Political Activism

The radical black left that played a crucial role in twentieth-century struggles for equality and justice has largely disappeared. Michael Dawson i...

Since the attacks of September 11th 2001 and up to and beyond Osama bin Ladin's death, al-Qaeda has come to embody the new enigmatic face of terror...

In his disturbing and timely book Jean-Pierre Filiu lays bare the strategies and tactics employed by the Middle Eastern autocracies, above all thos...

This title offers a telling look at the lives and strategies of women environmental activists in the 1960s, solidly grounded in a national context....

The author offers insights on Egypts failed revolution: how it happened and why it did not succeed. Samuel Tadros argues that, as Egypt continues o...

The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked t...

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying, todays governments have harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. ...

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights. Rural communities, where large Aborigina...

Spreading Hate examines the evolution of the white power movement around the world, explaining its appeal and the threat it poses as well as many f...

  A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the grippin...

A Sunday Times and FT Book of the Year When a rising power threatens to displace a ruling one, the most likely outcome is war. In this razor-shar...

Aviation security expert Philip Baum delves into the archives to reveal the stories behind the most astonishing and shocking crimes in aviation his...

Across the world governments proclaim that they will never negotiate with evil. And yet they always have and always will. From jungle clearings to...