"Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy in danger? Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt have spent more than twenty years studying the breakdown of democracies in Europe and Latin America, and they believe the answer is yes. Democracy no longer ends with a bang--in a revolution or military coup--but with a whimper: the slow, steady weakening of critical institutions,...

Offers a historical perspective in interpreting the current tensions in Belgian politics based on scientific literature. As a European trendsetter Belgium was the first country on the European continent to experience a quick process of industrialisation and the first liberal state in the 19th century. The World Wars put Belgium in the middle of the fighting twice over; especially after 1945, the country played a prominent international role in the...

China announces a cease-fire in the war with India.

A groundbreaking history of Europe's "new lefts" from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Western Europe's New Left rebelled against the democratic welfare state and their parents' antiquated politics of reform. It was not the first time an upstart leftist movement was built on the ruins of the old. This book traces the history of neoleftism from its antifascist roots in the first half of the twentieth...

"India's growing economic and socio-political importance on the global stage has triggered an increased interest in the country. Now available in paperback, this Handbook is a reference guide, which surveys the current state of Indian politics and provides a basic understanding of the ways in which the world's largest democracy functions. The Handbook is structured around four main topics: political change, political economy, the diversity of regional...

"Many books claiming to aid our understanding of China are based on the assumption that it is destined to follow the US model of war, hegemony and unilateralism. Ronald Keith shows that this underplays the importance of China's domestic politics, which are essential to shaping the country's role in the world. Highlighting the development of China's own perception of itself, the book examines domestic understandings of the struggle between socialism...