Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

Offering a comparative analysis of the challenges facing centre-left parties, this volume looks at the situation in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, the European Union, Poland and Russia. It considers ideologies, coalitions and specific national circumstances.

A historical perspective on the development of US health care policy over the last fifty years is provided with this book. Two points of significant change are identified: in the 1950s when the individual rather than the group became important; and the 1960s, when this approach was more limiting.

Tracing the history of the cult of Ludovica, the Altieri chapel and the statue, this text illuminates Bernini's contribution, both artistically and iconographically, to the chapel and proposes an interpretation of the precise nature of the experience the "beata" is undergoing in the sculpture.

Following the rise of the natural sciences and their theories about the world, questions exist about how God can be understood to act in such a world. This text contains philosophical and theological explorations of the idea that God acts in history, a topic central to theistic traditions.

A critique of arms control theory that attempts to make it more relevant to the multilateral political world of the post-Cold War period. This text argues that due to a near-exclusive focus on the behaviour of the superpowers and on nuclear technology, the arms control process has been constrained.

This text aims to reconcile two central approaches to war and peace studies: the making of credible threats and coercive bargaining; and conciliation and the offering of acceptable terms prior to or during a conflict. It argues that both approaches have their place in preventing conflict.