Political Activism

There is currently much discussion regarding the causes of terrorist acts, as well as the connection between terrorism and religion. Terrorism is a...

Insurgencies in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere-the majority linked to al Qaeda-are in the news on an almost daily basis. But very li...

This powerful anthology brings together reflective and raw plays by American playwrights surrounding the psychic and political boundaries of the ma...

With the seeming defeat of ISIS, has jihadism disappeared from world politics? In this startling new book, Stephen Chan uncovers the ideological fo...

SWAT teams, GSG9, EKO Cobra, SCO 19 - these elite police units are used to dealing with dangerous situations, particularly in the fight against glo...

Since it erupted onto the world stage in 2009, people have asked, what is Boko Haram, and what does it stand for? Is there a coherent vision or set...

At 9:53 on the morning of July 18, 1994, a suicide bomber drove a Renault Trafic van loaded with explosives into the Asociación Mutual Israelita Ar...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philo...

How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philo...

A comprehensive history of one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups Boko Haram is one of the world's deadliest jihadist groups. It has killed ...

No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the spectre of global jihadism. While much has been said about the wa...

An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol...

Former BBC Middle East correspondent, Jeremy Bowen was on the ground for them as revolutions swept through the region. Realising this as a game-cha...