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Political Legitimization without Morality?
Springer 2008; US$ 109.99Within their territories, states claim to be the only authority to determine the law and to use coercive power to punish those who act illegally. Both claims are considered to be acceptable, provided a state acts in accordance with the framework of a legitimate constitution. However, the task of specifying the properties of a legitimate constitution... more...
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 23.00This book examines citizens' attitudes toward the legitimacy of their political systems and the relationship between political legitimacy and democratic stability. more...
Political Revolutions of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries
Infobase Publishing 2005; US$ 84.00An encyclopaedic survey of political revolutions, covering three centuries; In addition to substantial essay-length entries, Political Revolutions features sidebars and timelines, a chronology, bibliography, primary documents source, and appendices McNeese and Crompton examine the origins and nature of selected political revolutions in the past three... more...
Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance
Zed Books 2010; US$ 29.95In this ground-breaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political, and social structural conditions to the thoughts and feelings of the people who make revolutions. In particular, he argues, we need to understand the stories people relay and rework of past injustices as they struggle in the present toward a better... more...
Terrorism, Civil War, and Revolution
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 100.00Terrorism, Civil War, and Revolution analyzes the role of revolution and civil strife in the present day world. Expanding on the 2nd edition of Calvert's Revolution and International Politics , this new work reflects the drastic changes that have taken place in the world order since 2001. With an increased focus on terrorism and civil war, the... more...
Three Anarchical Fallacies
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 42.00This book exposes fallacies inspired by the idea that coercion seems inseparable from government and in doing so shows that living in a just state remains a worthy ideal. more...
The State in Contemporary Islamic Thought
I.B.Tauris 2009; US$ 75.00The debates on 'Islam and Modernity' clearly include in their analysis notions of the State. Abdelillah Belkeziz here charts the development of the concept of 'the state' (al-dawlah) in Islamic discourse over the last two centuries. The result is a tour de force survey of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the modern era, which... more...
Legitimacy in International Society
OUP Oxford 2005; US$ 44.99The word 'legitimacy' is seldom far from the lips of practitioners of international affairs. The legitimacy of recent events - such as the wars in Kosovo and Iraq, the post-September 11 war on terror, and instances of humanitarian intervention - have been endlessly debated by publics around the globe. And yet the academic discipline of IR has... more...
Hegemony and Sovereign Equality
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99The "interest contiguity theory," which is the book's centerpiece, holds that rather than a smooth, one-way cruise through history, humankind's journey from the inception to the present has brought him/her face to face with broadly three types of interests. The first is the individual interest, which, strange as it may sound, tends... more...
The History of Islamic Political Thought
Edinburgh University Press 2011; US$ 80.00Second edition of the history of Islamic political thought that traces its roots from early Islam to the current age of Fundamentalism (622 AD to 2010 AD). more...









