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Exploring the evolution of political theory, this book delves into the concept of hegemony, examining its implications in various historical contexts. It analyzes key figures and their contributions to the understanding of power dynamics and dominance in society. By tracing the development of hegemonic theory, the author reveals its relevance to contemporary political discourse and challenges, making it an essential read for those interested in political science and history.

A magisterial analysis of Europe's development since the end of the Cold War.The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today's EU has been theorized across a range of contemporary disciplines. It then moves to more detailed accounts of political and cultural developments in the three principal states of the original Common Market—France, Germany and Italy. A third section explores the interrelated histories of Cyprus and Turkey that pose a leading geopolitical challenge to the Community. The book ends by tracing ideas of European unity from the Enlightenment to the present, and their bearing on the future of the Union. The New Old World offers a critical portrait of a continent now increasingly hailed as a moral and political example to the world at large.

The book explores the transition from feudalism to absolutist states in early modern Europe, examining the political and social dynamics in both Eastern and Western regions. It delves into the historical context that shaped these developments, highlighting the contrasts and similarities in governance and power structures during this transformative period.

Like everything Anderson writes, American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers deserves careful reading. He's one of the world's great historians, unrivalled in his ability to master and synthesize vast historical literatures (often drawing on many languages). -Jeet Heer, New Republic The most interesting implication of Anderson's argument is that the long catalog of US foreign policy disasters-the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran in 1953, the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, the twin quagmires of Vietnam and Iraq-were more than just errors of presidential judgement. They were the price America recurrently pays for the hubristic embrace of a messianic foreign policy, one that never disciplined its priorities according to rationally defined national interests. - New York Review of Books Let me first get the superlatives out of the way. What we have here are two essays of extraordinary originality and penetrating insight. Sweeping, subtle, sophisticated, provocative, pungently written: all of the above apply. -Andrew Bacevich, Diplomatic History American Foreign Policy and Its Thinkers plunges into the contemporary American dreamworld of empire. Anderson has always been attracted to those who speak of the world without euphemism, and he appraises the recent offerings of American 'Grand Strategists' with sardonic respect, however rabid or fantastic their conceptions. - London Review of Books His writing is sharp and erudite and even those who do not share his politics will learn from his book. -Gideon Rachman, Financial Times (Summer Books 2015) Anderson surveys the views of some of the most prominent mainstream American foreign policy intellectuals and finds them not only unconvincing but also incoherent. -Eric Alterman, Nation Revives memories of the early-1960s vintage, anti-Wilsonian idealism classic, William Appleman Williams's The Tragedy of American Diplomacy . -Joe P. Dunn, Choice

Exploring the spectrum of political thought, this book delves into the evolution of ideas from conservative to progressive perspectives. It examines how various ideologies shape societal values and influence contemporary debates. Through a critical analysis of key thinkers and movements, the narrative highlights the dynamic interplay between right and left, offering readers insights into the complexities of modern ideological conflicts. The subtitle emphasizes the journey through diverse viewpoints, encouraging a deeper understanding of the world of ideas.

Today, the Indian state claims to possess a harmonious territorial unity, to embody the values of a stable political democracy, and to adhere to a steadfast religious impartiality. Even many of those critical of the inequalities of Indian society still underwrite such claims. But does the “idea of India” correspond to the realities of the Union? The Indian Ideology suggests that the roots of the republic’s current ills go very deep, historically. They lie, it argues, in the way the struggle for independence culminated in the transfer of power from British rule to Congress in a divided subcontinent, not least in the roles played by Gandhi, as the great architect of the movement, and Nehru, as his appointed successor, in the catastrophe of partition. Only an honest reckoning with that disaster, Perry Anderson argues, offers an understanding of what was has gone wrong since independence. Revisiting a century’s history, and sifting the uncomfortable realities from the ideology, Anderson offers an alternative way to look at the story of the nation, and the nature of a state that is less in conflict with caste than built upon it.

A major essay on the thought of the great Italian Marxist Perry Anderson's essay The Antimonies of Antonio Gramsci, first published in New Left Review in 1976, was an explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in the thought of the great Italian Marxist. Since then it has been the subject of book-length attacks across four decades for its disentangling of the hesitations and contradictions in Gramsci's highly original usage of such key dichotomies as East and West, domination and direction, hegemony and dictatorship, state and civil society, and war of position and war of movement. In a critical tribute to the international richness of Gramsci's work, the essay shows how deeply embedded these notions were in the revolutionary debates in Tsarist Russia and Wilhelmine Germany. Here arguments crisscrossed between Plekhanov, Lenin, Kautsky, Luxemburg, Lukács and Trotsky, with later echoes in Brecht and Benjamin. A new preface considers the objections the essay provoked and the reasons for them. This edition also includes the first English translation of Athos Lisa's report on Gramsci's lectures in prison.

Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right

New expanded edition of landmark text by world's leading Marxist scholar, with reply to critics and postscript on Modi's India

Traces the genesis, consolidation and consequences of the postmodern idea. Beginning in the Hispanic world of the 1930s, the text takes the reader through to the 70s, when Lyotard and Habermas gave the idea of postmodernism wider currency and finally the 90s, with the work of Fredric Jameson.