Political control and freedoms Books

""I Volontari in Lombardia e nel Tirolo l'Aprile del 1848"" ����� un libro scritto da Michele Napoleone Allemandi nel 1849. Il libro racconta la storia dei volontari che parteciparono alla rivoluzione del 1848 in Lombardia e nel Tirolo, dando vita a un...

""I Trattati di Commercio e la Liguria: Voti dei Deputati Liguri (1878)"" di Paolo Boselli ����� un libro che esamina l'importanza dei trattati commerciali per la regione della Liguria, in Italia, nel XIX secolo. Il testo raccoglie i voti dei deputati...

Il libro ""I Grandi Stati, La Giustizia E La Pace: A Proposito Della Conferenza Dell' Aia (1899)"" di Corrado Giovannini ����� una riflessione sulla Conferenza dell'Aia del 1899, durante la quale vennero discussi importanti temi riguardanti la pace e la...

Toss ena Beles (ጦስ እና በለስ) is an account of true stories, analyses, and poems. It touches on diverse aspects of life including the life experiences of the Ethiopian diaspora, the US and the US military, black and Jew, socio-political issues in Ethiopia,...

This book explores how information and communications technologies are adapted, governed, and reinterpreted in areas where the state has limited reach.This book will be of great interest to students of Socio-Legal Studies, Science and Technology Studies,...

Based on actual events, the book describes in detail what it was like during urban America's most violent decade; 1965-1975 when policing was low-tech and gritty. Dayton, Ohio experienced three riots; one of which was sparked by the shooting of an...

Defending the Good Society - The Assault on Order, Justice, and Freedom The good society is inhabited by a people who have constructed and maintain a high degree of moral and social order founded upon and held together by the glue of eternal truths,...

Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions proposes an attribution theory of interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling in determining action. The place of this theory within the larger fields...

A collection of seminal essays, many appearing in English for the first time, which provides an excellent overview of the critical theory developed by the Frankfurt School.

This book examines transatlantic politics through an analysis of 60 years of US-European strategic interaction in space. The significance of space politics for the study of transatlantic relations receives surprisingly little scholarly attention. As a...

The Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitics of urban life in diverse cities. Shifting the territorial emphasis of political studies from the mosaic of states to the...

The intervention of the military in national politics and the everyday lives of citizens is a key question in civil-military relations. This book explains how concordance theory can provide a model for predicting such domestic intervention.Models dealing...

Can twenty-first century global challenges be met through the limited adaptation of existing political institutions and prevailing systemic norms, or is a more fundamental reconstitution of governing authority unavoidable? Are the stresses evident in...

This book examines the crime-terror nexus in South Asia, focusing in particular on the activities of non-state actors that operate out of Pakistan, and challenges the conventional wisdom that the Pakistan Taleban (TTP) and Al-Qaeda are Pakistan's most...

A fresh examination of the origins, evolution and future of proposals for a UN 'Legion' - a permanent military force recruited, trained and deployed by the UN. This new book shows how this idea has grown, re-emerged and evolved in direct connection...

Truth Recovery and Transitional Justice investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation. 

Each year, thousands of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers apply for asylum in EU Member States.This book considers the position of LGBTI asylum seekers in European asylum law. Developing an encompassing approach to...

This book analyzes Palestinian attempts to create an organized military force from the period of the Mandate up to the present day.Beginning with a comparative overview of the relationship between insurgent movements and the quest to build up a standard...

This new edited collection illustrates the paradoxical power of social capital in creating and resolving conflict.This is the first book to bring the two faces of social capital together in a single volume, and includes previously unpublished case...

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is...

This edited book constitutes the first detailed attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society. Focusing...

This book employs the theoretical framework of 'speech act theory' to analyse current legislative frameworks and cases pertaining to sedition or the advocacy of violence and the issue of freedom of speech. An analysis of the relation between speech and...

This edited volume explores the theoretical and practical implications of war and terror situations for citizenship in democratic states. Citizenship is a key concept in Western political thought for defining the individual's relations with society. The...

This book develops a new theoretical framework for the study of security issues and applies this to the case of health. Building on the work of the 'Welsh School' of Security Studies, and drawing on contributions from the wider critical security...

This new book presents critical approaches towards Human Security, which has become one of the key areas for policy and academic debate within Security Studies and IR.The Human Security paradigm has had considerable significance for academics,...

This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulfil its promise to pose a challenge to contemporary...

This text introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory.

This book is a critical inquiry into sovereignty and argues that the meaning and functions performed by this concept have changed significantly during the past decades, with profound implications for the ontological status of the state and the modus...

Minority rights is an important issue in all modern states, but for those countries hoping to join the European Union the protection of minorities is a key condition for success in the accession process. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of...

Written in a clear and easy-to-follow style, this revealing text examines the contemporary political geography of the West Bank and Gaza strip. Descriptive in nature, it documents the changes and developments since 1967 right up to the disengagement...

The essays in this volume unite analysis and practice in exploring both the conflict in Northern Ireland and the internationally applicable counter-terrorism lessons which can be drawn from the response to it.

What is White Nonsense? In the United States and elsewhere, White Nonsense, at its core, is the fiction of race fed by the lie of white supremacy. It is the fiction that melanin-lacking people originally from Europe are inherently of more value than...

WE THE PEOPLE DO ORDAIN & ESTABLISH OUR EARTH AS THE LAND OF THE FREEAre you tired of seeing cycles of poverty and desperation? Worried about the future for yourself and generations to come? It's time to change the course of history.Emergent Freedom...

On Neoliberal Globalization consists of Jose Maria Sison's writings (articles, speeches, statements, messages and interviews) on the subject from 1972 (before the formal adoption of the neoliberal policy regime) to 2021. They reveal how the policy of...

This book provides an insight into lethal autonomous weapon systems and debates whether it would be morally correct to give machines the power to decide who lives and who dies on the battlefield.

This book is primarily an effort to study the phenomenon called insurgency that has been posing a huge challenge to the internal security of the country. Though a wealth of literature on the subject already exists, a need was felt to analyse the multiple...

This book establishes the link between human rights and corruption. The contributors of this book are well known academicians, civil servants, judges, lawyers and social activists. Corruption is so pervasive in India that it has turned public service for...

This handbook questions, debates and subverts commonly held assumptions about disability and citizenship in the global postcolonial context. Discourses of citizenship and human rights, so elemental to strategies for addressing disability-based inequality...

Amis lecteurs et lectrices,Avez-vous déjà lu la Constitution ? Pourtant, elle conditionne nos vies à un point que nous n'imaginons pas. C'est pourquoi nous invitons chacun(e) à un exercice singulier : la lire...

Written by Karim F Hirji, a retired professor of Medical Statistics, Religion, Politics and Society focuses on the four major global religions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam-together with minor religions like the Ahmadiyya,...

Journalist on Trial is the captivating story of Rodney D. Sieh, one of Africa's finest investigative journalists. This is not just Rodney’s story but the story of virtually every journalist today in an era that has become consumed by daily...

This report highlights the difference between the 2021 election and all prior 12 presidential elections in Iran. While every election since 1979 has been rigged, they have served to give an appearance of democracy and republicanism to the ruling...

A classic of investigative journalism, the pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett shine a light on the evils of racism in the United States. With a contextual introduction and useful footnotes, this book gives students an opportunity to analyze and interpret...

This Security Sector Reform (SSR) Paper offers a universal and analytical perspective on the linkages between Security Sector Governance (SSG)/SSR (SSG/R) and Sustainable Development Goal-16 (SDG-16), focusing on conflict and post-conflict settings as...

Democracy understood as people power, which is the only proper definition of the word, is put forward in this book as the panacea for resolving the most pressing issues of our time. But democracy as a practicable system hinges on many conditions which...