Political control and freedoms Books

Since 9/11 ideas of security have focused in part on the development of ungovernable spaces. Important debates are now being had over the nature, impacts, and outcomes of the numerous policy statements made by northern governments, NGOs, and...

This book addresses the challenges of international intervention in violent conflicts and its impact on groups in conflict.When the international community intervenes in a violent internal conflict, intervening powers may harden divisions, constructing...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the record of the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

The US decision not to work through NATO after 9/11 left many European members of the alliance feeling deflated. This decision reflected not only the unilateralism of the Bush Administration, but also the belief that US operational freedom and...

Rudolph C. Ryser reveals in documentary detail how since the 1970s indigenous peoples politically formed governing authorities over peoples, territories and resources raising important questions and offering new solutions to profound challenges to human...

This is first detailed account on the origins of critical theory and how it has developed and influenced international relations. Making complex ideas accessible to all, it discusses Marx and post-Marxist thinkers; the Frankfurt School; Adorno, Benjamin...

The book provides an updated account of justice reform in Afghanistan, which started in the wake of the US-led military intervention of 2001. In particular, it focuses on the role of international actors and their interaction with local stakeholders,...

This book examines the practices of actors involved in the media reportage of war, and the ways in which these practices may influence the conduct of modern military operations.

This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict.

This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two.The volume explores how Foucault's understanding of the general economy of power in modern society...

Concerns over the changing nature of gangs and cartels and their relationships to states in the late 20th and early 21st centuries has resulted in the emergence of a scholarly body of work focused on their national security threat potentials. This body...

The book examines some of the ways in which contemporary forms of political dissent are situated within processes of global ordering. Grounded in analysis of concrete practices of discipline and dissent in specific contexts, it explores the ways in...

This book explores women's militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women 'do' in wars.In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where...

Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about the disengagement of young people from conventional politics both in Britain and internationally. Their non-participation is often viewed as reflecting both a deeper political alienation and 'apathy'...

This edited volume offers a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of interrogation and questioning in war and conflict in the twentieth century. Despite the current public interest and its military importance, interrogation and questioning in...

In the last decade or so, China and India have emerged on the global stage as two powerful free market economies. The tremendous economic growth in China and India has meant that they have been able to lift millions of people out of the poverty trap...

This book brings together researchers from the fields of international human rights law, EU law and constitutional law to reflect on the tug-of-war over the positioning of the centre of gravity of human rights protection in Europe. It addresses both the...

The complex trajectory of Europe after the 2008 global financial crisis, has led to the catastrophic failure of deep austerity measures that swept across the Union, and is reflected in the rise of some radical left parties such as SYRIZA as well as an...

This volume critiques contemporary power trends by examining key bilateral dynamics between five putative 'poles' of the multipolar order in the twenty-first century.Written by emerging scholars and established academics, this work provides a timely and...

This book examines citizenship as practiced in China today from a variety of angles. Citizenship in China-and elsewhere in the Global South-has often been perceived as either a distorted echo of the 'real' democratic version in Europe and North America,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The book comprises a lively and wide-ranging discussion of the intersecting discourses of race, gender, and empire in literature, history, and contemporary culture generally.

In this straightforward exploration of core problems facing humanity, hope is combined with realism based on confidence in the energies and capacities of citizens outside government to meet the pressing challenges we face today. Saunders presents an...

This book is aimed at those who are puzzled by the different ways in which the term "freedom" is used and abused. Based on interviews with people concerning the nature of freedom, the author compares what the people he talked with said about freedom with...

In recent years women's movements and democracy movements appear to have been more successful in promoting social equality than labour movements or development movements. Wage gaps between men and women have narrowed. New democracies have flourished...

Like most discussions within the tradition of rights-talk, this study is motivated by the desire to promote the idea that rights are moral assets that people should acquire in the course of their membership within social and...

Abortion makes sense in every area--unless you believe that God made alot of souls 6000 years ago when he supposedly created the world-- or if you have faith that we all have souls and they are put in us at conception.  There is no evidence for...

Het boek ""Het Oorlogsrecht En Zijne Toepassing In Den Fransch-Duitschen Oorlog, 1870-1871"" geschreven door Rijnhold Antoine Klerck, werd in 1879 gepubliceerd. Het boek gaat over het oorlogsrecht en de toepassing ervan tijdens de Frans-Duitse oorlog van...

El libro ""El Alzamiento De Vizcaya En 1872 Y El Convenio De Amorevieta (1872)"" escrito por Aristides de Artinano, es una obra que relata los sucesos ocurridos en Vizcaya durante el a�����o 1872. En este periodo, se produjo un levantamiento popular en...

El �����lbum de Ayacucho es una colecci������n de los principales documentos de la Guerra de la Independencia del Per������, publicada en 1862 por el historiador y pol������tico peruano Jos����� Hip������lito Herrera. Esta obra recopila una serie de...

Le livre ""Discours Parlementaires V15, Partie 4: 1872-1877 (1883)"" de Thiers, M. est un recueil de discours prononc�����s par Adolphe Thiers, homme politique fran�����ais et premier pr�����sident de la Troisi�����me R�����publique, lors de sessions...

Das Buch ""Die Wahl Albrechts II: Zum Romischen Konige"" wurde im Jahr 1886 von Wilhelm Altmann ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine historische Abhandlung �����ber die Wahl von Albrecht II zum r������mischen K������nig im Jahr 1438. Das Buch...

Die Entstehung des Kirchenstaates ist ein Buch von Gustav Schnurer, das im Jahr 1894 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschreibt die Entstehung des Kirchenstaates, der im Jahr 756 von Papst Stephan II. gegr�����ndet wurde. Es untersucht die...

""Die Entstehungsgeschichte Der Magna Charta"" ist ein Buch von Thaddaeus Lau, das 1857 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Werk besch�����ftigt sich mit der Geschichte der Entstehung der Magna Charta, eines bedeutenden Dokuments der englischen...

""Die Entlarvte Hohe Und Geheime Polizei Des Zerstorten Konigreichs Westphalen"" ist ein anonym ver������ffentlichtes Buch aus dem Jahr 1814, das sich mit der Enth�����llung der hohen und geheimen Polizei des zerst������rten K������nigreichs Westphalen...

Das Buch ""Deutschland vor f�����nfzig Jahren V3: Geschichte der Gebiets-Eintheilung und der politischen Verfassung des Vaterlandes (1862)"" von Heinrich Berghaus beschreibt die politische und territoriale Entwicklung Deutschlands im Jahr 1862. Der Autor...

Az 1843/44-Ik Evi Magyar Orszaggyulesi Also Tabla V1: Keruleti Uleseinek Naploja (1894) c������m����� k������nyv Ferencz Kov�����cs �����ltal ������r������dott. A k������nyv az 1843/44-es magyar orsz�����ggy�����l�����s als������h�����zi...

""The Rights and the Wrongs of the Poor in a Series of Letters"" is a book written by Thomas Brothers and published in 1842. The book is a collection of letters that address the issues of poverty and social inequality in England during the 19th century...