The near-simultaneous appearance of Volumes III and IV of Michael Mann’s The Sources of Social Power concludes a truly grand project of historical sociology. Along with the work of Anthony Giddens, W.

No serious appraisal of the decade has yet been made. The popular after-images of ‘The Thirties’ (in the main, the handiwork of the contrite and the scornful) can be displaced only by scrupulous ...

But to understand why the Congolese state is weak, it is necessary to take a more expansive view – such as that of Jason ...

Drug violence and the Mexican state.

They do not see that Lenin in America will appear in Jeffersonian guise. The American Lenin will deploy the ideas of ...

India and Pakistan are preparing for war. The casus belli is, once again, occupied Kashmir. Control over this disputed region has since 1947 been the main obstacle to normalising relations between the ...

On 13 April, Ecuador held presidential runoff elections amid widespread violence, militarization and political polarization. As usual, the contest was a two-horse race between the Citizen Revolution ...

The key social act in today’s neoliberal culture is selling yourself, in private as much as professional life. However, to do so successfully someone must want to buy what you are selling, which they ...