Political Activism

At a particularly urgent world-historical moment, this volume brings together some of the leading researchers of social movements and global social...

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

This volume, first published in 1988, is the result of a major research project, the most important inquiry into the fundamental political structur...

This book examines the self-representation and identity politics of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs).PMSCs have become increasingly ...

This book analyses the rise and decline of the Basque terrorist group Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA, Basque Homeland and Freedom). ETA declared a unil...

This book places the insurgent group Boko Haram, which has terrorised northeastern Nigeria through the last six years, in an historical and cultura...

This is the most wide-ranging study ever published of political violence and the punishment of Irish political offenders from 1848 to the founding ...

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...

Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of violence and politics by highlighting t...

This book addresses provides a series of in-depth portraits of men and women who have been labelled ‘terrorists’, from the 19th, 20th and 21st cent...

This volume, first published in 1973, brings together a wide range of Professor Landau’s work on recent Middle Eastern history and politics, reflec...

Dorle Hellmuth argues that the nature of state responses to terrorism is shaped by the particular governmental framework and process within which c...

Since the late 1970s the Red Sea has become extremely important both in international politics and regional affairs. This situation came about beca...

The passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001 have earned their rightful place among the pantheon of American heroes. Flight 93...

Using the case study of Laos, a small landlocked country in Southeast Asia that has seen some of the world’s most brutal forms of poverty and viole...

Most philosophers and political scientists readily admit that Thomas Hobbes is a significant figure in the history of political thought. His theory...

Haynes looks at religious transnational actors in the context of international relations, with a focus on both security and order. With renewed sch...

Education and Extremisms addresses one of the most pressing questions facing societies today: how is education to respond to the challenge of extre...

Over the course of thirty-seven chapters, including an editorial introduction, The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Women's Social Movement Activism provide...

Meet the dogs who searched for life amongst the ruins of the Twin Towers. Many heroes were made on 9/11 and in the weeks that followed. N...

This volume, first published in 1973, brings together a wide range of Professor Landau’s work on recent Middle Eastern history and politics, reflec...

In March 1968 Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian troops combined forces to respond to Israeli raids into Jordan, provoking visions of new unity a...

One important area of interest within military and policy circles focuses on an effort to revitalize the nuclear triad amidst a number of competing...

Through an interdisciplinary analytic lens that combines debates emerged in the fields of international relations, political science and sociology,...