BENHABIB, SEYLA (ed.) (1996), Democracy and Difference, Princeton University Press.  This collection examines the resurgence of various politics of "identity” and “difference” in the trend toward democratization as it has become a challenge to democratic principles and practice everywhere. (For more information click on the provided link)

CONNOLLY, WILLIAM (2002), Identity-Difference: Democratic Negotiations of Political Paradox, (expanded edition), University of Minnesota Press.  The author explains the relationship between personal identity and democratic politics, particularly in the domains of religion, ethics, sexuality, and ethnicity relative to the paradox that an identity establishes itself in relation to a set of differences. (For more information click on the provided link)

CONSTANTINOU, COSTAS (1996), On the Way to Diplomacy (Minnesota University Press: Borderlines series).  This classic links the theory of ‘diplomacy’ with the concept and its practice diplomacy by focusing on the language that underwrites and directs theory and diplomacy, and showing that such a critical approach is actually a way of practicing politics. (For more information click on the provided link)

GUNN, GILES (2001), Beyond Solidarity: Pragmatism and Difference in a Globalized World, University of Chicago Press.  This text explores human solidarity when its expressions are exceptionalist and divisive under the pressures of globalization to argue for a cosmopolitan pragmatism to account for the consequences of diversity. (For more information click on the provided link)

HINTON, ALEXANDER (ed.) (2002), Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide, Kenneth Roth University of California Press.  This collection reflects new research and important critical perspectives on “genocide” by putting forth new points of view that can help understand the magnitude of past atrocities and develop strategies to prevent future massacres. (For more information click on the provided link)

INAYATULLAH NAEEM et al. (eds.) (2002), International Relations and the Problem of Difference, Routledge.  In this work, the authors re-imagine international relations as a unique setting for the study of “difference” and “sameness” within the relation of wholes and parts and sameness. (For more information click on the provided link)

MAY, TODD (1994), The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism, Penn State Press.  This text, in discussing Foucault, Deleuze and Lyotard places an emphasis on power emerging from many different sources and operating along many different registers with roots in the traditional anarchist thought of Bakunin, Kropotkin and Proudhon. (For more information click on the provided link)

WILLIAMS, JAMES (2000), Lyotard and the Political, Routledge.  This text considers Lyotard's political thought and its broader implications by situating his work in terms of the dominant political and philosophical positions of the twentieth century. (For more information click on the provided link)

WILLIAMS, ROBERT (1990), The American Indian in Western Legal Thought: Discourses of Conquest, Oxford.  Exploring the history of legal thought on the rights and status of the West's colonized indigenous tribal peoples, this text traces the European efforts to destroy difference.