Product Description: With the approach of 1992 and the heralding of a new chapter in the internationalization of economic life, it is important to try and understand how sovereign nation-states are related in the international order. The author looks particularly at the role Britain plays in the world economy and inquires into the effect that the American economy has had on Britain's strategy for economic reconstruction...read more

Product Description: An assessment of the politics of economic policy under the Major governments between 1990-1994 in Britain. Its focus is on the position of Britain in the global political economy.

Product Description: Since the mid-1980s there has been a significant expansion of postgraduate education in the social sciences in Britain, resulting in increased interest in research process and the teaching of research methods. This text provides an analysis of topics related to this expansion.

Product Description: Peter Burnham presents a detailed, archive-based account of the keys aspects of international monetary relations in the 1950s focusing in particular on Anglo-American policy surrounding the restoration of sterling convertibility. He argues that in 1952 the British government had a unique opportunity to take an almost revolutionary step in the external field to transform the international political economy (through the abolition of the fixed rate system, the International Monetary Fund, and the European Payments Union) and restructure Britain's domestic economy to tackle longstanding productivity, export and labour market problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It draws out the differences of how class struggle is understood as well as the common concern for understanding the historical specificity of capitalism and process of state formation, through a focus on the social relations of production and labour...read more

Product Description: Ralph Miliband was a leading contributor to the development of Marxist political theory in the late twentieth century. His writings remain highly influential in contemporary work on the state and related areas of political theory and political sociology...read more

Product Description: The second edition of this widely used text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics and assessment of their strengths and limitations; of their interrelationship; and of ethical issues in research...read more

Product Description: This major new text provides a comprehensive introduction to the main research methods employed in the study of politics, an assessment of their strengths and limitations, and an account of their relationship to the evolution of the discipline of political science...read more