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The book ""The Provincial Councilors of Pennsylvania: Who Held Office Between 1733 and 1776"" was written by Charles Penrose Keith and was first published in 1883. This book is a historical account of the provincial councilors who held office in...

The Prose Works of William Wordsworth V1: Political and Ethical is a book written by the famous English poet, William Wordsworth. This particular volume was published in 1876 and contains a collection of his political and ethical writings. The book is...

""The Mortgage On The Hip-Roof House"" is a novel written by Albion Winegar Tourgee and published in 1896. The story follows the life of a young man named John Remington, who inherits a hip-roof house from his grandfather. However, the house comes with a...

The Game of Lawn-Tennis: With the Laws and Regulations for the Management of Prize Meetings (1890) is a comprehensive guide to the sport of lawn tennis, written by Cavendish. The book covers all aspects of the game, from the equipment needed to the rules...

Facts And Fallacies Of Modern Protection is a book written by Bernhard Ringrose Wise in 1879. It is an analysis of the economic theory of protectionism, which is the practice of imposing tariffs or other barriers on imported goods to protect domestic...

""Los Despachos de la Diplomacia Pontificia en Espa�����a V1 (1896)"" es un libro escrito por Ricardo de Hinojosa. En este libro, el autor analiza la correspondencia diplom�����tica entre la Santa Sede y Espa�����a durante el siglo XIX. El libro se...

""Storia della Restaurazione della Repubblica di Genova l'anno 1814, sua caduta e riunione al Piemonte l'anno 1815"" ����� un libro diviso in due volumi scritti da Giuseppe Martini nel 1858. Il libro racconta la storia della Repubblica di Genova durante...

This book examines EU external border violence and the role of Frontex, and how it can be made legally and politically accountable for these incidents.

Through discourse analysis and historical comparison of "Pernicious Vestiges" (Yí Dú/遗毒) narrative in the news text of People's Daily, this book is devoted to revealing its primary metaphors and political functions in China.

This book discusses terrorism and the rise of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and examines how this movement has become a threat to democracy in that country.

In this book, Hanna Samir Kassab develops a theoretical framework which explains the formulation of power vacuums and examines their impact on the international system.

This book outlines the concept of Fifth Generation Warfare (5GW) and demonstrates its relevance for understanding contemporary conflicts, from the Arab Spring to the war in Ukraine, in terms of the need to dominate the human domain.

Leading scholars and policy analysts from around the Americas come together to untangle the factors that have fuelled the implementation of mano dura politics, their rising popularity, and impacts across nine widely heterogeneous countries in Latin...

This book analyses when, how, why, and to what effect China has used its armed forces in recent decades to coerce other actors in the international system.

This book offers an original assessment of the ways in which the sociocultural code of blood revenge and its modern remnants shape irregular warfare.

Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how collective identities are not structurally guaranteed but rather constructed in dialectically interrelated positions and identity layers. The authors show the kind of impact that these...

Through variety of empirical case studies and theoretical contributions and beginning with the individual as the entity through which activism can best be understood, this book considers the ways in which social and political participation can be...

This edited volume focuses on civil-military relations before and during great power conflicts, and comprises historical case studies of modern supreme leadership.

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings.

This book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation.Through the development of new datasets and the application of cutting edge research methods, contributors to this volume significantly advance the frontiers of...

This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in 'rogue' states, 'outsourcing' of...

This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS.

This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially...

Based on original research and personal encounters, this book narrates the real-life-stories of women locked up in Indian prisons for alleged or actual violations of the state's criminal laws. It contextualises women offenders' experiences of the...

This book is concerned with the social and political aspects of regional groupings, particularly how citizenship education fares in regional contexts. The European Union (EU) has revolutionised its political and economic aims into more encompassing...

El partidismo de la Fuerza Armada ha sido refrendado desde el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia por la Sentencia 651 del 11 de junio de 2014, la cual valida la intervención de sus integrantes en actos políticos del PSUV: "la participación de los integrantes...

Hamilton explores in a short history how all men gained the vote, self-government and the secret ballot in South Australia (1856), Victoria (1857) and New South Wales (1858). A vital text for scholars of democracy, Australian Studies, Political Science,...

The book develops a robust and holistic theoretical understanding of the intrinsic security concerns which lie at the heart of the protracted conflict in Cyprus.

This book considers the sensitive heritage elements linked to the very issue of the origins of nations. Beliefs, rituals, and traditional knowledge are examples of intangible cultural heritage (ICH), which communities globally regard as the core of their...

Kakizaki re-examines the real image of the Thai-Japanese alliance during World War II by focusing on the incidents and accidents occurred by the passage or stationing of the Japanese army in Thailand.

This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how story is structured to help us think about conflict, using a wide range of examples.

This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964.

This book investigates to what extent UNSCR 1325/WPS agenda has functioned in practice, to advance women's equality and empowerment in the peacekeeping context and beyond.

Anthropocene and Cosmopolitan Citizenship criticizes the Westphalia system of international relations and, as an alternative, proposes cosmopolitan citizenship.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book discusses the potential of social innovation in the pursuit of social justice in Africa. This book will be of interest for researchers and policy makers across the fields of human rights, economics,...

Last year, Praxis Peace Institute responded to the libertarian conspiracy film Thrive with a pamphlet titled "Uncivil Liberties: Deconstructing Libertarianism," carefully and concisely laying out the problems inherent in libertarian philosophy and why it...

This book integrates four distinct topics: young people, citizenship, new media, and learning processes. When taken together, these four topics merge to define an arena of social and research attention that has become compelling in recent years. The...

This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes. Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning...

This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent...

Originally compiled and written by North Korean defector and author Lim Il, this English-language edition, thoroughly annotated by Dr. Adam Zulawnik, is a fascinating collection of 34 interviews with highly prominent North Korean defectors residing...

Across Africa, digital media are providing scholars with a reason and opportunity for revisiting the question, and the analytical lens, of publics with new vigour and less normative baggage. This book brings together a rich set of empirically grounded...

This edited volume addresses how transnational interactions among civil society actors in Asia and its sub-regions are helping to strengthen common democratic values and transform dominant processes of policymaking and corporate capitalism in the region...

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights. The contributors argue that a human rights perspective is necessary to understand the pervasive consequences of...

Global Justice and Social Conflict offers a ground-breaking historical and theoretical reappraisal of the ideas that underpin and sustain the global liberal order, international law and neoliberal rationality.Across the 20th and 21st centuries,...

After years of hard work and saving, you finally own a home. But don't get too comfortable. If government officials decide they want your property, they can take it--for a wide variety of shady reasons that go far beyond the usual definition of "public...

The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the serious crisis of political authorities that Liberal societies are currently experiencing.

This thought provoking book begins with an historiography of Calvinist political theory and interpretations/definitions of natural law. Narrative of individuals (Ancient Greece to Protestant Reformation) who contributed to natural law. Biography of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...