Political Activism

Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the...

The EU’s self promotion as a ‘conflict manager’ is embedded in a discourse about its ‘shared values’ and their foundation in a connection between s...

The book aims to provide the reader with a state-of-the-art introduction to classic and modern military theory. The text accounts for the most impo...

Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this d...

This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states. Citizensh...

The events of 9/11 and subsequent acts of jihadist terrorism, together with the failures of intelligence agencies over Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destr...

Fallgirls provides an analysis of the abuses that took place at Abu Ghraib in terms of social theory, gender and power, based on first-hand partici...

The Korean War is multiple wars. Not only is it a war that began on 25 June 1950, but it is also a conflict that is rooted in Korea's colonial expe...

Networks as sets of autonomous organisations working together to achieve individual and shared goals are becoming increasingly important across man...

During the last ten years an increasing number of government and media reports, scholarly books and journal articles, and other publications have f...

In recent years the European Union (EU) has played an increasingly important role as a manager of global conflicts. This book provides a comprehens...

Most publications on the political situation in Venezuela are journalistic and lack a scientific, and particularly sociological, approach. Chavez’s...

This volume examines the lessons and legacies of the U.S.-led "Global War on Terror," utilizing the framework of a political "moral panic."A decade...

This book interrogates the philosophical backdrop of Clausewitzian notions of war, and asks whether modern, network-centric militaries can still be...

Much of the writing on charisma focuses on specific traits associated with exceptional leaders, a practice that has broadened the concept of char...

This book seeks to refine our understanding of transitional justice and peacebuilding, and long-term security and reintegration challenges after vi...

In 2008 there were 149 militia groups in the United States. In 2009, that number more than tripled to 512, and now there are nearly 600. In Right-W...

How did the North European states react to the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001? Michael Karlsson argues that 9/11 le...

This edited volume addresses the key issues of ethics, war and international relations in the post-9/11 world.There is a lively debate in contempor...

The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in th...

Terrorism remains one of the major threats facing the world community. While literature on the subject is dominated by discussion of the factors le...

How do precarious workers employed in call-centres, universities, the fashion industry and many other labour markets organise, struggle and communi...

Business, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding examines the actions currently being taken by businesses in areas of violent conflict around the wo...

This volume critically examines what happens when war formally ends, the difficult and complex challenges and opportunities for winning the peace a...

This edited volume examines the complexities of the Cold War in Southern Africa and uses a range of archives to develop a more detailed understandi...

This book examines the dynamics of terrorist financing, including a discussion about the importance of money from both the terrorist and the counte...

Operation Just Cause, the United States' incursion into Panama, was the culmination of a gradually escalating confrontation between the United Stat...

This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order.Unipolarity is usually described either as a ‘brief moment’ or as something histori...

Terrorism remains one of the major threats facing the world community. While literature on the subject is dominated by discussion of the factors le...

The book begins with an agenda-setting introduction which will provide an overview of the central question being addressed, such as the circumstanc...

Today, the First World War is remembered chiefly for the carnage of the Western Front, but at the time the Royal Navy's blockade of Germany was a m...

This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing t...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It ha...

In the era of war on terror, the term terror has tended to be applied to its sudden eruptions in the metropolises of the global north. This volume ...

This book considers some of the most notable aspects of the legal response to the "war on terror" post- 9/11 and the use of technology to support t...

Terrorists constantly present new challenges to law enforcement, emergency response teams, security planners, and others involved in counterterrori...