Political Control & Freedoms

A natural hazard is a physical event but a disaster is a social and political phenomenon. Natural hazards are, for the most part, unavoidable and a...

While the relevance of ontological commitments for epistemology and methodology in International Relations have been the subject of growing debate ...

This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have acco...

Why did the third World Trade Center building (WTC7) collapse on September 11th , even though it was not struck by any aircraft? Why did Prince...

A collection of interviews with some of the worlds leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to s...

This book explores the relationship of natural and artificial intelligence in our rapidly evolving world. It does so anchored in an innovative mult...

Exploring the dark side of digital diplomacy, this volume highlights some of the major problems facing democratic institutions in the West and prov...

The Internets importance for freedom of expression and other rights comes in part from the ability it bestows on users to create and share informat...

In 1973, Hillary Rodham Clinton famously stated that children's rights is a slogan in search of a definition, used to bolster various arguments for...

Political Advocacy and American Politics provides a detailed explanation as to why citizens engage in interpersonal advocacy in the United States. ...

A collection of interviews with some of the worlds leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to s...

This book represents a significant intervention in human rights and its literary praxis, underscoring its paramount relevance and pressing urgency ...

The author writes from the experience of thirty years working in the Jerusalem municipality, including 21 years as a public official and ten years ...

Covering the beginning of the television era to the present, Battleground provides an unprecedented look at the Electoral College strategies used b...

Covering the beginning of the television era to the present, Battleground provides an unprecedented look at the Electoral College strategies used b...

This book explores the U.S. asylum process and how those seeking shelter deal with the rhetorical pressures of compelling asylum narratives they ne...

Comprising two volumes, this is a pioneering study which examines how the United States has deployed public diplomacy with Japan to confront Japane...

All art is propaganda, wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art. Moving from World War I to the War on Terror and beyond, The Story of Br...

All art is propaganda, wrote George Orwell, but not all propaganda is art. Moving from World War I to the War on Terror and beyond, The Story of Br...

In the 1990s, Latin America emerged from the horror of massive and systematic human rights violations as the region returned to civilian-elected re...

An essential guide to nurturing the next generation of responsible, informed citizens Lindsey Cormack's book, How to Raise a Citizen (And Why It's ...

Marina Mahathir continues to make her mark as a community leader, writer and outspoken commentator on social and political affairs. She is also the...

In 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples became law, extending inherent human rights for the first time to the a...

Where did we get the idea that BIG is better?Our belief in BIG has been manufactured over the centuries by powerful politicians, intellectuals and ...

Merten Reglitz proposes a new human right that ensures Internet access for those who cannot afford it and protects that right from arbitrary interf...

Merten Reglitz proposes a new human right that ensures Internet access for those who cannot afford it and protects that right from arbitrary interf...

The Human Rights Act 1998 is claimed by its advocates to contain fundamental rights that everyone in the UK is entitled to, by incorporating the ri...

The inside story of China's organtransplant business and its macabre connection with internment camps and killing fields for arrested dissidents, e...

This book uses an open, explorative approach to deal with the different aspects of gender discrimination and gender empowerment policies, as well a...