How Did The Trump Administration Change The Place Of Religion In U.s. Foreign Policy? How Did The Guardrails Of America's Foreign Policy Bureaucracy Respond To A Populist President? Drawing On First-hand Experience In The State Department's Office Of...

China's Threat To U.s. Global Hegemony Has Dominated International Policy Discussion For Years. But The Power Transition Debate-whether The Growing Power, China, Is Bound To Challenge And Overtake The Bigger Power, The United States-relies On A Theory...

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year"A must-read, with key lessons for the future."—Thomas PikettyA groundbreaking examination of austerity’s dark intellectual origins.For more than a century, governments facing financial crisis have resorted to the...

A powerful and sophisticated analysis of how Western professionals have enabled kleptocratic elite networks and undermined the rule of law.After the Cold War ended, the British government created the conditions under which a large, multinational class of...

As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat makes the controversial argument that what democracies require most are stronger political parties that serve as intermediaries between citizens and governments.Once a...

Most citizens know how elections work in their own country, but not all elections are created equally.Elections occur in all democracies and many non-democratic regimes as well. They determine who will hold public office and who will have the power to...

Authoritarianism is one of the buzzwords of our age. But what is it exactly? This Very Short Introduction provides a comprehensive overview of the world of authoritarian regimes, including military, single-party, and personalist regimes. It considers how...

The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism—widely held since the 1960s—is seriously mistaken.The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist,...

An essential primer on impeachment for today’s divided public squareWe are witnessing an unprecedented moment in American politics in which impeachments are increasingly common. In today’s partisan environment, it is more vital than ever that government...

How a concentrated attack on political institutions threatens to disable the essential workings of governmentIn this unsettling book, Russell Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblum trace how ungoverning—the deliberate effort to dismantle the capacity of government...

Why leaders, not citizens, are the driving force in Europe’s crisis of democracyAn apparent explosion of support for right-wing populist parties has triggered widespread fears that liberal democracy is facing its worst crisis since the 1930s. Democracy...

A New Global History Of Nationalism. Today, Almost All Countries Are Considered Nation-states, But Only A Handful Conform To The Original Nationalist Ideal Of A Unitary State Which Governs An Ethnically Homogenous Nation, An Ideal Which Has Rarely Been...

The utilization—and weaponization—of charm in contemporary global politicsPolitics is a site of performance, and contemporary politicians often perform the role of a regular person—perhaps someone we would like to have a beer with. They win elections not...

A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they...