Society & Social Sciences

This book analyses China’s maritime strategy for the 21st century, integrating strategic planning, policy thinking and strategic prediction.This bo...

This book follows the journeys of those fleeing war, poverty or political crises, risking their lives as they attempt to find sanctuary in Europe. ...

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank explores the manner in which the Palestinian Authority’s performative acts affect and shape the lives an...

This book brings together key essays from the career of social theorist John O’Neill, including his uncollected later writings, focusing on embodim...

In the tradition of C. Wright Mills, Stephen J. Miller defines and analyzes the power of the medical elite in American elite. He describes a group ...

This book examines the ways in which Russia and Belarus use disinformation, "weaponised" historical narratives, and the politics of memory for dome...

Friso Wielenga’s detailed history of the Netherlands traces its political development from independence to today, incorporating significant explora...

Emergency managers and public safety professionals are more frequently being called on to address increasingly challenging and complex critical inc...

This book studies war narratives and their role in the political arenas of post-conflict societies, with a focus on the former Yugoslavia.How do po...

This book draws attention to the new ways the field of education is problematising the emerging and evolving conditions that shape the work, lives ...

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa.This book posits that AFR...

This book examines the United States neoconservative movement, arguing that its support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq was rooted in an intelligence...

This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public li...

Offering a new template for future exploration, Susan Greenwood examines and develops the notion that the experience of magic is a panhuman orienta...