This book examines some of the following issues: Is political theory 'Western-centric'? What can we learn from non-Western traditions of political thought? How

Political theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Aristotle to Nietzsche, but this limitation is not tenable in

Chapters emphasize exploration of substantive questions about political life in a range of global contexts, with attention to whether and how those questions ma

This book examines the issues involved in the attempts to compare political systems, and discusses how the methods and results of comparative politics can be im

The field of comparative politics traditionally has been divided into two camps: on the one hand, quantitatively driven work on a broad scale; on the other, mor