Politics & International Relations: Books & eBooks
Information about books, journals, databases, ofiffical publications and other useful politics resources (including development studies resources).
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Short Loan & 4-Hour Collections
Short Loan Collection
The Short Loan Collection (SLC) contains multiple copies of books in demand, or on reading lists and can be borrowed for 7 days.
4-Hour Collection
The 4-Hour Loan collection contains items that are in very high demand at certain times of the year. You can borrow and take these books anywhere in the Library, but they cannot be taken out of the Library building.
Reference Books for Politics
Reference items are helpful for finding background information; definitions and spelling; facts and figures; translations; statistics and topical overviews of subjects. Reference books can be found both in print and online. See here for further information.
Useful online reference material for politics includes:
- A Dictionary of Political Biography by This dictionary covers all the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century.
Encyclopedia of Political Theory by ISBN: 9781412958653Publication Date: 2010-03-18Drawing together a team of international scholars, the Encyclopedia of Political Theory examines the ideas of the major political theorists from before Plato to our own times; the main schools of political thought; the concepts and issues that have captured the imagination and attention of political theorists; and some of the main institutions and practices inspired by political thought.
The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary by ISBN: 9781842776834Publication Date: 2006-05-01Anti-capitalism has existed in many forms and with a variety of names since the advent of capitalism. But this kind of oppositional force has often been ignored, misrepresented or trivialised by many in the mainstream media and academia and by established political parties. The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary is organised in alphabetical format, with self-contained, cross-referenced entries that introduce and explain concepts and issues that are integral to understanding anti-capitalism movements.
The Development Dictionary by ISBN: 9781848133792Publication Date: 2009-11-26In this classic collection, some of the world's critics of development review the key concepts of the development discourse. Each essay examines one concept from a historical and anthropological point of view, highlights its particular bias, and exposes its historical obsolescence and intellectual sterility.
A Dictionary of the European Union by ISBN: 9781857436839Publication Date: 2013-04-04This collection of data includes concise definitions and explanations on all aspects of the European Union. It explains the terminology surrounding the EU and outlines the roles and significance of the institutions, member countries, programmes and policies, treaties and personalities
Encyclopedia of Human Rights by ISBN: 9780195334029Publication Date: 2009-08-11This five-volume encyclopedia offers coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history. The set will provide situation profiles and full coverage of the development of the movement, historical cases of abuse, the key figures, major organizations, and a range of other issues in economics, government, religion, and journalism that touch on human rights theory and practice
Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor by ISBN: 9780810879881Publication Date: 2012-06-01Organized labor is about the collective efforts of employees to improve their economic, social, and political position. It can be studied from many different points of view--historical, economic, sociological, or legal--but it is fundamentally about the struggle for human rights and social justice. The Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor looks at the history of organized labor to see where it came from and where it has been. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography.
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Covering the social and behavioural sciences, SAGE Knowledge provides access to thousands of scholarly eBooks published by SAGE. The collection also includes hundreds of award-winning reference titles including subject encyclopedias, dictionaries and handbooks which provide students with the perfect place to start their research.
Books for Politics
Books and eBooks are listed in OneSearch, our resource discovery service. Useful titles available via UCD Library include:
Introduction to Politics by ISBN: 9780198704386Publication Date: 2016-04-04Introduction to Politics is an introductory text covering both comparative politics and international relations, and contextualising them with a wide range of international examples. The material is explored in an accessible way for introductory study, but takes an analytical approach which encourages more critical study and debate. An Online Resource Centre accompanies this text, and includes a range of resources for both students and lecturers.
Political Philosophy by ISBN: 9780745652375Publication Date: 2013-11-25Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values? This new edition of Adam Swift's introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in political theory, as well as updated guides to further reading
On Liberty and Other Essays by ISBN: 9780199535736Publication Date: 2008-05-15Collected here in a single volume, On Liberty, Utilitarianism, Considerations on Representative Government, and The Subjection of Women show Mill applying his liberal utilitarian philosophy to a range of issues that remain vital today - issues of the nature of ethics, the scope and limits of individual liberty, the merits of and costs of democratic government, and the place of women in society. In his Introduction John Gray describes these essays as applications of Mill's doctrine of the Art of Life, as set out in A System of Logic. Using the resources of recent revisionist scholarship, he shows Mill's work to be far richer and subtler than traditional interpretations allow.
Brexit and British Politics by ISBN: 9781509523863Publication Date: 2017-12-11In this book, leading analysts of UK and EU politics Geoffrey Evans and Anand Menon step back from the immediacy of the referendum to explain what happened on June 23rd 2016 and why. Teasing out the long term factors that culminated in the British decision to leave the European Union, they show that it was in many ways the logical outcome of shifts in the political landscape that had been ongoing for decades.
Electoral Competition in Ireland since 1987 by ISBN: 0719097657Publication Date: 2016-07-01This account of the politics of modern Ireland offers an analysis of the forces which shaped both how the Irish state governed itself from the period since 1987 and how it lost its economic sovereignty in 2010. The study analyses why the political system in Ireland was unable to stop the country losing its economic sovereignty and why the Irish electorate kept returning to political alternatives which they had rejected in the past.
Political participation in a changing world: conceptual and empirical challenges in the study of citizen engagement by ISBN: 9781351394604Publication Date: 2018In the last decades, political participation expanded continuously. This expansion includes activities as diverse as voting, tweeting, signing petitions, changing your social media profile, demonstrating, boycotting products, joining flash mobs, attending meetings, throwing seedbombs, and donating money. But if political participation is so diverse, how do we recognize participation when we see it? In this book, Yannis Theocharis and Jan W. van Deth explore political participation and offer new conceptual and empirical tools with which to study it.
The Foreign Policy of the European Union by ISBN: 9781403947222Publication Date: 2008-03-15This comprehensive assessment of EU foreign policy looks beyond the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the European Security and Defence Policy to also analyse foreign policy developed through other EU pillars and the interaction between EU institutions and member states. It addresses EU foreign policy towards the main regions of the world as well as today's strategic challenges. Visit the book's companion site at: http://www.palgrave.com/politics/keukeleire/
Critical Security Studies by ISBN: 0415841844Publication Date: 2014-08-05Critical Security Studies offers an introduction to the field; locates it within the broader context of social and political theory; and evaluates fundamental theoretical positions within critical security studies in application to key issues. The book is divided into two main parts. The first part, Approaches, surveys contested theoretical terrain of critical security studies: Critical Theory, Feminism and gender theory, Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism and Securitization theory. The second part, Issues, then illustrates these various theoretical approaches against the backdrop of a diverse range of issues in contemporary security practices, from environmental, human and homeland security to border security, technology and warfare, and the War against Terrorism.
Where in the Library?
Most print material related to politics is held on level 2 of the James Joyce Library.
The Development Studies collection is held on Level 3 of the James Joyce Library.