Reluctant Ally

Frank W Brecher

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• United States diplomatic policy towards European Jews, Zionists, and Israelis remains vitally important to the stability and international posture of ... Lees meer

Roman Catholicism and Political Form

G L Ulmen

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 380
• The relationship between economic and political thinking has reached a crisis at the end of the 20th century. Already at the beginning of this century... Lees meer

The Later Security Confederations

Frederick Lister

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 391
• In this volume, Fredrick Lister examines security confederations of the modern eras; America's confederal union during the winning of the Revolutionar... Lees meer

Power and Policy in Transition

Vojtech Mastry

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• Has the existence of nuclear weapons transformed the traditional relationship between power and its use in international affairs? If it has, are we th... Lees meer

The European Union, the United Nations, and the Revival of Confederal Governance

Frederick Lister

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 371
• Before it became a federation, the United States was briefly a confederation, a much looser union composed of states rather than of peoples. Unions of... Lees meer

Personal Religion Among the Greeks

A J Festugiere

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 26
• The author discerns two distinct currents of personal religion, which he illustrates through striking instances of faith on the part of individual Gre... Lees meer

East Central Europe After the Warsaw Pact

Andrew Michta

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• Andrew A. Michta examines the security of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary in the aftermath of the 1989 collapse of communism and the Soviet empire... Lees meer

The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes

George Schwab

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• Carl Schmitt, the Thomas Hobbes of the 20th century, joined the Nazi party in 1933 and aspired to become the crown jurist and political philosopher of... Lees meer

The Pure Concept of Diplomacy

Jose Calvet de Magalhaes

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• This is a pioneer theoretical study of diplomacy from the viewpoint of political science. It defines diplomacy precisely, and distinguishes it from th... Lees meer

Comparative History and Legal Theory

Jeffrey Seitzer

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• It is a commonplace of Schmitt scholarship that the controversial thinker sought to recapture some of the elan of the pre-Weimar state through his adv... Lees meer

The French Revolution and the Meaning of Citizenship

Philip Dawson, Renee Waldinger, Isser Woloch

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• Citizenship is a fundamental concept in social life, entailing rights, obligations, and relationships with others. Modern citizenship did not emerge f... Lees meer

Selected Works of Juan Donoso Cortés

Jeffrey P Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• Growing interest in the ideas of the German legal and political theorist Carl Schmitt have sparked an interest in the thinkers and ideas that influenc... Lees meer

Perforated Sovereignties and International Relations

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• In case studies and comparative analysis of Canada, the United States, France, Switzerland, and Belgium, a distinguished international group of schola... Lees meer

The Early Security Confederations

Frederick Lister

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 388
• Lister traces the little known story of how the first confederal type unions sprang up in ancient Greece, and how they were revived in medieval and ea... Lees meer

On the Three Types of Juristic Thought

Joseph W Bendersky

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• Bendersky provides the only English-language translation of one of Carl Schmitt's most controversial works. At the time of its publication in 1934 and... Lees meer

A Reader's Guide to Haydn's Early String Quartets

William Drabkin

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 1
• The six string quartets comprising Joseph Haydn's Opus 20 (composed in 1772) are the first works in the genre to have received consistent critical att... Lees meer

Social Justice in the Ancient World

K D Irani, Morris Silver

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 354
• This edited collection focuses on the problem of social justice, or, more particularly, how the demand for social justice was articulated and implemen... Lees meer

Macro-Nationalisms

Louis L Snyder

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 112
• This book is a comparative study of the meaning, characteristics, and development of pan-movements, a synonym for macro-nationalisms, in the last cent... Lees meer

Portugal in the 1980s

Kenneth Maxwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• This authoritative study provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the current political, economic, and social situation in Portugal. In h... Lees meer

Global Mini-Nationalisms

Louis L Snyder

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics | nr. 71
• Many nations--groups sharing linguistic and cultural bonds--still have not found a true homeland. This phenomenon is examined in a scholarly study: Gl... Lees meer

The Myth of Inevitable Progress

Franco Ferrarotti

• Hardcover | Engels | Global Perspectives in History and Politics
• Franco Ferrarotti examines the ways in which we have come to cope with the problems unforeseen by the early idealists of the industrial age. Beginning... Lees meer