Who watches over the party-state? In this engaging analysis, Maria Repnikova reveals the webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than merely a passive mouthpiece or a dissident voice, the media in China also plays a critical oversight role, one more frequently associated with liberal democracies than with authoritarian systems. Chinese central officials cautiously endorse media supervision as a feedback mechanism, as journalists carve out space for critical reporting by positioning themselves as aiding the agenda of the central state. Drawing on rare access in the field, Media Politics in China examines the process of guarded improvisation that has defined this volatile partnership over the past decade on a routine basis and in the aftermath of major crisis events. Combined with a comparative analysis of media politics in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, the book highlights the distinctiveness of Chinese journalist-state relations, as well as the renewed pressures facing them in the Xi era.

本书主要构建了一种国际政治的新古典现实主义研究路径，为研究者提供在外交政策、大战略调整以及国际体系结构演变等方面理解的新视角。与结构现实主义、自由主义和建构主义相比，新古典现实主义对于国家行为的理解更加多元。本书系统地明确和发展了新古典现实主义的研究议程，讨论了新古典现实主义的研究变量，包括自变量和因变量的范围问题，同时将新古典现实主义与其他研究路径区分开来，提供有关国际政治的方法论和研究设计的指导。

Nominally the highest decision-making body in the Chinese Communist Party, the Party Congress is responsible for determining party policy and the selection of China's leaders. Guoguang Wu provides the first analysis of how the Party Congress operates to elect Party leadership and decide Party policy, and explores why such a formal performance of congress meetings, delegate discussions, and non-democratic elections is significant for authoritarian politics more broadly. Taking institutional inconsistency as the central research question, this study presents a new theory of 'mutual contextualization' to reveal how informal politics and formal institutions interact with each other. Wu argues that despite the prevalence of informal politics behind the scenes, authoritarian politics seeks legitimization through a combination of political manipulation and the ritual mobilization of formal institutions. This ambitious book is essential reading for all those interested in understanding contemporary China, and an innovative theoretical contribution to the study of comparative politics.

本书开启了古典帝国主义理论本书是霍布森较为著名的一部著作，他第一个把帝国主义与资本主义联系起来,首先系统批判了近代帝国主义,提供了研究帝国主义问题的系统的理论著作《帝国主义》。此书多次再版,影响巨大。

本书主要根据19世纪末20世纪初英国帝国主义近三十年的政策实践，试图挖掘和探讨构成帝国主义政策基础的一般原则。本书第一篇追溯了帝国主义的经济起源。第二篇研究了帝国主义政治的理论与实践，揭示了其对其他民族的影响，以及对西方帝国主义列强在政治和道德上的反噬作用。

过去二十年以来一个相当盛行的观点是，自由市场与民主的结合能够给第三世界带来改变，能够扫除与欠发达俱来的种族仇恨及宗教狂热。在这本书中，耶鲁大学法学教授蔡美儿通过她敏锐的观察与实地研究，出人意料地告诉我们，为什么很多发展中国家在接受了自由市场民主之后，实际上却成了种族暴力的牺牲品。蔡美儿让我们看到，在全球的非西方国家，自由市场如何让财富高度集中在激起民愤的少数族群手上。这些主导市场的少数族群，比如东南亚的华人、前南斯拉夫的克罗地亚人、拉丁美洲及南非的白人、西非的黎巴嫩人及后共产主义俄国的犹太人，最后都成为暴力仇恨的标靶。与此同时，民主又赋予贫困的大多数以力量，因而放纵了种族纷争、掠夺甚至种族屠杀。作者还指出，美国已成为世界上最惹眼的主导市场的少数群体，这也是反美主义在世界各地兴起的原因之一。

西方思想史研究名著。全书收入了作者所撰写的4篇学术论文，其主题分别为：马基雅维里《君主论》导读；马基雅维里《君主论》研究；马基雅维里的方法与风格；文艺复兴的观念。而贯穿全书的线索则是探讨马基雅维里与文艺复兴之间极其深刻的关系。本书可谓是马基雅维里的意大利式研究方法的典范，也是马基雅维里研究领域不可或缺的重要著作。