Political Control & Freedoms

One of TIME's 100 Must Read Books of 2020 and one of Good Housekeeping's Best Books of the Year“One of the smartest young writers of her generation...

'I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 se...

Once at the forefront of progressive social change in the US, Black activism has been eclipsed in the past quarter century by dramatic changes in t...

A riveting memoir of Mexico's "dirty wars"

A riveting memoir of Mexico's "dirty wars"

An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human r...

Contemporary civil libertarians claim that their works preserve a worthy American tradition of defending free-speech rights dating back to the fram...

The Bush Administration, sex and the moral agenda considers White House policy towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity and same-s...

We regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violence—perhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the...

Since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, the quest for just and lasting peace has been a fountainhead of debate, negotiat...

This book tells the story of Ivory Perry, a black worker and community activist who, for more than thirty years, has distributed the leaflets, carr...

Since Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, the quest for just and lasting peace has been a fountainhead of debate, negotiat...

Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the gen...

On November 16, 1989, on the campus of El Salvador's University of Central America, six Jesuits and two women were murdered by members of the Salva...

In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incar...

Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that...

A pragmatic inquiry into student speech, public schooling and the First Amendment

Traditionally, much of the work studying war and conflict has focused on men. Men commonly appear as soldiers, commanders, casualties, and civilian...

During the Second World War, over 300 Hollywood motion pictures were produced that, in one way or another, bore the propaganda imprimatur. These po...

We regard genocidal violence as worse than other sorts of violence—perhaps the worst there is. But what does this say about what we value about the...

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. B...

This little gem of a book, which first appeared in 1920, was written in Walter Lippmann's thirtieth year. He was still full of the passionate faith...

By exploring the "China factor" in the North Korean human rights debate, this book evaluates the advantages and disadvantages of applying the Chine...

"Genocide" may be the most powerful word in the English language. What is the significance and relevance of this formative concept today? In an ext...

What did "freedom of the press" really mean to the framers of the First Amendment and their contemporaries? This masterful book by a Pulitzer Prize...

This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan.It engages with a well-est...

This volume examines the ongoing construction of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine, elaborating on areas of both consolidation and conte...

This paper analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations of war-torn territories and discusses the key issues - strategi...

This book reveals why the UN is more successful than unilateral great powers in protecting civilians from violence, and focuses on the discourse, d...

The title of this book plays upon the central place a theology of the cross holds in Lutheran theologies, especially lucid in Luther's Heidelberg D...

Music, the Moving Image and Ireland, 1897–2017 constitutes the first comprehensive study of music for screen productions from or relating to the is...

Noncitizens have always been present in liberal political philosophy. Often hard to situate within traditional frameworks that prioritise citizensh...

Global politics has been completely transformed by the rise of digitalisation and the politicised use of everyday digital communication tools by or...

Providing a contemporary history of the Palestinian prisoners movement, this book illustrates the centrality of the movement in the broader Palesti...

Does the idea of a world in which facts mean nothing cause anxiety? Fear? Maybe even paranoia? Disinformation:The Nature of Facts and Lies in the P...

In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the ...

This autobiographical novella was written in 1980 by one of China's leading dissidents, who was released from jail in late October 1990 again after...

In this critical examination of the beginnings of mass communications research in the United States, written from the perspective of an educational...

After the First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934, folklore, like literature, became an instrument of the political propagandist. Folklorists devo...

This study focuses on Amuzgo Indian communities of the Costa Chica of Guerrero state in Mexico in order to analyze the indigenous struggle for land...

In specialized literature as well as in the eyes of regular citizens, social movements are often considered to be actors of democratization. Among ...

The author argues that a part of the history of nation building in Iraq through addressing its political characters, different communities, agreeme...

This is a study of government publicity activities in Britain between the wars. Mariel Grant focuses on the development of public relations bureaux...