Political Activism

Terrorists and terrorism have become a major force internationally. Hostage-taking and other acts of violence for political ends are common all ove...

A mere eighteen months after the Sandinistas came to power in Nicaragua in 1979, Miskitu Indians engaged in a widespread and militant anti-governme...

This team of international experts analyses the possibilities and limitations of preventing or reducing terrorism by addressing the factors that gi...

In the early 1980s, in the midst of Central America’s decades of dirty wars, Nora Miselem of Honduras and Maria Suárez Toro of Costa Rica were kidn...

Suicide terror has become a fundamental strategic weapon in the confrontation between Fundamentalist Islam and its adversaries and now constitutes ...

A Stanford University Press classic.

A Stanford University Press classic.

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their ow...

Until recent times, incidents of mass unrest in the USSR were shrouded in official secrecy. Now this pioneering work by historian Vladimir A. Kozlo...

Until recent times, incidents of mass unrest in the USSR were shrouded in official secrecy. Now this pioneering work by historian Vladimir A. Kozlo...

Cities have evolved from small urban systems designed to withstand attack from without. The demands of the modern city have shifted the focus to th...

American Extremism explains how at the heart of the politics practiced by the militia movement is an attempt to define the nature of 'Americanism',...

This is a history of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a violent Marxist faction within the Palestinian national movement. ...

Anthropology of Violence has only recently developed into a field of research in its own right and as such it is still fairly fragmented. Anthropol...

This book examines the importance of "military ethics" in the formulation and conduct of contemporary military strategy.Clausewitz’s original analy...

THE TIANANMEN PAPERS, which contains documents unearthed from the guarded core of the Chinese Politburo, is the most important book on China publis...

The United States has scores of potential issues and ideologies but only two major political parties. How parties respond to competing demands for ...

The SAS describes its attitude to the use of lethal force as 'Big boys' games, big boys' rules'. Anyone caught with a gun or bomb can expect to be ...

This book, first published in 1978, examines the confrontation of the Jewish community of Palestine – the Yishuv – with its Arab question in the pe...

Why are some states able to deliver public services to their citizens while others cannot? Why are some states beset by internal conflict that leav...

This study investigates the overlaps between political discourse and literary and cinematic fiction, arguing that both are informed by, and contrib...