Political Control & Freedoms

What is the role of intelligence agencies in strategy and policy? How do policymakers use (or misuse) intelligence estimates? When do intelligence-...

Since at least the Middle Ages, the laws of war have distinguished between combatants and civilians under an injunction now formally known as the p...

Survival Skills for the Fire Chief examines the management mistakes fire chiefs often make that compromise their effectiveness and ability to manag...

The eighteen-day revolt that ended Hosni Mubarak''s thirty years of rule marked a historic turning point in the political fortunes not only of Egyp...

In the aftermath of 9/11, few questioned the political narrative provided by the White House about Guantánamo and the steady stream of prisoners de...

The aim of this book is to highlight the role that the Black Consciousness Movement played in the transformation of South Africa from racial oppres...

This book analyses the regulatory regimes that are now having their day of dominance. The traditional ideal of democracy as governance by the peopl...

Everyone needs and deserves housing. But today our homes are being transformed into commodities, making the inequalities of the city ever more acut...

One day in the spring of 2013, a box appeared outside a fourth-floor apartment door in Brooklyn, New York. The recipient, who didn't know the sende...

No topic is more polarizing than guns and gun control. From a gun culture that took root early in American history to the mass shootings that repea...

Fake news, wild conspiracy theories, misleading claims, doctored photos, lies peddled as facts, facts dismissed as liescitizens of democracies incr...

In the wake of the Arab uprisings, al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that would for the first time withdraw from a preachin...

Alfredo Gutierrez's father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown-the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred dur...

Peter Marcuse has long been recognised as one of the foremost critical urban scholars of our era. He has been writing about and participating in ur...

During the National Post''s first year of publication, it claimed that Canada''s supposedly exorbitant taxes were causing great damage to the econo...

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the first Secretary of State to declare the subjugation of women worldwide a serious threat to U.S. national security. K...