Acknowledgement of the importance of identity to politics and widespread concern about responding adequately to marginalized groups have made otherness a salient concept in contemporary political thought. Yet, there has not appeared in the literature any attempt to clarify the distinctive forms...

Alexis de Tocqueville's examination of the political and social climate over the issue of slavery in the textual culmination of his travels throughout the U.S. in 1830s, Democracy in America, casts a shadow over the sustainability of a single American nation-state. Although Tocqueville's...

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...

Recently, political scientists have marshaled an impressive methodological discussion of political ethnography. However, this discussion has yielded little debate about the potential for an activist turn in political ethnography. In order to promote such a turn, this paper takes on four tasks....

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). This volume covers the period starting from his childhood up to his early...

This three volume series of intellectual biography considers the life, work and impact on economic, social and political theory of the Italian economist, sociologist and political scientist Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923). This second volume follows Pareto from his time teaching at Lausanne to the...

1. Introduction -- Part I: Shortcomings of Current Theories of EI -- 2. Federalism, Sovereignty and Modernity -- 3. The Obsolescence of Neo-Functionalism -- 4. Liberalism: Do Economics Drive EI? -- 5: How to Solve the Problems of EI-Theory? -- Part II: European Republicanism -- 6. Approaches to...

1. Taking Chinese IR Scholars Seriously -- 2. On China’s Power and International Order: Is China a Challenger? -- 3. On US–China Relations: Problems and Prospects -- 4. On Chinese Foreign Policy and International Relations -- 5. Understanding China’s Rise through the Eyes of Scholars and...

Introduction -- Part I - The Dual Argument (1920 - 1947): The Socialist Calculation Debates -- The Lippmann Colloquium -- The Economic Consequences -- Part II - The First Meeting (1947): An Army of Fighters for Freedom -- Using the State -- A New Europe -- The Second Week -- Conclusions: What Is...

1 -- Introduction -- 2. Tocqueville’s “New Political Science” as a Correction of The Federalist -- 3. “The Monetary Link": Tocqueville on the Second Bank of the US and Liberal Political Economy -- 4. Tocqueville on the Mixed Blessing of Liberal Learning: Higher Education as Subversive...