Political Science
War and International Justice
Can war ever be just? By what right do we charge people with war crimes? Can war itself be a crime? What is a good peace treaty?
Since the Cold War ended in the early 1990s, many wars have erupted, inflaming ...
Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World
Who was Althusius, and why is the work of a seventeenth- century political theorist important in modern times?
Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) was a political theorist and a combative city politician ...
Léonard Bourdon
Léonard Bourdon: The Career of a Revolutionary, 1754-1807 illustrates the ways in which one individual was affected by and influenced the long and turbulent course of the French Revolution. It also rescues ...
Television Advertising in Canadian Elections
Can the strategy of negative political advertising developed in the United States succeed in Canada, or does this kind of advertising do more harm than good?
The year 1988 saw elections in both the United ...
Course Outlines on Women and Politics, second edition
Useful features of the book include: course outlines grouped by category: Women and Politics, Political Theory, Canadian Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Public Policy, Women and ...
“Race,” Rights and the Law in the Supreme Court of Canada
Four cases in which the legal issue was “race” — that of a Chinese restaurant owner who was fined for employing a white woman; a black man who was refused service in a bar; a Jew who wanted to buy ...
In Good Faith
In retrospect it is difficult to accept that Western democracies have implicitly supported, or at least tolerated, the legalized system of white supremacy in South Africa known as apartheid. Renate Pratt’s ...
Social Policy and Social Justice
Social Policy and Social Justice looks concretely at the successes and failures of a social democratic government in Canada (1971-1982) in achieving social justice through its approaches to social policy. ...
Imperial Power and Regional Trade
The election of Ronald Reagan as President of the United States in November 1980 opened a new chapter in international relations; U.S. foreign policy shifted from an alliance-based, consensual approach ...
Les sciences sociales au Canada
Ce livre, Les sciences sociales au Canada, est écrit sur le contexte et l’histoire de la Fédération canadienne des sciences sociales, en l’honneur de ses cinquante années d’acitvity nationale. ...