Political Activism

It has been alleged that pirates and maritime terrorists present a largely common threat to international maritime security. This book drives to th...

'A tour de force' - Dalia Gebrial Antiracist movements are more mainstream than ever before. Liberal democracies boast of their policies designed ...

The Western-led efforts to establish a new post-Taliban order in Afghanistan are in serious trouble, and in this book Suhrke sets out to explain wh...

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation, with speeches from Olly Alexander, Sir Elton John, Aliso...

Hes out of options. Kill. Or be killed. A searing thriller that will leave you reelingDisgraced Navy SEAL Finn is on the run.A wanted man, hes soug...

We take it for granted that the streets outside out homes are designed for movement from A to B, nothing more. But what happens if we radically ret...

Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only s...

Defined as operations other than war, stability operations can include peacekeeping activities, population control, and counternarcotics efforts, a...

They have accessed the office of the Secretary of Defense, the control systems for U.S. electric power grids, and the plans to protect America's la...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead B...

Ken Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles t...

My story starts at the very end of the journey to equal marriage rights. I stand on the shoulders of giants...In the future, people will find it di...

Peter Kennard is Britain's foremost political artist and has been at the cutting edge of global political image making since the Vietnam War. Unoff...

Fountainhead of Jihad is the first in-depth study of the history, links, and organisational logic of the Haqqani network. Drawing upon a wealth of ...

Within seventeen years of the first public broadcast in Britain, the nation again found itself at war. As the Second World War progressed, the BBC ...

The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? Wh...

Every war has its cause and every conflict its context, none more so than the centuries-old ideological battle between Christian and Muslim theolog...

In Speaking Hatefully, David Boromisza-Habashi focuses on the use of the term hate speech as a window on the cultural logic of political and moral ...

The vulnerability of journalists to kidnappings was starkly illustrated by the killing of James Foley and Steven Sotloff by Islamic militants in 20...

Fast-moving, self- propelled 'violent images' have radically changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. The global media has revolutioni...

'Its existence is known only by the effects of its action.' Author Curt Riess on what happens when an organisation goes underground. Written in 19...

In a world dominated by nation-states, expressions of private violence have generally been neglected: either as relics of a more disorganised world...