Political Activism

In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post–Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan...

This book reflects on the role of social media in the past two decades in Southeast Asia. It traces the emergence of social media discourse in Sout...

September 11, 2001 made the dangers of terrorism horrifyingly real for Americans. Although not the first or only attack on U.S. soil, its magnitude...

Contemporary Debates on Terrorism is an innovative textbook, addressing a number of key issues in terrorism studies from both traditional and 'crit...

Suicide terror has become a fundamental strategic weapon in the confrontation between Fundamentalist Islam and its adversaries and now constitutes ...

What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the Cou...

This book examines whether differences in the organizational structure of armed groups shape patterns of human rights violations in civil wars.Sinc...

A pioneering study of women's movements in two developing-world revolutions and post-revolutionary transitions to neo-liberal democracies

The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democrac...

What is it like to be in the I.R.A. - or at their mercy? This fascinating study explores the lives and deaths of the enemies and victims of the Cou...

This new handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays that investigate the contribution of Critical Terrorism Studies to our under...

The Dutch Revolt has long been hailed as the triumph of political freedom over monarchical tyranny. In 1781, John Adams observed that the American ...

Interest Group Politics has been and will continue to be the leading (essentially only) comprehensive collection of articles on interest groups and...

Part reportage and part protest, A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Bomb is an inquiry into the cultural logic and global repercus...

In November 2004, the controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was killed on a busy street in Amsterdam. A twenty-six-year-old Dutch citizen of ...

The volume examines the causes and consequences of regional turbulence in the Middle East following the 2003 Iraq war and the 2011 Arab uprisings. ...

The War on Terror has remained an enduring feature of American foreign policy for over two decades. This short history positions the War on Terror ...

"While waves of laughter echoed through the theater, James Ferguson kept his eyes focused on Abraham Lincoln. Although the president joined the cro...

Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America duri...

This book examines cyberspace superiority in nation-state conflict from both a theoretical and a practical perspective. This volume analyses superi...

Despite the fact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been active since November of 2002, the American homeland is still not secure f...

Traditionally, humanitarianism is considered a nonpolitical urgent response to human suffering. However, this characterization ignores the politics...

In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post–Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan...