Political Science : International Relations

This book analyses the changing role of the British Foreign Secretary and presents biographical case studies of all the individual holders of that post, the policies they persued and the issues they faced, since 1974. more...

Price: $180.00

Viewed from the perspective of Whitehall, Persia was a crossroads where Britain’s European and Indian interests met. Control of Persia by any European power was bound to jeopardize the security of British India. A threat to India could in turn be used as a lever to upset the balance of power in Europe. To forestall this danger, Britain tried various policies. At first London and India hesitantly experimented with the policy of bringing Persia into the British sphere of influence either by contracting an alliance with her or by turning her into a protectorate. Persia’s crushing defeat in the war with Russia put an end to these experiments. The Turkomanchai Treaty of 1828 firmly established Russian influence at Tehran. more...

Price: $100.00

The past ten years have seen a revival of interest in the recent history of the British labour movement, and particularly in the alleged ‘lost opportunity’ for a British revolution at some stage between 1900 and 1926. What is attempted here is a reassessment of the radical politics of the 1930s, a decade also mythologised in the recent past as one in which British intellectuals were either ‘fellow-travelling’ with Stalin or ‘moving towards Marxism’, depending on your point of view. My concern is not centrally with those poets, writers and scientists whose memoirs of the ‘Red Thirties’ are readily available. more...

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The tenth edition of this acclaimed text continues to provide a lively, comprehensive and up-to-date account of British political institutions, of the way in which they operate, and of the society in which they developed. more...

Price: $37.99

Going beyond military threats and state-centric analysis, this publication demonstrates the importance of a broad security agenda that incorporates political, economic, social and environmental dimensions. more...

Price: $43.00