Political activism / Political engagement Books

Trump's unorthodox approach to governing as president seems defiant to most but appropriate to his supporters in order to restore America's greatness.Mocked for his campaign style, ridiculed for his lack of politics experience,derided for his...

While many introductory public administration textbooks contain a dedicated chapter on ethics, The Public Administration Profession is the first to utilize ethics as a lens for understanding the discipline. Analyses of the ASPA Code of Ethics are deftly...

In this chapter the topic of this book is introduced. Section 1. 1 provides a brief and rather general motivation for the scientific project undertaken here. Interest groups are a very popular object of scientific inquiry, and...

Bringing together leading scholars of social movements and protest, this volume offers an up-to-date overview of several of the key ethnic and racial movements in the contemporary United States. The organizations, strategies, and challenges of the Black...

How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act - or not act - when the limits of state tolerance are unclear? With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book sets out to address...

Electoral promises help to win votes and political candidates, or parties should strategically choose what they can deliver to win an election. Past game-theoretical studies tend to ignore electoral promises and this book sheds illuminating light on the...

This collection of essays offers a fresh perspective on the definition and origins of terrorism, broadening the field to include slave revolts and urban tensions, and considering how the ""war on terrorism"" had already matured by 1870 as a way to...

American civil-military relations have profoundly changed from the interwar years that comprised the post Cold War era. This book describes the intense mobilization of American society in the Global War on Terrorism coupled with trends in progress before

This book studies the proportion of women in national parliaments. More precisely, it seeks to identify the factors that influence the percentage of female parliamentarians, paying particular attention to the electoral system. The author seeks to...

In an attempt to explore the impact of terrorism at its most basic level--that of sowing fear and anxiety--this book investigates our now centuries-long attraction to, and dread of, terror and its progeny, including terrorism, or political terror, and...

Maria de Luna was one of late medieval Spain's most intriguing female personalities. In a period characterized by powerful male rulers, she combined patronage and a pious cultural program to extend her political power, both formally and informally. ...

British Fiction and Cross-Cultural Encounters reveals that British modernists read widely in anthropology and ethnography, conducted their own "fieldwork," and thematized the challenges of cultural encounters in their fiction. By bringing canonical and...

This book examines the role of NGOs in relation to two overlapping political processes: internal politics in Africa and the wider world "order". Formal political structures have produced little more than "electoral democracy" in Africa without tackling...

Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have become a familiar fixture of our political landscape. Yet their place vis-à-vis international organizations, states and firms is still not well understood. Based on a wealth of original information and research,...

This book examines the status of village democracy, studies the achievements and the problems, explains its dynamics, and investigates the prospects of China's democratization. It challenges the skeptics with a nuanced assessment of village democracy in...

Based on over a decade of research by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre, this volume analyses the challenges to be met if global extreme poverty is to be eradicated. Building on case studies from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India and Uganda, it includes...

This book gives a full account of past experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies. The analysis is based on an original 1945-2007...

Referendums Around the World is a ground breaking empirical study. A successor to David Butler and Austin Ranney's classic, the present volume surveys all referendums held worldwide since since 1793. Unlike its predecessor, in this edition, Dr Qvortrup...

This is the first volume in the trilogy "Many Peaces" on transrational peace and elicitive conflict transformation. It proposes an innovative analysis of peace interpretations in global history and contemporary cultures of peace, the so-called five...

The recent history of Turkey is dominated by the country's transformation into a modern democracy. Over the past few years Turkey has been increasingly recognised as a nation of economic, political and cultural significance as well as being a vital...

What did South African AIDS activists contribute, politically, to early international advocacy for free HIV medicines for the world's poor? Mandisa Mbali demonstrates that South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) gave moral legitimacy to the...

This book brings to light existing experiences of Romani political participation in both eastern and western Europe, and contributes to a more nuanced empirical and theoretical understanding of the emerging political space that over 8 million Romani...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of the EU in international security through five detailed case studies and in doing so fills a distinct gap in the scholarship on European security and policy-making. Significantly, it offers a...

Image Warfare in the War on Terror provides an innovative re-examination of the war on terror, arguing that since September 11th 2001, image warfare has replaced techno-war as the dominant warfighting model. Roger suggests that image warfare is a form of...

What do citizens say about Europe? Before the crisis of 2008 citizens in Britain, France and Francophone Belgium were 'overlooking' Europe by ignoring it in favour of globalisation, economic flows, and crises of political corruption. Innovative focus...

This edited volume deals with the reintegration and trajectories of intrastate or interstate war veterans. It raises the question of the effects of the war experience on ex-combatants with regards, in particular, to the perpetuation of a certain level of...

1948 Palestinians (Israeli Arabs)-Israel's significant non-Jewish minority-are an invisible force and presence in the Palestine conflict. This book presents fresh insights into their political behavior. Using social movement theory and original field...

What happened then to the intellectuals who spent their life working and writing about the Cold War when the conflict ended in 1991? Looking at one of the most emblematic American think tanks in recent history, the RAND Corporation, Samaan provides key...

On her sixteenth birthday, Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel, which was meant to kill her, but instead she fell into a deep sleep, only to be awakened by true love's kiss.Rapunzel was locked up in a tower-how did she get...

The 2004 elections in Malawi were pivotal in the democratisation process of a country, which is undergoing enormous changes in its political landscape. The elections carried a message of democratic hope, however were not free of concern for the future of...

The October 1995 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Tanzania marked an important milestone in the country's transition to multi- party democracy. It brought to an end the intense debates during the preparation for the elections. The Tanzania...

Sonny Kaniho: A Profile in Hawaiian Courage chronicles Sonny's labor of aloha (love) to bring about change and reform within the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL), an institution created by the US Congress in 1920 to return Hawaiians to the 'aina...

The rise of extremist ideologies and the spread of radicalisation have emerged as critical challenges for governments and societies around the world. The use of violence to achieve political or ideological goals has resulted in tragic consequences, and...

«Es sólo nuestra humanidad, es decir, nuestro ‘núcleo’ lo que hace que la comparación (e incluso la discriminación, me atrevería a decir) entre nosotros sea aceptable, en lugar de adoptar nuestras...

"Solidarity in Action: How to Support Israel on College Campuses" is a comprehensive guide for students, activists, and community members passionate about advocating for Israel in the complex and diverse environment of college campuses. This practical...

Terrorism is usually regarded as the enemy of globalization and capitalism. However this analysis completely misses the point as terrorism is precisely what allows globalization to exist: by ensuring that the fantasy of total exchangeability is never...

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, the 9/11 terrorist attackand the U.S.-led war on terrorism have been given extensive coverage worldwide.How have the media visually reported these violent events? This workfocuses on the visual reporting...

Ce livre examine l'approche aÌ la fois inclusive et répressive de la lutte antiterroriste, l'injonction étonnante aÌ la collaboration entre acteurs institutionnels et civils dans ce domaine et les résultats ambivalents de la répression et de la...

From the Top 100 Amazon Best Selling Authors of the Red Storm Series...The Trojans defeated Troy by hiding soldiers inside the belly of a wooden horse disguised as a peace offering. What if America's enemies repeated that strategy?As the Caliphate of the...

Complete collections of statements and communiques from the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was a California leftist revolutionary group active for 22 months, from 1973 through 1975, formed by ex-convicts and...

Childhood memories recalled can solicit a full range of emotions and this writer's experience met that criteria in spades. I chose to focus on the good memories for this experience hoping that it might resonate with those who may read it.

This edition of the U. S. Army War College Guide to National Security Policy and Strategy continues to reflect the structure and approach of the core national security strategy and policy curriculum at the War College. The fourth edition is published in...