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Politics
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Political Ideologies Political Theory Introduction to Nonviolence

An Introduction
5th edition
Andrew Heywood,
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and Political Theory
‘One of the best
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A clear and accessible
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European Union
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Key Controversies in European Integration The Political System of the

Edited by Hubert Zimmermann, Professor, University of Marburg,
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Britain and the The Foreign Policy of Why Europe Matters
European Union the European Union The Case for the European Union

Andrew Geddes, 2nd edition John McCormick,

Professor of Politics,
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UK
An authoritative analysis
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 COMPARATIVE & EUROPEAN POLITICS

The Political Economy of

European Politics
A Comparative Introduction
European Welfare Capitalism
3rd edition Colin Hay, Professor of
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Tim Bale, Professor of Politics, University of Sussex, UK Co-Director Sheffield
Reviews of previous editions: Political Economy
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The fully revised third edition of this popular text provides a thematically rich and precise
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Pressure Politics: Civil Society, Organised Interests and Social Movements • Politics Over Markets: Does Politics – and policy and reform at national and at EU level which
Left and Right – Still Matter? • Not Wanted but Needed: Migrants and Minorities • Protecting and Promoting: Europe’s spans the whole of Europe - East, West and Central.
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5th edition
Edited by Alistair Cole,
Professor of European
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USA and Vincent Tiber,
Senior Research Fellow,
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Studies, Sciences Po,
Paris, France
Developments in French
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