By Bo Sandelin, Hans-Michael Trautwein, Richard Wundrak

This book provides an elementary introduction to the history of economic thought and has been considerably overhauled and updated since the appearance of the first...

Will be published July 29th 2008 by Routledge.

Fault Lines

Why the Republicans Lost Congress

Edited by Jeffery Mondak, Dona-Gene Mitchell

In some years elections bring about enduring changes to the American political scene. In 2006, a pivotal election year, the Republicans suffered a resounding defeat,...

Will be published July 29th 2008 by Routledge.

Playing the Identity Card

Surveillance, Security and Identification in Global Perspective

Edited by Colin J. Bennett, David Lyon

National identity cards are in the news. While paper ID documents have been used in some countries for a long time, today's rapid growth features...

Will be published July 30th 2008 by Routledge.

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

A People's War

By Beverley Milton-Edwards

The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is one of the most enduring and complex in the modern world. But, why did the conflict break out?...

Will be published July 30th 2008 by Routledge.

Internet Governance

The new frontier of global institutions

By John Mathiason

The expansion of the Internet has been called the most revolutionary development in the history of human communications. It is ubiquitous and is changing politics,...

Will be published August 4th 2008 by Routledge.

Understanding Government Budgets

A Practical Guide

By R. Mark Musell

Budgets in the United States follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of government finance. Moreover, practices...

Will be published August 7th 2008 by Routledge.

Globalizing the Research Imagination

Edited by Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey

In the provocative opening essay Kenway and Fahey explore ways in which the notion of the imagination itself might be mobilized by researchers. They are...

Will be published August 7th 2008 by Routledge.

Institutions of the Asia-Pacific

ASEAN, APEC and beyond

By Mark Beeson

The Asia-Pacific is arguably the most important, but also the most complex and contested, region on the planet. Containing three of the world’s largest economies...

Will be published August 15th 2008 by Routledge.

Immigration Policy and Security

U.S., European, and Commonwealth Perspectives

Edited by Terri Givens, Gary P. Freeman, David L. Leal

Immigration policy in the United States, Europe, and the Commonwealth went under the microscope after the terror attacks of 9/11 and the subsequent events in...

Will be published August 18th 2008 by Routledge.

Statistical Modelling for Social Researchers

A Primer

By Roger Tarling

This book explains the principles and theory of statistical modelling in an intelligible way for the non-mathematical social scientist looking to apply statistical modelling techniques...

Will be published August 20th 2008 by Routledge.

By Kelley Lee

The World Health Organization (WHO), as the United Nations specialized agency for health, has been at the centre of international health cooperation for over sixty...

Will be published August 21st 2008 by Routledge.

Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking

Edited by Norman Miller

Like Norman Miller's companion text, Environmental Politics, this casebook emphasizes the struggle for power among stakeholders in environmental politics and policymaking. Whether examining recent legislation...

Will be published September 16th 2008 by Routledge.

Sovereignty and the Limits of the Political

By Karena Shaw

Sovereignty and Political Theory engages some of the profound challenges to traditions of modern political theory that have been posed over the past two decades....

Will be published September 17th 2008 by Routledge.

By Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner

While clearly assessing the achievements, performance and responses of major global south institutions to global change, Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner shows how and why such arrangements...

Will be published September 18th 2008 by Routledge.

Environmental Politics

Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking

By Norman Miller

The second edition of Environmental Politics: Stakeholders, Interests, and Policymaking shows students that environmental politics is fundamentally a clash of competing stakeholders’ interests, and environmental policy the result of their...

Will be published September 19th 2008 by Routledge.

By Dimitris N. Chryssochoou

Fully revised and updated throughout, Theorizing European Integration 2nd edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical study of European integration. Combining perspectives from international...

Will be published September 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

By Michael J. Shapiro

In recent years, film has been one of the major genres within which the imaginaries involved in mapping the geopolitical world have been represented and...

Will be published September 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

The Future of Democratic Equality

Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America

By Joseph M. Schwartz

Why has contemporary radical political theory remained virtually silent about the stunning rise in inequality in the United States over the past thirty years? Schwartz...

Will be published September 22nd 2008 by Routledge.

The Basics

By Alex Warleigh-Lack

Fully updated to include the new Treaty of Lisbon, this is the best short and accessible introduction to the politics of the European Union, written...

Will be published September 23rd 2008 by Routledge.

Policing Developing Democracies

Edited by Mercedes S. Hinton, Tim Newburn

There are enormous challenges in establishing policing systems in young democracies. Such societies typically have a host of unresolved pressing social, economic and political questions...

Will be published September 23rd 2008 by Routledge.