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Politics, social theory, history of ideas

African government, politics, policy

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Activist Origins of Political Ambition

Opposition Candidacy in Africa’s Electoral Authoritarian Regimes

Weghorst, Keith | Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden

Activist Origins of Political Ambition is the first book to study opposition motivations to run for elective office in autocracies. Exemplifying mixed-methods research design, the book has rich contextual details and engages popular comparative and US-focused academic literature to inform public policy on democratization.

399pp

Apr. 2024 9781009011518 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009019705

NEW IN PAPERBACK Art and the Arab Spring

Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond

Volume 0

Shilton, Siobhan | University of Bristol

Examining a diverse body of art by over twenty-five artists including photography, sculpture, graffiti, performance, video and installation, in galleries, online and in the street, this book reveals a new way of understanding the Arab Uprisings, their profound cultural impact, and of the meaning of the term ‘revolution’ itself.

The Global Middle East, 16 261pp

Jun. 2024 9781108829366 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108909778

Bus Station Hustle

Transport Work in Urban Ghana

Stasik, Michael | 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 236pp

NEW IN PAPERBACK Election Violence in Zimbabwe

Human Rights, Politics and Power

Kwashirai, Vimbai Chaumba | Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität Munchen

Vimbai Chaumba Kwashirai explores the history and significance of election violence in Zimbabwe from the 1980s to the present day. Examining both overt and covert forms of violence, Kwashirai considers how violence can be understood and addresses wider questions about democracy and electoral freedom across the African continent.

318pp

Sep. 2024 9781316641248 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108120265

In the Shadow of the Global North

Journalism in Postcolonial Africa

Wahutu, j. Siguru | New York University

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

Nov. 2024 9781009431958 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009431941

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Learning Morality, Inequalities, and Faith

Christian and Muslim Schools in Tanzania

Dilger, Hansjörg | Freie Universität Berlin

Dec. 2024 9781009486620 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009486651

Disarming Apartheid

The End of South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968–1991

Möser, Robin E. | Universität Potsdam, Germany

Reconstructs South Africa’s decision-making 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 nonlinear path to NPT accession.

238pp

Mar. 2024 9781009307048 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009307062

Looking at Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania, this book explores how transformations in the country’s educational sector, and students’, parents’ and teachers’ quests for a “good life” in the neoliberal context, have affected their school and professional trajectories.

The International African Library

281pp

Jul. 2024 9781009077972 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009082808

NEW IN PAPERBACK Legitimation as Political Practice

Crafting Everyday Authority in Tanzania

Dodworth, Kathy | University of Edinburgh

Bringing together extensive multidisciplinary insights into legitimacy and legitimation, this book explores the everyday making of authority in Tanzania. Analysing how non-governmental organizations work alongside government actors, it offers a globally resonant picture of local governance today.

281pp

Sep. 2024 9781009015721 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009030397

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Love and Violence in Sierra Leone

Mediating Intimacy after Conflict

Schneider, Luisa T. | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

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

267pp

Dec. 2024 9781009533034 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009532990

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Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa

Extracting Money and Shaping States in Benin and Ghana

Sigman, Rachel | University of Denver

Drawing upon in-depth case studies of Benin and Ghana, Rachel Sigman explains the strategies political parties use to extract money from the state and how these strategies shape government performance. Challenging conventional views of ineffective African states, Sigman develops a nuanced understanding of ‘good governance’ in Africa.

328pp

Sep. 2024 9781009262828 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009262798

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Searching for a New Kenya

Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa

Diepeveen, Stephanie | University of Cambridge

Examining public discussion in urban Kenya, both in-person and online, this book sheds light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements, providing timely insights into everyday politics in Africa’s digital age.

284pp

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The Political Economy of the Kimberley Process

Munier, Nathan

Investigating state responses to the Kimberley Process, an ambitious international agreement meant to reduce the trade of conflict diamonds, this study looks at the political economy of resource-wealthy states in Africa to understand why some African states have higher levels of compliance and co-operation than others.

209pp 7 tables

Jun. 2024 9781108813587 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108884877

The Violence of Law

The Formation and Deformation of Gacaca Courts in Rwanda

Meierhenrich, Jens | 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

Jun. 2024 9781108826402 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108919593

Smugglers, Speculators, and the City in the EthiopiaSomalia Borderlands

Thompson, Daniel K. | 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

220pp

Dec. 2024 9781009556262 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009556286

May 2024 9781108425391 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00

eISBN 9781108586191

Theorizing in Comparative Politics

Democratization in Africa

Hyden, Goran | University of Florida

This book moves comparison beyond a narrow focus on democratization to better understand politics in developing regions of the world. Using Africa as empirical reference, it shows the gaps in knowledge left behind by the narrow application of democratic theory in recent decades.

186pp

Jan. 2024 9781009429498 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jan. 2024 9781009429511 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009429528

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Trajectories of Authoritarianism in Rwanda

Elusive Control before the Genocide

Desrosiers, Marie-Eve | University of Ottawa

Challenging assumptions regarding authoritarian governments in Rwanda in the decades before the 1994 genocide, Marie-Eve Desrosiers uses original archival data and interviews to highlight the complex relations between authorities, opponents, and society.

African Studies, 161

406pp

Sep. 2024 9781009224772 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009224741

Understanding Colonial Nigeria

British Rule and Its Impact

Falola, Toyin | University of Texas, Austin

Toyin Falola explains the conquest, administration, and the transformational changes in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century in Nigeria. Its depth of analysis makes it a resourceful book for undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars.

708pp

Nov. 2024 9781009337229 Paperback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99

Nov. 2024 9781009337182 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781009337205

Youth, Pentecostalism, and Popular Music in Rwanda

Grant, Andrea Mariko | 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 313pp

Dec. 2024 9781009262675 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009262712

American government, politics, policy

A Republic If You Can Afford It

How Much Does it Cost to Administer Elections?

Mohr, Zachary | University of Kansas

This Element explores election costs in 48 states, revealing wide variation across the country. It examines the impact of economic events like the Great Recession on spending, and the relationship between spending and election administration outcomes. It also finds a correlation between voters’ confidence and perceptions of election fraud. Elements in Campaigns and Elections

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009339445 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009507387 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009339452

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Accountability Reconsidered

Voters, Interests, and Information in US Policymaking

Cameron, Charles M. | Princeton University, New Jersey

Leading experts provide insights into different facets of accountability relationships involving voters, interest groups, legislators, and government bureaucracy. In doing so, the volume considers how changes in media, political polarization, and income and wealth inequality affect accountability and policymaking.

394pp

Jul. 2024 9781009168304 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009168311

Choices in a Chaotic Campaign

Understanding Citizens’ Decisions in the 2020 Election

Fridkin, Kim L. | Arizona State University

Examines the historic 2020 presidential election to explore citizens’ dynamic responses to different elements of the campaign. Develops the citizen-centered theory of campaigns, arguing people’s psychological predispositions and political predilections affect assessments of campaign events and issues, ultimately altering citizens’ voting decisions.

278pp

May 2024 9781009445870 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009445917 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009445863

Cooperating Factions

A Network Analysis of Party Divisions in U.S. Presidential Nominations

Blum, Rachel M. | University of Oklahoma

Popular accounts of presidential nomination politics in the United States focus on factions, lanes, or even a civil war within the party. This Element uses data on party leader endorsements in nominations to identify a network of party actors and the apparent long-standing divisions within each party.

Elements in American Politics

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009495639 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009495608 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009495615

Hearings on the Hill

The Politics of Informing Congress

Ban, Pamela | University of California, San Diego

Explains how legislators strategically use congressional committees and hearings to collect information from outside Congress. By examining witnesses who testify in front of Congress, we provide a picture of how partisan incentives determine how and from whom Congress seeks information.

Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

200pp

Nov. 2024 9781009534079 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99

Nov. 2024 9781009534093 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00

eISBN 9781009534048

How to Build a Democracy

From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams

Greer, Christina M. | Fordham University, New York

This Element examines the political maneuvers and achievements of three Black American women, Barbara Jordan, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Stacey Abrams by presenting Black women as essential to the Democratic Party’s ability to win over new supporters, the growth of American democracy, and the political advancement of Black Americans in the South.

Elements in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009500807 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009030311

Intersectional Advocacy

Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class

Perez Brower, Margaret | Harvard University, Massachusetts

Illustrates the practice of ‘intersectional advocacy’ by showing how organizations addressing gender-based violence are transforming the US policy system to reflect the struggles of people marginalized by gender, race, and class. This book is a call to action to redraw policy boundaries until American democracy is more equitable and just. Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics

320pp

Jan. 2024 9781009433044 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2024 9781009433099 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009433075

It Takes More than a Candidate

Why Women Don’t Run for Office

Third edition

Lawless, Jennifer L. | University of Virginia

Polarized by Degrees

How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War

Transformed American Politics

Grossmann, Matt | Michigan State University

Polarized by Degrees explains the growing political divide between Americans with and without a college degree, illustrating how it polarizes our parties and elections, sows conservative distrust of universities, media, scientists, and policy experts, and plunges the nation into daily conflicts over the progressive direction of American culture.

398p

Sep. 2024 9781316512012 Hardback GBP 25.00 / USD 29.95

eISBN 9781009057141

Across generations, women have been less likely than men to run for office, despite changing attitudes toward women in politics. This new edition offers a systematic account of the challenges women face throughout the candidate emergence process, featuring new survey data and interviews with potential candidates.

0pp

Mar. 2025 9781009598262 Paperback

Mar. 2025 9781009598231 Hardback

eISBN 9781009598248

Means, Motives, and Opportunities

How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy

Breunig, Christian | Universität Konstanz, Germany

This book uses policy stories and rigorous data analysis to illuminate the roles of executives and interest groups in shaping state budgets and their long-term trajectories. While executives have specific roles and powers in the process, interest groups ultimately provide opportunities for change in public policy.

300pp

Feb. 2024 9781009428606 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781009428590 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009428583

Party Transformation in Congressional Primaries

Faction and Ideology in the Twenty-First Century

Cowburn, Mike | European University Viadrina

This book explores how new dynamics of primary competition have contributed to party transformation in Congress. It challenges commonly held beliefs about the role of primary voters and sheds light on the institutions, processes, and actors responsible for increasing partisan conflict on Capitol Hill.

266pp

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Race and Inequality in American Politics

An Imperfect Union

Hajnal, Zoltan L. | University of California, San Diego

An undergraduate textbook offering a comprehensive, up-to-date, and critical examination of the role that race plays in American politics. It shows students how to bring empirical analysis to bear on deeply divided topics and makes a sustained argument that racial considerations are central to understanding America’s political system writ large.

572pp

Nov. 2024 9781108735551 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Nov. 2024 9781108484114 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781108633352

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Representing the Disadvantaged

Group Interests and Legislator Reputation in US Congress

McNally, Katrina F. | Eckerd College, Florida

McNally explores why members of Congress choose to build reputations as advocates of disadvantaged groups. She introduces the concept of the advocacy window to explain the discretion members have in building their reputations on behalf of the poor, Native Americans, minorities, seniors, immigrants, veterans, women, and the LGBTQ community.

286pp

Nov. 2024 9781009536479 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781009536509 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009536516

Aug. 2024 9781009514514 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108974172

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Stealth Lobbying

Interest Group Influence and Health Care Reform

McKay, Amy Melissa | University of Exeter

This book provides new insight into how and when lobbyists influence the American policymaking process, presenting compelling evidence that members of Congress provide greater access to, allow more influence from, and even insert legislation requested by the interest groups and lobbyists who provide financial assistance to their campaigns.

215pp

Jul. 2024 9781009188920 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009188937

Steering the Senate

The Emergence of Party Organization and Leadership, 1789–2024

Gamm, Gerald | University of Rochester

The first-ever study to examine the development of the Senate’s main governing institutions, Steering the Senate is the extraordinary account of the invention and growth of Senate floor leadership-a story that, until now, has been entirely unknown.

490pp

Jan. 2025 9780521709866 Paperback GBP 36.99 / USD 46.99

Jan. 2025 9780521883528 Hardback GBP 110.00 / USD 140.00

eISBN 9781139029926

Storefront Campaigning

Darr, Joshua P.| Syracuse University, New York

Campaigns have been centralized with field offices since Obama’s elections. However, 2020 saw a shift with Joe Biden winning without any offices and Donald Trump opening 300. This Element shows the change in the importance of local field offices and assesses the political future between the end of storefront campaigning and becoming purely digital.

Elements in Campaigns and Elections

92pp

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Collaborative Congress

Reaching Common Ground in a Polarized House

Craig, Alison W. | 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.

259pp

Feb. 2025 9781009338295 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Dec. 2024 9781009443333 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009500708 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009443357

Stronger Issues, Weaker Predispositions

Abortion, Gay Rights, and Authoritarianism

Goren, Paul | University of Minnesota

This Element shows that (1) moral issue attitudes endure longer than authoritarianism; (2) moral issues predict change in authoritarianism; (3) authoritarianism does not systematically predict change in moral issues; and (4) moral issues have always played a much greater role structuring party ties than authoritarianism.

Elements in Political Psychology

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009529327 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009529310 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009529303

The Anger Rule

Racial Inequality and Constraints on Black Politicians

Banks, Antoine J. | University of Maryland, College Park

Shows that Black politicians are penalized for expressing anger, especially anger related to race, and that this anger penalty helps sustain racial inequality. Drawing on research and theory from social psychology and philosophy, it argues that anger infers power by propelling individuals to take action to change the status quo.

190pp

eISBN 9781009338288

The Dimensions and Implications of the Public’s Reactions to the January 6, 2021, Invasion of the U.S. Capitol

Jacobson, Gary C. | University of California San Diego

This Element describes how the public reacted to January 6 and situates these reactions in the broader context of contemporary American politics as well as the relevant political science literature. It reviews some broader implications of January 6 and its aftermath for the future health of American democracy.

Elements in American Politics

94pp

Apr. 2024 9781009495370 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009495400 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009495387

The Haves and HaveNots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021

Widner, Kirsten | University of Tennessee

Nov. 2024 9781009275217 Paperback GBP 19.99 / USD 25.99

Nov. 2024 9781009275200 Hardback GBP 59.99 / USD 79.99

eISBN 9781009275255

This Element examines whether the increasing conservatism of the US Supreme Court during Donald Trump’s presidency changed the behavior of litigants and amicus curiae. The authors find substantial reductions in participation by the most politically disadvantaged and substantial increases in participation by the most conservative groups.

Elements in American Politics

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009394338 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009519656 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009394352

The House that Fox News Built?

Representation, Political Accountability, and the Rise of Partisan News

Arceneaux, Kevin | Sciences Po, Paris Partisan news’ influence is presumed to be powerful, but evidence for its effects on political elites is limited. This book uses quasi-experimental research designs, observational data, and open science practices to investigate Fox News’ influence on US politicians during the network’s rise across American media markets between 1996 and 2010.

Communication, Society and Politics

200pp

Nov. 2024 9781009432078 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2024 9781009432085 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009432092

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

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The Illusion of Accountability

Transparency and Representation in American Legislatures

Kirkland, Justin H. | University of Virginia

This book assesses the causes and consequences of ‘open meeting laws,’ which require public access to proceedings in state legislatures. While some may assume such laws increase accountability, the book consistently finds that open meetings do not influence legislators’ behavior or citizens’ capacity to alter that behavior.

301pp

Apr. 2024 9781009219662 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009219624

We Choose You

How Black Voters Decide Which Candidates to Support

Wamble, Julian J. | George Washington University, Washington DC

As the United States becomes more diverse, understanding how different populations choose who to support politically will become more important. This book uses Black voters to explain the candidate selection process and demonstrate how various identity groups choose who to vote for.

350pp

Jan. 2025 9781009483131 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

British government, politics, policy

Real News about the News

Media and British Politics

Newton, Kenneth | University of Southampton

Unravels the real effects of the mainstream and alternative news media on British politics. Covering TV, radio, newspaper and the internet, Kenneth Newton collates evidence to show that, contrary to popular belief, the main effects are positive and inform and mobilise citizens rather than influencing their voting choice.

202pp 13 tables

Feb. 2024 9781009387071 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781009387033 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009387040

The Conservative Effect, 2010–2024

14 Wasted Years?

Seldon, Anthony

What has changed for the better or worse during fourteen years of Conservative government?

Anthony Seldon and his team explore the ‘Conservative Effect’, analysing the ultimate impact of their leadership on the UK. This intriguing read offers powerful insights and fresh perspectives on the full scope of the Conservative government’s influence.

566pp

Jun. 2024 9781009473088 Paperback GBP 16.99 / USD 21.95

Jan. 2025 9781009483124 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009483162

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When the People Rule

Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice

Atanassow, Ewa | 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 cutting-edge contributions from scholars and practitioners engage with the dilemmas of popular sovereignty through interdisciplinary approaches and perspectives.

SSRC Anxieties of Democracy

412pp

Feb. 2025 9781009263795 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009263757

Women Voters

Race, Gender, and Dynamism in American Elections

Junn, Jane

This Element, Women Voters, documents and explains three important phenomena implicating gender, race, and immigration. Women are diverse and politically heterogeneous, and unequal privileges and constraints associated with race, and compositional change in the electorate an important explanation of electoral outcomes.

Elements in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

102pp

Oct. 2024 9781009326872 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009494625 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009326889

eISBN 9781009473101

The Impossible Office?

The History of the British Prime MinisterRevised and Updated

Seldon, Anthony | University of Buckingham

Why has the office of Prime Minister endured longer than any other democratic political office?

Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10 Downing Street, explores the intimate details and experiences of our PMs – including the recent churn of Johnson, Truss and Sunak – discussing who has been most effective and why.

567pp

Mar. 2024 9781009429771 Paperback GBP 14.99 / USD 19.95

eISBN 9781009429740

Comparative politics Beyond Social Democracy

The Transformation of the Left in Emerging Knowledge Societies

Häusermann, Silja | Universität Zürich Explores how social democratic parties can win back voters and articulate their ideas through other party channels. This book addresses the core of debates within social democratic parties and left parties more broadly conceived. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

486pp

Jun. 2024 9781009496803 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Jun. 2024 9781009496827 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009496810

Bringing War Back In Victory, Defeat, and the State in NineteenthCentury Latin America

Schenoni, Luis L. | University College London

This book offers new insights on how war made the state. It shows that wars can affect statebuilding trajectories long after they end and demonstrates that the relative capacity of Latin American states today can be traced back to nineteenth-century war outcomes.

326pp

Nov. 2024 9781009442138 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009442145

Claiming the People’s Past

Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century

Bevernage, Berber | Ghent University, Belgium

Offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century, addressing the questions of how and why populist parties and movements engage with the past.

Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches

350pp

Nov. 2024 9781009453639 Hardback GBP 85.00 /

eISBN 9781009453615

Claim-Making in Comparative Perspective

Everyday Citizenship Practice and Its Consequences

Gallagher, Janice K. | Rutgers University, New Jersey

This Element focuses on everyday claim-making by drawing together bodies of research in and with different communities. The authors argue that claim-making is a form of citizenship practice, that is prevalent in uneven and unequal settings, and it is of critical consequence.

Elements in the Politics of Development

92pp

Mar. 2024 9781009013925 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009517812 Hardback

eISBN 9781009028820

Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship

Lee, Alexander | University of Rochester, New York

Why are some countries more democratic than others? By neglecting colonialism, existing research overlooks origins: for most non-European countries, elections began under Western colonial rule. Analyzing a global sample of colonies across four centuries, this book explains the emergence of colonial electoral institutions and their lasting impact.

320pp

May 2024 9781009423533 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009423526

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Contested Representation

Challenges, Shortcomings and Reforms

Volume 0

Landwehr, Claudia | Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany

In the US and other developed democracies, electoral participation has declined, political conflict is increasingly polarized, and democratic institutions are in crisis. Contested Representation provides cutting-edge analyses of the sources and consequences of these developments while exploring opportunities for reform.

SSRC Anxieties of Democracy

365pp

Jan. 2024 9781009267687 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009267694

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Creating Partisans

The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America

Poertner, Mathias | London School of Economics and Political Science

Unveiling the secrets of political parties that successfully take root in society, this book is a resource for scholars, political enthusiasts, and anyone interested in Latin American state-society relations. Utilizes fieldwork and a multi-method research approach to reveal the mechanics behind democratic representation in transitioning societies.

250pp

Nov. 2024 9781009446280 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Nov. 2024 9781009446297 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009446327

Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing

Experiments on Building Trust

Blair, Graeme | University of California, Los Angeles

Presenting the outcome of a major research initiative involving two dozen scholars around the world, this book offers rigorous evidence of the efficacy of community policing in reducing crime and increasing trust in a diversity of political contexts.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics 517pp

Dec. 2024 9781009235877 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Dec. 2024 9781009235884 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781009235914

Democracy’s Resilience to Populism’s Threat

Countering Global Alarmism

Weyland, Kurt | University of Texas, Austin

This book demonstrates that populism’s threat to democracy is less severe than often feared. The comprehensive, systematic analysis of contemporary Latin America and Europe over the last four decades and of the US under Trump shows that populist chief executives destroy democracy only under special, restrictive conditions.

322pp

Jan. 2024 9781009432467 Hardback GBP 30.00 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009432504

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

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Democratic Backsliding and Public Administration

How Populists in Government Transform State Bureaucracies

Bauer, Michael W.

This volume shows how populists in government attempt to transform their public administrations to make them to an instrument of anti-liberal rule.

It also offers avenues to make our democratic bureaucracies more resilient against the populist challenge.

349pp 8 b/w illus. 14 tables

Mar. 2024 9781009010412 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009023504

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Education for All?

Literature, Culture and Education Development in Britain and Denmark

Martin, Cathie Jo | Boston University

This book offers a unique look at historical policymaking to explore how nineteenth-century fiction writers influenced the creation of publicschool 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

289pp

Feb. 2025 9781009419666 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009419673

Empowering Labor

Leftist Approaches to Wage Policy in Unequal Democracies

Bogliaccini, Juan A. | Universidad Católica del Uruguay

A comparative study of Chile, Portugal, and Uruguay that analyzes the underlying dynamics shaping the use of wage policy as a pre-distributive instrument of leftist parties. Focuses on large-scale political practices that (de)legitimize labor as a political actor, enabling or disabling social dialogue for social cohesion and political inclusion.

240pp

Mar. 2024 9781009433501 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Mar. 2024 9781009433525 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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Guilt by Location

Forced Displacement and Population Sorting in Civil Wars

Lichtenheld, Adam | Stanford University, California

As wartime displacement surges to record highs, this book shows how the deliberate and strategic use of displacement by armed groups has been more common than previously thought. Adam Lichtenheld documents these strategies, examines how they vary in form and frequency, and uncovers risk factors that give rise to them.

340pp

Immigration, Security, and the Liberal State

The Politics of Migration Regulation in Europe and the United States

Lahav, Gallya | Stony Brook University, State University of New York

Provides a framework by which to assess the ability of liberal democratic states to manage migration in a rapidly changing geo-political environment. This book will appeal to students and scholars of comparative political behaviour, immigration, public opinion, public policy, international relations, international security and area studies.

514pp 94 b/w illus. 29 tables

Jan. 2024 9781009297998 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Jan. 2024 9781009298018 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

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Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa

Regionalism by Design

Boone, Catherine | London School of Economics and Political Science

Offers a powerful reinterpretation of the drivers of African politics. Focusing on political effects of spatial inequality, Boone shows that uneven development produces regional divisions that animate electoral competition and policy struggles in many countries. Evidence from electoral geography and country cases brings the argument to life.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics

350pp

Apr. 2024 9781009441612 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Apr. 2024 9781009441636 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009441667

Inside Parties

How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness

Kernell, Georgia | University of California, Los Angeles Political scientists seek to understand how rules and structures affect democracy. Previous work focuses on country-level explanations (e.g., what type of elections are held), but little is known about parties themselves. This book provides an answer by investigating how candidate and leadership selection rules shape voter representation.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics

270pp

Dec. 2024 9781009523424 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Dec. 2024 9781009523479 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009523462

Nov. 2024 9781009514699 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Nov. 2024 9781009514651 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009514705

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Making Bureaucracy Work

Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India

Mangla, Akshay | University of Oxford

This book sheds new light on bureaucratic performance and education in developing countries. Through a multi-level comparative analysis of four Indian states, and over two years of ethnographic research, the book opens the ‘black box’ of Indian bureaucracy, revealing how bureaucratic norms interact with social inequalities to shape public services.

Cambridge Studies in the Comparative politics of Education

440pp

Jan. 2024 9781009258043 Paperback GBP 31.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009258050

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Monitors and Meddlers

How Foreign Actors Influence Local Trust in Elections

Bush, Sarah Sunn | Yale University, Connecticut

Forms of foreign intervention around elections differ markedly in terms of when and why they occur, and their legality. This book examines their potential to influence what the authors see as a critical, but understudied, audience: citizens in the countries where elections are held.

325pp

Mar. 2024 9781009204279 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009204262

Playing with Fire

Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India

Malik, Aditi | College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts

Combining rich historical, qualitative, and quantitative data from Kenya and India, this book develops a novel explanation about the undertheorized phenomenon of party violence. It shows that levels of party instability can crucially inform the decisions of political elites to organize or support conflict.

300pp

Jun. 2024 9781009444248 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jun. 2024 9781009444231 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009444217

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Popular Dictatorships

Crises, Mass Opinion, and the Rise of Electoral Authoritarianism

Matovski, Aleksandar | Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California

An essential guide to electoral authoritarianism–the most widespread, malignant and misunderstood type of dictatorship today–for scholars and students of politics, policymakers and the public. It challenges existing understandings by demonstrating that elected strongmen attract the genuine support of societies beset by turmoil and dysfunction.

318pp 26 b/w illus. 8 tables

Feb. 2024 9781009048477 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009047500

Power, Patronage and International Norms

A Grand Masquerade

Freeland, Valerie

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Rebels and Conflict Escalation

Explaining the Rise and Decline in Violence

Duyvesteyn, Isabelle | Universiteit Leiden

Violence during war often involves upswings and downturns that have, to date, been insufficiently explained. Duyvesteyn critically examines the potential explanatory variables for escalation and de-escalation in conflicts involving states and nonstate actors, such as terrorists and insurgents.

284pp

Mar. 2024 9781009009256 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009008952

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Rioting for Representation

Local Ethnic Mobilization in Democratizing Countries

Toha, Risa J.

Incorporating new data from Indonesia and an array of methods, this book demonstrates that excluded ethnic groups mobilize violence during political transition in multi-ethnic settings to demand representation in local politics. Once these demands are met, violence dissipates. For students and scholars of Comparative politics and ethnic conflict.

Problems of International Politics

323pp

Mar. 2024 9781009001953 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009004190

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Rule-Making Rules

An Analytical Framework for Political Institutions

Volume 0

Bartolini, Stefano | European University Institute, Florence

This book defines and distinguishes political institutions in their various forms, whilst exploring the constitutive ambiguities of the term. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of political institutions in Comparative politics, and in political science and political sociology more broadly.

313pp 2 b/w illus. 8 tables

Why do some of the world’s least powerful countries invite international scrutiny of their adherence to norms on whose violation their governments rely to remain in power? Examining decisions by leaders in Uganda, Sierra Leone, and Georgia, Valerie Freeland concludes that these states invited outside attention with the intention to manipulate it.

298pp

Jun. 2024 9781009468534 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jun. 2024 9781009468572 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009468565

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eISBN 9781009206303

Seeing Is Disbelieving

Why People Believe Misinformation in War, and When They Know Better

Silverman, Daniel | Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania

A compelling study of misinformation and its limits in war. Offering a powerful argument about when lies are actually believed, along with rich evidence from Pakistan, Iraq, and Syria, this book will interest students of both security, peace, and conflict and misinformation, conspiracy theories, and fake news in social life.

204pp

Nov. 2024 9781009523585 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781009523578 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009523561

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

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Silencing Citizens

How Criminal Groups Create Vacuums of Justice

Miller, Andrew Cesare | United States Naval Academy, Maryland

This book explains how criminal groups like mafias and gangs constrain witness cooperation with the police and what can be done about it. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

332pp

May 2024 9781009354493 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009354486 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009354455

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State-Building as Lawfare

Custom, Sharia, and State Law in Postwar Chechnya

Lazarev, Egor | Yale University, Connecticut

How does the state impose the rules that regulate everyday life? This book explores state-building as lawfare – the use of state and non-state legal systems to achieve political goals – to analyze how Russian state law, Sharia law, and customary law interact in postwar Chechnya.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics

345pp

Apr. 2024 9781009245944 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009245913

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The Authoritarian International

Tracing How Authoritarian Regimes Learn in the Post-Soviet Space

Hall, Stephen G. F. | University of Bath

The King Can Do No Wrong

Blame Games and Power Sharing in Authoritarian Regimes

Williamson, Scott | University of Oxford

A novel insight into why dictators can either remain popular or face mass opposition when their governments perform poorly. Providing an in-depth understanding of politics in the Middle East’s authoritarian monarchies and republics, this will be of interest to scholars of Middle East studies, authoritarianism, democratization and accountability.

365pp

Nov. 2024 9781009484060 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781009484084 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009484053

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The Politics of Comprehensive School Reforms

Cleavages and Coalitions

Sass, Katharina | Universitetet i Bergen, Norway

Why are school systems structured differently across countries? This book examines this question through an in-depth analysis of school politics in Germany and Norway during the post-war period of educational expansion. It uses a Rokkanian theoretical framework to make sense of the crossinterest coalitions behind important school reforms.

Focusing on Russia and Eastern Europe, Hall argues that democracies can preserve their norms and values by better understanding how authoritarian regimes learn. It will be of interest to scholars, advanced students, and policymakers concerned with the politics of authoritarianism, and the politics of Russia, and Central and Eastern Europe.

299pp

Aug. 2024 9781009096324 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009089630

The Kazakh Spring

Digital Activism and the Challenge to Dictatorship

Kudaibergen, Diana T. | University of Cambridge

Combining original interview data, digital ethnography and contentious politics studies, Kudaibergenova argues that the new generation of activists have been able to de-legitimise and counter one of the most resilient authoritarianism regimes and inspire mass protests that none of the formalised opposition ever imagined possible in Kazakhstan.

314pp

Cambridge Studies in the Comparative politics of Education

330pp

Apr. 2024 9781009235198 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009235211

The Politics of Religious Party Change

Islamist and Catholic Parties in Comparative Perspective

Yildirim, A. Kadir | Rice University, Houston

This book uses comparative analysis to examine ideological change and secularization of religious political parties. It traces the similar historical origins of Islamist and Catholic parties in the Middle East and Western Europe, chronicles their conflicts with existing religious authorities, and analyzes their subsequently divergent paths.

Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics

324pp

May 2024 9781009454261 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009454223 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009454230

Aug. 2024 9781009170758 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009170734

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The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule

Gerschewski, Johannes | Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung

Why do some autocracies remain stable while others break down? Based on an inventory of what we know about non-democracies in modern political science, this book carves out two distinct stabilizing logics. The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule proposes an innovative approach to aid readers in better understanding the inner workings of autocracies.

313pp

Aug. 2024 9781009199384 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009199407

The Welfare Workforce

Why Mental Health Care Varies Across Affluent Democracies

Perera, Isabel M. | Cornell University, New York

What explains differences in how affluent democracies have deinstitutionalized mental health care? This book highlights how labor-organizing among welfare workers contributes to the success, or failure, of mental health care systems. The book provides insights for scholars, health and medical practitioners, activists, and trade union strategists.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics

230pp

Jan. 2025 9781009499842 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Jan. 2025 9781009499897 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009499866

Uprooted

How post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe

Charnysh, Volha | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

This book explores how mass displacement affects social and economic development, showing that the resettlement of millions of Germans and Poles after WWII produced stronger states and more prosperous societies. It advances research on ethnicity, migration, and state-building and provides lessons for policymakers dealing with forced displacement.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics

342pp

Who Controls Education?

The Rising Power of Vested Interests in Europe

Wiborg, Susanne | University College London

This book explores the role vested interests play in shaping European education policy, often at the expense of children. Interest groups are powerful, users of education are not. The consequence of this inequality in organisational power is explored in this book for the first in time in over forty years.

Cambridge Studies in the Comparative politics of Education

0pp

Nov. 2024 9781009441971 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781009442008 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009441995

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Violent Resistance

Jentzsch, Corinna | Universiteit Leiden

By relying on extensive fieldwork from Mozambique, Violent Resistance explains when, where, and how communities form militias to defend themselves against violence. This book defines a research agenda on militias as social movements and an integral part of armed conflict, and revisits the historiography of the civil war in Mozambique.

Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics

244pp

Aug. 2024 9781009514491 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108936026

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Voter Backlash and

Elite Misperception

The Logic of Violence in Electoral Competition

Rosenzweig, Steven C. | 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 election-related violence.

221pp

Feb. 2025 9781009354899 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 32.99

eISBN 9781009354905

Apr. 2025 9781009581127 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99

Apr. 2025 9781009581110 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

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East Asian government, politics, policy

Beyond Coercion

The Politics of Inequality in China

Chan, Alexsia T. | Hamilton College, New York Beyond Coercion offers a new perspective on mechanisms of social control practiced by authoritarian regimes. Focusing on the Chinese state, Alexsia T. Chan presents an original theory and concept of political atomization, which explains how the state maintains social control and entrenches structural inequality.

210pp

Jan. 2025 9781009355674 Paperback

Jan. 2025 9781009355636 Hardback

eISBN 9781009355643

China’s Age of Abundance

Origins, Ascendance, and Aftermath

Wang, Feng | University of California, Irvine In the last four decades, China’s economy and living standards have completely transformed. Wang Feng charts the origins, forces, and consequences of this meteoric rise in prosperity, shifting our perspective toward rural populations as drivers of global change, and anticipating possible headwinds for future growth.

272pp

Apr. 2024 9781009444927 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Apr. 2024 9781009444897 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009444934

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Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes

Lessons from East Asia

Carothers, Christopher | University of Pennsylvania Corruption Control in Authoritarian Regimes argues that authoritarian anti-corruption reform is more common than widely thought and follows a different playbook than democratic anticorruption reform. Using case studies from China, South Korea, and Taiwan, Christopher Carothers constructs an original theory of authoritarian corruption control.

302pp

Sep. 2024 9781009073370 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009063913

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Global China’s Shadow Exchange

Ngo, Tak-Wing | Universidade de Macau

This Element shows China assuming a historical role in shaping a new turn in globalization. It has assertively engaged in the open globalizing process through its Belt and Road Initiative as well as in the clandestine process through its shadow networks.

Elements in Global China

90pp

Feb. 2024 9781108972178 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009486880 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108975681

Global Civil Society and China

Spires, Anthony J. | The University of Melbourne

This Element traces the history of and recent developments in the unstable relationship between global civil society (GCS) and China. It analyses the impacts of GCS on China and the possibilities created by Beijing’s new policies. It concludes with observations about future research directions and the internationalization of Chinese civil society.

Elements in Global China

86pp

Apr. 2024 9781009184168 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009507523 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009183925

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Local

Politics and Social Policy in China

Let Some Get Healthy First Volume 0

Ratigan, Kerry E. | Amherst College, Massachusetts

Ratigan shows how distinct ways of governing in Chinese provinces shaped social policy priorities and implementation at the beginning of the 21st century. With a focus on health policy in China, this book also provides comparative examples from education, poverty alleviation, and housing policy.

242pp

Refugee Policies in East Asia

Flowers, Petrice R. | University of Hawaii, Manoa

This Element offers a comparative analysis of the gap between the institutionalization of the Refugee Convention and the implementation of refugee policy in China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, and Mongolia.

Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781108995535 Paperback

Jan. 2025 9781009507288 Hardback

eISBN 9781108999427

State and Sub-State Nationalism in Southeast Asia

Bertrand, Jacques | University of Toronto

This Element explores the cycle of sub-state nationalist mobilization in Southeast Asia due to insufficient inclusion and authoritarian state use. To reduce mobilization, the state changed policies to recognize group distinctiveness and accommodate regional/local territorial units, focusing on Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Myanmar.

Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia

75pp

Mar. 2024 9781009066020 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009067409

Politics of the North Korean Diaspora

Greitens, Sheena Chestnut | University of Texas at Austin

This Element explains the origins and shape of the North Korean diaspora; examines North Koreans’ participation in the democratic systems in which they settle and their relationship with North Korea’s non-democratic homeland regime; and discusses how this sheds light on comparative developments in authoritarian diasporas around the world.

Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia

102pp

Jan. 2024 9781009197281 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009454537 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009197267

Nov. 2024 9781009583039 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009583060 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009583046

The Adaptability of the Chinese Communist Party

Dimitrov, Martin K. | Tulane University

The Chinese Communist Party celebrated its onehundredth birthday in 2021. Its durability poses a twofold question: How has the party survived thus far? And is its survival formula sustainable in the future?

Elements in Politics and Society in East Asia

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009184434 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009517126 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009184335

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The Belt Road and Beyond

State-Mobilized Globalization in China: 1998–2018

Ye, Min | Boston University

Over the last twenty years, China has thrice undergone political-economic crises and bureaucratic paralysis. Nevertheless, China’s autocratic leadership launched initiatives that expedited globalization and revived economic growth. This book acts as an analytical tool to study China’s policies and understand its emergence as a global power.

270pp 13 b/w illus. 1 map 15 tablespp

Nov. 2024 9781108790024 Paperback GBP 26.00 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108855389

European government, politics, policy

A Federalist Alternative for European Governance

The European Union in Hard Times

Fabbrini, Sergio | Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome

How did the European Union deal with the crises of the 2010s and 2020s? This book examines how decisions are made, who takes them, and how accountability operates in the EU. It concludes by proposing a multi-tier Europe with a federation at its core, organised according to a federalist model.

270pp

Dec. 2024 9781009573085 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Dec. 2024 9781009573030 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009573061

Cleavage Formation in the 21st Century

How Social Identities Shape Voting Behavior in Contexts of Electoral Realignment

Bornschier, Simon | University of Zurich

This Element presents evidence for the formation of a universalism-particularism cleavage across European party systems that diverge strongly on institutional and political characteristics. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in European Politics

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009393515 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009475921 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009393508

Coming to Terms with the European Refugee Crisis

Kriesi, Hanspeter | European University Institute, Florence

Examines how the European Union and its member states managed the 2015–16 refugee crisis and how the institutional configuration of the EU polity shaped its response. Will appeal to readers interested in the European integration process and migration policy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

428pp

Feb. 2024 9781009456524 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Feb. 2024 9781009456531 Hardback

eISBN 9781009456555

History of ideas

Liberty as Independence

The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal

Skinner, Quentin | 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

International

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An Introduction to International Relations

Fourth edition

Devetak, Richard | University of Queensland International Relations is a dynamic discipline, evolving in response to contemporary world politics. An Introduction to International Relations offers a foundational explanation of the theories, systems, actors and events that shape external relations between nations in today’s global society.

596pp

Aug. 2024 9781009315227 Paperback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009315234

Australia in World Affairs 2016–2020

A Return to Great-Power Rivalry

Volume 13

He, Baogang | Deakin University, Victoria

The thirteenth volume in the Australia in World Affairs series builds on the history of Australia’s foreign policy covered in other volumes to identify patterns of continuity and change. It catalogues the key developments in this period of world history from an Australian perspective. Australia in World Affairs

232pp

Jun. 2024 9781009479196 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009458047

Bureaucracies at War

The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation

Jost, Tyler | Brown University, Rhode Island

A rethinking of how bureaucracy shapes foreign policy. Through an unprecedented exploration of bureaucratic institutions inside China, India, Pakistan, and the United States, Jost shows why bureaucracy helps to avoid miscalculation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, history, sociology, and area studies.

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

408pp

Jun. 2024 9781009307222 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Jun. 2024 9781009307208 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009307253

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Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations

Revisiting Turkish Modernity

Duzgun, Eren

By advancing ‘Jacobinism’ as a historically specific geopolitical economy in world history, this book offers a new interpretation of Turkish modernity from the 19th century to the present. It will interest scholars and students of IR, historical sociology and political economy, especially those working on Turkey and the Middle East.

LSE International Studies

322pp

Mar. 2024 9781009158350 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009158367

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

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Conceptualizing International Practices

Directions for the Practice Turn in International Relations

Drieschova, Alena | University of Cambridge

What difference does the turn to practice make in International Relations? This collection brings together leading practice scholars to highlight the strengths of this approach and develop it in new directions. Each scholar focuses on a key IR concept and showcases how a practice perspective leads to new theoretical and empirical insights.

322pp 7 b/w illus.

Mar. 2024 9781009055604 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009052504

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Contesting the World

Norm Research in Theory and Practice

Orchard, Phil | University of Wollongong, New South Wales

Discover the fascinating world of norm research, a crucial subfield of IR, which reveals how ideas and norms influence the actions of nations and other players. The interpretation-contestation framework is introduced as an innovative means to understand the progression and evolution of norms across both domestic and international levels.

358pp

Jun. 2024 9781009479172 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Jun. 2024 9781009479165 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009479141

Cooperative Complexity

The Next Level of Global Economic Governance

Clark, Richard | 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.

195pp

Culture, Economic Growth, and Interstate Power Shift

Implications for Competition between China and the United States

Chan, Steve | University of Colorado Boulder

A country’s culture influences its economic growth and its competitiveness. Confucian heritage has promoted China’s rapid economic growth, and East Asia is poised to become the most important region of the world’s political economy. What do these patterns and trends augur for China and the United States as they compete for international primacy?

252pp

Feb. 2024 9781009465557 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781009465502 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009465540

Digital Sovereignty in the BRICS Countries

How the Global South and Emerging Power

Alliances Are Reshaping Digital Governance

Jiang, Min | University of North Carolina, Charlotte

With forty percent of the world’s population, twenty-five percent of global GDP and large troves of personal data, BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) play an increasingly important role in global digital development and policymaking. This is the first book exploring digital sovereignty from a Global South perspective.

Communication, Society and Politics

300pp

Apr. 2025 9781009563895 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781009563840

Crowded Out

The Competitive Landscape of Contemporary International NGOs

Bush, Sarah Sunn | University of Pennsylvania International Non-Governmental Organizations (INGOs) are central participants in world politics, but recent trends include decreased INGO foundings, increased mission specialization, and increased geographic dispersion. Crowded Out explores and explains these consequential developments. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

252pp

Dec. 2024 9781009531122 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99

Dec. 2024 9781009531139 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781009531085

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Diplomatic Tradecraft

Kralev, Nicholas | Washington International Diplomatic Academy

This book helps prepare new and aspiring diplomats for careers in diplomacy and international affairs. Drawing on decades of experience from career diplomats, it provides rare insights, teaches practical skill sets and offers specific advice for students and young professionals.

414pp

Apr. 2025 9781009557382 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Apr. 2025 9781009557368 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009557351

Mar. 2024 9781009114936 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Mar. 2024 9781009100410 Hardback GBP 89.99 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009118668

Drones, Force and Law

European Perspectives

Dunn, David Hastings | University of Birmingham

This Element argues that a combination of a perceived radical change in the threat environment post 9/11, and the new capabilities afforded by the long silent reach of the drone, have put pressure on the previously accepted legal frameworks justifying the use of force.

Elements in International Relations

102pp

Jan. 2024 9781009451482 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009451529 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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East Asian International Relations

Evolution and Social Construction

Wan, Ming | George Mason University, Virginia

By prioritizing a strong foundation in international relations theory, combined with an innovative focus on evolutionary theory, this textbook provides a fresh, analytical approach to understanding East Asia’s history and present state of affairs. Chapters cover contemporary themes in both ancient world order and European imperialist contexts.

388pp

Nov. 2024 9781009364591 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Nov. 2024 9781009364577 Hardback GBP 99.99 / USD 130.00

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Ethnos of the Earth

International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity

Heiskanen, Jaakko | Queen Mary University of London

Examines the origins of the international order and the emergence of ethnicity as a key category of political and scientific discourse. This book’s transdisciplinary approach will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, as well as scholars of political science and international relations.

320pp

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Hybrid Sovereignty in World Politics

Volume 0

Srivastava, Swati | Purdue University, Indiana

Analysing little known archival sources from the past two centuries, this study shows how non-state contractors, lobbyists, and advocates, working with governments, have exercised a hybrid form of sovereign power without authority in international relations.

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

307pp

Nov. 2024 9781009512435 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781009512442 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009512459

Fueling Sovereignty

Colonial Oil and the Creation of Unlikely States

Mukoyama, Naosuke | University of Tokyo

Examines how oil and other natural resources affected the making of sovereign states through decolonization, creating states that would otherwise not exist. Featuring theoretical explanations and rich historical evidence based on archival research, this book will appeal to students of international relations, political science, history and area studies.

LSE International Studies

248pp

Mar. 2024 9781009444293 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Mar. 2024 9781009444309 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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Handbook on Data Protection in Humanitarian Action

Third edition

Marelli, Massimo | International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Universiteit Maastricht, Netherlands

Offering a comprehensive, accessible analysis, this handbook outlines how humanitarian organizations can implement personal data protection law to uphold the rights and dignity of the most vulnerable. It explores legal principles and requirements, new technologies, and humanitarian programming. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

380pp 40 b/w illus.

Nov. 2024 9781009414654 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781009414623 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009414630

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IMF Lending

Partisanship, Punishment, and Protest

Abouharb, M. Rodwan | University College London

This Element argues that governments allocate adjustment burdens strategically to protect their supporters. Using large-N micro-level survey data from three world regions and a global survey, the Element discusses the local political economy of IMF lending. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in International Relations

126pp

Oct. 2024 9781009451161 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

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India and the Gulf

Theoretical Perspectives and Policy Shifts

Pant, Harsh V. | King’s College London

Studies the interests, ideas, and practices that shape India’s Gulf policy, an important region in India’s foreign relations. It makes an explicit effort to connect the study of India’s Gulf policy with the theoretical and disciplinary debates of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis.

204pp

Jun. 2024 9781009310840 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Influence without Arms

The New Logic of Nuclear Deterrence Fuhrmann, Matthew | Texas A & M University

A comprehensive theory of latent nuclear deterrence focusing on how nuclear programs influence war, peace, nuclear proliferation, and arms races. This book will appeal to anyone who wants to understand the role of nuclear technology in international politics, deterrence, military conflict, or the prospects for disarmament.

366pp

Nov. 2024 9781108824071 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781108843201 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Informal Governance in World Politics

Abbott, Kenneth W. | Arizona State University

Informal modes of global governance have proliferated since the 1990s. Within formal intergovernmental organizations, informal procedures and means of influence affect outcomes whilst, around all these institutions, even more informal networks shape agendas. This volume analyzes all three types of informal governance.

336pp

May 2024 9781009180535 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009180542 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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International Organizations

Politics, Law, Practice

Fifth edition

Hurd, Ian | Northwestern University, Illinois Fifth edition of the leading textbook on international organizations that mixes international law, politics, and case studies in an accessible package. It presents the most important global institutions, from the UN to the WTO and FIFA and the International Olympic Committee, explaining the legal treaties and their political controversies for each.

340pp

Jun. 2024 9781009414081 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Jun. 2024 9781009414074 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009414104

International Organizations and Peaceful Change in World Politics

Paul, T. V. | McGill University, Montréal

A timely diagnosis of international organizations’ ability to contribute to peaceful change featuring suggested ‘cures’ for their shortcomings. Leading scholars critically scrutinize selected global organizations and provide an invaluable guide for scholars and policymakers interested in IOs and the challenges facing contemporary world order.

362pp

Dec. 2024 9781009509350 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Dec. 2024 9781009509374 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009509367

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Law and Sentiment in International Politics

Ethics, Emotions, and the Evolution of the Laws of War

Traven, David | California State University, Fullerton Traven’s analysis will provide IR theorists, international lawyers, and moral philosophers with a better understanding of why civilian immunity norms emerged and developed in modern international law. Furthermore, it will help them better understand why these norms fail to adequately protect civilians, and what can be done to improve them.

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

326pp

Mar. 2024 9781108949392 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108954280

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Legitimacy

Politics

Elite Communication and Public Opinion in Global Governance

Dellmuth, Lisa | Stockholms Universitet

This book focuses on how contestation among elites shapes the legitimacy of international organizations in the eyes of citizens. It offers fresh insights into major issues of our day, such as the rise of populism, the power of communication, the backlash against global governance, and the relationship between citizens and elites.

274pp 44 b/w illus. 9 tables

Aug. 2024 9781009222013 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009222020

Local Peace, International Builders

How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up

Nomikos, William G. | Washington University, St Louis

Drawing on cutting-edge quantitative analysis, original survey data, and traditional field research from conflict settings across Africa, William G. Nomikos shows how legacies of colonialism shape international interventions to prevent violent disputes over scarce resources. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

216pp

Jan. 2025 9781009432160 Paperback

Jan. 2025 9781009432146 Hardback

eISBN 9781009432139

Lockean Liberalism in International Relations

Grigorescu, Alexandru V. | Loyola University Chicago

This Element applies a new version of liberalism to international relations (IR), one that derives from the political theory of John Locke. The authors tease out the “realist” elements from his political writings: his emphasis on politics, power, and restraints on power.

Elements in International Relations

82pp

Apr. 2024 9781009516983 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009517003 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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NEW IN PAPERBACK Making International Institutions Work

The Politics of Performance

Lall, Ranjit | University of Oxford

International institutions are essential for tackling urgent challenges facing the world, yet we know little about when and why they succeed or fail. This book develops and systematically tests a new theory of institutional performance, offering fresh insights to students of international cooperation and practical lessons for policymakers.

392pp

Aug. 2024 9781009216241 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009216265

More People, Fewer States

The Past and Future of World Population and Empire Sizes

Taagepera, Rein | University of California, Irvine

Delve into an exploration of 5000 years of global history, meticulously examining the growth, structure, and decline of empires and states amidst world population boom and socio-technological progress. this book offers a non-western periodization of world history, providing insights into the past while projecting visions for the future.

300pp

Jul. 2024 9781009427838 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Jul. 2024 9781009427821 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

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Regional Politics in Oceania

From Colonialism and Cold War to the Pacific Century

Lawson, Stephanie | Macquarie University, Sydney

The most comprehensive study of regional politics in Oceania produced to date. Drawing on a range of interdisciplinary sources and providing a systematic account of major issues facing the region, this book will appeal to anyone engaged in any aspect of regional studies in Oceania and beyond.

LSE International Studies

464pp

Feb. 2024 9781009427630 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Rule in International Politics

Daase, Christopher | Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and Goethe University Frankfurt

What forms of rule exist in international politics, how do they work, and what consequences do they have for our understanding? This volume assembles world leading International Relations scholars to demonstrate the ruled character of international politics and explains how IR students can study it.

288pp

Jun. 2024 9781009307697 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009307703

Feb. 2024 9781009427616 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781009427609

Representants and International Orders

The Staging of Political Authority

Drieschova, Alena | University of Cambridge

Different units of international politics, such as states, cannot be present in their entirety during international interactions. How they are represented – on maps, in diplomacy or warfare –effects international orders and defines power. Spanning centuries of European history, this book traces struggles between actors over these representations.

LSE International Studies

358pp

May 2025 9781009575843 Paperback

May 2025 9781009575812 Hardback

eISBN 9781009575850

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Robustness and Fragility of

Political Orders

Leader Assessments, Responses, and Consequences

Lebow, Richard Ned | King’s College London

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Signing Away

the Bomb

The Surprising Success of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Kaplow, Jeffrey M. | College of William and Mary, Virginia

This book explains how and why the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been successful, even without the characteristics usually seen in effective institutions. It will appeal to scholars and advanced students of international relations, security studies, and international law, as well as international security policymakers and analysts.

276pp

Mar. 2024 9781009216753 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009216746

States and their Nationals Abroad

Support, Co-Opt, Repress Brummer, Klaus | Katholische Universiteit Eichstätt, Germany Explores how states have formulated policies to respond to a range of circumstances that their nationals might face abroad. Through individual country chapters, covering both Western and non-Western states, the contributors show how these policies can range from the assistive to the punitive.

414pp

A comparative, interdisciplinary volume on the robustness and fragility of political orders that focuses on leader understandings and their consequences. It includes studies of failed orders, like the Weimar Republic and the Soviet Union, current orders, like the United States, regional orders, such as the European Union, and international orders.

328pp 1 b/w illus.

Jan. 2024 9781009265072 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009265058

Dec. 2024 9781009532013 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99

Dec. 2024 9781009531979 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009531986

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Systems, Relations, and the Structures of International Societies

Donnelly, Jack | 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

483pp

Jan. 2025 9781009355209 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009355193

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Taiwan and the Danger of a Sino-American War

Chan, Steve | University of Colorado Boulder

The author presents contrarian arguments contesting mainstream US views on the danger of a Sino-American war over Taiwan’s status. They contend that these countries’ dispute about Taiwan is motivated by opposing strategic interests and security concerns rather than just, or even mainly, clashing values.

Elements in Indo-Pacific Security

75pp

Feb. 2025 9781009589581 Paperback

Feb. 2025 9781009589567 Hardback

eISBN 9781009589543

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The Architects of International Relations

Building a Discipline, Designing the World, 1914-1940

Volume 0

Stöckmann, Jan

The Financial Statecraft of Borrowers

African Governments and External Finance

Zeitz, Alexandra O. | Concordia University, Montréal

An analysis of how developing countries use external finance in aid negotiations. Alexandra O. Zeitz combines statistical analysis and extensive interviews from Ethiopia, Ghana, and Kenya, to provide insights on financial interdependence in the developing world. Ideal for students and researchers in IPE, development studies, and African politics.

356pp

Based on extensive archival research, this book provides a new and stimulating history of International Relations as an academic discipline. It will appeal to students and scholars in History and International Relations (IR) as well as neighbouring fields, especially International Law and Political Science.

335pp

Mar. 2024 9781009055130 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009053341

The

Contemporary International Committee of the Red Cross Challenges, Changes, Controversies

Forsythe, David P. | University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Decisions made by the ICRC are often crucial to humanitarian protection. This book analyses the challenges confronting the organization and the complex decisions it takes as it responds to human needs stemming from political violence. Have its recent policy choices affected its reputation for independent and neutral humanitarian action?

488pp

Feb. 2024 9781009387019 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Feb. 2024 9781009386968 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

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The Duty to Secure

From Just to Mandatory Securitization

Floyd, Rita | University of Birmingham

Rita Floyd argues that there are always circumstances in which states and other actors have a moral duty to securitize – to use extraordinary emergency measures to deal with existential threats, whatever their source. This book will appeal to anyone interested in achieving a more peaceful and just world.

256pp

Feb. 2024 9781009468930 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781009468954 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009468947

Dec. 2024 9781009475044 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99

Dec. 2024 9781009475068 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 125.00

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The Politics of Women, Peace, and Security in UN Mediation

Standfield, Catriona | Worcester State University

The United Nations has struggled to ensure that the peace processes it mediates are gendersensitive and inclusive of women. This book is the first in-depth analysis of how the UN’s everyday narratives and practices are gendered, making it difficult to fully realise inclusive peace mediation.

266pp

Jan. 2025 9781009512282 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jan. 2025 9781009512268 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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The Price of Empire

American Entrepreneurs and the Origins of America’s First Pacific Empire

Evers, Miles M. | University of Connecticut

Providing the best coverage of the wide-ranging imperialism that began in the 1850s, this book concentrates on early American imperialism in the Pacific. It describes how the racial legacy of early cases of imperialism led to modern denial of rights claims in US Pacific territories.

214pp

Apr. 2024 9781009396370 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Apr. 2024 9781009396363 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00 eISBN 9781009396356

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The Rise of Responsibility in World Politics

Volume 0

Hansen-Magnusson, Hannes | Cardiff University

The concept of responsibility has emerged as central to the study of international politics. This book explores responsibility as a cross-cutting theme spanning across three governance sectors: the environment, business, and security. The authors explore how the rise of responsibility implicates underlying moral values in global politics.

290pp 4 tables

Mar. 2024 9781108792004 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

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The Selection and Tenure of Foreign Ministers Around the World

Bäck, Hanna | Lund University

This Element focuses on foreign ministers, making an important empirical contribution by presenting an original dataset on the personal and professional background of foreign ministers, spanning 13 countries and more than 200 years.

Elements in International Relations

78pp

Mar. 2024 9781009441810 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009475648 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009441773

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The Unintended

Consequences of Peace

Peaceful Borders and Illicit Transnational Flows

Kacowicz, Arie Marcelo | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Peaceful borders are generally a force for good, but also have unintended effects and consequences.

This provocative and topical book argues that peace may actually facilitate illicit cross-border activities carried out by non-state criminal groups, including drug trafficking, arms trafficking, human trafficking and smuggling, and terrorism.

312pp

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Undermining American Hegemony

Goods Substitution in World Politics

Andersen, Morten Skumsrud Study of the decline of the American-led international liberal order is gaining momentum, reacting to China’s rise, the Trump presidency, Brexit, and an assertive Russia. Stressing the provision of global public and private goods, this volume will appeal to anyone interested in the future of US power and world politics.

251pp

Mar. 2024 9781009009133 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009003537

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Theorizing

World Orders

Cognitive Evolution and Beyond

Volume 0

Ish-Shalom, Piki | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

We need new analytical tools to understand the turbulent times in which we live, and identify the directions in which international politics will evolve.

This volume discusses how engaging with Emanuel Adler’s social theory of cognitive evolution could potentially achieve these objectives.

284pp 2 tables

Mar. 2024 9781009061001 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009058193

Three Faces of Sun Tzu

Analyzing Sun Tzu’s <i>Art of War</i>, A Manual on Strategy

Boorman, Scott | Yale University, Connecticut

This book analyzes the three faces of Sun Tzu’s Art of War: one anchored in Warring States China, a second in world military history, and a third in 21st century contexts like cyber warfare. The author identifies Sun Tzu’s limitations and blind spots relevant to managing strategic competitions with Sun-Tzu-inspired adversaries.

558pp

Feb. 2024 9781108456982 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781108471039 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781108686877

Mar. 2024 9781108949323 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

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Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War

Vergerio, Claire | Universiteit Leiden Vergerio examines the legacy of Alberico Gentili’s treatise on the laws of war to undermine conventional narratives about when, why, and how the legal right to wage war became restricted to sovereign states, providing new insights into the history of the laws of war and the sources of international order.

Cambridge Studies in International Relations

318pp

Mar. 2024 9781009107594 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

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Ways of Seeing International Organisations

New Perspectives for International Institutional Law

Mansouri, Negar | Copenhagen Business School “Ways of Seeing International Organisations” critiques the traditional focus on ‘legal’ answers in international institutional law. It advocates for new perspectives, integrating critical legal thought and interdisciplinary insights. The book explores expertise, structure, performance, and capital within international organisations as key to understanding world-making processes.

LSE International Studies

320pp

Jun. 2025 9781009552615 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Jun. 2025 9781009552622 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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World Builders

Technology and the New Geopolitics Maçães, Bruno | 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 Maçães argues that this struggle is likely to be determined more by technological dominance than control of physical territory.

265pp

Feb. 2025 9781009397384 Hardback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.95

eISBN 9781009397414

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

World of the Right

Radical Conservatism and Global Order

Abrahamsen, Rita | University of Ottawa

Argues that the rise of radical right-wing movements is not merely a series of nationalist projects, but a global phenomenon. Focusing on the radical Right’s ideological critique of globalisation and their strategies to change political ‘common sense’, this book develops an innovative analysis of its possible consequences for global order.

220pp

Jun. 2024 9781009516082 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jun. 2024 9781009516105 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009516075

Latin American government, politics, policy

Agrarian Elites and Democracy in Latin America

Fernández Milmanda, Belén | Trinity College

Introduces a new theory of political participation by studying the different political strategies used by agrarian elites to influence policymaking in contemporary Latin America. By comparing three countries, the book contributes to ongoing debates on the relationship between economic elites’ representation, democracy, and redistribution.

276pp

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A Kingdom of This World Boas, Taylor C. | Boston University Why are religious minorities well represented and influential in some democracies but not others? This book analyses evangelical Christians over more than a century in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Peru, examining the historical struggle for religious equality and contemporary battles over abortion and LGBTQ rights. Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics

339pp

Apr. 2024 9781009275118 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009275088

Feminismos en América Latina

Redes anidadas por el derecho al aborto en México y Brasil

Nov. 2024 9781009553568 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99

Nov. 2024 9781009553575 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

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Racial Reclassification and Political Identity

Formation in Brazil

De Micheli, David | University of Utah

This book documents and explains a recent paradigm shift in Brazil’s racial politics and subjectivity in recent decades. It engages major theories in ethnoracial politics, documents an understudied empirical phenomenon, and develops a novel theoretical argument about identity politicization and the shifting dynamics of Brazilian racial politics.

318pp

Oct. 2024 9781009472357 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Oct. 2024 9781009472395 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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Costly Opportunities

Social Mobility in Segregated Societies

Álvarez-Rivadulla, María José | Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

This Element investigates inequality in Latin America through a unique case of class integration in Colombian higher education. It introduces ‘gate opening’ and ‘diversified networks’ as mechanisms countering traditional inequality reproduction. It explores social mobility within an elite school, emphasizing subjective experiences and challenges. Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America

84pp

Zaremberg, Gisela | Facultad latinoamericana de Ciencias Sotiales

Este Element analiza las características de los movimientos feministas actuales en América Latina y sus respuestas a las reacciones conservadoras.

Se explora cómo las feministas, aprovechando su pluralidad interna y su conexión con el estado, pueden contrarrestar los ataques conservadores.

Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America

100pp

Oct. 2024 9781009434355 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009454285 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009434362

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Framing a Revolution

Narrative Battles in Colombia’s Civil War

Schmidt, Rachel | Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ontario

What are the effects of gendered and strategic framing in civil war? How do different types of individuals - victims, combatants, women, commanders - utilize the frames around them?

Based on over 100 in-depth interviews in Colombia, this book examines how gendered framing contests between warring groups affect long-term peace.

324pp

May 2024 9781009503235 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009503204 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009503242

Aug. 2024 9781009219518 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

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Inside Criminalized Governance

How and Why Gangs Rule the Streets of Rio de Janeiro

Barnes, Nicholas | University of St Andrews

The book documents the variation in gangresident relationships – from responsive relations in which gangs provide a reliable form of order and stimulate the local economy, to coercive and unresponsive relations in which gangs offers residents few benefits – then identifies the factors that account for this variation.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics

0pp

Jan. 2025 9781009069946 Paperback

Jan. 2025 9781316513040 Hardback

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La economía política de una expansión segmentada

Política social latinoamericana en la primera década del siglo XXI

Arza, Camila | National Scientific and Technical Research Council

Este Element muestra que los avances de la política social en América Latina en la primera década del siglo XXI se mantuvieron segmentados, con diferencias en los niveles de acceso y beneficio, brechas en la calidad de los servicios y disparidad entre los sectores de política.

Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America

92pp

May 2024 9781009443647 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009478892 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009443654

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Mobilizing at the Urban Margins

Citizenship and Patronage Politics in PostDictatorial Chile

Escoffier, Simón | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

This book uses the case of Chile to study how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, allowing activists to engage in large-scale democratizing processes. It develops a novel analytical framework called ‘mobilizational citizenship’ to explain people’s engagement in durable and large-scale urban collective action.

270pp

Aug. 2024 9781009306928 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009306904

Mobilizing Teachers

Education Politics and the New Labor Movement in Latin America

Chambers-Ju, Christopher | 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

May 2024 9781009368056 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009368049

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Prosecutors, Voters and the Criminalization of Corruption in Latin America

The Case of Lava Jato

Gonzalez-Ocantos, Ezequiel A. | University of Oxford

Lava Jato, the largest transnational bribery case in history, shocked Latin American politics. This book explains why the investigation gained momentum in some countries, becoming an anti-corruption crusade. It examines public reactions, finding that prosecutors’ unprecedented zeal eroded the tacit consensus around the merits of anti-corruption.

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

324pp

Jul. 2024 9781009329804 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009329835

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Recognition Politics

Indigenous Rights and Ethnic Conflict in the Andes

Fontana, Lorenza B. | University of Glasgow

The first attempt to assess the implications of internationally acclaimed indigenous rights for rural poor communities across different countries and policy issues, such as land, natural resources and service provision. A pioneering work which uses important policy implications to challenge consolidated assumptions on recognition politics.

Cambridge Studies in Comparative politics

271pp

Apr. 2024 9781009265508 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009265515

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain

Volume 2

Ferraro, Agustin E. | Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

This book presents a new theoretical understanding, based on institutions and political practices, of the relative failure of development policy in Latin America compared to success in Spain. It will appeal to experts in economics and social sciences, and the general public interested in Latin America, state building, and economic development.

450pp 6 b/w illus. 7 tables

Jan. 2024 9781316639511 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781316995785

The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements

Andrews-Lee, Caitlin

This book is for scholars, practitioners, and general readers interested in charismatic leadership and its influence on politics, particularly in Latin America. It also provides key insights about two recent global trends: the rise of ‘populist’ leaders and governments and the erosion of democracy.

267pp

Apr. 2024 9781009462709 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108917353

The Informal Regulation of Criminal Markets in Latin America

Flom, Hernán | Trinity College, Connecticut

This book shows how and why politicians and police actors confront, negotiate with, or protect drug dealers to contain criminal violence in urban areas or profit from illicit rents. It will be useful to scholars, students and policymakers interested in crime and violence in Latin America and beyond.

270pp

Jul. 2024 9781009170703 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009170710

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

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The Limits of Judicialization

From Progress to Backlash in Latin America

Botero, Sandra

Focusing on several hot-button topics in Latin American politics, including abortion, state violence, judicial corruption and corruption prosecutions, The Limits of Judicialization explains why the institutional and cultural changes that empowered the region’s courts often fall short of the promise of greater accountability and rights protection.

361pp

Jul. 2024 9781009096164 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009093859

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The Recasting of the Latin American Right

Polarization and Conservative Reactions

Borges, André | Universidade de Brasíalia

The most comprehensive overview of the reconstruction of the Latin American Right after the left turn, covering the supply and demand of conservative alternatives. It combines qualitative and quantitative analyses, bringing together leading country specialists to offer nuanced, yet easily accessible studies.

292pp

Contesting Pluralism(s)

Islamism, Liberalism, and Nationalism in Turkey and Beyond

Fisher-Onar, Nora | 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 Fisher-Onar introduces an analytical framework for capturing causal complexity in political contestation.

346pp

Dec. 2024 9781009427401 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Dec. 2024 9781009427449 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009427432

Working Class Inclusion

Evaluations of Democratic Institutions in Latin America

Barnes, Tiffany D. | 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.

265pp

Feb. 2025 9781009349802 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009349833

Middle East government, politics, policy

Civic Death in Contemporary Turkey

Mass Surveillance and the Authoritarian State

Sertdemir, Seçkin | 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 9781108838702 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108976183

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Creating the Desired Citizen

Ideology, State and Islam in Turkey

Yilmaz, Ihsan | Deakin University, Victoria

A comparative analysis of the nation-building projects in Turkey under both Ataturk and Erdogan, concentrating on the concept of the desired, undesired and tolerated citizen. This shows how resulting historical traumas, victimhood, insecurities, anxieties, and fears have had influenced both state and society throughout these different periods.

350pp

Jun. 2024 9781108959506 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108961295

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Democracy or Authoritarianism

Islamist Governments in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia

Gumuscu, Sebnem | 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.

311pp

Feb. 2025 9781009178242 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009178259

Nov. 2024 9781009524612 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009524599

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Dignity in the Egyptian Revolution

Protest and Demand during the Arab Uprisings

El Bernoussi, Zaynab

Based on interviews with Egyptian protesters who participated in the Arab uprisings of 2010 and 2011, Zaynab El Bernoussi explores understandings of the concept of dignity, showing how protesters conceived of this concept in their organisation of protest and uprising, and their memories of karama in the aftermath of the protests.

190pp

Jun. 2024 9781108965057 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108991148

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Dwelling on the Green Line

Privatize and Rule in Israel/Palestine

Schwake, Gabriel | University of Sheffield

Analysing the growth of the settlements along the border between Israel and the occupied West-Bank, the Green-Line, this book examines the lives lived around these lines, from the 1970s to the present day, attempting to understand the interface between the state’s strategy of territorial expansion and individual, as well as corporate, interests.

294pp

Jul. 2024 9781009069397 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009071246

How Islam Rules in Iran

Theology and Theocracy in the Islamic Republic

Kamrava, Mehran | Georgetown University in Qatar

Focusing on the jurisprudential and ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic state, this book explores the relationship between Islam and politics in postrevolutionary Iran. It can be read at several levels, from informed observers and specialists to readers interested in Islamic studies, state-religion relations, and Shia jurisprudence.

363pp

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Legacies of Repression in Egypt and Tunisia

Authoritarianism, Political Mobilization, and Founding Elections

Torres-Van Antwerp, Alanna C. When an authoritarian regime collapses, what determines whether an opposition group will form a political party, be successful in mobilizing voters, and survive or dissolve as a group in subsequent years? Based on unique field research, this examines how legacies of authoritarian rule shaped the outcome of Egypt’s 2011 founding elections.

342pp

Jul. 2024 9781009113038 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009118040

May 2024 9781009460842 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

May 2024 9781009460835 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009460880

Immigration Nation

Aid, Control, and Border Politics in Morocco

Gazzotti, Lorena | University of Cambridge

How does migration control work beyond the spectacle of border violence? Examining the role of aid as a mode of migration control, this book, based on extensive research in Morocco, shows how migration control happens more in everyday sites away from state borders, through noncoercive and elusive means of containment.

263pp

Jul. 2024 9781009514002 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009024129

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Israel’s Regime Untangled

Between Democracy and Apartheid

Ariely, Gal

Forging an innovative path to untangling the conflicting interpretations of the Israeli regime, this book examines at the diverse aspects of the regime to determine the level of ‘democraticness’ exhibited in order to come to its conclusion.

222pp

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Marketing Democracy

The Political Economy of Democracy Aid in the Middle East

Snider, Erin A. | Texas A & M University

Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Egypt, Morocco, and Washington DC and recently declassified government documents, this book focuses on the construction and practice of democracy aid in the Middle East, showing how democracy aid can reinforce, rather than challenge authoritarian regimes.

Cambridge Middle East Studies, 64

247pp

Jul. 2024 9781108947978 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108943505

Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies

Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman

Ennis, Crystal A. | Universiteit Leiden

Jun. 2024 9781108949965 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108951371

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Kurdish Politics in Iran

Crossborder Interactions and Mobilisation since 1947

Hassaniyan, Allan | University of Exeter

Reflecting on seven decades of the Iranian Kurdish movement, this history of its development from 1947 offers a vivid and comprehensive analysis of the politicisation of national sentiments within Iran, and the connections the movement made and developed with Kurdish groups in Iraq.

248pp

Jun. 2024 9781009014274 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009029971

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

Nov. 2024 9781009499477 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009499422

Netanyahu vs The Generals

The Battle for Israel’s Future

Ziv, Guy | American University, Washington DC Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s longest-serving prime minister and known to his supporters as ‘Mr. Security’. This book explains the paradox of the intense mutual distrust between Netanyahu and the Israeli security community, which rejects his leadership and approach to national security.

266pp

Jan. 2024 9781009425704 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Jan. 2024 9781009425698 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

eISBN 9781009425667

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Occupier and Occupied

Israel, Palestine, and Masculinities across the Divide

Skinner, Chloe | 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

202pp

Apr. 2025 9781009375214 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009375252

Polluted Politics

The Development of an Israeli-Palestinian E-Waste Economy

Davis, John-Michael | Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts

Polluted Politics examines the global conundrum of e-waste recycling through the remarkable case of the Palestinian-Israeli context, showing how the emergence, impacts and possible futures of the Palestinian informal hub that has recycled most of Israel’s e-waste for two decades illuminates dynamics and dilemmas of similar places worldwide.

The Global Middle East

286pp

Tehran’s Borderlines

Urban Development and Public Life in Contemporary Iran

Jalili, Jaleh | 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.

178pp

Nov. 2024 9781009483636 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009483629

Refining the Common Good

Oil, Islam and Politics in Gulf Monarchies

Lowi, Miriam R. | The College of New Jersey

This innovative study explores a novel dimension of elite politics in Arab Gulf monarchies where both oil and Islam are ubiquitous: how rulers exploit both oil revenues and Islamic norms to manage and control their populations, build community, and protect and enrich dynastic autocracies.

Cambridge Middle East Studies

228pp

Nov. 2024 9781009463287 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781009463317 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009463324

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Second-Generation Liberation Wars

Rethinking Colonialism in Iraqi Kurdistan and Southern Sudan

Voller, Yaniv | University of Kent, Canterbury

Exploring the history of the liberation wars in Iraqi Kurdistan and South Sudan, this book analyses both the rebels’ strategies and government counterinsurgency responses for insights into their evolution and the practices and roles that emerged in the subsequent period.

Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East

285pp

Jul. 2024 9781009073042 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009071840

Dec. 2024 9781009389051 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009389099

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The Art of Resistance in Islam

The Performance of Politics among Shi’i Women in the Middle East and Beyond

Shanneik, Yafa | University of Birmingham

Examining different forms of resistance among Shi’i women in the Middle East and Europe, this book studies the performance of sectarian and gender power relations as expressed in Shi’i ritual practices. It provides a new transnational approach to researching gender agency in contemporary Islamic movements in both the Middle East and Europe.

Cambridge Middle East Studies, 65

270pp

Jul. 2024 9781009015691 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009030335

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The Hamas Intelligence War against Israel

Flamer, Netanel | Bar-Ilan University, Israel

This accessible study explores the scope of Hamas’s intelligence activity against Israel from 1987 to the present. Netanel Flamer uses Arabic, Hebrew and English sources to analyse Hamas’s methods for gathering information, its use of information for operational needs and strategic analysis, and its counterintelligence activity.

Intelligence and National Security in Africa and the Middle East

216pp

Dec. 2024 9781009499408 Paperback GBP 30.99 / USD 41.99

Dec. 2024 9781009499378 Hardback GBP 95.00 / USD 125.00

eISBN 9781009499392

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The Israeli Settler Movement

Assessing and Explaining Social Movement Success

Hirsch-Hoefler, Sivan

The first systematic analysis and explanation of the political success of the Israeli settler movement. Based on a comprehensive original theoretical framework and rich empirical analysis, this book provides key new insights for the study of both Israeli politics and social movements in general.

311pp

Mar. 2024 9781316503461 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781316481554

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The Politics of Immigration Beyond Liberal States

Morocco and Tunisia in Comparative Perspective

Natter, Katharina | Universiteit Leiden

Examining whether autocracies make fundamentally different immigration policies than democracies, Katharina Natter systematically compares policymaking in authoritarian Morocco and democratizing Tunisia. In doing so, Natter uncovers the complex interplay between immigration, political regimes, and modern statehood worldwide.

326pp

Sep. 2024 9781009262613 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009262668

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The Roots of Revolt

A Political Economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak

Joya, Angela | University of Oregon

Examining the contested political economy of Egypt from Nasser to Mubarak prior to the Arab Uprisings of 2010, this conceptually rich and historically informed interdisciplinary study presents the real-world impact of economic policy on the lives of ordinary Egyptians and will be of interest to scholars of political economy and Middle East studies.

281pp

Jun. 2024 9781108745758 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108777537

The Rule of Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Power, Institutions, and the Limits of Reform

Enayat, Hadi | Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, Aga Khan University

Tunisian

Politics in France

Long-Distance Activism since the 1980s

Zederman, Mathilde | University of Paris-Nanterre

This innovative study explores the evolution and complexities of Tunisian diaspora activism in France during the years of Ben Ali’s dictatorship in Tunisia (1987–2011). Utilising material gathered from extensive fieldwork in France and Tunisia, Mathilde Zederman explores what it means to oppose or support an authoritarian regime from afar.

Cambridge Middle East Studies, 72

226pp

Nov. 2024 9781009508896 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009508865

UN Mediators in Syria

The Challenges and Responsibilities of Conflict Resolution

Nassar, Fadi Nicholas | Lebanese American University

By highlighting the role of UN mediators in conflicts like Syria, this book examines what those tasked with the responsibility to make peace actually do. In addition to appealing to readers interested in diplomacy, decision-making and conflict resolution, its analysis of Syria also engages Middle East politics and history readers.

344pp

May 2024 9781009413831 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009413824

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Women and the Holy City

The Struggle over Jerusalem’s Sacred Space

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.

288pp

Jan. 2025 9781108481427 Hardback GBP 115.00 / USD 150.00

eISBN 9781108630603

Tied Up in Tehran

Women, Social Change, and the Politics of Daily Life in Postrevolutionary Iran

Moruzzi, Norma Claire | University of Illinois, Chicago Post-revolutionary Iranian life is unexpected, contradictory, and full of political promise. Norma Claire Moruzzi examines the experiences of women, young people, artists, and activists at home, at work, or in the street. Stories of food and family, film and politics, shopping and crime demonstrate resilient democratization in everyday practice.

379pp

Apr. 2025 9781009540261 Paperback

Apr. 2025 9781009540247 Hardback

eISBN 9781009540285

Ben Shitrit, Lihi | University of Georgia Jerusalem’s Temple Mount/al-Haram al-Sharif is one of the holiest places in the world for Jews and Muslims and a constant feature in the IsraeliPalestinian conflict. This study addresses the gendered dimensions of inter-communal disputes over sacred space in Jerusalem and the role of women in these conflicts.

232pp

Jun. 2024 9781108707183 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781108751391

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Women and the Islamic Republic

How Gendered Citizenship Conditions the Iranian State

Saeidi, Shirin | University of Arkansas

Based on extensive interviews and oral histories as well as archival sources, this book challenges the dominant masculine theorizations of statemaking in post-revolutionary Iran. Offering a comprehensive study on citizenship formation, it reveals the centrality of non-elite women’s participation in the process of citizenship formation.

Cambridge Middle East Studies, 66

230pp

Jul. 2024 9781009013000 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009026574

Political economy

A History of Economic Policy in India

Crisis, Coalitions, and Contingency

De, Rahul | Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

An immersive, accessible yet rigourous book that provides an understanding of the Indian economy through a Political economy analysis of economic policies. The book evaluates how well different governments from pre-colonial to contemporary times executed their policies.

220pp

Jan. 2024 9781009362689 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jan. 2024 9781009362672 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009362665

A Political Theory of Money

Kapadia, Anush | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

Money is institutionalised social power. It is built in hierarchical layers out of the inherently variable material of politics and at various economic scales. This book outlines these variable processes theoretically and through case studies.

320pp

Jan. 2024 9781009331463 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Jan. 2024 9781009331432 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009331449

Active Particles Methods in Economics

New Perspectives in the Interaction between Mathematics and Economics

Bellomo, Nicola | 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

65pp

Agents of Empire

Gailmard, Sean | University of California, Berkeley

Provides a new strategic logic of English imperial government in North American colonies, and why the crown was ultimately unable to control them. It shows how strategic dynamics in colonial institutions structured American state building. For readers in comparative state formation, imperial legacies, Political economy, and American politics.

Political economy of Institutions and Decisions

336pp

May 2024 9781009316927 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009316897 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99

eISBN 9781009316934

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China’s Contained Resource Curse

How Minerals Shape State-Capital-Labor Relations

Zhan, Jing Vivian | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

This is the first monograph on the socioeconomic and political impacts of minerals on contemporary China, examining the distinctive effects of minerals on the state, capital and labour and their triangular relations. It provides a novel outlook on the resource curse and derives valuable policy implications for resource management.

235pp

Nov. 2024 9781009548762 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009548748 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009548755

Agent¬-Based Modelling

A

Tool for Complexity

Gallegati, Giacomo | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009547611 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009547635 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009547628

Jan. 2024 9781009048989 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99

eISBN 9781009049757

China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization

Leutert, Wendy | Indiana University, Bloomington

Delving into the daily leadership dynamics of Chinese state-owned enterprises, Wendy Leutert reveals leader tactics and subordinate responses and how they shape economic reform outcomes. Grounded in extensive fieldwork, this book underscores the increasing global significance of leadership in in Chinese state-owned enterprises. Business and Public Policy

230pp

Nov. 2024 9781009486545 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Nov. 2024 9781009486521 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009486576

Class, Politics, and Agrarian Policies in Postliberalisation India

Second edition

Das Gupta, Sejuti | James Madison College, Michigan State University

The book visits the idea of New India, studying how the Political economy of India has changed significantly in post-liberalisation India.

336pp

Nov. 2024 9781009481335 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009481328

Complexity in Economics

Gallegati, Giacomo | Università degli Studi di Torino, Collegio

Carlo Alberto, Torino, and Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne, Paris

Many phenomena arise from the intricate interactions among diverse elements. Such systems, characterised by emergent properties arising from interactions, are defined as complex. This Element delves into the complexity approach, portraying the economy as an evolving system undergoing structural changes over time.

Elements in Complexity and Agent-based Economics

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009547734 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009547727 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009547765

Democracy in Trouble

Democratic Resilience and Breakdown from 1900 to 2022

Williamson, Myles | University of Alabama

This Element investigates the process of executive aggrandizement to identify factors associated with democratic resilience. It focuses on five democracies that showed resilience in the face of incumbent-led autocratization. The paired cases provide insights into how the process of executive aggrandizement unfolds.

Elements in Political economy

92pp

Dec. 2024 9781009462211 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009462204 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009462181

Designing Behavioural Insights for Policy

Processes, Capacities & Institutions

Mukherjee, Ishani | Singapore Management University

This Element draws on the literature on policy design and innovation adoption to explore the administrative, institutional and capacity endowments of governments for the successful integration of BI in existing policy frameworks. It presents three illustrative cases with respect to their experience of essential procedural endowments.

Elements in Public Policy

84pp

May 2024 9781009264471 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009500364 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009264464

Multiple Streams and Policy Ambiguity

DeLeo, Rob A. | Bentley University

This Element addresses the criticisms of the Multiple Stream Framework, the lack of empirical research, and the inconsistent operationalization of key concepts. It established a community of scholars. With Public Policy it develops a comprehensive guide for conducting MSF research.

Elements in Public Policy

92pp

Mar. 2024 9781009397919 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Mar. 2024 9781009494502 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009397926

Numbers as Political Allies

The Census in Jammu and Kashmir

Kumar, Vikas | Azim Premji University, Bengaluru

An analysis of census statistics using the case of Jammu and Kashmir that shows how data quality of census statistics is impacted by different factors. The book discusses the lifecycle of census data and proposes possible reforms to enhance trust in the census.

400pp

Jan. 2024 9781009317214 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009317245

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Opening Up by

Cracking Down

Labor Repression and Trade Liberalization in Democratic Developing Countries

Dean, Adam | George Washington University, Washington DC

This book develops a novel theory of globalization in developing countries. The author argues that democratic governments used labor repression to overcome union opposition to trade liberalization. The book presents evidence from archival research on Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, India, and Turkey, as well as cross-national quantitative analysis.

Political economy of Institutions and Decisions

200pp

Jan. 2024 9781108745895 Paperback GBP 18.99 / USD 28.99

eISBN 9781108777964

Policy Entrepreneurs, Crises, and Policy Change

Petridou, Evangelia | Mid Sweden University and NTNU Social Research

This Element analyzes policy entrepreneurial action in six case studies, focusing on fast-burning and creeping crises. It proposes a set of crisis policy entrepreneurial strategies and a framework for understanding policy outcomes. Further research is suggested for crisis managers. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Public Policy

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009314671 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009565202 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009314695

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Political Economies of Energy Transition

Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa

Hochstetler, Kathryn | London School of Economics and Political Science

Most of what we know about energy transition is based on industrialized countries and China - but most future low-carbon transitions will take place in developing countries. Climate change cannot be addressed without them. This book shows how environment and development concerns drive electricity choices in Brazil and South Africa.

Business and Public Policy

293pp 10 b/w illus. 2 tables

Mar. 2024 9781108826808 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108920353

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Public Contracting for Social Outcomes

FitzGerald, Clare J. | King’s College London

This Element explores the relationship between how outcomes are specified and managed in public contracts and the degree to which they deliver against higher-level policy goals. It further comments on the possible drawbacks of contracting for social outcomes. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Public Policy

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781108948975 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009486828 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108953887

Public Inquiries and Policy Design

Stark, Alastair | University of Queensland

This Element addresses the gap in policy design literature that has largely ignored the important ways that public inquiries can act as policy design tools, meaning the functions that inquiries can offer the policy designer are not properly understood.

Elements in Public Policy

70pp

May 2024 9781009286893 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009494489 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009286879

Quest for Identity

Gender, Land and Migration in Contemporary Jharkhand

Rao, Nitya | University of East Anglia

The book offers an ethnographic analysis of Adivasi social dynamics – the economic trajectories, ecological environment and gender relations – over two decades of political-economic contingencies and change, adding to knowledge alongside offering useful lessons for policy and practice.

380pp

Jun. 2024 9781009358002 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009358026

Representation and Taxation in the American South, 1820–1910

Jensen, Jeffrey | NYU Abu Dhabi

This Element explains and documents state-level fiscal developments in American Southern states from 1820–1910. Using an original, archival data set of annual tax revenues, we show that the economic interests of rural elites played a critical role in shaping the observed fiscal patterns within and across these states over this period.

Elements in Political economy

102pp

Feb. 2024 9781009114080 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009454056 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009122825

Robust Governance in Turbulent Times

Ansell, Christopher | University of California, Berkeley

This Element aims to build, promote, and consolidate a new social science research agenda by defining and exploring the concepts of turbulence and robustness, and subsequently demonstrating the need for robust governance in turbulent times. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Public Policy

108pp

May 2024 9781009433020 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009500432 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009433006

Symbolic Policy

Boussaguet, Laurie | European University Institute

This Element explores the role of symbols in politics, highlighting their significance in shaping citizens’ representations and influencing policy decisions. It uses crisis management to analyze symbolic dimensions, in two case studies. It also highlights how politicians use symbols, influenced by timing, national repertoires, and leader personas.

Elements in Public Policy

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781009290951 Paperback

Nov. 2024 9781009478700 Hardback

eISBN 9781009290975

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The Age of Discontent

Populism, Extremism, and Conspiracy Theories in Contemporary Democracies

Rhodes-Purdy, Matthew | Clemson University, South Carolina Economic crises since 2008 have led to the rise of populist, extremist, Far Right, and conspiracyfocused movements. Emotions borne of economic crises produce cultural discontent (i.e. enflames conflicts over values and identities), an approach the book calls ‘Affective Political economy’. The book studies these dynamics in Europe and the Americas.

307pp

May 2024 9781009279437 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009279383

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The Cost of Doing Politics

How Partisanship and Public Opinion Shape

Corporate Influence

Sumner, Jane L. | University of Minnesota

Using quantitative and qualitative evidence, Sumner shows that consumer boycotts can work to dissuade companies from donating money to politicians, but may also encourage them to attempt influence by less-visible means. This book is written for scholars and students interested in corporate political influence.

Business and Public Policy

258pp

Mar. 2024 9781009124584 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009128568

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The Political economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China

Policymaking, Funding, Talent, and Organization

Sun, Yutao | Dalian University of Technology, China

Framed in the Political economy, the book reveals the role of the Chinese state in the country’s development in S&T and innovation. It appeals to scholars of business and management, innovation, and contemporary China studies as well as policymakers of emerging economies, executives interested in doing business in China.

262pp

Aug. 2024 9781108796033 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781108854269

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Welfare Nationalism in Europe and Russia

The Politics of 21st Century Exclusionary and Inclusionary Migrations

Cook, Linda J. | Brown University, Rhode Island

A unique study of 21st century migration politics across West and East Europe and Russia. Linda Cook compares contemporary refugee and labor migrations to Europe and Russia, including MENA and Ukrainian refugee migrations to Europe, and shows that there are exclusionary and inclusionary migration cycles in both regions.

346pp 20 b/w illus. 5 maps 13 tables

Nov. 2024 9781108813006 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 34.99

Nov. 2024 9781108835664 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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Political theory

A Practical Introduction to Regression

Discontinuity Designs

Extensions

Cattaneo, Matias D. | Princeton University

This Element discusses covers (i) the local randomization framework for RD analysis, (ii) the fuzzy RD design where compliance with treatment is imperfect, (iii) RD designs with discrete scores, and (iv) and multi-dimensional RD designs. Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

122pp

Apr. 2024 9781009441902 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009462327 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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The Roots of a Crisis

Ezrahi, Yaron | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Responding to growing public anxiety about the current state of democracy, this book will appeal to scholars in Political theory, history and anthropology, as well as to the wider educated public. It provides an analysis of changes in the deep structure of Western democracy offering new imaginaries of political order.

272pp

Dec. 2024 9781009350884 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

Dec. 2024 9781009350877 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

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Commerce and Manners in Edmund Burke’s Political economy

Collins, Gregory M. | Yale University, Connecticut This book examines the economic thought of Edmund Burke. By exploring Burke’s understanding of the relation between commerce and manners, it raises timely ethical questions about capitalism and its limits relevant to contemporary debates over neoliberalism and globalization.

580pp 6 b/w illus. 9 tables

Sep. 2024 9781108702409 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 37.99

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Democracy and Empire Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism

Valdez, Inés | 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.

252pp

Jan. 2025 9781009384001 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

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Empowering Affected Interests

Democratic Inclusion in a Globalized World Fung, Archon | Harvard University, Massachusetts Empowering Affected Interests brings together a group of leading contemporary democratic theorists and philosophers to debate a taken-forgranted principle at the heart of the democratic project but increasingly under strain in a global era: the idea all those affected by a decision should be included in the making of that decision.

296pp

Nov. 2024 9781009454001 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Nov. 2024 9781009454018 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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External Validity and Evidence Accumulation

Slough, Tara | New York University

This Element develops uniting principles that constitute the qualitative and quantitative assumptions that form the basis for a quantitative relationship between constituent studies. This framework is applied to three approaches to studying general social phenomena: meta-analysis, replication, and extrapolation.

Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781009375818 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009486033 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009375856

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects

Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders

Benhabib, Seyla | Yale University and Columbia Law School

Focusing on the hot-button issues of migration and sovereignty, this volume highlights the radical reconfiguration of territory, rights, and jurisdiction taking place at different levels and examines its implications for the future of democratic governance within and across borders. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

330pp

Dec. 2024 9781009512848 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Dec. 2024 9781009512817 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

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Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy

The Human Hand of Divine Rule

Lesch, Charles H. T. | Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Theocratic movements are on the rise. But what does it actually mean for God to rule? This Element offers one answer by recovering the theocratic project of medieval Judaism’s most important thinker, Moses Maimonides.

Elements in Comparative Political theory

75pp

Dec. 2024 9781108793421 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009468114 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108884051

Nations before the Nation-State

Between City-State and Empire from Antiquity to the Present

Schön, Anna Marisa | Duke University, North Carolina

The first extended study of nationhood in ancient and medieval political thought, this book recovers a distinctly pre-modern conception of the nation as a cultural and linguistic, yet not political community, and brings historic insights to bear on contemporary political issues such as national pluralism and the resurgence of nationalism.

232pp

Nov. 2024 9781009441254 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

Nov. 2024 9781009441216 Hardback GBP 70.00 / USD 90.00

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Political Responsibility and Tech Governance

AI, Repro-tech and Structural Injustice

Browne, Jude | University of Cambridge

Focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) and reproductive and genetic technologies (Reprotech), 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.

205pp

Jan. 2025 9781009447355 Hardback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009447362

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Rationalism

in Politics

Steinberger, Peter J. | Reed College, Oregon

Seeking to uncover and reaffirm the discourse of truth in public life, Peter Steinberger sets out a conception of politics that is rationalist, conceptualist, and cognitivist, defending the idea that we think before we act, and that political action and judgment should be analyzed in that context.

196pp

Mar. 2024 9781009204439 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

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Reimagining

Radical Democracy in the Global South

Emerging Paradigms from Colombia and Türkiye

Ağartan, Kaan | Framingham State University

This Element offers an analysis of contemporary social movements in Colombia and Turkey to show the limits and potential of radical democracy to reimagine new expressions of citizenship and noncapitalist alternatives.

Elements in Comparative Political theory

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009498524 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009498500 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

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Sharing Freedom

Republicanism and Exclusion in Revolutionary France

Rousselière, Geneviève | Duke University, North Carolina Sharing Freedom presents the development of French republicanism from an older elitist theory of freedom into an inclusive theory of emancipation. Retracing the struggles of republicans during the French Revolution, it lays out the paradoxes that unwittingly led them to justify exclusions despite fervently embracing an expansion of freedom to all.

268pp

Apr. 2024 9781009477277 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Apr. 2024 9781009477314 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009477291

The

Cambridge Companion to Rousseau’s <i>Social Contract</i>

Williams, David Lay | DePaul University, Chicago What is freedom? What is equality? What is sovereignty? Few texts have offered more influential answers to these questions than Rousseau’s Social Contract, and in this new Cambridge Companion, a multidisciplinary team of contributors provide new ways to navigate a masterpiece of political philosophy- and its animating questions. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

384pp

Feb. 2024 9781108970594 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781108839303 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781108989770

The Pluralistic Frameworks of Ibn Rushd and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im

Omar, Ayesha | University of the Witwatersrand and SOAS, University of London

The purpose of this Element is to analyse the assiduous attempts of two Islamic political thinkers-the 12th century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd and the contemporary Sudanese reformist Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im-to theorise Islamic politics through an approach the author refers to as ‘pluralistic frameworks’.

Elements in Comparative Political theory

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009386326 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2025 9781009517300 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009386333

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World Crisis and Underdevelopment

A Critical Theory of Poverty, Agency, and Coercion

Ingram, David | 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.

396pp

Feb. 2025 9781108432405 Paperback GBP 26.00 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108377874

Politics (general)

Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate

Cassese, Erin C. | 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

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009533157 Paperback

Jan. 2025 9781009533133 Hardback

eISBN 9781009533119

Angry and Wrong

The Emotional Dynamics of Partisan Media and Political Misperceptions

Weeks, Brian | University of Michigan

This Element argues that political anger provides one key theoretical link between partisan media use and political misperceptions. Partisan media play an important role in shaping political emotions and beliefs and offers one explanation for why audiences are likely to hold inaccurate beliefs about politics.

Elements in Politics and Communication

75pp

Counter-Stereotypes and Attitudes Toward Gender and LGBTQ Equality

Jung, Jae-Hee | University of Houston

Insights from social psychology and the gender and politics literature, as well as discussions and campaigns in the policymaking world, suggest that exposure to counter-stereotypes about gender roles might improve people’s attitudes toward gender equality and LGBTQ rights. The authors test this expectation using survey experiments.

Elements in Gender and Politics

100pp

Apr. 2024 9781009406659 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009462655 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009406628

Gender, Ethnicity, and Intersectionality in Cabinets

Asia and Europe in Comparative Perspective

Liu, Amy H. | University of Texas at Austin

What explains patterns of representation – of women and ethnic minorities – in government cabinets? The authors argue governments diversify their cabinets when (1) a minority group is sizable and can mobilize (political competition); and/or (2) the general population believes in and expects the inclusion of minorities (popular norms).

Elements in Gender and Politics

75pp

Jan. 2025 9781009570435 Paperback

Jan. 2025 9781009570473 Hardback

eISBN 9781009570466

How News Coverage of Misinformation Shapes Perceptions and Trust

Thorson, Emily | Syracuse University

This Element shows that while exposure to news coverage of misinformation makes people less trusting of news on social media, it increases trust in print news. It suggests that many Americans see legacy media as bulwark against changes that threaten to distort the information environment.

Elements in Politics and Communication

82pp

Jun. 2024 9781009488808 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jun. 2024 9781009488846 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009488815

In Love and at War

Marriage in Non-state Armed Groups

Matfess, Hilary | University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies

Nov. 2024 9781009095099 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009517843 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009091121

What does it mean to be in love while at war? This Element demonstrates that whether rebel groups commit themselves to marriage, bar it entirely, or reinterpret the ceremonies and practices associated with marriage, their decision has important implications for both the rebel organization and individual members.

Elements in Gender and Politics

76pp

Feb. 2024 9781009358897 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009486019 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009358859

Social Media Democracy Mirage

How Social Media News Fuels a Politically Uninformed Participatory Democracy

Gil de Zúñiga, Homero | Universidad de Salamanca, Spain and Pennsylvania State University

Social media was expected to provide new opportunities for people to learn about politics and public affairs. This Element contends that social media has produced a Social Media Democracy Mirage. Social media have led to a socio-political paradox in which people are more participatory than ever, yet not necessarily more informed.

Elements in Politics and Communication

75pp

Feb. 2025 9781009055093 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2025 9781009500869 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009053266

The Politics of Bathroom Access and Exclusion in the United States

Chatfield, Sara | University of Denver

Through an analysis of several distinct statelevel policies that regulate bathrooms along the dimensions of gender and gender roles, gender identity, and disability, the author argues that bathroom access is an important aspect of citizenship, signaling both physical and symbolic exclusion and inclusion.

Elements in Gender and Politics

75pp

Research methods in politics Bayesian Social Science Statistics

From the Very Beginning Gill, Jeff | American University

In this Element, the authors introduce Bayesian probability and inference for social science students and practitioners starting from the absolute beginning and walk readers steadily through the Element. The readers will understand Bayesian theory and practice using social science data.

Dec. 2024 9781009429061 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009539562 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009429085

The YouTube Apparatus

Munger, Kevin | Pennsylvania State University

This Element presents a flexible but coherent framework that draws on existing literature from media economics and journalism to reflect the supply-and-demand realities of a given social media platform. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Elements in Politics and Communication

88pp

May 2024 9781009359757 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009486002 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009359795

Women, Gender, and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars

Loken, Meredith Maloof | University of Amsterdam

How is rebel governance gendered, and how does women’s participation in rebellion affect the development and execution of governance programs? The author develops a framework for evaluating and explaining rebel governance’s gendered dynamics.

Elements in Gender and Politics

75pp

Elements in Quantitative and Computational Methods for the Social Sciences

110pp

Oct. 2024 9781009341196 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Oct. 2024 9781009494694 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009341189

Russian, East European government, politics, policy

Dialogue with the Dictator

Authoritarian Legitimation and Information Management in Putin’s Russia

Chapman, Hannah S. | University of Oklahoma

Shows how autocrats structure interaction between citizens and leaders to manage information dilemmas and build regime legitimacy. Uses interviews, original surveys, and text analysis to highlight the tools used by Russian President Vladimir Putin to reinforce his now twenty-year rule—and how these tools may backfire against the regime.

270pp

Feb. 2024 9781009427579 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781009427524 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009427548

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The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia

From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class

Lankina, Tomila V. | London School of Economics and Political Science

Dec. 2024 9781009335676 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Dec. 2024 9781009494670 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781009335669

Lankina reveals how Imperial Russia’s social structure survived the Bolsheviks’ social engineering projects and continues to drive inequalities and democracy now. This is essential reading for students and scholars of Russian politics, society and history, and of Comparative politics and sociology, especially those studying democratic development.

495pp 37 b/w illus. 1 map 26 tables

Jun. 2024 9781009068987 Paperback GBP 22.99 / USD 29.99

eISBN 9781009071017

Watching the Watchers

Communist Elites, the Secret Police and Social Order in Cold War Europe

Thomson, Henry | 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

Feb. 2024 9781009413596 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009413602

South Asian government, politics, policy

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India’s Bangladesh Problem

The Marginalization of Bengali Muslims in Neoliberal Times

Murshid, Navine | Colgate University, New York

Analyses the experience of Bengali Muslims on the India side of the India-Bangladesh border. Using the context of neoliberal policies, unequal bilateral relations, labour migration, contested citizenship and xenophobic government rhetoric, Murshid demonstrates that marginalization is based on a variety of historical, social and economic factors.

287pp

Performing Sovereign Aspirations

Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka

Klem, Bart | University of Gothenburg To-be-or-not-to-be dilemmas abound in the study of separatist insurgencies. Such movements create state-like institutions, which are simultaneously real and unreal. This book offers a performative perspective to confront these interpretative dilemmas. It offers an unprecedented rendition of Sri Lanka’s Tamil nationalist movement. Open Access.

South Asia in the Social Sciences

250pp

Nov. 2024 9781009259408 Paperback GBP 29.99 / USD 39.99

eISBN 9781009259392

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Legalizing the Revolution

India and the Constitution of the Postcolony Dasgupta, Sandipto | New School for Social Research, New York

An innovative synthesis of the history of decolonization and constitutional theory. Contributes to the field of Political theory of decolonization; presents an original theory of the Indian constitution as well as the concept of ‘postcolonial constitutionalism’; and offers an appraisal of the crisis of democratic institutions in the Global South South Asia in the Social Sciences, 23 280pp

Oct. 2024 9781009525244 Paperback GBP 34.99 / USD 44.99

Oct. 2024 9781108490481 Hardback GBP 105.00 / USD 135.00

eISBN 9781108781039

Nund Rishi

Poetry and Politics in Medieval Kashmir Bazaz, Abir | Ashoka University

This book is a critical study of the mystical poetry of one of Kashmi’s greatest Sufis - Nund Rishi. It analyses his poetry as a form of ‘negative theology’. This volume will be of value to those interested in poetry, South Asian literature, Kashmir, Sufism and bhakti. 294pp

Jun. 2024 9781009100458 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009118811

Nov. 2024 9781009442466 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00

eISBN 9781009442459

The Backstage of Democracy

India’s Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them

Sharma, Amogh | 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.

380pp

Nov. 2024 9781009423984 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00

eISBN 9781009423977

The Islamic Welfare State

Muslim Charity, Human Security, and Government Legitimacy in Pakistan

Candland, Christopher | Wellesley College, Massachusetts Encountering Pakistan through the world of Muslim charity, readers gain fresh perspectives on Islam. They see that the moral sentiments of Islam are powerful positive influences in community life. At the same time, they also learn how Islam is manipulated, with negative consequences for everyday security.

320pp

Jul. 2024 9781009268431 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009268455

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The New Experts

Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India

Sajjanhar, Anuradha | University of East Anglia

As populist movements sweep the globe, this book explores right-wing strategies of altering how knowledge and expertise are produced and legitimated. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available open access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

198pp

May 2024 9781009349758 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

May 2024 9781009349727 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781009349765

Politics, social theory, history of ideas

Through the IndiaChina Border

Kalimpong in the Himalayas

Poddar, Prem | 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

230pp

Nov. 2024 9781009499354 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009499347

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Vernacular Rights Cultures

Madhok, Sumi | London School of Economics and Political Science

The book proposes that decolonising human rights requires historically and politically specific conceptual, empirical and theoretical investigations of rights politics. It tracks contemporary subaltern movements across India and Pakistan to show how and why marginalised groups deploy the language of rights to demand justice.

226pp

Mar. 2024 9781009423939 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781108961844

South-East Asian government, politics, policy

Courts and Politics in Southeast Asia

Dressel, Bjoern | Australian National University, Canberra

This Element analyses the historical foundations, patterns, and drivers of judicialization of politics by mapping critical junctures that have shaped the emergence of modern courts in the region and providing a basic typology of courts and politics.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

88pp

Apr. 2024 9781108725798 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Apr. 2024 9781009517737 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108770088

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Mobilizing for Elections

Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia

Aspinall, Edward | Australian National University, Canberra

This book compares patronage politics in Southeast Asia, examining the sources and implications of cross-national and sub-national differences. It will be useful for scholars and students interested in comparative and Southeast Asian politics, electoral politics, clientelism and patronage, and the historical development of political institutions.

324pp

Apr. 2024 9781009074827 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009075015

Myanmar

A Political Lexicon

Cheesman, Nick | Australian National University, Canberra

This Element is a critical inquiry into how words animate politics. It offers readers venues in which to consider the history and contingency of ideas like power, race, patriarchy and revolution of Myanmar.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

82pp

Feb. 2024 9781108464741 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Feb. 2024 9781009454339 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108565523

Social Media and Politics in Southeast Asia

Lim, Merlyna | Carleton University, Ottawa

This Element studies the link between social media and Southeast Asian politics and its dual role in fostering grassroots activism and enabling algorithmic politics. It shows the platform’s alignment with communicative capitalism, facilitating oppositional forces but susceptible to authoritarian capture and mutual algorithmic/ political dynamics.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

75pp

Nov. 2024 9781108719346 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Nov. 2024 9781009548076 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108750745

Thailand

Contestation, Polarization, and Democratic Regression

Kongkirati, Prajak | Thammasat University

This Element aims to provide an overview of Thai politics with an up-to-date discussion of the characteristics of political regimes, Political economy, and identity and mobilization that are grounded in historical analysis stretching back to the formation of the modern nation state.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

86pp

May 2024 9781108465014 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

May 2024 9781009517690 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108565677

The Politics of Cross-Border Mobility in Southeast Asia

Ford, Michele | University of Sydney

This Element explains how cross-border mobility defines diplomatic relationships between Southeast Asian states and social and political dynamics within the region’s key destination countries. It discusses why consideration of bordering practices and cross-border mobility is necessary in understanding contemporary Southeast Asia.

Elements in Politics and Society in Southeast Asia

64pp

Jan. 2024 9781108722896 Paperback GBP 17.00 / USD 22.00

Jan. 2024 9781009462426 Hardback GBP 49.99 / USD 64.99

eISBN 9781108673914

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Unity through Division

Political Islam, Representation and Democracy in Indonesia

Fossati, Diego | City University of Hong Kong

This book studies a puzzle observed in contemporary Indonesian politics: while the quality of democracy in Indonesia has deteriorated in recent years, public satisfaction with democracy has increased. To explain this development, the book studies ideological representation, an aspect of Indonesian democracy that is often overlooked. 241pp

Apr. 2024 9781009203067 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 34.99

eISBN 9781009203074

Texts in political thought

Bartolus of Sassoferrato

Three Tracts on City Government and Related Writings

Bartolus of Sassoferrato | University of Cambridge

The medieval jurist Bartolus of Sassoferrato (d. 1357) has long been accorded seminal importance by historians of political thought. This volume provides the first complete English translation of his tracts On Guelfs and Ghibellines, On the Government of a City, and On the Tyrant, alongside sections of his legal commentaries.

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought 214pp

Nov. 2024 9781009011457 Paperback GBP 26.99 / USD 35.99

Nov. 2024 9781316519899 Hardback GBP 85.00 / USD 110.00

eISBN 9781009019583

Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought

Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldūn is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, stressing their enduring relevance and exploring how his theory fits our own times.

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought

286pp

Jan. 2025 9781009328753 Paperback GBP 23.99 / USD 30.99

Jan. 2025 9781009328715 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 95.00

eISBN 9781009328760

Volney: ‘The Ruins’ and ‘Catechism of Natural Law’

Volney, Constantin

A fresh modern translation of a major French Revolutionary text, whose arguments for popular sovereignty are couched in the form of an Oriental dream-tale. This is a forgotten bestseller in the history of political thought which was translated by Thomas Jefferson and hugely influenced radical poets from Shelley to Whitman.

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought 270pp

Feb. 2024 9781108717267 Paperback GBP 25.99 / USD 34.99

Feb. 2024 9781108493109 Hardback GBP 80.00 / USD 105.00

eISBN 9781108675611

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ASIA

Unit14-16, 3F East tower, Genesis Beijing, No.8 Xinyuan South Rd Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100027, China

Phone: (86) 10 6505 5616 Email: chinaacademic@cambridge.org

China - Beijing

Unit 14-16, 3F East Tower, Genesis Beijing, No.8 Xinyuan South Road Chaoyang District, Beijing, 100027, China

Phone: +(86) 10 6505 5616 chinaacademic@cambridge.org

China - Hong Kong and Macao

Suite 305, 3/F, Chinachem Golden Plaza 77 Mody Road, Tsimshatsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong, SAR

Phone: (852) 2997 7500

Fax: (852) 2997 6230 chinaacademic@cambridge.org

Indonesia

Panin Tower Senayan City, 15th Floor, Unit 1502, Jl. Asia Afrika Lot. 19, Jakarta, 10270, Indonesia

Phone: +62 (21) 50986353 asia@cambridge.org

Japan

Hulic Kandabashi Bldg. 9F, 1-21-1 Kanda Nishikicho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0054, Japan

Phone: +81 (3) 35188273 japanacademic@cambridge.org

Malaysia

S-10-01B, Level 10, First Subang, Jalan SS15/4G, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia. Phone: (603) 8800 9117 asia@cambridge.org

Philippines

16F Frabelle Corporate Plaza

129 Tordesillas Street Salcedo Village Makati City 1209 National Capital Region (Manila)

Philippines

Phone: +63 (2) 8865 7000 asia@cambridge.org

South

Korea

2F, 42, Yanghwa-ro 11-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, 04035, South Korea

Phone: (82) 2 547 2891 Fax: (82) 2 547 4411 acprokorea@cambridge.org

Singapore/Brunei

103 Penang Road

#05–06/07 Visioncrest Commercial, 238467, Singapore

(New address from March 2025) 16 Raffles Quay, #16-04/05 Hong Leong Building, Singapore 048581

Phone: +65 6323 2701 Fax: +65 6323 2370 asia@cambridge.org

Taiwan

Room 311, 12th Floor, 51 Hengyang Road, Taipei, Taipei City 100, Taiwan Phone: (886)2 2570 0508 taipei@cambridge.org

Thailand

54 BB Building 1705 Sukhumvit 21 (Asoke), Wattana, Bangkok, 10110, Thailand

Phone: (66) 2 204 1451

Fax: (66) 2 204 1452 asia@cambridge.org

Vietnam

5F, YOCO Building

41 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai District 1 Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Phone: +84 (98) 8068727

Fax: +84 (98) 9141748 asia@cambridge.org