Political Control & Freedoms

In an increasingly globalized world of collapsing economic borders and extending formal political and legal equality rights, active citizenship has...

This book offers a new model for measuring the success and impact of counterterrorism strategies, using four comparative historical case studies.Th...

The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to...

Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and Alice Lynd have w...

This important work argues that human rights abuse is not necessarily about distant places and peoples, and it is neither incomprehensible nor inev...

This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global...

How Do I Save My Honor? is a powerful exploration of individual moral responsibility in a time of war. When people decide that the actions of their...

Good land policy provides a diversity of land uses with plural property relations. No single kind of property rules fits the purposes of all types ...

This book argues that terrorism in the modern world has occurred in four "waves" of forty years each. It offers evidence-based explanations of terr...

This book is a comparison of two ethnic-national "apartheid" states – South Africa and Israel – which have been in conflict, and how internal disse...

Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory. This book ex...

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focu...

In this timely volume, Rachel A. May and Andrew K. Milton have assembled an array of scholars from different disciplines to examine transitional go...

Since the end of the Cold War the number of interstate wars has remained relatively low, although whilst states may be more secure than ever this d...

Hegel's enduring importance lies in the fact that his philosophy sheds light on many contemporary problems; his conception of freedom enables us to...

From the terrorist attacks of 9/11 to the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh to the London transportation bombings, dramatic events of ...

The purpose of this book is to provide a belief system to empower people using the democratic system and human rights law. This author contends tha...

The history of human rights is intricately intertwined with the history of Jews. Drawing inspiration from their tradition and history, Jews have pl...

These studies examine the ways in which succeeding democratic regimes have dealt with, or have ignored (and in several cases sugar-coated) an autho...

Since 1988, when Burma's military rulers crushed a popular uprising, Western governments have promoted democracy as a panacea for the country's man...

Whoever has tried to understand the experience of African Americans in the United States is well aware of its controversial nature. Highly regarded...

Against the prevailing interpretations which disqualify a Foucauldian approach from the discourse of freedom, this study offers a novel concept of ...

This provocative and original book challenges the commonplace that contemporary international interactions are best understood as struggles for pow...

Revolutions are melancholy moments in history—brief gasps of hope that emerges from misery and disillusionment. This is true for great revolutions,...