Political Control & Freedoms

This edited volume examines deterrence and the defense efforts of European states neighboring Russia, following the Crimean intervention.Deterrence...

How to persuade citizens to enlist? How to convince them to fight in a war which was, for many, distant in terms of kilometres as well as interest?...

A unique insider perspective of daily life in New York Citys most notorious house of correction While most people behind bars at Rikers Island are ...

Palestine is a microcosm of the world: wretched, raging, fraught, and fragmented. On fire. Stubborn. Ineligible. Dignified. The lens we lend the Pa...

The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, awarded by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State University, recognizes outstanding in...

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence...

Israel's pulverization of Gaza since October 7, 2023 is not only a humanitarian crisis, but an environmental catastrophe. Far from the first event ...

Founded in 1833 by white teacher Prudence Crandell, Canterbury Academy educated more than two dozen Black women during its eighteen-month existence...

Charts new directions for interdisciplinary research on refugee writing and representationPlaces refugee imaginaries at the centre of interdiscipli...

What happened to the Quebec sovereignty movement after 1995? In Sleeping Dogs, Andrew McDougall reveals how a change in federalist strategy, combin...

This book examines the intersection between Indian cinema (across geographic regions, languages and formats) and human rights. It analyzes Indian c...

Starting from Deleuze's brief but influential work on control, the 11 essays in this book focus on the question of how contemporary control mechani...

This book explores the distortion of communication online, centered around the theory that the economic policy model of online media is primarily b...

This book argues that the European public sphere functions to help citizens understand complex economic issues and discuss them meaningfully across...

In the light of intense international focus on ongoing forms of world poverty, this book examines the potential of the concept of recognition in co...

This book grapples with the challenges inherent in an uncertain period for global human rights and explores the future of international human right...

This book provides an introduction to important socio-political issues and selected demographic data underlying recurrent debates concerning both t...

An engaging guide to the most important free speech rules, rationales, and debates, including the strongest arguments for and against protecting th...

More than just a legal doctrine, color-blind constitutionalism has emerged as the defining metaphor of the post-Civil Rights era. Even for those ch...

Now available as a paperback: the history of a disturbing image, now iconic, that expressed the turmoil of the 1970s and race relations in the Unit...

Are global standards of aid, assistance and redistribution achievable in practice? These 8 essays mirror and expand the complexity of contemporary ...

Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms of civil societ...

This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has bee...

This is an open access book. What is the history and current state of play of EU law and policy covering irregularised human mobility? What has bee...

This landmark two-volume anthology chronicles more than thirty tumultuous years in the African American struggle for freedom and equal rights. Here...

This landmark two-volume anthology chronicles more than thirty tumultuous years in the African American struggle for freedom and equal rights. Here...