This anthology describes the processes of change shaping the Middle East in the post-Arab Spring context, investigating the extent to which these led to the region’s polarisation between states that integrate politically and economically and states that disintegrate internally.
Based on case studies in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines the paradoxes of environmental resource management and climate change policy. It critiques flawed interventions and calls for questioning orthodoxies to address Africa’s developmental challenges.
Revisiting European Security
The EU faces multiple crises, challenging its rule-based order. Can it still act as a normative international power? This volume re-examines the EU’s influence and values, focusing on its migration policies and its role in neighboring regions, Africa, and China.
This book explores the long-standing, multi-faceted relationship between Scotland and Europe. From a diversity of viewpoints, it illustrates the richness and complexity of the dialogue over the centuries, and underlines the open and dynamic character of Scottish identity.
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.
Malewska-Szałygin argues that common-sense convictions of rural Polish citizens are “post-peasant” or “post-agrarian”, rather than post-socialist or post-communist, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the early 2000s in the highland region in the south of Poland.
State of Exception
In the state of exception, the law is suspended to preserve order, justifying any abuse of power. This book examines the implications of this juridical no-man’s land, focusing on Italy’s history and its cultural and cinematic representations.
An original exploration of the radical English student movement of the 1960s. Based on new research and oral histories, this book tells the untold stories of England’s biggest student rebellion and its lessons for today.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A concise guide on how and why the Arab Spring failed, Alfadhel presents a narrative of events in the Arab World. He describes an original investigation into why the Arab Spring cannot be seen as a wave of democratization, due to intolerant Islamist actors’ input in its failure.
Weizfeld focuses on the political philosophy and the constitutional transformation of the contradiction between two major nations in one land, namely Palestine-Israel.
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 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.
Gender mainstreaming is an essential strategy for equality, but it is plagued by conceptual confusion and practical challenges. This book critiques the politics of mainstreaming, using UK local government case studies to offer new insights for progress.
The Post-Crisis Crises
Dobrescu shows that, in the post-crisis period, global turmoil has moved to the regional level. He proves that the clash between spheres of influence and the world order is being reproduced over and over again in almost every important region of the world.
The Right to Roam
Nomadic groups and sedentary society have been in conflict for ages. ‘The Right to Roam’ examines the right of nomadic groups to maintain their way of life against the drive toward sedentarisation, exploring the case of Travellers in modern Ireland.
The Theory of War and Peace
Using the results of empirical and theoretical research in the field of geophilosophy, as well as neuroscience, psychology, social philosophy and military history, Bazaluk defines the axiomatics of the theory of war and peace and formulates its consequences.