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Liberalism and Pluralism
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 55.95In Liberalism and Pluralism the author explores the challenges conflicting values, interests and identities pose to liberal democracy. Richard Bellamy illustrates his criticism and proposals by reference to such topical issues as the citizens charter, constitutional reform, the Rushdie affair and the development of the European Union. more...
Political Concepts
Manchester University Press 2003; US$ 74.95This text offers a sophisticated analysis of central political concepts in the light of debates in political theory. It introduces students to some of the main interpretations, pointing out their strengths and weaknesses, including a range of the main concepts employed in contemporary debates. more...
Political Constitutionalism
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 34.00Questions the effectiveness and legitimacy of rights-based judicial review by constitutional courts. more...
Citizenship
Oxford University Press, UK 2008; US$ 9.99Interest in citizenship has never been higher. But what does it mean to be a citizen in a modern, complex community? Richard Bellamy approaches the subject of citizenship from a political perspective and, in clear and accessible language, addresses the complexities behind this highly topical issue. - ;Interest in citizenship has never been higher.... more...
Rethinking Liberalism
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 140.00This book explores liberalisms past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J. S. Mill, through T. H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the... more...
Lineages of European Citizenship
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 110.00Lineages of European Citizenship provides an historical analysis of the development of citizenship from the nineteenth to the Twentieth-century in Europe and the USA. The contributors focus on the role played by internal struggles for social and political inclusion in shaping the character of both the state and citizenship, and the deployment of... more...
Making European Citizens
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 110.00Making European Citizens examines the forms of transnational citizenship developing in Europe. Active citizenship involves more than simply voting. Achieving mobilization at a transnational level may involve new democratic techniques and skills. The volume explores how far European citizens have acquired the requisite methods and qualities. more...
The Ecological Rift
Monthly Review Press 2011; US$ 65.00Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rifts have been driven through the delicate fabric of the... more...
Security and the War on Terror
Taylor and Francis 2007; US$ 46.95The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a turning point in international politics, representing a new type of threat that could not easily be anticipated or prevented through state-based structures of security alone. Opening up interdisciplinary conversations between strategic, economic, ethical and legal approaches to global terrorism,... more...
Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 46.00Extensive evidence has now accumulated that host genes are important determinants of the outcome of infection for many common pathogens. This book, written by leading authorities, summarises the advances which have been made in understanding the complexity of host genetic susceptibility. more...









