Politics

The book discusses boundaries of electoral inclusion and mechanisms of electoral representation in contemporary democracies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

This book examines the role of information as a crucial means for governance and negotiation, through which Renaissance rulers and governments managed the composite polities under their control. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

This book illustrates how cities possess unique normative identities, referred to as 'ethoses', and how the residents shape and perceive them. This collection argues that cities are emerging as new sources of identity, possessing their own "ethoses"-distinctive normative characters.

This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features - institutional and imaginary - and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality. It explores the constitutional imaginaries of representation, with special attention to the impact of the politics of fear on representative democracy.

This book examines the decision-making processes behind the formulation and evolution of the Japanese government's official stance regarding diplomatic problems connected with the history of Japan's territorial expansionism in East Asia.

This book presents a historically informed and theoretically systematic theory of respect that challenges many of the presuppositions of the current debate in ethics and politics. It develops a theory of respect as the rule of power relations, which draws connections between Kant's critical philosophy and Critical Theory.

This book is an essential toolkit for students and early researchers of population studies and demography, geography, economics, development studies political science, sociology, anthropology, and gender studies.

This book exposes the human rights violations against migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, critiques the inadequate European legal responses, and strongly advocates for the development of a framework for operationalising the protection of human rights - and life - at sea.

This book offers a thorough and complete overview of the function and profession of public procurement, explores legal frameworks, examines contract administration, and investigates a variety of solicitation methods and processes, with an emphasis on what happens post-award, including surplus and disposal.

The observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present.

The observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present.

The observation that we cannot fully uproot the epistemological-material violence of coercive systems, nor fully (re)imagine more ethical visions of planetary community, without shared attention to the deeper histories of place and peoples that shape the present.

Qin explores the ten-year-development of relations between China and Central and Eastern Europe through the China-CEEC (China-Central and Eastern European Countries) cooperation (16/17+1). A valuable resource for scholars and practitioners in international relations and China studies.

This edited collection examines the historical role of business actors in climate and environmental governance since the 1970s. Through a compilation of recent, evidence-based historical research, it unveils the origins of contemporary challenges in regulating environmental pollution.

This book investigates the escalating strategic competition between China and the US in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the dynamics of key regional secondary states caught in the middle, namely Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam, emphasizing their role as potential kingmakers in the shifting balance of power.

This volume examines the higher-level discussions convened at Wilton Park, the UK's Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office's policy forum, since its inception in 1946.