Machiavelli demystifies political violence by offering a political (rather than a moral or metaphysical) account of how it operates. His signal contribution involves conceptualizing violence as a political strategy that…

Synthesizing the very latest research, this book focuses on the social context of personality disorders. It considers how personality traits and disorders interact with social demands and opportunities, and offers…

Charles Taylor’s study of Hegel’s social and political thought has continuing relevance to contemporary society. Presented in a fresh series livery and with a specially commissioned new preface, written by…

This book proposes a strategic pressure theory that argues that in emerging democracies, political competition eggs on rather than restrains power-hungry politicians. Using data from Russia and Ukraine in 1998-2004…

John Locke’s theory of property is perhaps the most distinctive and the most influential aspect of his political theory. In this book James Tully uses an hermeneutical and analytical approach…

How do international human rights and humanitarian law protect vulnerable individuals during peace and war? Provost analyses systemic similarities and differences between the two to examine how they are each…

Interdisciplinary and employing a broad range of sources, this book establishes, for the first time, the significant role played by women - in particular actresses, female playgoers and women critics…

Abizadeh uncovers the basic distinction underwriting Hobbes’s ethics: between prudential reasons of the good and reasons of the right, for which we are accountable to others. Hobbes’s distinction marks a…