Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (Wilson Andrew)(Paperback)

Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World (Wilson Andrew)(Paperback)

States such as Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of stuffing the ballot box. But a whole industry of 'political technology' has developed instead, with shadowy private firms and government 'fixers' on lucrative contracts dedicated

Post-Democracy After the Crises (Crouch Colin)(Paperback)

In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the fa ade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being hollowed out, its big events becoming empty rituals as power passed increasingly to circles of wealthy business elites and an ever-more isolated

Ulster Presbyterians in the Atlantic World: Religion, Politics and Identity (Wilson David A.)(Pevná vazba)

Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union (Coman Ramona)(Paperback)

Democracy Hacked: How Technology Is Destabilising Global Politics (Moore Martin)(Paperback)

Technology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back. All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and bots on an unwitting public. After years of soundbites about connecting people, the social media giants are only just

Politics of Restorative Justice - A Critical Introduction (Woolford Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

In this updated edition of The Politics of Restorative Justice, Andrew Woolford and Amanda Nelund reconsider restorative justice and its politics and ask how restorative justice might work better to provide transformative justice. To achieve a transformative justice, Woolford and Neulund argue,

On Stalin's Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics (Fitzpatrick Sheila)(Paperback)

The first chronicle of Stalin's inner political and social circle--from a leading Soviet historianStalin was the unchallenged dictator of the Soviet Union for so long that most historians have dismissed the officials surrounding him as mere yes-men and political window dressing. On Stalin's Team

Death in a Desert Land (Wilson Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

Authentocrats: Culture, Politics and the New Seriousness (Kennedy Joe)(Paperback)

We are entering, we are told, a post-liberal age. So-called illiberal democracy and authoritarian populism are in the political ascendant; the shelves of our bookshops groan with the work of attention-grabbing thinkers insisting that permissiveness, multiculturalism and 'identity politics' have

Ideologies in World Politics (Giesen Klaus-Gerd)(Paperback)

Introduction Ideologies in World Politics.- Islam and Ideology in World Politics.- Humanitarianism and the Migration Crisis.- Ideology and International Security.- Environmental Ideologies in Global Politics.- The Ideology of the Global Commons.- Revisiting and Revising World-Wide Neoliberalism.-

Post-Democracy: A Sociological Introduction (Crouch Colin)(Paperback)

Post-Democracy is a polemical work that goes beyond current complaints about the failings of our democracy and explores the deeper social and economic forces that account for the current malaise. Colin Crouch argues that the decline of those social classes which had made possible an active

The Massive Omnibus Volume 1 (Wood Brian)(Paperback)

In a post-war, post-crash, post-disaster, post-everything world, the environmental-action trawler Kapital scours the earth's oceans for its mysteriously missing sistership, The Massive. Captain Callum Israel, a man who has dedicated his life to the ocean, now must ask himself--as our planet

Political Economy for Socialism (Itoh Makoto)(Paperback)

A reconsideration of socialism in the post-Soviet era based on the theoretical achievements of Japanese Marxist political economy. The origins and the various components of the broad current of socialist thought, as well as the implications of Marx's economic theories for socialism, are explored

Mitrokhin Archive II - The KGB in the World (Andrew Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction (Bennington Geoffrey)(Paperback)

This book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the Iliad to contemporary philosophy. Politics is an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy--as recalcitrant to

Central Peripheries - Nationhood in Central Asia (Laruelle Marlene)(Paperback / softback)

Central Peripheries explores post-Soviet Central Asia through the prism of

This Virtual Night (Friedman C.S.)(Paperback)

A return to the world of This Alien Shore, set in the second age of stellar

After Gorbachev (White Stephen)(Paperback)

Dramatic and confusing changes in what used to be the Soviet Union have transformed the world in which we live. This fourth edition of Stephen White's best-selling introductory text has been revised throughout and examines the full cycle of this period of revolutionary change from its Brezhnevite

This Virtual Night (Friedman C.S.)(Paperback / softback)

A return to the world of This Alien Shore, set in the second age of stellar

A World Apart: Imprisonment in a Soviet Labor Camp During World War II (Herling Gustaw)(Paperback)

A searing, personal literary account of life in a Soviet prison camp In 1940, Gustaw Herling was arrested after he joined an underground Polish army that fell into Russian hands. He was sent to a northern Russian labor camp, where he spent the two most terrible years of his life. In A World Apart,

Jung and the Post-Jungians (Samuels Andrew)(Paperback)

This bestseller is a comprehensive review of the developments which have taken place in Jungian psychology since Jung's

The Thousand Year Beach (Hirotaka Tobi)(Paperback)

In a posthuman virtual world sealed off from the ruins of Earth, the idyll is shattered by an arachnid invasion. Designed in imitation of a harbor town in southern Europe, the Realm of Summer is just one of the zones within the virtual resort known as the Costa del Numero. It has been more than a

Security as Politics: Beyond the State of Exception (Neal Andrew W.)(Paperback)

Andrew W. Neal argues that while 'security' was once an anti-political 'exception' in liberal democracies - a black box of secret intelligence and military decision-making at the dark heart of the state - it has now become normalised in professional political life. This represents a direct

Soviet Asia: Soviet Modernist Architecture in Central Asia (Murray Damon)(Pevná vazba)

Brutalism East: majestic concrete meets ornament and color in the revelatory world of Soviet Asian architecture Soviet Asia explores the Soviet modernist architecture of Central Asia. Italian photographers Roberto Conte and Stefano Perego crossed the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan,