The Routledge Dictionary of Politics, Third Edition

or North Korea, came to be described as ‘behind the iron curtain’. The geographical meaning was dominant because it did describe ...

Italy), a slogan for the return to Italian control of lands they thought of as naturally Italian and lost to Italian rule by the ...

Islam has been a major force in world politics since the 7th century. The Ottoman Empire, founded in the 14th century, reached i ...

The presumed involvement of extreme Islamist groups (seefundamental- ism) in the attacks perpetrated on the USA in September 200 ...

interests of the homeland itself. Where there is an apparent choice nowadays, the complexity of international politics and the g ...

Second Republic was based on the hope that such institutional reform would transpose the party system into something like the tw ...

J Jacobins The Jacobins were a revolutionary group during the French Revolution of 1789 onwards, and their principal fight was f ...

Jihad Jihad is one of the few Muslim concepts well-known to non-Muslim Westerners, and it is very largely misunderstood to the d ...

legislatureis unconstitutional and hence void, as in the USA where the Supreme Court has, over the past 200 years, declared inva ...

an incidental effect. As constitutional courts have become active, often striking down legislation as unconstitutional, there ha ...

by a series of judicial initiatives, and the courts have found themselves in conflict with governments of both parties over the ...

ment’.Military regimescome in several forms, and the particular form for which junta is shorthand has most frequently been found ...

just, though one might claim justly to go to war in defence of a weak third party, and to not be limited only to defending one’s ...

Justice Justice is a fundamental value of political science, forming the main preoccu- pation of bothPlato’sRepublicandAristotle ...

K Kant Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a German philosopher of enormous influ- ence in every area of philosophical, political and ...

Keynesianism John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) was a British economist who was closely involved with practical politics in the 192 ...

as a young man, with the Red Army in the Civil War that followed the Revolution, he rose rapidly in the party, serving as region ...

Kibbutz The kibbutz movement developed in Palestine during the 1930s as part of the Jewish struggle to establish a Jewish state ...

The initial results were devastating for the USA and the UN. The first US troops to arrive, all taken from comfortable posts as ...

further consequence should be noted. The unpopularity of the war, and the cost of theconventional armshardware and tactics it in ...