Edward Said has long been considered one of the world’s most compelling public intellectuals, taking on a remarkable array of topics with his many publications. But no single book has encompassed the vast scope of his stimulating erudition quite like Power, Politics, and Culture , a collection of interviews from the last three decades. In these twenty-eight interviews, Said ...(展开全部)

Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. Instead, the country practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally strong. In a path-breaking study that travels seven hundred ye...(展开全部)

Confucianism has shaped a certain perception of Chinese security strategy, symbolized by the defensive, nonaggressive Great Wall. Many believe China is antimilitary and reluctant to use force against its enemies. Instead, the country practices pacifism and refrains from expanding its boundaries, even when nationally strong. In a path-breaking study that travels seven hundred ye...(展开全部)

薇思瓦纳珊（Gauri Viswanathan），美国哥伦比亚大学比较文学与英语文学教授，跟随萨义德多年，深受影响。印度裔学者，从事后殖民理论研究，著有《征服的面具》、《栏圈之外：改宗、现代性与信仰》等。 单德兴：台湾大学外文系比较文学博士，现任中央研究院欧美研究所研究员，萨义德研究专家。著译多部，曾译有萨义德的《知识分子论》。

This volume brings together leading political scientists to explore the distinctive features of the American political economy. The introductory chapter provides a comparatively informed framework for analyzing the interplay of markets and politics in the United States, focusing on three key factors: uniquely fragmented and decentralized political institutions; an interest grou...(展开全部)

马克·I·利希巴赫，科罗拉多大学政治学系教授和系主任，主要研究集体选择理论与民主制度之间的关系，主要著作《造反者的困境》、《欧洲政府的体制变迁和内聚力》等。

This book reassesses the research schools in comparative politics, assessing knowledge, advancing theory, and in the end seeking to direct research in the coming years. It begins by examining the three research schools that guide comparative politics; rational choice theory, culturalist analysis, and structuralist approaches. The first set of contributors offer briefs for each ...(展开全部)

Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a completely revised second edition of the volume that guided students and scholars through the intellectual demands of comparative politics. Retaining a focus on the field's research schools, it now pays parallel attention to the pragmatics of causal research. Mark Lichbach begins with a review of discovery, explanat...(展开全部)

Eminently readable and written with candor and spirit, this 9th edition of Countries and Concepts simply observes that politics is composed of human conflicts or quarrels, forming patterns that can be studied. Analyzing four European nations and Japan at some length and four developing nations more briefly, this text studies the history, institutions, and political culture of ...(展开全部)

For courses in Introduction to Comparative Politics A Critical View of International Political Systems Countries and Concepts: Politics, Geography, Culture is a critical examination of comparative politics and political systems. The text rejects theories of smoothly functioning systems and embraces the mistakes that countries inevitably make, taking a skeptical approach to unde...(展开全部)