Seminal thinkers of the nineteenth century – Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud – all…
Worlds Apart tells of a well-meaning foreign policy establishment often deaf to the voices of everyday people. Its focus is the Bosnian War…
Ethics for Enemies comprises three original philosophical essays on torture, terrorism, and war. F. M. Kamm deploys ethical theory in her…
Though it defies consensus, between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent…
The United States had never lost a war—that is, until 1975, when it was forced to flee Saigon in humiliation after losing to what Lyndon…
Is religion a force for good or evil in world politics? How much influence does it have? Despite predictions of its decline, religion has…
Many fear that democracies are suffering from a legitimacy crisis. This book focuses on "democratic deficits," reflecting how far the…
Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front…
America is an urban nation. More than two thirds of us live on the 3 percent of land that contains our cities. Yet cities get a bad rap:…