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Heinrich Heine and the World Literary Map: Redressing the Canon (Canon and World Literature)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This text provides a key reassessment of the German author Heinrich Heine’s literary status, arguing for his inclusion in the Canon of World Literature. It examines a cross section of Heine’s work in light of this debate, highlighting the elusive and ironic tenor of his many faceted prose works, from his philosophical and political...

Development, Political, and Economic Difficulties in the Caribbean

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This edited volume focuses on the attempts of various Caribbean countries to diversify their economies and societies. It is done in the context of political and economic difficulties that these countries have faced since the 2007-2008 economic crash and how successful they have been in moving their economies in a different...

The Political Thought of C.B. Macpherson: Contemporary Applications (Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

Central to the thought of C.B. Macpherson (1911-1987) are his critique of the culture of ‘possessive individualism’ and his defence of liberal-democratic socialism. Resurgence of interest in his works is in reaction to the rise of neoliberalism and efforts to find an alternative to societies dominated by...

The Presidentialisation of Political Parties in the Western Balkans

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book examines the process of presidentialisation of political parties in the Western Balkans. The Western Balkan countries deserve to be analysed in a comparative perspective due to their distinctive features in terms of processes of democratization, forms of government and institutional assets, the presence of social cleavages (religious,...

The Marxian Legacy: The Search for the New Left (Political Philosophy and Public Purpose)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The Marxian Legacy, first published in 1977 and released in a second edition in 1988, was and remains distinct in its view of Marxian theory as 'critique, ' aware of its own origins and limitations and self-conscious about its own historical rootedness in changing social and political conditions. This new and...

Employment and Re-Industrialisation in Post Soeharto Indonesia (Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book studies the challenges for Indonesia, once a miracle economy, as it faces premature deindustrialisation, rising inequality and domestic and external factors impacting its export-oriented industrialization. Since the fall of Soeharto, Indonesia has undergone a far-reaching systemic transition from centralised and autocratic governance...

The Welfare State and the Democratic Citizen: How Social Policies Shape Political Equality (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book examines the ways in which the welfare state impacts levels and distributions of political participation and democratic support in Western democracies. Going beyond the traditional contextual accounts of political behaviour, which primarily focus on political institutions or the socio-economic climate, this book looks...

Tribal Politics in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya (Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. These tribal politics are part of heterarchy in which sovereignty is shared between tribes, states and other groups and, within this dynamic setting, the local politicians of the Awlad ‘Ali are essential producers of order beyond...

EU Funds in the New Member States: Party Politicization, Administrative Capacities, and Absorption Problems after Accession (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book examines new member states’ problems with the absorption of EU funds. Since accession, many new member states from Central and Eastern Europe struggle to access their billions of development funds from Brussels. While existing research mostly emphasizes the role of states’ administrative capacities to account for absorption...

South Korea’s 70-Year Endeavor for Foreign Policy, National Defense, and Unification

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book brings Korea's finest foreign policy minds together in contemplating the risks and rewards of finally ending the 70 year stalemate between North and South Korea through reunification. While North Korea is in conflict with the United States over denuclearization and regime security, the South Korean government is focusing on...

German Political Thought and the Discourse of Platonism: Finding the Way Out of the Cave

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Taking Plato’s allegory of the cave as its starting-point, this book demonstrates how later European thinkers can be read as a reaction and a response to key aspects of this allegory and its discourse of enchainment and liberation. Focusing on key thinkers in the tradition of European (and specifically German) political thought including...

Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World?the world’s first “global economy”?from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions...

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