Politics and IR

AI Futures

AI FUTURES is the first book series which presents a critical analysis of Artificial Intelligence with a particular emphasis on its implication for society. It connects current research into the ethics of AI, to research initiatives focused on the variegated impacts of Artificial Intelligence, including on marginalised communities and on the Global South. As such, AI FUTURES encompasses a unique...

Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Law and Medical Humanities

This series focuses on the strong foundations and reputation of the University of Manchester's world-leading scholars in bioethics. It includes internationally respected works on bioethics and the humanities, which consider contemporary, historical and future bioethical questions of the highest social and moral concern and interest. ...

Critical Labour Movement Studies

The purpose of this series is to give a platform to those students of labour movements who challenge, or develop, established ways of thinking and so demonstrate the continued vitality of the subject and the work of those interested in it. ...

Critical Powers

Critical Powers is dedicated to constructing dialogues around innovative and original work in social and political theory. The series welcomes work from different philosophical traditions and theoretical orientations, ranging from abstract conceptual argument to concrete policy-relevant engagements, and encourages dialogue across the diverse approaches that populate the field of social and...

European Politics

European Politics seeks to tackle the biggest issues facing Europe in the twenty-first century. Previously published under the European Policy Research Unit (EPRU) name, this long-established and highly respected series combines an important scholarly legacy with an ambitious outlook on European Studies at a time of rapid change for the discipline. Its geographical coverage encompasses the...

Geopolitical Economy

Geopolitical Economy promotes fresh inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the most pressing new realities of the twenty-first century: the multipolar world and the renewed economic centrality of states in it. From a range of disciplines, works in the series account for these new realities historically. They explore the problems and contradictions, domestic and international, of capitalism....

Global Icons

The Pluto Educational Trust is proud to support the Global Icons series. Books published in this series will celebrate and honour individuals whose thought, activism and enduring work ‘changed the world’. The Global Icons series will publish books in honour of Walter Rodney, who wrote and struggled for the freedom of black and colonised peoples. Our goal is publish Icons who have become...

Global Studies of the Far Right

We are living in an unprecedented moment of uncertainty and chaos. The edifice of the old liberal order is starting to crack and a new, illiberal order is appearing on the horizon. The complexity and seriousness of these changes is such that now more than ever scholars are needed to weigh in on – and make sense of – these ‘shifting sands’. ...

Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches

This landmark series offers a fresh interdisciplinary reflection on one of the most important and yet understudied areas of history, politics and cultural practice: humanitarian aid and its responses to crises and conflicts. Now firmly established, the series brings into salient perspective the boundaries and methodologies applied to the study of humanitarian relief and so-called ‘humanitarian...

Identities and Geopolitics in the Middle East

After the Arab Uprisings and the ensuing fragmentation of regime– society relations across the Middle East, identities and geopolitics have become increasingly contested, with serious implications for the ordering of political life at domestic, regional and international levels, best seen in conflicts in Syria and Yemen. The Middle East is the most militarised region in the world, where...

Issues in Environmental Politics

This series takes key problems for environmental policy and examines the politics behind their cause and possible resolution. ...

Key Studies in Diplomacy

The volumes in the series seek to advance the study and understanding of diplomacy in its many forms. Diplomacy remains a vital component of global affairs, and it influences and is influenced by its environment and the context in which it is conducted. The series covers historical, conceptual, and practical studies of diplomacy. ...

Manchester Capitalism

Manchester Capitalism is a series of books which follows the trail of money and power across the systems of our failing capitalism. The books make powerful interventions about who gets what and why in a research based and solidly argued way that is accessible for the concerned citizen. They go beyond critique of neo liberalism and its satellite knowledges to re-frame our problems and offer...

Melland Schill Studies in International Law

Founded as a memorial to Edward Melland Schill, a promising scholar killed during the First World War, the Melland Schill Lectures (1961-74) were established by the University of Manchester following a bequest by Edward’s sister, Olive B. Schill, to promote the understanding of international law and implicitly lessen the possibilities for future conflict. The resulting Melland Schill monograph...

New Approaches to Conflict Analysis

New Approaches to Conflict Analysis promotes the development of new theoretical insights and their application to concrete cases of large scale conflict. ...

New Perspectives on the Right

The series publishes the best and most innovative titles on the politics of the Right, drawn from the fields of sociology, history, cultural studies and political science and stimulating debate across disciplinary boundaries. It is not limited in historical coverage or geographical scope, but is united by its concern to critically interrogate and better understand the history, development,...

Pocket Politics

Pocket politics presents short summaries of complex topics on socio-political issues both in Britain and overseas. Academically sound, accessible and aimed at the interested general reader, the series addresses a subject range including political ideas, economics, society, the machinery of government and international issues. Authors are encouraged, should they choose, to offer their own...

Political Ethnography

Political Ethnography is an outlet for ethnographic research into politics and administration and builds an interdisciplinary platform for a readership interested in qualitative research in this area. Such work cuts across traditional scholarly boundaries of political science, public administration, anthropology, social policy studies and development studies and facilitates a conversation across...

Politics Today

Definitive, accessible and comprehensive, the Politics Today series sets the standard for introductory textbooks. ...

Postcolonial International Studies

Postcolonial International Studies marks out a dedicated space for advanced critical inquiry into colonial questions across International Relations and beyond. The series embraces a multitude of methods and approaches, theoretical and empirical scholarship, alongside historical and contemporary concerns. It enquires into the shifting principles of colonial rule that inform global...

Progress in Political Economy

Since its launch in 2014, the blog Progress in Political Economy (PPE)—available at https://www.ppesydney.net/—has become a central forum for the dissemination and debate of political economy research published in book and journal article forms with crossover appeal to academic, activist and public...

Reappraising the Political

The series is interdisciplinary in approach, seeking new inspiration from both traditional sister disciplines and from more recent neighbours such as literary theory and cultural studies. ...

Rethinking Borders

Crossing to the other side has many meanings, depending on what is crossing, where, when and why. Yet it always involves borders: there can be no other side without a marker between the sides, something that gives the sense of a difference between here and that other place. Equally, refusing to cross, or refusing to accept the crossers, also requires a marker between different sides. ...

Russian Strategy and Power

This new series explores the nature and dynamics of Russian Grand Strategy, examining the characteristics of Russian power, its various facets and features to shed light on how Russia works (and how it does not). In so doing, it brings up-to-date, peer-reviewed academic research to a wider audience. ...

Social and Political Power

Power is one of the most fundamental concepts in social science. Yet, despite the undisputed centrality of power to social and political life, few have agreed on exactly what it is or how it manifests itself. Social and Political Power is a book series that provides a forum for this absolutely central, and much debated, social phenomenon. ...

Understanding Politics

The Understanding Politics series accessibly and comprehensively covers the A/S and A level politics syllabuses of the main UK examining boards. ...

Women on the Move

Women on the Move is a transdisciplinary book series that focuses on unveiling the presence and multiplicity of experiences of women in migration processes. The series bridges the gap between historical and contemporary approaches, its objective being to publish books on women’s migration from a wide variety of perspectives, time frames and geographical outlooks, with a combination of...

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