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  • Empires of the Mind

    International Society and the Search for a New Order

    by James Mayall ...
    This book examines three major attempts since World War I to reform international order and challenge empire, hierarchy, and real politik. It covers the League of Nations' promotion of democracy and self-determination, the United Nations' addition of economic governance, and post-1991 democratization efforts. The work investigates why these reforms failed and explores the persistent hold of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Power, Legitimacy, and World Order

    Changing Contours of Preconditions and Perspectives

    Edited by Sanjay Pulipaka, Krishnan Srinivasan, James Mayall ...
    This book reflects on the reasons for the decline of international cooperation in world politics and studies ways to restore legitimacy in the international order. It engages with the concept of legitimacy in international relations theories and practices to examine the discussions around power shifts, the decline of liberalism, demands for inclusive international architectures, and challenges to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Community of States

    A Study in International Political Theory

    Edited by James Mayall ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: International Relations
    This volume is a successor volume to The Reason of States. Part 1 discusses ways in which to understand the nature, possibility and limits of community beyond the state. Specific chapters are devoted to the practical attempts of statesmen, lawyers, strategists and economists to devise morally defensible international policies on the basis of interest. Part 3 challenges the conventional morality of ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Values in Foreign Policy

    Investigating Ideals and Interests

    Edited by James Mayall, Sanjay Pulipaka, Krishnan Srinivasan ...
    Values in Foreign Policy: Investigating Ideals and Interests covers all aspects of the tension between values and national priorities, with specific reference to the leading countries of today. The volume explores the effect of the enlightenment, colonialism, modernity and post-modernity in determining contemporary value systems which are often uncomfortable in their interface with each other. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • World Politics

    Progress and its Limits

    by James Mayall ...
    Series series Themes for the 21st Century
    At the end of the Cold War, there was much talk of a new world order in which the sovereign state would be held to democratic account, fundamental rights would be respected, and conflict would be replaced by cooperation based on the rule of law. At the start of the new millenium most of this optimism has evaporated.This book examines why it is so difficult to improve standards of international ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • International Human Rights in the 21st Century

    Protecting the Rights of Groups

    by Eva Brems, Jack Donnelly, Hurst Hannum, Jennifer Jackson-Preece, Marc Weller, Nicholas Wheeler ...
    The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was approved in 1948 and yet more than fifty years later some human rights-especially the rights of groups such as women, minorities, and indigenous peoples-continue to be at risk. This book examines recent humanitarian catastrophes involving such groups and suggests how the society of states may develop a collective capacity for human rights enforcement. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Contemporary Commonwealth

    An Assessment 1965-2009

    Edited by James Mayall ...
    This collection of essays has been assembled to mark the centenary of The Round Table. It provides an analysis of the modern Commonwealth since the establishment of the Secretariat in 1965.Providing an overview of the contemporary Commonwealth, this book places the organization in its rich historical context while assessing its achievements, failures and prospects. The volume is divided into two ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    **From a former president of the United Nations Security Council, an authoritative look at the US, China, and the defining geopolitical contest of the twenty-first century“An excellent and important book on the biggest question in international affairs: how will the relationship between the US and China evolve?” —Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator,** Financial TimesChina and the United ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History

    Third Edition

    by Craig Heron ...
    In The Canadian Labour Movement, historian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century.This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    The classic study of post-Cold War international relations, more relevant than ever in the post-9/11 world, with a new foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.Since its initial publication, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order has become a classic work of international relations and one of the most influential books ever written about foreign affairs. An insightful and powerful ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • At the Centre of Government

    The Prime Minister and the Limits on Political Power

    by Ian Brodie ...
    "Canada's prime minister is a dictator." "The Sun King of Canadian government." "More powerful than any other chief executive of any other democratic country." These kinds of claims are frequently made about Canada's leader – especially when the prime minister's party holds a majority government in Parliament. But is there any truth to these arguments? At the Centre of Government not only presents ... Read more

    $29.99 USD