Political Activism

This continuation volume of the Pan-African Chronology set covers the most significant events in the African diaspora from the end of the Americ...

America and the Just War Tradition examines and evaluates each of America’s major wars from a just war perspective. Using moral analysis that is an...

Although the Ku Klux Klan can be traced from the 1700s through the Civil War and is still evolving at present, many people fail to realize its r...

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century. Despite myriad programs of deradicalization and preventi...

Celebrated as liberators and martyrs by those who support their cause, denounced as terrorists by their opponents, suicide bombers have become all ...

Having suffered military defeat at the hands of advanced Western powers in the 1850s, Russia and Japan embarked upon a program of catch-up and mode...

Historically, terrorism has generally failed as a means to reach a political objective. Most often, terrorist incidents have brought fear to the...

Anyone who wants to understand what militant Muslims think has to understand what they read—and they read Sayyid Qutb, the intellectual father of I...

On April 22, 1865, Brevet Colonel H. L. Burnett was assigned to head the investigation into the murder of President Abraham Lincoln and the attempt...

After September 11, 2001, Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, vowed to fight extremism in his country and has since established himself as a ke...

This book explores and inquiries into the interrelation between normativity and Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) from a wide range of critical view...

With crucial insights and indispensable information concerning modern-day political upheavals, the sixth edition of Revolutions and Revolutionary M...

This book is a timely and significant examination of the role of counter-messaging via social media as a potential means of preventing or counterin...

Wars in this century are radically different from the major conflicts of the 20th century--more amorphous, asymmetrical, globally connected, and un...

Using empirical qualitative research, this book conceptualises and demonstrates the value of local practical knowledge for peacebuilding in the con...

This book is a profound search for a theory of social change. Through clearing away the cobwebs of revolutionary socialism, it renews the fight for...

This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has remained resilient despite persistent differences in the preferences, approaches,...

This book traces the evolution of the UN Security Council’s actions against terrorism and extremism.The work examines the progression of the UN Sec...

This edited volume examines a range of historical and contemporary episodes of reconciliation and anti-reconciliation in the aftermath of war.Recon...

This book, first published in 1992, examines defence issues as the twentieth century drew to a close. With the end of the Cold War, many of the thr...

'A major analysis of our world's political crisis' - Joel Wainwright The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financ...

Does religion cause much of the world’s violence? Is religion inherently violent? Would violence disappear if religion did? Is true religion a forc...

How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act – or not act – when the limits of state tolerance are uncl...

This book explains how and why the transatlantic relationship has remained resilient despite persistent differences in the preferences, approaches,...