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  • Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten
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    Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten

    Critical Terrorism Studies emerged around 2007, in the context of the rapidly intensifying War on Terror. It was in this era that "terrorism" became a "growth industry" which generated a huge amount of academic research as well as social and political...
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  • Beyond the Good Friday Agreement Beyond the Good Friday Agreement
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    Beyond the Good Friday Agreement

    2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. When it was signed few would have imagined Brexit. This book examines the impact of the Good Friday Agreement on internal and cross-border political and economic cooperation between Northern...
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  • German-American Relations in the 21st Century German-American Relations in the 21st Century
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    German-American Relations in the 21st Century

    German-American relations have become interesting again. U.S. President Donald Trump's lukewarm policy toward Europe has ensured that the relationship between Berlin and Washington is once again regarded as an important field of scholarship within global...
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  • Hamas and Palestine Hamas and Palestine
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    Hamas and Palestine

    Hamas and Palestine: The Contested Road to Statehood analyses the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, between 2005 and 2017.　 The book expounds how Hamas has employed a dual resistance strategy, consisting of political and armed resistance, as a...
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  • The Politics and Economics of Brexit The Politics and Economics of Brexit
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    The Politics and Economics of Brexit

    The British referendum on continuing membership of the European Union (EU) in June 2016 represented a turning point in the relationship between the United Kingdom (UK) and the EU. This book investigates the implications of Brexit for the EU and the UK,...
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  • Decolonisation after Democracy Decolonisation after Democracy
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    Decolonisation after Democracy

    Decolonisation after Democracy addresses the provocative idea that we need to rid higher education of lingering forms of colonial knowledge. This matters because in the colonial era much knowledge was put to the service of subjugating indigenous peoples,...
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  • The European Periphery and the Eurozone Crisis The European Periphery and the Eurozone Crisis
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    The European Periphery and the Eurozone Crisis

    This book provides a new understanding of the eurozone crisis across three of the worst hit cases: Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.In contrast to accounts which stress the 'immaturity' of the European 'periphery', as well as more critical...
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  • Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought
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    Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought

    Over the past few years, 'dystopia' has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specifically that a genre of fiction called "dystopia" has, above others, achieved symbolic cultural...
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  • The Politics of Expertise in China The Politics of Expertise in China
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    The Politics of Expertise in China

    Since the reform and opening-up policy was implemented in China, consultations have been increasingly carried out during the policy-making process. This often involves experts, many of whom are based in think-tanks or similar institutions. The degree of...
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  • Organized Crime and the Nation-State Organized Crime and the Nation-State
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    Organized Crime and the Nation-State

    Geopolitics is an increasingly important tool to understand national and international relations. This book unravels how organized crime is not just a marginal problem but part of a bigger geopolitical and asymmetrical warfare strategy. It seeks to...
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  • Catholic Mediations in Southern Europe Catholic Mediations in Southern Europe
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    Catholic Mediations in Southern Europe

    Investigating the role played by religious actors in sociopolitical issues as a manifestation of the invisible politics of religion, this book concentrates on the social economy, support to migrants, the fight against social exclusion and pacifist...
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  • Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK
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    Anti-Islamic Protest in the UK

    Demonstrations by far-right groups, such as the English Defence League, Britain First and PEGIDA, have caused considerable social and civic unrest in UK cities for nearly a decade. But how should policymakers respond to far-right and anti-Muslim...
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  • Laboured Protest Laboured Protest
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    Laboured Protest

    Historians have long realized the US civil rights movement pre-dated Martin Luther King Jr., but they disagree on where, when and why it started. Laboured Protest offers new answers in a study of black political protest during the New Deal and Second...
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  • Female Combatants after Armed Struggle Female Combatants after Armed Struggle
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    Female Combatants after Armed Struggle

    This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with 40 research participants, mostly former combatants within...
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  • Redesigning the Global Seed Commons Redesigning the Global Seed Commons
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    Redesigning the Global Seed Commons

    There is much current controversy over whether the rights to seeds or plant genetic resources should be owned by the private sector or be common property. This book addresses the legal and policy aspects of the multilateral seed management regime. First,...
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  • Media, Terrorism and Society Media, Terrorism and Society
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    Media, Terrorism and Society

    This book provides new insights on contemporary terrorism and media research, opening the door for fresh perspectives and trends exploring theories and concepts in the field. Advances in technology have increased the threat of terrorism, as the Internet...
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  • Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain
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    Multiculturalism in Contemporary Britain

    Since 1945 the United Kingdom has changed from a polity that was overwhelmingly white, ethnically British, and Christian to one constituted by creeds, cultures, and communities drawn from all over the globe. The term 'multiculturalism' evokes these...
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  • Gun Studies Gun Studies
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    Gun Studies

    As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and what policies should be undertaken to regulate guns remain issues of vigorous scholarly and public debate...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods
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    The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods

    This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.　 As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics
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    The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics

    The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics is a comprehensive overview of Scandinavian politics provided by leading experts in the field and covering the polity, the politics and the policy of Scandinavia. Coherently structured with a multi-level...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia
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    Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia

    This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia. A team of leading experts in the field offers discussion at both the country and regional level, including analysis of democratic attitudes and...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia
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    Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia

    The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia is an interdisciplinary resource, covering one of the most dynamically expanding sectors in contemporary Asia. Originally a product of Western thinking, civil society represents a particular set of...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections
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    Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections

    Primary elections have been used for the past century for most U.S. elective offices and their popularity is growing in other nations as well. In some circumstances, primaries ensure that citizens have a say in elections and test the skills of candidates...
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  • Just Ordinary Robots Just Ordinary Robots
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    Just Ordinary Robots

    A social robot is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. We seem to accept the use of robots that perform dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. But...
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  • Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914 Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914
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    Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914

    This volume explores the period between Smith's 1776 The Wealth of Nations and ends in the early days of the Anti-Corn Law League campaign on the eve of the 1841 General Election. The collection includes contemporary sources and extensive editorial...
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  • Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation
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    Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation

    This book provides a timely evaluation of the EU's ability to act internationally and coordinate policy in a time when it also seeks to meet shifting demands of international cooperation. These include global sustainable development, the challenge of...
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  • Christian-Muslim Relations in Syria Christian-Muslim Relations in Syria
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    Christian-Muslim Relations in Syria

    Offering an authoritative study of the plural religious landscape in modern Syria and of the diverse Christian and Muslim communities that have cohabited the country for centuries, this volume considers a wide range of cultural, religious and political...
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  • The EU through Multiple Crises The EU through Multiple Crises
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    The EU through Multiple Crises

    This book explores the mechanisms of political representation and accountability in the European political system, against the backdrop of multiple crises in recent years in the economic, financial, security and immigration fields, which have triggered...
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  • The Army and Ideology in Indonesia The Army and Ideology in Indonesia
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    The Army and Ideology in Indonesia

    This book is an analysis of Indonesia's civil-military relations in the post-1998 reform era. It focuses on the political thinking of the Indonesian Army during the time of democratic consolidation. The book examines the army (Tentara Nasional Indonesia...
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  • Islam as Power Islam as Power
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    Islam as Power

    Providing an in-depth and extensive analysis of the concept of power as articulatedby Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (1935-2010), this case study analyses thesystemic conceptualisation of power and his argumentation of sacralisingIslamised power. The volume...
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  • Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times
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    Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times

    This book interrogates politics and practices of multiculturalism and multicultural education in contexts where liberal and critical multiculturalism is under pressure. It examines and interrogates perspectives on multiculturalism and the political and...
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  • Western Dominance in International Relations? Western Dominance in International Relations?
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    Western Dominance in International Relations?

    Since the 1970s, a 'critical' movement has been developing in the humanities and social sciences denouncing the existence of 'Western dominance' over the worldwide production and circulation of knowledge. However, thirty years after the emergence of this...
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  • The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics
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    The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics

    This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental,...
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  • China's Historical Choice in Global Governance China's Historical Choice in Global Governance
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    China's Historical Choice in Global Governance

    Since the 1990s, the world has been witnessing the most fundamental changes in global governance structure and international relations. Due to multipolarization, economic globalization, cultural diversification and information revolution, a number of...
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  • The Claim to Christianity The Claim to Christianity
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    The Claim to Christianity

    The far right is on the rise across Europe, pushing a battle scenario in which Islam clashes with Christianity as much as Christianity clashes with Islam. From the margins to the mainstream, far-right protesters and far-right politicians call for the...
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    Humor in America

    Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them.
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  • Chile and the United States 1880-1962 Chile and the United States 1880-1962
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    Chile and the United States 1880-1962

    The key to the future of the United States relations with its sister republics in South and Central America may well be found in this exhaustive study of Chile-United States relationships. The South American nation's relatively small population belies...
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  • In So Many More Words In So Many More Words
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    In So Many More Words

    When In So Many Words first appeared in 2006, the Chicago Tribune observed that Robert Schmuhl's collection of essays offered "some of the sharpest and most informative cultural criticism available."Now, In So Many More Words expands on the...
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  • 14 Battles for the White Race 14 Battles for the White Race
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    14 Battles for the White Race

    Our White peoples have had some very hard times. We have been through just as much as any other people. Our peoples had to fight in wars that were sometimes hopeless. They fought to the death in some battles just so their loved ones could have time to...
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  • Detained without Cause Detained without Cause
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    Detained without Cause

    Richly told and deeply troubling, this book collects personal narratives of Muslim immigrants to the United States who were racially profiled, detained indefinitely, and mistreated following the September 11 attacks. From descriptions of physical abuse...
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  • Citizen in Trumplandia Citizen in Trumplandia
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    Citizen in Trumplandia

    The book is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever. Some pundits predict that, if things don't change, another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no...
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  • Boundaries of Medicare Boundaries of Medicare
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    Boundaries of Medicare

    While almost all universal health coverage in Canada is provided under the Canada Health Act, there is Medicare coverage that is provided outside of the act. This is the first book to explain the nature of these boundary health services, why they exist,...
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  • Failure of Remain Failure of Remain
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    Failure of Remain

    Studies of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union ("Brexit") have largely focused on the role of politicians and political parties, on the one hand, and the characteristics of Leave and Remain voters on the other. The Failure of Remain...
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  • Multilateral Sanctions Revisited Multilateral Sanctions Revisited
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    Multilateral Sanctions Revisited

    Sanctions are back with a vengeance with new objectives, measures, challenges, and opportunities. Shaping the thinking of generations of scholars, Canadian visionary Margaret Doxey anticipated and analyzed these issues, making now the time to rediscover...
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  • Twenty-First-Century Feminismos Twenty-First-Century Feminismos
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    Twenty-First-Century Feminismos

    The women's movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social...
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