Books written by Jason Xidias

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  The Federalist Papers

  One of the most influential works of political theory ever written, The Federalist Papers collects 85 essays from 1787 and 1788, when the United States was a new country looking to find its way politically

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  Imagined Communities

  But if this is the case, how can we agree what a ‘nation’ is?

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  Politics as a Vocation

  German sociologist Max Weber’s 1919 lecture Politics as a Vocation is widely regarded as a masterpiece of political theory and sociology.

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  War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War

  War Without Mercy examines Japanese-American relations during World War II and investigates links between popular culture, stereotypes, and extreme violence.

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  Who Governs?

  A game-changer when it was first published in 1961, Who Governs? remains one of the most influential political science books ever written.

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  Imagined Communities

  Some people imagine that nationhood is as old as civilization itself, but Anderson argues that "nation" and "nationalism" are products of the communication technologies of the modern age.

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  An Analysis of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan

  His closely-reasoned arguments made the book a controversial best-seller across Europe at the time of its publication, and it has remained a cornerstone of political theory ever since.

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  An Analysis of John Lewis Gaddis's We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

  John Lewis Gaddis had written four previous books on the Cold War by the time he published We Now Know – so the main thrust of his new work was not so much to present new arguments as to re-examine old ones in the light of new evidence ...

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  We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History

  We Now Know is a major reappraisal of the struggle for political and ideological supremacy between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1945 to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.