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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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