Political Activism

This edited volume introduces the reader to the role of space in military and defense strategy, and outlines some of the major foreign and domestic...

For a very large part of the world’s population, poverty and war are still part of everyday life. Drawing on insights from several disciplines, thi...

This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conf...

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

Who is Matt Cvetic? Hero? Scoundrel? Mole? The man who loosely provided the inspiration for the B-Grade cult movie I Was a Communist for the FBI ha...

The most difficult challenge for a terrorist organization seeking to build a nuclear weapon or improvised nuclear device is obtaining fissile mater...

In the years after the First World War both Ulster and Upper Silesia saw violent conflicts over self-determination. The violence in Upper Silesia w...

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that ar...

This book is an exploration and analysis of the political activism of Hollywood celebrities and organizations. It covers early Hollywood unionism l...

Hamas is typically portrayed in the West as nothing more than a terrorist organisation. Yet as Michael Irving Jensen discovers, it also provides me...

The first novel ever written about terrorism, Dostoevsky'sThe Demons is also the most instructive, for in it he addresses—better than any writer be...

This edited collection explores aspects of contemporary war that affect average people –physically, emotionally, and ethically through activities r...

This book looks at the political reintegration of armed groups after civil wars and the challenges of transforming ‘rebel’, ‘insurgent’ or other no...

The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001. In pa...

This book offers an evaluation of female suicide bombers through postcolonial, Third World, feminist, and human-rights framework, drawing on case s...

This book analyzes the way Israel has coped with nine wars of attrition from the 1950s to the recent Second Lebanon War (2006), questioning the bel...

From the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London transportation bombings, dramatic events of ...

This concise and accessible new text offers original and insightful analysis of the policy paradigm informing international statebuilding intervent...

This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersectio...

This book offers the first comprehensive and critical investigation of the specific modes of risk calculation that are emerging in the so-called Wa...

Conflict Management and Resolution provides students with an overview of the main theories of conflict management and conflict resolution, and will...

This expanded, updated edition of Revolutions offers a new chapter on terrorism and on social movements, including jihadism. Revolutions and state ...

After nearly three decades of dutiful service to the Communist Party, Imre Nagy led the popular uprising against the Soviet authorities during the ...

Rethinking Insecurity, War and Violence: Beyond Savage Globalization? is a collection of essays by scholars intent on rethinking the mainstream sec...