Public-Private Partnerships in Transitional Nations
This volume examines public-private partnerships (PPPs) in transitional nations from the governance perspective. It explores the structures, legal frameworks and collaborative arrangements that underpin partnerships in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Transnational Worlds of Power Journal
Hamas Transformation
This book examines the transformation of Hamas from a resistance movement into a political authority in Gaza after its 2006 election victory. It analyzes the political opportunities, challenges, and structural shifts required by this transition.
Rule of Law through Human Rights and International Criminal Justice
As a jurist, diplomat, and activist, Adama Dieng has inspired a generation with his commitment to human rights and the rule of law, especially in Africa. In this collection of essays, friends and colleagues honour his life’s work for a better Africa and a better world.
New Media Politics
New Media Politics explores the challenges of cyberspace, from cyber-activism and resistance to cyberterrorism and national security. This collection uses international case studies to debate the clash between civil liberties and government regulations.
Strategic Regions in 21st Century Power Politics
In a world of resource wars and global power shifts, geography still matters. This book addresses the geopolitical “great game” in East and South-East Asia, focusing on the intensifying rivalry between China and the United States in this unstable region.
This book analyses the changing notion of human rights from legal-political, socio-economic, gender, and ecological perspectives. Focusing on its relevance in an era of globalization, it presents a unique combination of theoretical and practical studies.
Cultivating Peace
This book embraces a new approach: cultivating peace. Using global case studies, its narratives offer constructive lessons on preventing violence, restoring shattered societies, and creating positive change through nonviolent, locally-driven initiatives.
How We Are Governed
How We Are Governed explores relations between communication and politics, from formal policy to the informal negotiation of power. It examines how communicative practices and technologies shape our world, asking whether these arrangements are truly democratic.
Building on original research, this collection examines the EU’s Internal Security Strategy. Experts from law, politics, and other fields analyze its approach to terrorism, cybercrime, and cross-border crime, and its implications for democracy and human rights.
Media/Democracy
The mass media have a crucial role in democracy, but is their influence constructive? This collection explores media’s impact on democratic structures worldwide, from the press in Britain to social media in the Arab Region, and asks if we can become active citizens.
A Just World
Scholars from diverse disciplines offer a multi-disciplinary analysis of social justice. Addressing today’s most pressing problems, this volume reveals deep-seated causes and provides practical, sustainable solutions toward a more just world.
Portraying the Other in International Relations
International scholars analyze how “othering” shapes global politics, legitimating behaviour in interstate relations and counterterrorism. This volume explores the dynamics of self-other constructions and presents ways they may be transformed for peace.
Rhetoric and Politics
This volume offers systematic, theoretically grounded insights into the flow of persuasion that constitutes politics today. Combining various disciplines, the case studies provide an empirically rich account of politics as a persuasive achievement.
Ending hostilities does not bring normality. Fractured societies face a twilight between war and peace as the world’s attention moves on. This book offers multi-disciplinary insights into this grey space, exploring interventions for positive post-conflict reconstruction.
Conflict Prevention and Management in Northeast Asia
Leading scholars offer a comparative analysis of two of the world’s most dangerous flashpoints: the Korean Peninsula and the Taiwan Strait. This volume examines new strategies for conflict prevention, identifying lessons that could be transferred between cases.
Failed and Failing States
State collapse is a major threat to peace, stability, and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. A collapsed state can no longer perform its basic security and development functions. This volume brings together key essays on these critical issues.
Prominent scholars from a wide array of disciplines unpack the complex factors underlying terrorism and political violence. This volume brings together global perspectives to provide a more nuanced understanding of this critical and timely issue.