Politics and International Relations

This fascinating compilation of extracts from proposals for uniting Europe, drawn up over the centuries, shows that the idea of European integration is far older than is often imagined.

This book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan’s military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated.

The chapters in this volume present data and analysis that sheds light on the live experiences of those at the lowest intersections of injustice—Indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, refugees, disabled people, youth, women, children and the poor. The contributors include eminent academics, students at all levels of study, practitioners within the field of social work, legal professionals and social justice activists. Gender, social exclusion, institutional discrimination, the intersectional nature of crimes and effects, (social) media influence and public perception are all key themes that figure in the volume. 

This volume explores key issues in the modern tensions between state and religions by exploring a number of case studies from around the world.

This book examines documenta fifteen (2022) as a turning point in global art politics, from ruangrupa’s Indonesian lumbung model to Palestinian cultural infrastructures. It traces how debates over collectivity, decolonization, and memory politics reveal the contradictions of globalization, financialization, and contemporary art’s search for rootedness.

This book offers a reflection about the state of politics of sensibilities on a planetary scale today; the authors propose a space that is destined to listen and exchange our own experiences of inquiry.

One of the very few books that focus on the political economy of Gaza under the foreign aid regime that has emerged post Oslo Agreement 1993. 

This volume critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in a postcolonial context.

Darkside Economics is a book about how economics is being used as an economic weapon to coerce or defend an economy.

Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ‘to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be adapted during fieldwork and they discuss data collection methods supporting Marxian analysis, including during COVID-19 times.

This book introduces a conceptually rich and innovative new framework for the ethics of nonviolence by drawing from Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.” It offers fresh insights into civil resistance and political theory.

Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.