Political control and freedoms Books

This Handbook provides the first comprehensive examination of the influence industry and how it operates worldwide across different domains.

This book examines the newly-emergent field of military design thinking, how it has been developed inside and outside of military doctrine, and the paradigms that underlie its key thinkers and methodologies.

This volume offers a comprehensive and multifaceted examination of the traditional and non-traditional security measures present in the UAE that allow the country to remain politically stable in an otherwise volatile region, aiming to offer a...

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Social Justice is a comprehensive and multi-purpose collection on this important topic. With contributors working in various fields, the Companion provides in-depth analyses of both the cumulative and emergent...

Do Human Rights truly serve the people? Should citizens themselves decide democratically of what those rights consist? Or is it a decision for experts and the courts? Gret Haller argues that Human Rights must be established democratically. Drawing on the...

Faced with the economic pressures of globalization, many countries have sought to curb the fundamental right of workers to join trade unions and engage in collective action. In response, trade unions in developed countries have strategically used their...

This book contributes to a feminist understanding of international human rights by examining restrictions on reproductive freedom through the lens of the right to be free from torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. Ronli Sifris...

After more than four decades the Cold War ended with the sudden collapse of the Soviet Union. Almost simultaneously China emerged as the new potential disruptor of international stability, with Beijing replacing Moscow as the key source of Western...

This book assesses the ethical implications of using armed unmanned aerial vehicles ('hunter-killer drones') in contemporary conflicts. The American way of war is trending away from the heroic and towards the post-heroic, driven by a political preference...

This book focuses on security practices, civil liberties and the politics of borders in liberal democracies.

This book analyses the role of history education in conflict and post-conflict societies, describing common history textbook projects in Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Far East and the Middle East. Ever since the emergence of the modern school...

A comprehensive guide to religious discrimination and hatred legislation, this book, by a practising barrister, offers an accessible examination of this controversial area, using a variety of practical examples covering all forms of religious belief.

This book investigates the drivers, tactics, and strategy that propel the Trump administration's foreign policy.The key objective of this book is to look beyond the 'noise' of the Trump presidency in order to elucidate and make sense of contemporary US...

The UK National Curriculum states that schools should reaffirm commitment to the virtues of truth, justice, honesty, trust and a sense of duty. This aim, loosely defined as 'character' education, is widely agreed to be critical to healthy development and...

Ever since the establishment of the Fifth Republic in 1958, France has believed its strategic independence to be predicated on self-sufficiency in modern weapons. In order to maintain the requisite defence-industrial base, in the context of limited...

This book empowers teachers to support student activists. The authors examine arguments for promoting student activism, explore state and national curriculum standards, suggest activist projects, and report examples of student individual and group...

This book analyses the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as a powerful actor in International Relations by examining how the ASEAN community has evolved, looking specifically at its relationship with the EU with regards to human rights. The...

Developing the traditional civil-military relations approach to include security actors, the book compares the style of civil-security relations in both Egypt and Turkey. The volume comprehends the competition between civilian actors and military and...

Volume 1 of The Writings of Thomas Paine encapsulates the intellectual fervor of a revolutionary era. Paine's incendiary essays, including Common Sense, ignite the flames of independence, shaping the very fabric of American ideology. A compelling...

Sharon's mother was in the first wave of seniors/palliative care patients to be residing inside a palliative care ward in Covid-19 (March 2020) with no visitation rights. Isolated, confused, and alone, Louise's emotional health began to quickly...

This book contains numbers of features to enhance your learning, understanding and knowledge about South Sudan former and current red army situation as well as the oldies former red army (The lost-boys) and general child soldiers particular in Africa...

'यह सिर्फ़ डायरी नहीं यात्रा भी है, बाहर से भीतर और देह से देश की, जो बताती है कि देह पर ही सारी लड़ाइयाँ लड़ी जाती हैं और सरहदें तय होती हैं ।'-प्रो. अभय कुमार दुबे (निदेशक, भारतीय भाषा कार्यक्रम, CSDS)'इस डायरी में पाठक ज्यों-ज्यों आगे बढ़ता है, लगता है...

عامل عمده اتفاقات ناخوشایند این روزها، نوع رفتار ما انسانهاست. بی توجهی به آینده و عواقب ناشی از رفتار بیخردانه در پایین ترین سطح جامعه یعنی خانواده تا بالاترین سطح آن که در تعیین سیاست های کلان حکومتی موثر است، منجر به بروز اتفاقهایی می شود که اغلب آنها...

Women have long been victims of inequality and discrimination, simply due to “being women”—and there is an urgent need to eliminate macho or chauvinistic violence towards them. Violence against women is perverse and...

Through a series of intimate, feature-length conversations with Alan Clements, Burma's Voices of Freedom brings together dozens of the country's most respected and well-known politicians, pro-democracy activists, artists and religious leaders to provide...

Through a series of intimate, feature-length conversations with Alan Clements, Burma's Voices of Freedom brings together dozens of the country's most respected and well-known politicians, pro-democracy activists, artists and religious leaders to provide...

Through a series of intimate, feature-length conversations with Alan Clements, Burma's Voices of Freedom brings together dozens of the country's most respected and well-known politicians, pro-democracy activists, artists and religious leaders to provide...

Through a series of intimate, feature-length conversations with Alan Clements, Burma's Voices of Freedom brings together dozens of the country's most respected and well-known politicians, pro-democracy activists, artists and religious leaders to provide...

In 1991, Jason MacLeod travelled to occupied West Papua. That visit changed his life. Eight years later, in 1999, Jason made a thirty-year commitment to journey in solidarity with West Papuans as they search for nonviolent ways out of occupation...

Providing the basis for critical engagement with the pessimism of the contemporary age, The Degradation of the International Legal Order? argues passionately for a rehabilitation of the honour of historic events and processes, and of their role in...

Australia's political landscape stands on the precipice of transformation. The need for comprehensive reform is palpable, driven by evolving societal values, demands for greater transparency, and a push towards inclusivity. Fixing Australian Politics:...

America is under siege and unless we act now, it will be too late.When we cast a false light on reality to avoid recognizing the truth of a situation, it becomes much more difficult to distinguish between what should or should not be acceptable...

Most people who have heard of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) are aware of the impassioned testimony that this Mississippi sharecropper and civil rights activist delivered at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Far fewer people are familiar with the...

2015 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In 1933 Meerloo began to study the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which...

Nine cornerstones inAmerican freedom in one volume:Magna CartaMayflower CompactCommon SenseDeceleration ofIndependenceArticles of ConfederationThe Federalist PapersThe Constitution of the United StatesThe Bill of Rights 1-10The Bill of Rights 11-27

Written with a hint of 'larrikinism' this book discusses the raging battle between left and right that has engulfed the free world. In a technology-driven world, being time poor and confronting massive rises in the cost of living, society has been...

Who are tribal peoples?How do they live?Why do governments hate them?Why is their disappearance far from inevitable?Endorsed by tribal people and anthropologists the world over, this illuminating book answers all these questions and more. Indigenous and...

Explores the contradictory nature of public opinion.

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.When we open the newspaper, watch and listen to the news, or follow social media, we are inundated with reports on old...

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies.

In this piece of paper, the author exposes that just as political actors carry out a confrontation in favorable democratic conditions aimed at taking over the spaces of power available through the holding of elections, raising the electoral challenge...