Tag: Political Theory

April 9, 2014

The EU: A Dictatorship of Freedoms (Part 2) — Albena Azmonova

The following is part two of a post by Albena Azmanova, author of The Scandal of Reason: A Critical Theory of Political Judgment. You can read the first half of the post here. “The grievances against austerity that are now...

February 21, 2014

Shifting Sands After the Arab Spring

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 20, 2014

The Yom Kippur War and the Changing Calculus of U.S. Foreign Policy

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 19, 2014

Tiptoeing Through Minefields

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 18, 2014

The Middle East in the Eye of the Global Storm, by Joel Migdal

This week our featured book is Shifting Sands: The United States in the Middle East by Joel S. Migdal. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as on...

February 5, 2014

Economic Struggle and Political Struggle, by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

February 4, 2014

Read the prefaces to Factory of Strategy, by Antonio Negri

This week our featured book is Factory of Strategy: Thirty-Three Lessons on Lenin by Antonio Negri, translated by Arianna Bove. Throughout the week, we will be featuring content about the book and its author on our blog as well as...

May 20, 2013

Kenneth Waltz, 1924-2013

We were sad to learn of the death of Kenneth Waltz, who passed away last week at the age of 88. Waltz was a longtime professor at Columbia University, among other places, and was the author of Man, the State,...

March 29, 2013

Introductions in the Insurrections Series

Read excerpts from titles in our critically acclaimed Insurrections series!

March 21, 2011

Jurgen Habermas on "The Political"

In The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere, Judith Butler, Jurgen Habermas, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West examine what role does—or should—religion play in our public lives? (Craig Calhoun provided the afterword to the volume.) This week we will...