Political Science : Constitutions

This new volume shows how state sovereignty is more fluid and contested than is usually appreciated within both conventional and constructivist literature. more...

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This groundbreaking, interdisciplinary volume brings together diverse analyses of state space in historical and contemporary capitalism.:.; The first volume to present an accessible yet challenging overview of the changing geographies of state power under capitalism.; A unique, interdisciplinary collection of contributions by major theorists and analysts of state spatial restructuring in the current era.; Investigates some of the new political spaces that are emerging under contemporary conditions of ‘globalization'.; Explores state restructuring on multiple spatial scales, and from a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical perspectives.; Covers a range of topical issues in contemporary geographical political economy.; Contains case study material on Western Europe, North America and East Asia, as well as parts of Africa and South America. more...

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The stability of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia remains critical to Western security and economic interests. This crucial study focuses on generation change and identifies individuals with greatest leadership potential; examines their political, social, and religious views, including of the US; and evaluates factors likely to influence the survival of the Sauds as a ruling family. Understanding who are the players and what they are likely to do is ever more important. Supplemented with basic documents on Saudi Arabia, this is a vital resource for business and political analysts. more...

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Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as an ethnic group, still remain little known in the west and undervalued in the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds. This book contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071 – the Turkish equivalent of the battle of Hastings. Manzikert destroyed the hold of Christian Byzantium on eastern Turkey and opened the whole country to the spread of Islam, a process completed with the fall of Constantinople and Trebizond some four centuries later. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources – both Arabic and Persian – which deal with the battle of Manzikert are provided in the book. It also looks at these writings as literary works and vehicles of religious ideology and analyses the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe and the importance of Manzikert in the formation of the modern state of Turkey since 1923. more...

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Looks to novels and autobiographies to discover how contemporary writers have imagined possibilities for relationships between African American and white women that overcome the stereotypical patterns of racism, focusing on works by William Faulkner, Lillian Hellman, Audre Lorde, Kaye Gibbons, Elizabeth Cox, Sherley Anne Wiliams and Toni Morrison. more...

Price: $65.00