Policy Analysis for Big Issues
In a world grappling with corruption and inequality, this book is a beacon of hope with practical solutions. From Harvard to the Himalayas, its real-world examples and actionable insights equip readers with the inspiration needed to ignite transformative change.
This book examines the interplay between economics, elections, and politics in Ghana’s Fourth Republic. It analyzes how voters respond to the economy to hold politicians accountable and influence policy, providing a first-of-its-kind empirical analysis of the “economic vote.”
Political Leadership, Religion and National Security in Nigeria
This book analyzes the causes and impacts of ethno-religious conflicts in Kaduna, Nigeria. It examines the roles of political and religious leaders in peace building, offering a framework for conflict resolution and peaceful co-existence. An essential resource for researchers.
This volume studies the dynamics of conflict and cooperation in Eurasia, examining regional security, energy, and trade. It analyzes the outcomes of post-Soviet transformation and the strategies of individual states, providing an understanding of the challenges the region faces.
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.
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.
Practising the Good Life
This collection explores lifestyle migration and the pursuit of ‘the good life’. Through global case studies—from Spain to Nepal—it provides interdisciplinary insights into the everyday practices of community, identity, and home-making.
Africa’s indigenous peoples are the victims, rather than the beneficiaries, of land grabbing and infrastructure development. Based on research across Africa, this book highlights the impediments to their livelihoods and proposes local and regional actions to mitigate this crisis.
Public Communication in the European Union
This collection of essays analyzes EU communication policies from diverse theoretical perspectives. Combining the latest empirical research with different frameworks, it offers a clear picture of the role communication has within EU governance and its potential.
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.
Re-Activating Critical Thinking in the Midst of Necropolitical Realities
Is a pluriversal generation of scholars forming a radical structure to confront the necropolitical and necrocapitalist governmentality emerging worldwide? The articles in this volume transcend geographical boundaries to develop strategies for radical change.
Readings in Oriental Literature
This collection of essays is a fresh, lucid, and scholarly exploration of Oriental literature. It connects topics from the Arabian Nights to Coleridge and Tagore, while avoiding jargon to remain accessible for specialists and non-specialist readers alike.
This book covers recent advances for quantitative researchers with practical examples from the social sciences. Each chapter, written by an expert, reveals ideas and methods common to fields such as tourism, politics, and sociology.
Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice
In response to the 2003 Iraq War, citizens formed the World Tribunal on Iraq to investigate war responsibilities. This book explores their experimental tribunal as a new form of post-conflict justice—a guide for reclaiming democracy for a peaceful and just world order.
This collection of essays explores how New Yorkers sought meaning in the 9/11 attacks a decade on. Contributors contest the dominant narrative to focus on local experiences of memory, recovery, and rebuilding, and the challenge of representing the event.
This book presents research on knowledge and language in Middle Eastern societies, examining their role in politics, conflict, identity, and religion. Spanning diverse languages, faiths, and periods, these studies highlight the substantial commonalities that unite the region.
This publication brings together original scientific studies on current economic and developmental issues in the Balkan region, analysing the area from a variety of perspectives, including tourism, regional trade, European integration policies, and import-export policies.
In an era of chaos and uncertainty generated by disinformation, social networks and artificial intelligence enhance post-truth. This book analyzes the evolution of the media system, how AI changes the communicative paradigm, and how it can be challenged by human intelligence.
This book proposes a new theory of the rhetorical situation for our age of new media. By merging theories of technology, geography, and rhetoric, it frames rhetoric as a non-linear entity, offering an innovative way to broaden the research scope of the field.
Reporting Conflicts, Humanitarian Crises and Peace Processes
This book analyses media coverage of humanitarian crises, conflicts, and peace processes in the Horn of Africa, focusing on Kenya, Sudan, and South Sudan. Using a new Four-Part Framework, it offers important recommendations applicable to similar situations in other locations.