Political Control & Freedoms

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and prac...

This book examines contemporary feminist visual activism(s) through the lens of embodiment(s). The contributors explore how the arts articulate and...

Through a multidisciplinary approach, African Frontiers counters the superficial, Eurocentric and gender insensitive dominant discursive representa...

While it has been some time since computer technologies were first introduced to social surveys, their methodological advantages, as well as potent...

This volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from the United States, the Middle East, and North Africa, to discuss and critic...

Transitional justice studies typically focuses on how nations remember, face and deal with histories of past violence. This book, however, shifts t...

Some 600 million children worldwide do not legally exist. Without verifiable identification, they—and unregistered adults—could face serious diffic...

Ethnic minority communities make claims for cultural rights from states in different ways depending on how governments include them in policies and...

Gender Justice and Human Rights in International Development Assistance provides a critical analysis of how frameworks of gender equality play out ...

The human rights issues in Japan are multifaceted. Over decades, domestic and international human rights organisations have raised concerns, but go...

Although the triggering effect of economic crises on revolt is a classic sociological topic, crises have until recently mostly triggered large-scal...

Sudan has been undergoing profound changes characterized by an uncertain transition from conflict to post-conflict society and the separation of th...

The focus of this volume is on the historical and geographical elements of law and religion. The first part delineates and analyzes the relation be...

The essays and articles selected for this volume analyze what is generally understood by freedom of religion and belief in todays world. The differ...

Political marketing coalesced as a subfield in the mid-1990s, and in 2002 the Journal of Political Marketing began publication. This anniversary co...

While the 1990s gave rise to a wealth of literature on the notion of ethical foreign policy, it has tended to simply focus on a version of realism,...

The links between distinctive political regimes and media systems are undeniable. As Siebert, Peterson and Schramm wrote (1956: 1) 60 years ago: th...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

Sudan and South Sudan have suffered from repeated cycles of conflict and authoritarianism resulting in serious human rights and humanitarian law vi...

The right to clean water has been adopted by the United Nations as a basic human right. Yet how such universal calls for a right to water are under...

First published in 1999, This book is a wide-ranging and authoritative review of the reception in England and other countries of Foxes Acts and Mon...

Torture, Intelligence and Sousveillance in the War on Terror examines the communication battles of the Bush and Blair political administrations (an...

Questions about the role and influence of think tanks in matters of foreign policy and geopolitics are both timely and important. The reconfigurati...

This book examines, through an interdisciplinary lens, the relationship between political dissent and processes of designing.In the past twenty yea...

Modern Art in Cold War Beirut: Drawing Alliances examines the entangled histories of modern art and international politics during the decades of th...

This book brings legal and academic perspective to the theory and practice surrounding the right to a fair hearing within a reasonable time. This f...

While the 21st century bears witness to several conflicts leading to mass displacement, the conflict in Syria has crystallised the need for a solid...

The primary objective of this book is to understand the nature of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria. Boko Harams goal of an Islamic Ca...

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schieles work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artists visual b...

This book offers an up-to-date, comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the multifaceted and evolving experiences of human rights in Sierra Leo...

NATO, an organisation brought together to function as an anti-communist alliance, faced existential questions after the unexpected collapse of the ...

For the European Union of the 21st century, the search for sustainable prosperity and stability includes the challenge of reconciling democratic id...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and econ...

At the core of African American religions response to social inequalities has been a symbiotic relationship between socio-political activism and sp...

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics is a volume of critical essays, provocations, and interventions on the most important questions fac...

Zimbabwe's severe crisis - and a possible way out of it with a transitional government, and the new era for which it prepares the ground - demands ...

The European Unions (EU) fundamental principles on free movement of persons and non-discrimination have long challenged the traditional closure of ...

Societies today are in a period of dynamic change, highly fluid and contested in moving from traditional to liberal and from local to global, as we...

This title was fist published in 2000: A fresh and original study of EU and NATO enlargement, which sets both in a comparative context and consider...

Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geograph...

Far from being the preserve of a few elite thinkers, critique increasingly dominates public life in modernity, leading to a cacophony of accusation...

A combination of economic transformation, political transitions and changes in media have substantially, if incrementally, altered the terrain for ...

This book examines the relationship between international human rights discourse and the justifi cations for criminal punishment. Using interdiscip...

In an increasing number of countries around the world, populist leaders, political parties and movements have gained prominence and influence, eith...

In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate eco...

This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

Textbooks as Propaganda analyses post-Second World War Polish school textbooks to show that Communist indoctrination started right from the first g...