Routledge Studies in Comparative Political Thought

The aims of this book series are twofold: first, to move away from the singular focus on European and North American approaches to political theory and to encompass also African, Asian, and Latin American political thought; second, to develop methodological tools for a rigorous scheme of comparison that will change some of the foci of political theory as currently conceived. We believe that the balance of research and insight must at least in part detach itself from the almost exclusive focus on (Western) Europe and North America if we are to accumulate knowledge on what it means to think politically across cultures and continents and if we are to appreciate the richness and diversity of such thinking.