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National Security Intelligence - Secret Operations in Defense of the Democracies

National security intelligence is a vast, complex and intriguing topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick ...

Breaking Point - Russia, Ukraine, and the Future of International Relations

This book fills in an important hole in the existing literature by offering a look at how the international system and international rela...

Gender, Race, and Power - Examining IR Through an Intersectional Lens

This book interrogates traditional international relations theories and issues, such as war, peace, security, and trade, to demonstrate t...

It's Nation Time - A Progressive Defence

In It's Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphol...

Compromise - Reviving the Art (and Science) of the Possible

This book renews an appreciation for the messy but necessary process of compromise, before it becomes irrelevant in an authoritarian system.

African-On-African Colonization - The Ill-Fated Ambazonia-Cameroun Political Partnership

Using Ambazonia as a case study, this book examines the phenomenon of African-on-African colonialism in postcolonial Africa, provides a d...

Contemporary Security Governance in Nigeria - Themes and Perspectives

This book examines the theory, practice, and challenges of contemporary security governance in Nigeria and argues for the prioritization ...

The Tech Coup - How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

"As a member of the European Parliament, author Marietje Schaake was on the vanguard of politicians who recognized that no technology is ...

Playing with Fire - Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India

Drawing on a rare cross-regional comparison of Kenya and India, Playing with Fire develops a novel explanation about ethnic party violenc...

Colonial Origins of Democracy and Dictatorship

"Why are some countries more democratic than others? By neglecting colonialism, existing research overlooks origins: for most non-Europea...

Fracking Uncertainty - Hydraulic Fracturing and the Provincial Politics of Risk

Fracking Uncertainty investigates the politics of hydraulic fracturing regulation in and among Canada’s provinces.

The Art of Diplomacy - How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World

Longtime diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat covers every major contemporary international agreement, from the treaty to end the ...

Patterns of Sustaining Peace - The Complex Impact of Peacebuilding Institutions in Post-Conflict Societies

This book explores how to establish peace in societies recovering from large-scale, armed conflicts by introducing the sustaining peace s...

The Digital Transformation of the European Border Regime - The Powers and Perils of Imagining Future Borders

This book offers an in-depth investigation into the digitisation processes of Europe's border regime. It shows how sociotechnical imagina...

Digital Technologies, Smart Cities and the Environment - In the Ruins of Broken Promises

The concept of smart cities holds environmental promises: that digital technologies will reduce carbon emissions, air pollution and waste...

Gendering Nations - Martial Man and Chaste Woman

This book examines how common ideas of manhood and womanhood shape dominant views of "we the people" that are integral to most nations in...

Jacques Maritain and Human Rights - Totalitarianism, Anti-Semitism and Democracy (1936-1951)

The influence of Jacques Maritain in the post-war era's embrace of human rights is undeniable. Scholars, however, overlook a major shift ...

Pan-Africanism - Visions, Initiatives, and Transformations

This book explores the transformation of Pan-Africanism from a social movement in the Americas to its role in liberation movements in Afr...

Muslim Empowerment in Ghana - Analysing the Spectrum of Muslim Social Mobilization During the Internet Age

This book analyses the activities of local, national and international Muslim NGOs in promoting social welfare of the Muslim minority as ...

South Asia, the British Empire, and the Rise of Classical Legal Thought - Toward a Historical Ontology of the Law

The book delves into colonial South Asia's legal transformation under the rule of the British Crown, examining shifts in sovereignty, lan...

Finance Aesthetics - A Critical Glossary

A unique, critical, and creative encyclopedia from scholars, artists, and writers on the world and words of finance capital. What does fi...

The von der Leyen Commission - Geopolitical Commission under the Pressure of Crises (2019-2024)

Ursula von der Leyen set out six strategic priorities when she took office, under which the Commission drove forward its political agenda...

How Tyrants Fall - And How Nations Survive

'Gripping . . . essential and captivating' BRADLEY HOPE 'A sparkling read full of original observations and captivating insights' KATJA H...

The Art of State Persuasion - China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes

The Art of State Persuasion explores how authoritarian states like China use media to shape public opinion in foreign disputes. Unravelin...

Decolonizing Emotions in French Algeria - Anticolonial Mythmaking and Morality Tales, 1954-62

"What role did emotions play in anti-colonial activist decisions during the Algerian Revolution? How were emotions like pride and shame, ...

Policing Show Business - J. Edgar Hoover, the Hollywood Blacklist, and Cold War Movies

"In Policing Show Business, Francis MacDonnell explores the starring role played by J. Edgar Hoover in the development of the Hollywood b...

Parties under Pressure - The Politics of Factions and Party Adaptation

"Under pressure around the world, political parties have differed enormously in their ability to update their offers to voters. This vari...

Globally Competent Governance - Strategies for Building Welcoming and Inclusive Communities

Globally Competent Governance explores promising policies and practices developed by local governments and other community leaders across...

Great Power Competition and Overseas Bases - Chinese, Russian, and American Force Posture in the Twenty-First Century

This book reveals the varied motivations for overseas military bases and base access among great powers and offers a valuable window into...

U.S. Militarism and the Terrain of Memory - Negotiating Dead Space

This book analyses how the Iraqi city of Fallujah became registered as a setting for military heroics in American memory.

My Life in Nevada Politics - The Memoirs of Richard H. Bryan

"The political memoir My Life in Nevada Politics tells the entertaining, informative, and, at times, poignant story of Richard H. Bryan's...

Non-Constituency Members of Parliament: What's Next for the Scheme?

Four decades have elapsed since the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) scheme was introduced in 1984. It has been raised and de...

Crimes Against the State - Sedition, Rebellion, and Treason Since America's Founding

"This work provides an authoritative survey of America's long and turbulent history of rebellions against laws and institutions of the st...

Refounding Democracy Through Intersectional Activism - How Progressive Era Feminists Redefined Who We Are, and What It Means Today

"Studies turn-of-the-twentieth-century social democratic feminist "refounders" and the conceptual and organizing tools they offer for a d...

Spying in South Asia - Britain, the United States, and India's Secret Cold War

In this first comprehensive history of India's secret Cold War, Paul McGarr tells the story of Indian politicians, human rights activists...

Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance - Concepts, Methods and Practices

Environmental mega conferences have become the format of choice in environmental governance. Conferences of the Parties (COPs) under the ...

Egypt and the Rise of Fluid Authoritarianism - Political Ecology, Power and the Crisis of Legitimacy

Egypt and the rise of fluid authoritarianism intellectually engages with regime discontinuity and the implications this rupture determine...

Designing More-Than-Human Smart Cities - Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation

Drawing from existing theory, policy, practice and speculative design about how cities may evolve, the book illustrates key concepts usin...

Mexican Muralist, International Marxist - David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1941-74

David Alfaro Siqueiros was perhaps the most important communist painter of the twentieth century. This book offers the first sustained en...

Into the Void - Special Operations Forces After the War on Terror

A critical analysis of how global special forces can and should evolve into a future-ready capability, responding to today's post-War on ...

Invoking the Fathers - Dangerous Metaphors and Founding Myths in Congressional Politics

Why is the metaphor of the "Founding Fathers" so insidious--and how does it impact American politics? American politicians routinely invo...

Free Internet Access as a Human Right

"Merten Reglitz makes a case for a new human right to free Internet access, arguing it is crucial for protecting and advancing fundamenta...

Transnational Community Mobilization and Transformation, 2010-2020

This book explores transnational community mobilization through local transnational encounters and connections.

Chinese Colonial Entanglements - Commodities and Traders in the Southern Asia Pacific, 1880-1950

"Chinese colonial entanglements takes a new geographical approach to understanding the Chinese diaspora, shining a light on Chinese engag...

Contemporary Asia - Continuities, Challenges and Transformations

For the first time in the modern era, Asia is not dominated by an outside power. Is this the Asian Century? Will internal rivalries emerg...

First and Lasting Impressions

These essays capture Frank Field's personal reflections on influential figures in public life across his remarkable 40-year political jou...

Transgender Rights vs. Women's Rights - From Conflicts to Co-Existence

Indian Renaissance - The Modi Decade

The Times Guide to the House of Commons 2024 - The Definitive Record of Britain's Historic 2024 General Election

The authoritative guide to the 2019 British general election results, charting the campaign, the results by constituency, the winning maj...

East-West Relations and the Future of Eastern Europe - Politics and Economics

Domestic and foreign policy considerations led Eastern European nations in the 1970s to involve their economies more deeply with the West...

Seventy Years of India-Japan Diplomatic Relations - Reflections and Way Forward

This book discusses the nature of India-Japan relationship and presents a comprehensive account of the diplomatic ties between the two na...

Yugoslavia, Nonalignment and Cold War Globalism - Tito's International Rise, Celebrity and Fall

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia estab...

British Government Since 1918 - With an Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Sir John Anderson

First published in 1950, British Government Since 1918 presents a comprehensive, well-balanced account of the machinery by which public a...

The Christian Origins of Tolerance

This book presents an account of tolerance that differs from the standard liberal narrative. Jed Atkins recovers tolerance's beginnings i...

Disaster Nationalism - The Downfall of Liberal Civilization

Liberal civilisation is in crisis - now is a time of monsters.

Legitimacy in Liberal Democracies

Explores how legitimacy should be treated in countries where authoritarian alternatives to democracy lack credibility

Populism and Time - Temporalities of a Disruptive Politics

Presents a sustained and diverse engagement with an under-explored key component of populism: time

Transformation of India's Foreign Policy - Shaping the Global Order as a Responsible Power

Analysing the trajectory of Indian foreign policy through Prime Minister Modi's vision, this book examines issues related to India's grow...

Gender and World War II in the Yugoslav Media

This book analyzes how the cultural memory of women's participation in the Yugoslav People's Liberation Struggle (1941-1945), especially ...

Populism - An Introduction