
Commodity, Culture, and Economic Circuits
Anindita, Chakrabarti | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
This book delves into the socio-economic significance of gold in India and studies its enormous cultural currency. Based on extensive research, the book will be of interest to not only academics but also to anyone interested in understanding more about gold in India.
230pp

Sep. 2025 9781009521710 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009521680
Property Rights and Conflict Over Land in China
Susan H., Whiting | University of Washington, Seattle

Jan. 2025 9781009548762 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Jan. 2025 9781009548748 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009548755

This book explains how China achieved transformative economic development without secure property rights and regime durability despite conflict. The state uses law both to reassign land rights from lower-value to higher-value uses and to manage the ensuing conflict. For advanced undergraduates and graduate students across socialscience disciplines
200pp
Jan. 2026 9781316512098 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009057721
Origins of China's Institutions and Totalitarianism
Chenggang, Xu | Stanford University, California
This book offers insights into China's political, economic, and historical journey under communism. It introduces 'institutional genes' as a conceptual framework to organize a coherent historical narrative on the origins, evolution, behaviours, and impacts of China's institutions and those of totalitarian regimes at large.
800pp

Jun. 2025 9781108841696 Hardback GBP 45.00 / USD 59.99 eISBN 9781108894708
Insuring States in an Uncertain World
Towards the Collaborative Government of Complex Risks
Louis W. Pauly | University of Toronto

The global history and enduring logic of insurance and reinsurance for anyone concerned about financial, nuclear, climate, and other unbounded risks. States and dynamic markets have proven capable of harnessing a shared insuring instinct to govern complex risks. Pragmatic collaborative experiments promise to help build a sustainable world order.
272pp
Sep. 2025 9781009662895 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99 eISBN 9781009662918
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Apocalypse without God
Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits of Utopian Hope
Ben, Jones | Pennsylvania State University
Despite often being dismissed as bizarre, apocalyptic thought has persistent appeal in political life. This book explains apocalyptic thought's political appeal by examining it through the eyes of secular thinkers and makes original contributions to both the history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy.
240pp
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Israel's Declaration of Independence
The History and Political Theory of the Nation's Founding Moment
Neil, Rogachevsky | Yeshiva University, New York
The first book-length treatment of the history and political thought of Israel's Declaration of Independence and its drafting process - a momentous text and a pivotal moment in twentieth-century history. The authors examine the political and theoretical dilemmas faced by the founders of Israel as they prepared to declare independence.
330pp

May 2025 9781009088312 Paperback GBP 21.99 / USD 27.99
eISBN 9781009090841
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Let There Be Enlightenment
Catherine, Volpilhac-Auger | Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
This book brings to light the way in which basic ideas of the Enlightenment were invented and how a French aristocrat discovered the foundations of modern democracies. A life devoted to the study of law, science, and the histories of all societies made it possible for Montesquieu to show how liberty was the thing most at stake in political thought.
258pp

May 2025 9781009017039 Paperback GBP 23.00 / USD 29.99 eISBN 9781009037037
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Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism
Inés, Valdez | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
Reconceptualizes central notions in political theory, utilizing insights from the Black radical tradition, to make sense of the systems of imperial popular sovereignty and self-determination. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
254pp

Mar. 2025 9781009249089 Paperback GBP 15.00 / USD 19.99
eISBN 9781009249072
AI, Repro-tech and Structural Injustice Jude, Browne | University of Cambridge Focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and reproductive and genetic technologies (Repro-tech), Jude Browne asks who is politically responsible for the impacts of these transformative technologies and examines how we can respond to the societal challenges they pose in a way that is both politically feasible and socially responsible.
224pp

Jan. 2025 9781009384001 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009383981

Mar. 2025 9781009447355 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009447362
Community, Individuality, and Post-Truth Politics
Jonathan, Havercroft | University of Southampton
Despite his significant influence across the humanities, Cavell's work has attracted little attention from political theorists. This book addresses that gap by explicating the political dimensions of his thought and placing it in conversation with contemporary debates within the discipline, focusing on the challenge of post-truth politics.
288pp 1 table

Mar. 2025 9781009322577 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
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A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion
David, Ingram | Loyola University, Chicago
The book examines the impact of poverty and other global crises in generating forms of structural coercion that cause agential and societal underdevelopment. It draws from discourse ethics and recognition theory in criticizing injustices and pathologies associated with underdevelopment. 398pp

Feb. 2025 9781108432405 Paperback GBP 26.00 / USD 34.99
eISBN 9781108377874
Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate
Erin C. Cassese | University of Delaware
About two-thirds of Americans support legal abortion in many or all circumstances. This Element focuses on the ways that preference intensity and partisan polarization have contributed to the current policy landscape surrounding abortion rights.
Elements in Gender and Politics
108pp
Watching the Watchers
Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe
Henry, Thomson | Arizona State University Secret police are central actors in dictatorships, yet we know very little about these institutions. Exploring communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, Henry Thomson opens this black box for the first time. This book will appeal to anyone interested in how authoritarian regimes and their secret police forces work.
354pp

Jan. 2025 9781009533157 Paperback GBP 18.00 / USD 23.00
Jan. 2025 9781009533133 Hardback GBP 55.00 / USD 70.00
eISBN 9781009533119
Small Town Politicians, Media Storms, and American Journalism
Nik, Usher | University of San Diego

This Element on a politician's debut in the public eye showcases a novel approach to media corpus construction that combines proprietary and open databases, aggregated search tools, and targeted searching, and includes local, regional, and national news across digitalfirst, radio, news publishers, broadcast and cable television, and social media.
Elements in Politics and Communication 88pp
Jun. 2025 9781009668750 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00
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Feb. 2025 9781009413640 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
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A Logic of Populism
India and Its States
Srikrishna, Ayyangar | National Law School of India University, Bengaluru
This book examines how populism both threatens and strengthens Indian democracy. Using set-theoretic methodology, it analyzes how populists shape divisions while democratic institutions mediate them. Essential for scholars and policymakers, the book offers fresh insights into India's political modernization beyond Western frameworks.
224pp

Jul. 2025 9781009605427 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00
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Civil Rights Activism in India
Ankita, Pandey | O.P. Jindal Global University, India
Becoming Allies is a political history of allyship in India. It shines light on those who support movement groups. It offers an insight into solidarity, protest, and collective ethics, making it essential for readers of political theory, history, democracy, social justice, and human rights.
South Asia in the Social Sciences
312pp

Feb. 2026 9781009591126 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009591164
Human-Animal Relations at the Margins
Ambika, Aiyadurai | Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar
Discusses the relations between humans and animals of marginalized societies, especially of Dalits and Tribals.
235pp

Jul. 2025 9781009529938 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009529945
Dalit Politics, Elections, and the Dilemmas of Representation
Michael A. Collins
Today, India is widely celebrated as the world's largest democracy. This book tells the untold story of how Dalit activists transformed a civil rights movement into a political party. Drawing on original interviews with longtime activists, the book chronicles their fraught transition into electoral democracy, and it complicated afterlife. Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
288pp

Kalimpong in the Himalayas
Prem, Poddar | Roskilde University, Denmark
Provides original research on imperial history, post-war politics and culture by utilising rarely used archival material— British, Chinese, and Indian and sheds new light on our understandings of the 'Tibet Question' in China-India relations. Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
310pp
Jul. 2025 9781009567251 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009567275
Parliament and the Making of Indian Democracy
Ronojoy, Sen | National University of Singapore
This book provides insights into Indian parliament and democracy. It seeks to answer two questions: Is the Indian Parliament working to articulate the diverse demands of the electorate and translate them into legislation and policy?
To what extent has the Indian democracy transformed the institution of parliament and its functioning?
328pp

Jan. 2025 9781009499354 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00
eISBN 9781009499347

Feb. 2025 9781009608824 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99
eISBN 9781009180245
Land, Labour, and Agrarian Change in Nepal's Tarai-Madhesh
Fraser, Sugden | School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK
Offers a historically grounded and multi-scalar analysis of agrarian change in Nepal's eastern Tarai, exploring the convergence between older economic formations grounded in landlord-tenant relations with contemporary capitalism.
330pp

Sep. 2025 9781009555593 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009555623
India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them
Amogh, Sharma | University in Oxford, England
Offers a comprehensive study of the changing landscape of election campaigns in contemporary India and shows the hidden influence of professionals in these campaigns. By studying political communication in a developing country, this offers fresh insights on the intersection of democratic politics and technological change.
South Asia in the Social Sciences
382pp

Jan. 2025 9781009423984 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00
eISBN 9781009423977
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