This book collects the essential writings of the world’s great revolutionary thinkers. Committed to liberty, equality, and fraternity, they struggled for a better world. By studying their ideas, we can develop new visions for a world based on human freedom.
Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides
In a world devastated by crisis, what can art do to create democratic spaces? Artists, activists, and curators analyze how to bridge political divides and foster dialogue. Using global case studies, this book pushes for a broader, more conflict-oriented understanding of art.
Macedonian Foreign Policy
This book provides an overview of modern Macedonian political history, with a comprehensive analysis of the 1990s events that led to independence. It also determines the role of the political elite and the foreign policy significant to the creation of the young republic.
This book sheds light on the history of Karabakh, an integral part of Azerbaijan, through archival documents. It covers the final Soviet years and the post-Cold War era, with a special focus on the history and architecture of Shusha, Karabakh’s cultural heart.
This book discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on both high-level politics and people’s inner worlds. Through diverse religious, historical, social, and legal analyses, it offers broad perspectives and questions the future of international security.
This book argues that the rule of law does not stand alone; ethics and integrity are the lifeblood of all legal and governance systems. It explores how to overcome deficiencies in our legal systems and demonstrates how this approach can lead to more effective governance.
Russia-Eurasia Relations
Across the world, there are regions caught between identity and power. This book analyses the great powers’ challenges in Eurasia within the framework of strategic interests, conflict, and cooperation.
Greece Between East and West
This book examines Greece’s pivotal role between East and West, exploring the tension between “westernisation” and the enduring values of its eastern legacy. This is explored through culture, politics, music, historical cities, and more. With a Foreword by Roderick Beaton.
Radial Journalism
This book introduces Radial Journalism, an empirical method that moves journalists from chroniclers to active experimenters. By mapping an environment’s positive momentum, it creates innovative solutions to complex crises, allowing anything to become a medium for the message.
Discover how America weaponized avant-garde art as propaganda against Nazi and Soviet threats. Art became ammunition and the canvas a battlefield in the epic ideological struggle between individualism and collectivism.
The Emergence and Scope of the Voice of Government
When government agencies communicate with us, are we getting self-serving propaganda or helpful information? This book examines the intersection of bureaucracy and propaganda, from wartime PR to presidential case studies and the pop culture image of government spokespersons.
Citizens’ Trust in Public Institutions in Bangladesh
This book explores citizens’ trust in local government in Bangladesh. When institutions are viewed as partial, untrustworthy, and corrupt, citizens feel mistrust and suspicion. Good governance is fundamental for institutions to perform efficiently and earn public trust.
2020 showed that the international system is always open to global crises. The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a transition whose effects still carry on. This book explores the pandemic’s significant effect on migration management, climate change, diplomacy, and globalisation.
This book explores presidential inaugurations from Washington to Biden, offering a summary of each ceremony and an analysis of each speech. While many are forgotten, others by Lincoln, JFK, and Reagan are rhetorical masterpieces providing snapshots of American ideals.
The European Union and the New Perfect Storm
The European crisis is a “perfect storm” affecting all levels of our lives. But what is old, and what is new in the EU today? This volume demonstrates that old issues remain unsolved, new challenges have emerged, and the crisis is no longer a short moment, but a permanence.
The Role of Defamation in the Outbreak of War
Comparing the wars of 1939 and 2022, this book shows how Hitler and Putin used propaganda to dehumanize victims and deter Western help. Hitler succeeded; Putin did not. History repeated itself, but inaccurately. Includes full translations of key propaganda texts.
Prominent administrative law scholars discuss how the law has adapted to the COVID-19 pandemic and can prepare for future emergencies. The book also considers the digitization of administrative law, a topic that will increasingly shape public law in the future.
Populists claim the EU threatens national identity. This book argues these identities can coexist. It suggests the EU should oppose xenophobic nationalism while protecting national cultures from their true threat: globalization, not European integration.
Explorations and Proposals toward Market Socialism and World Government
This book makes a compelling case for misunderstood concepts like market socialism, a Global Marshall Plan, and world government. Blending intellectual and personal history, it is a story of steadfast determination that will resonate with every person with an idealistic vision.
What forces shape the lives of Punjabi women in Pakistan? This study analyzes the impact of education, media, and legislation on their socio-cultural, legal, and economic rights, drawing on extensive interviews and surveys to foster a compelling debate.