Political Control & Freedoms

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accept...

Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America recounts the extraordinary story of how tens of thousan...

Presenting case studies and comparisons across seven countries, this book addresses key questions as to the nature of state fragility, policies use...

When the regime led by Slobodan Milošević came to an end in October 2000, expectations for social transformation in Serbia and the rest of the Balk...

Turkey's mixed human rights record has been highly politicized in the debate surrounding the country's probable ascendance to membership in the Eur...

Privacy: Algorithms and Society focuses on encryption technologies and privacy debates in journalistic crypto-cultures, countersurveillance technol...

Suffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Ninete...

Human rights are thought to guarantee pluralism by protecting individual liberty from imposed religious conceptions of virtue. Yet critics often ar...

Following up his groundbreaking book Digital is Destroying Everything, Andrew Edwards nowunveils the sinister agenda of An Army of Liars, thedigita...

Formal categorization of people presents significant challenges. When politics and law become ethnicized, the pivotal question arises: who is who? ...

This volume focuses on Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and IDPs in South Asia. The volume begins with an overview of Maoist rebels in 1...

** #4 New York Times bestseller **In Democracy Awakening, American historian Heather Cox Richardson examines how, over the decades, an elite minori...

This book explains the dynamics and nature of Iraqi Kurdistan’s de facto statehood since its inception in 1991, in particular the vicissitudes de f...

This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-...

Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement: The Black Freedom Struggle in America recounts the extraordinary story of how tens of thousan...

This volume focuses on Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement and IDPs in South Asia. The volume begins with an overview of Maoist rebels in 1...

Examining the rise of global women's human rights and their interpretation and application to Turkey, Nüket Kardam provides an in-depth study that ...

Arguing that we only have democracy when systems of power are held to account, Kaufman examines the real work being done to challenge the operation...

Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of...

Are today's young adults gender rebels or returning to tradition? In Where the Millennials Will Take Us, Barbara J. Risman reveals the diverse stra...

Building on Timothy Mitchell's seminal 1991 exploration of the "Limits of the State," this book brings together contributions on the state in the A...

Describes and analyses the propaganda and violence of the four Cambodian parties to the 1991 Paris peace agreements. This volume explores Cambodia ...

Few twentieth-century political leaders enjoyed greated popularity among their own people than Hitler in the 1930s and 1940s. This remarkable study...

Set against the romance of revolution and the terror of a military coup, this arresting mystery is also a reckoning with the callousness of U.S. fo...

This is the first book to focus primarily on George Orwell’s ideas about free speech and related matters – freedom of the press, the writer’s freed...

The official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists, this annual publication includes significant scholarly research ...

First published in 1985, this book gives an intimate account of the cultural-political conflict between Australian Aboriginal people and Anglo-Aust...

Burdened with a heritage of both Spanish and British colonization and imperialism, Guyana is today caught between its colonial past, its efforts to...

The failure to include gender in the economic history of rural development has severely limited our understanding of privatizing, collectivist and ...

An ideal supplement for any course with the goal to make free speech issues meaningful and relevant to young media professionals today. Features ...

This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic...

This volume is a collection of papers written over the course of forty years. It examines political attitudes, patterns of political behavior, and ...

The authors of this volume provide discussion on vital issues related to the rights of children in the United States, including: the historical and...

This book demonstrates how a focus on children’s rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis. Child Rights in Hu...

The Congressional Black Caucus has grown both in size and in prominence in its short lifetime. Robert Singh considers the actual impact of the CBC ...

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization comprehensively and systematically explores the current understanding, and unchartered research paths, of...

Abortion politics are contentious and divisive in many parts of the world, but nowhere more so than in Ireland. Abortion and Nation examines the co...

This book demonstrates how a focus on children’s rights can help practitioners to safeguard children during humanitarian crisis. Child Rights in Hu...

Describes and analyses the propaganda and violence of the four Cambodian parties to the 1991 Paris peace agreements. This volume explores Cambodia ...

Indigenous peoples are recognised as groups with specific rights based on their historical ties to particular territories. The United Nations estim...

This book explores concepts of Cultural genocide, its definitions, place in international law, the systems and methods that contribute to its manif...