Political Activism

Prevent Strategy is a collection of work from practitioners – youth workers and the police – and academics researching Prevent. This book examines ...

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...

Greta Thunberg. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Anita Sarkeesian. Emma Gonzalez. When women are vocal about political and social issues, too-often they a...

This book brings together multiple perspectives to examine the strengths and limitations of efforts to promote healing and peacebuilding after war,...

This book examines the origins of the conflict between two nuclear powers – India and Pakistan – and the instability and violence in the disputed t...

With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the world the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many places from g...

This book delves into the secret histories of the CIA, the FBI, and British and Italian intelligence to study how policymakers can control intellig...

Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie and contribute to sexual violence and internal di...

The signing of the peace agreements between the FARC-EP and the Colombian Government in late November 2016 has generated new prospects for peace in...

World orders are increasingly contested. As international institutions have taken on ever more ambitious tasks, they have been challenged by rising...

This book offers an explanation and evaluation of preventative diplomacy in an age of increasing precariousness. It emphasises the importance of pu...

This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent...

The Yugoslav crisis - armed conflict, ethnic cleansing and the reverberating ideas and mindsets - has been going on for more than ten years. This t...

An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history. Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan ...

This remarkable biography features a white American pacifist minister whose tireless work for justice and human rights helped reshape Black civil r...

Informed by Eric Wolf’s Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century, published in 1969, this book examines selected peasant struggles in seven Latin Am...

What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? How are notions of nationhood, Scottishness, and Britishness implicated in this? Why is it importa...

Organized around single country studies embedded in key historical moments, this book introduces students to the shifting and varied guerrilla hist...

This Citizen’s Guide addresses the public policy issues of terrorism and counterterrorism in the United States. Written for the thinking citizen an...

This book examines how social media has transformed extremist discourse. Drawing on ISIS and their sophisticated use of social media platforms and ...

This book offers a theory and model of counterterrorism based on emancipation and non-violence.Critical Terrorism Studies (CTS) scholars have produ...

This book makes a critical analysis of West Bengal's Left Front regime (1977-2011) and explores the causes of its collapse under three sgments; inq...