Political Activism

Why are some international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) more politically salient than others, and why are some NGOs better able to influenc...

Environmental activism in contemporary Russia exemplifies both the promise and the challenge facing grassroots politics in the post-Soviet period. ...

Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF (aka Doctors Without Borders), was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected...

Development is a difficult endeavor in any environment, much more so in places such as Myanmar with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, interna...

By bringing together their respective competencies and resources for the greater good, governments, business, civil society and multilateral agenci...

NGO Leadership and Human Rights covers various topics of importance to those who work in development and/or advocacy organisations with human right...

A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnso...

The slogan Yes we can-in the form ¡Sí Se Puede!-doesn't originate with Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. It goes back more than four decad...

Examinations of civic engagement in digital culture-the technologies, designs, and practices that support connection through common purpose in civi...

On a perfect summers day in August as a faint breeze cooled the heat of the noonday sun and gently lifted the flags to display their mottoes and e...

A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kongs revolution. Through the long, hot su...

Presenting a new framework for the study of revolutions, this innovative exploration of French, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cuban, Iranian, South...

Using the analogy of a devastating series of earthquakes, Davutolu provides a new theoretical approach, conceptualization, and methodology for unde...

What is the relation of art to the practice of radical politics today? Strike Art explores this question through the historical lens of Occupy, an ...

'Essential reading ... will not be bettered' Ferdinand Mount, Wall Street Journal'Gandhi's finest biographer' David Kynaston, GuardianThe magnifice...

Join Dr Vivien Newman, arm in arm, with some of the formidable women of the pre-First World War suffrage and anti-suffrage movements as, on the dec...