What accounts for changes in public policies affecting science, technology, and the environment? This should be a central question for political observers and policy analysts. Policies, after all, are the main outcomes of political systems. Scholars study political institutions and behavior...

Tocqueville's discovery of a muscular, participatory citizenship in the United States is well known, as is his argument that such citizenship is vital to the success of democracy. This has been a source of both self-congratulation and anxiety among Americans, the anxiety stemming from worries...

Though we often think in terms of 'big names' who write 'big books,' political theory has always appeared in many guises. The philosophical treatise stands alongside the political oration, the prison letter, the petition, the novel, the satirical send-up, the drama: all of these different prose...

Eight years ago, the philosophical notebooks of one of the most widely-read political theorists of our time were published. Spanning twenty-three years, from 1950 to 1973, and containing more than eight hundred pages of annotations, Arendt's Denktagebuch is a unique testimony to the life of the...

China's ascent is often discussed in economic or geo-strategic terms. Yet little attention is paid to the ways in which China's growing assertiveness in international relations will lead to novel challenges for human rights. Chinese foreign policy has an increasingly pronounced effect on a...

The U.S is committed to supporting democracy in the Arab world during the Bush administration after the failure in the Iraqi war. This interest changed during Obama years who put Arab – Israeli conflict as priority for his administration. The U.S also has other agendas, most notably the...

China's rise has become a defining political phenomenon of world politics in the 21st century. While most scholars debate over what will happen after China rises and how the United States should deal with China's ascent, we focus on exploring China's strategic choices in the course of ascent,...