Connecting Contemporary African-Asian Peacemaking and Nonviolence
This book brings together accomplished and emerging scholars to draw strategic lines of connection between diverse peoples in Africa and Asia, the two most populous continents. Each essay here reviews recent attempts at peace-building in these regions.
Anatomy of a Terrorist Organisation
Leading experts examine the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), tracing its evolution from a Cold War entity to a global network. This book analyzes the PKK’s ideology, propaganda, and operational dynamics, and its profound impact on regional geopolitics and global security.
This collection explores creativity and the arts as vital to social movements and change. Leading academics and practitioners investigate how creative activism is deployed, taught, and critically analysed, defining the key parameters of this emerging field.
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.
Globalized Injustice
This volume unearths the pervasive injustices shaping our world. It highlights the lived experiences and resistance of marginalized groups while challenging readers to recognize oppression, foster solidarity, and embrace the possibility of transformation.
This collection considers the challenges for the EU as an international actor deeply influenced by migration. It centres on aspects related to East-West migration, such as the economic importance of migration and the impact of migration on both sending and recipient countries.
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.
This title adds to the existing literature on the Great Recession and the variety of current troubles in the European Union by providing the views of someone who has been in the trenches at national and international levels and who has extensive policy and academic experience.
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.
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.
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.
From Autocracy to Democracy to Technocracy
Is political evolution a rational design, a random process, or an inevitable march from autocracy to democracy to technocracy? This book examines the social forces that shape governments and offers a compelling new framework for understanding our political future.
This overview of the debate on nationalism, globalisation, and secessionism in 21st century Catalonia explores the key socio-political questions facing sub-state nations seeking independence.
This volume analyses the political activities of migrant groups and diasporas in their host countries and homelands. It combines theoretical approaches and case studies to detail their objectives, organizations, and links with political parties.
In an age of Capitalist cultural crisis, this book studies the relationship between culture and Capitalism to understand the struggle for Socialism—for a society based on a free culture and a free humanity.
This book analyzes the rise of political violence and terrorism through an in-depth analysis of recent global events. It establishes crucial links between radicalism, terrorism, and international security, serving as an up-to-date resource for researchers in this critical field.
Radical Identity Politics
This book argues that radical leftist identity politics organizes arguments around friend/enemy schemes, sacrificing core values and undermining democracy. It proposes a more fruitful approach based on Foucault’s and Rawls’s analyses of free speech and public reason.
The Century of the Emerging World
Dobrescu explores how the first decade of the 21st century was nothing short of “les années folles”. He shows that the long-term tendencies inaugurated during this decade represent a silent revolution, which will lead to a geopolitical reconfiguration hard to envision at present.
The Global Geopolitics of Energy, 2014-2018
The 50 commentaries on geopolitical energy subjects in this volume reflect on the politics emanating from the post-2014 decline in world oil and gas prices and the attendant massive increase in supply on by the discovery and development of unconventional sources of energy.
This volume presents some of the key approaches to war reporting and suggests trajectories for further critical research into media visualisation of conflict. It highlights the visual culture of conflict, specifically the claim that images are central to contemporary geopolitics.