In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule.

In this original and richly argued book, Seymour takes the reader into the dark and disturbing political and psychological underworld of apocalyptic right-wing nationalism.

If people see the future as open, losing in electoral democracy, for instance, is not calamitous—they can always try again. White worries that democratic societies increasingly fear that time is not ...

Kurzweil, a computer scientist and futurist at Google, argues that the world is on the doorstep of a technological revolution so profound it will alter what it means to be human.

Kaplan offers a bleak vision of a world in permanent political upheaval. Taking his title from T. S. Eliot’s famous poem about civilizational breakdown in the wake of World War I, Kaplan sees the ...

In this state-of-the-art comprehensive study, UN economists take a starkly dim view of Latin America’s overall performance.

Canizales, a sociologist, offers a full-blown defense of the rights of young migrants arriving illegally in the United States from Mexico and Central America.

Thoroughly reviewing the voluminous primary and secondary sources, Streeter concludes that the United States was not directly involved in the coup but that Washington helped create a climate of ...

Pierson and Schickler explain why the long-held assumption that competition in the United States’ two-party system will drive both parties to compete for voters in the center no longer holds.

In their deeply researched account, Grossman and Hopkins delve into the implications of the very rapid growth in the number of college-educated Americans in recent decades.

This elegantly written volume recounts the seven years during which Stern led the U.S. team involved in climate diplomacy under the Obama administration.

In this elegant and erudite revisionist study, Belleau, an anthropologist, refutes “blame the victim” excuses for mass violence during rule of Haitian dictator François “Papa Doc” Duvalier.