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Darcus Howe<br />

A Political Biography<br />

Robin Bunce and<br />

Paul Field<br />

• Darcus Howe is a<br />

well known and<br />

controversial<br />

media figure<br />

• Darcus Howe<br />

worked with<br />

Michael X<br />

in the 1970s. But<br />

his story forms the next stage in the<br />

history of British racial politics<br />

• Darcus Howe has cooperated fully with<br />

this biography. The book uses Howe’s<br />

personal history as a lens through<br />

which to explore the British civil rights<br />

movement in the years of the 1970s<br />

and 1980s.<br />

rOBIN BuNcE is Director of Studies for Politics<br />

at Homerton college, cambridge, uK.<br />

PAuL FIELD worked as a journalist for many<br />

years before becoming a lawyer in the fields of<br />

discrimination and employment.<br />

uK July 2012 uS September 2012<br />

224 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches<br />

HB 9781849664950 - £55.00 / $100.00<br />

<strong>Bloomsbury</strong> <strong>Academic</strong><br />

Justice as Welfare<br />

Equity and Solidarity<br />

Adam Gearey<br />

• Social justice is<br />

a highly topical<br />

subject with<br />

a guaranteed<br />

broad-based<br />

readership<br />

• Provides an<br />

affirmation of<br />

the importance<br />

of equality to both national and<br />

international politics<br />

• An original approach to justice that is<br />

philosophically informed and focused<br />

on concrete reforms<br />

The book offers a theoretical account<br />

of welfare as social justice showing that<br />

it requires the assertion of democratic<br />

control over economic and social<br />

reproduction at both national and<br />

international levels.<br />

ADAM gEArEy is a reader in Law at Birkbeck<br />

college, university of London, uK.<br />

uK April 2012 uS February 2012<br />

272 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches<br />

HB 9781441184412 - £70.00 / $130.00<br />

continuum<br />

POLITIcS AND INTErNATIONAL STuDIES<br />

God and International<br />

Relations<br />

christian Theology and world<br />

Politics<br />

Mika Luoma-Aho<br />

• Provides a<br />

critique of secular<br />

international<br />

relations based<br />

on carl Schmitt’s<br />

political theology<br />

• Introduces<br />

political theology<br />

as a relevant<br />

approach to study international<br />

relations<br />

• Draws from influential christian<br />

thinkers that have not been discussed<br />

much in international relations theory<br />

This unique study introduces political<br />

theology as an appropriate tool for the<br />

study of international relations and<br />

questions the ‘secular’ foundations of<br />

contemporary international relations<br />

theory.<br />

MIKA LuOMA-AHO is Head of the Department<br />

of Social Studies and Lecturer in International<br />

relations at the university of Lapland, Finland.<br />

uK May 2012 uS March 2012<br />

192 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches<br />

HB 9781441138668 - £65.00 / $120.00<br />

continuum<br />

The Aesthetic Turn in<br />

Political Thought<br />

Edited by Nikolas<br />

Kompridis<br />

• unique focus on<br />

the increasing<br />

influence of<br />

aesthetic<br />

thinking on the<br />

understanding of<br />

politics<br />

• Analyses the<br />

aesthetic themes and arguments<br />

present in political theory from a<br />

variety of perspectives<br />

• Provides a significant contribution to<br />

the contemporary debate in political<br />

theory<br />

This collection of essays outlines the<br />

theoretical motivations and historical<br />

conditions that led to the turn to<br />

aesthetics.<br />

NIKOLAS KOMPrIDIS is Professorial Fellow at<br />

the centre for citizenship and Public Policy,<br />

university of western Sydney, Australia.<br />

uK November 2012 uS September 2012<br />

272 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches<br />

HB 9781441149954 - £70.00 / $130.00<br />

PB 9781441148346 - £22.99 / $39.95<br />

continuum<br />

Seguridad<br />

crime, Police Power, and<br />

Democracy in Argentina<br />

Guillermina Seri<br />

• Discusses<br />

key issues of<br />

governance<br />

involving<br />

the police,<br />

democracy, and<br />

citizenship in<br />

Argentina<br />

• Based on seventy<br />

interviews with police officers, looks at<br />

policing as a form of governance<br />

• Focuses on Seguridad, a concept that<br />

merges personal safety and state<br />

security<br />

This study brings together key issues<br />

of governance that involve the police,<br />

democracy, and the quality of citizenship.<br />

It sheds light on how the police act<br />

as gatekeepers of citizenship and<br />

administrators of rights and law.<br />

guILLErMINA SErI is Assistant Professor in<br />

the Department of Political Science at union<br />

college, uSA.<br />

uK May 2012 uS March 2012<br />

240 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches<br />

HB 9781441145789 - £70.00 / $130.00<br />

continuum<br />

Enemies of the<br />

American Way<br />

Identity and Presidential Foreign<br />

Policymaking<br />

David Bell Mislan<br />

• Looks at the role<br />

of identity in the<br />

decision-making<br />

of past and<br />

present American<br />

presidents<br />

• Develops a<br />

theory of threat<br />

identification<br />

based on cases studies drawn from<br />

nineteenth-century presidencies<br />

• Applies constructivist theory to<br />

the study of uS foreign policy in an<br />

empirically testable way<br />

why do presidents, when facing the same<br />

circumstances, focus on different threats<br />

to national security? The book answers<br />

this question by investigating the role of<br />

identity in presidential decision making.<br />

DAvID BELL MISLAN is Assistant Professor<br />

of Political Science at rosemont college,<br />

Philadelphia, uSA.<br />

uK July 2012 uS May 2012<br />

192 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches<br />

HB 9781441110442 - £65.00 / $120.00<br />

continuum<br />

POLITIcS AND INTErNATIONAL STuDIES<br />

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