Political Communication in Japan
This book examines political communication in Japan, contrasting the short, disruptive terms of the DPJ (2009-12) with the long rule of Abe Shinzō’s LDP (2012-20). It focuses on campaign strategies, media systems, and new theories of persuasion and social influence.
This book explores the ideological transformations of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafist Call in Egypt between 1981 and 2013. It studies how the regime’s power network shaped their views on democracy, women’s issues, freedoms, and systems of governance.
Democracy of the Oppressed
This book assesses the impact of India’s MGNREGA scheme on Adivasi/Indigenous people. It uncovers rampant corruption and inefficiency in the scheme’s implementation, while also providing new data showing the policy can be an important tool for mitigating violent conflict.
The New Cold War
We are entering Cold War II. This time the fraught relationship is between China and America. With military build-ups, constant cyber attacks, and militarization of the South China Sea, what are the risks of this new Cold War descending into a hot war?
The complex security environment requires military leaders to adapt more rapidly than ever. This book is an analytic study of military leadership—a valuable reference for academics, students, and armed forces members. This second edition features two new chapters and updates.
Lessons from Political Leadership in Africa
Leadership is the blueprint to transform Africa into a global powerhouse. This book calls for a new generation of bold, passionate, inspiring leaders to fight corruption, make a difference, and change the future towards a bigger, better, and brighter tomorrow!
Thinkers, Activists, and Politics
From Karl Marx to Che Guevara, these critical essays examine revolutionaries who fought for freedom. Their bold ideas reshaped political thought, and their legacy fuels debates today. People often interpret the world—real revolutionaries attempt to change it.
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.
Discover the intricate geopolitics behind the Balfour Declaration. This book reveals how the interests of WWI powers intersected with the Jewish people’s march towards sovereignty, demonstrating how a precise alignment of forces altered the course of history.
This book demonstrates that the Oromo national struggle for democracy and self-determination is complex and dangerous. It asserts that true liberation requires decolonizing the minds of the oppressed and the modern sciences that perpetuate domination and exploitation.
Interdisciplinarity in International Relations
This collection provides a unique, in-depth view of modern society’s problems using an interdisciplinary approach. It addresses issues in international relations, economics, law, and business, providing a better understanding and showcasing the potential of this method.
Violence and Politics
In this volume, a new generation of researchers demonstrate the interaction between politics and violence in the context of Greek and European history. In terms of focus, the articles here extend over a time span stretching from the Greek classical period to the twentieth century
The Waffen-SS in Allied Hands Volume Two
Regarded as Germany’s elite in WWII, the Waffen-SS were capable of incredible military feats and incredible evil. Sourced from the US National Archives, this book uses manuscripts unscrutinised for over 70 years to provide a unique insight into this infamous organisation.
The Waffen-SS in Allied Hands Volume One
The Waffen-SS are regarded as Germany’s elite. This book uses manuscripts from the United States National Archives, many unscrutinised for over 70 years, to provide a unique insight into a force capable of incredible military feats and incredible evil.
The Access to Public Information
Information is a fundamental right and the pillar for exercising all others. It is the path to holding authorities accountable. This book explores how individuals can participate in public decision-making and reclaim their rightful ownership of public data.
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.
The American Lobby
To understand American lobbying today, look to the Gilded Age—a time with no rules, when a lobbyist’s only limit was their imagination. This work examines the controversial and scandalous tools that became the foundation of modern lobbying practice.
Global Shifts in Human Trafficking
The modern approach to human trafficking is limited in scope. This book offers a comprehensive analysis, reviewing exploitation over the millennia and examining the application of trafficking laws to broaden the fight to include all forms of modern-day slavery.
Events, Issues, and Actions
This collection of contemporary essays mixes personal reflection and analysis to understand our troubled times. Exploring modern politics and recent events, the essays argue that by examining the world around us, we can build a better society—a Democratic Socialist world.
Amid its greatest crisis, is the European Union doomed? This book reveals the EU’s revolutionary core: the historic overcoming of the nation state and the birth of a pioneering post-national democracy, a model for the future of global governance.