Books in the Political Traditions in Foreign Policy Series series

In this informed and comprehensive assessment of current issues in international politics, Kenneth W. Thompson addresses the role that traditions and values play in shaping change and in helping us to understand its implications.

Joel Rosenthal's survey of five noteworthy self-proclaimed political realists explores the realists' overarching commitment to transforming traditional power politics into a form of "responsible power" commensurate with American values.

John Farrenkopf takes advantage of the historical perspective the end of the millennium provides to reassess visionary thinker Oswald Spengler and his challenging ideas on world history and politics and modern civilisation.

Dante Germino's biography of the Italian communist and political theorist Antonio Gramsci offers a major reassessment of this important twentieth-century thinker. Germino analyses Gramsci's remarkable life as well as his extensive oeuvre, from the early Turin articles to the meditative Prison Notebooks.