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Global Crises, Resilience, and Future Challenges: Experiences of Post-Yugoslav and Post-Soviet Migrants

Several consecutive global crises, including the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the global economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and t...

Cities and the Constitution - Giving Local Governments in Canada the Power They Need

The Great Right North - Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada

The Great Right North charts the growth of far-right groups in Canada, illuminating how official and unofficial government attention gene...

Seized by Uncertainty - The Markets, Media, and Special Interests That Shaped Canada's Response to Covid-19

Seized by Uncertainty explores Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic through the various contexts - psychological, social, legal, ad...

A Commonwealth of Hope - Augustine's Political Thought

A bold new interpretation of Augustine’s virtue of hope and its place in political life When it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is ...

The New Fire - War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI

"Is AI a force for ill or for good? How does it work? This book analyzes the potential of AI in many sectors, including global security"--

Elements of Deterrence - Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics

Deterrence theory emerged during the Cold War in response to the threats posed by nuclear weapons. Today, strategists must consider many ...

Article 47 of the EU Charter and Effective Judicial Protection, Volume 1 - The Court of Justice's Perspective

This ambitious, innovative project examines the principle of effective judicial protection in EU law over two volumes. The principle of e...

The Persistent Poverty of African Americans in the United States - The Impact of Public Policy

This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public polici...

The Politics of Refugee Policy in the Global South - Volume 15

While scholarship on refugee migration tends to center on the Global North, most refugees actually reside in the Global South. This book ...

Civil Society and Intergovernmental Negotiations at the United Nations - Exclusion Despite Inclusion

Since the Earth Summit of 1992, the UN has increased its attention toward civil society, but there has been little analysis of the result...

Patriarchy in Practice - Ethnographies of Everyday Masculinities

This collection covers a diverse and multi-disciplinary range of topics on how masculinities might be re-imagined outside of patriarchal ...

Machtbeziehungen in kolonialen Kontexten: Initiativen von oben, von unten und dazwischen - Understanding Power Relations in a Colonial Context: Top-Down, Bottom-Up, In-Between

The "Thyssen Lectures" are a continuation of a tradition that the Fritz Thyssen Foundation initiated in 1979, first at various institutio...

Human Rights on the Move

A cross-disciplinary collection of scholarly essays, interviews, and creative pieces by artists, activists, and scholars examining how hu...

Street Fighting Years - An Autobiography of the Sixties

One of the world’s best-known radicals relives the early years of the protest movement

Israel and the Cyprus Question - Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and International Relations 1946-1960

Providing a detailed account of Israel's foreign policy towards the Cyprus question between 1946 and the declaration of Cypriot independe...

Pakistan - Statecraft and Geopolitics in Todays World

This book examines Pakistan's relations with India, China, the United States, and Afghanistan and several other countries in a dynamic fr...

The Kindness Fix - How and Why We Must Build a More Compassionate Society

If a measure of our humanity is how we treat the most vulnerable, our report card is bleak. Our politics is divided, people in need are t...

Big Brother and the Grim Reaper - Political Life After Death

"Death is a social and political as well as a biological phenomenon. Efforts to regulate death have become an important source of power f...

Rethinking Emancipation - Conversations with Aliocha Wald Lasowski

Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, ...

Ukraine - What Everyone Needs to Know®

In this fully updated third edition of Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Serhy Yekelchyk provides indispensable background on Ukrain...

The Emperor's New Nudity - The Return of Authoritarianism and the Digital Obscene

An analysis of contemporary authoritarianism and the medium in which it flourishes, the internet, and what lies at the complex intersecti...

Understanding Colonial Nigeria - British Rule and Its Impact

In this landmark new history, Toyin Falola analyses the impact of Britain's colonization of Nigeria from the late nineteenth century to 1...

Anarchism and Eugenics - An Unlikely Convergence, 1890-1940

Richard Cleminson offers a detailed analysis of the historical convergence between anarchism and eugenics in five countries: Argentina, E...

Us Public Diplomacy in Socialist Yugoslavia, 1950-70 - Soft Culture, Cold Partners

Representing the first comprehensive account of the public and cultural diplomacy campaigns carried out by the United States in Yugoslavi...

Global Political Economy - Evolution and Dynamics

Offering an accessible introduction to both the historical roots and the contemporary dynamics of today's world economy, this seventh edi...

Keeping Up the Good Fight - From the Emergency to the Present Day

The story of a political prisoner's coming of age as a student activist in India Keeping Up the Good Fight is the story of a young man's ...

Mission Driven Bureaucrats - Empowering People to Help Government Do Better

Mission Driven Bureaucrats suggests that workers can often do better with more empowerment and less compliance-oriented management. Honig...

Seeing Red - Russian Propaganda and American News

Seeing Red reveals the extent to which Russian disinformation, propaganda, and the Russian model of political communication have infiltra...

Contemporary Asia - Continuities, Challenges and Transformations

For the first time in the modern era, Asia is not dominated by an outside power. Is this the Asian Century? Will internal rivalries emerg...

Refounding Democracy Through Intersectional Activism - How Progressive Era Feminists Redefined Who We Are, and What It Means Today

"Studies turn-of-the-twentieth-century social democratic feminist "refounders" and the conceptual and organizing tools they offer for a d...

Out of Darkness - Essays on Corporate Power and Civic Resistance, 2012-2022

"This collection is classic Nader-exhorting us to make our world and nation a better place, even when faced with unchecked political and ...

Elections: A Very Short Introduction

Elections occur in all democracies and many non-democratic regimes as well. They determine who will hold public office and who will have ...

International Perspectives on Public Transport Responses to Covid-19

International Perspectives on Public Transport Responses to COVID-19 International Perspectives on Public Transport Responses to COVID-19...

The Haves and Have-Nots in Supreme Court Representation and Participation, 2016 to 2021

Courts are often thought of as protectors of minority rights. What happens when the composition of courts changes such that politically d...

Parties and Elections in America - The Electoral Process

This classic text introduces students to political parties and their critical role in representative democracy at the local, state, and n...

Positioning Women in Conflict Studies - How Women's Status Affects Political Violence

In Positioning Women in Conflict Studies, Sabrina Karim and Daniel W. Hill, Jr., re-evaluate the literature on gender, international poli...

Who's Afraid of the Welfare State Now?

This book primarily explores the welfare-policy responses to the Great Recession, reform trajectories that swept across Europe over the l...

Islamophobia and Lebanon - Visibly Muslim Women and Global Coloniality

Thinking through anti, post, and decolonial theories, this book examines, analyses, and conceptualises 'visibly Muslim' Lebanese women's ...

Russia and the Gcc - The Case of Tatarstan's Paradiplomacy

In recent decades Russia has played an increasingly active role in the Middle East as states within the region continue to diversify thei...

Resilient Smart Cities

Using a consistent structure throughout, the book examines smart cities in a broad sense, looking at people, governance, economic, mobili...

Who Are the Fighters? - Irregular Armed Groups in the Russian-Ukrainian War since 2014

The war in Ukraine has been fought with, among others, irregular armed groups since 2014-volunteers, paramilitaries, and mercenaries. Bas...

Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! From the New York Times bestselling author of Jackie, Janet & Lee comes a fresh and often startlin...

Status Defense Myths - Understanding How Power and Privilege Go Unpunished

Status Defense Myths: Understanding How Power and Privilege Go Unpunished investigates the role of status in the decision to punish or pe...

Between the Seas - Island Identities in the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas

In Between the Seas, Deborah Paci takes a comparative view of islandness in island identities through case studies of islands in the Balt...

Sustainable Capitalism - Essential Work for the Anthropocene

Examining the connections between sustainability and capitalism

Strong Female Lead - Rethinking Leadership in a World Gone Wrong

Women have been told to 'lean in' and act like men to get ahead. But as our systems crumble, isn't it time we had a different plan? While...

Free Movement of Persons in the Nordic States - EU Law, Eea Law, and Regional Cooperation

Can it be argued that there exists a concept of Nordic citizenship, founded on inter-Nordic cooperation and its relationship with EU law ...

Cyberboss - The Rise of Algorithmic Management and the New Struggle for Control at Work

How technologies of organization are redrawing the lines of class struggle

Knowledge as Commons - Toward Inclusive Science and Technology

A powerful contribution to the debate on intellectual property Knowledge as Commons traces the historical path towards the privatization ...

The Case for Trump

A New York Times bestseller and “a brilliant and bracing analysis” (Mark R. Levin) of Donald Trump, his presidency, and his vision of Ame...

Grandparents and the Law - Rights and Relationships

"Should grandparents have rights in relation to their grandchildren? If so, what should the content of those rights be, both procedurally...

Perspectives on Countering Extremism - Diversion and Disengagement

The study of violent extremism has seen a great deal of academic and practitioner focus on the processes of radicalization, and strategie...

Bonds of Blood? - State-Building and Clanship in Chechnya and Ingushetia

The North Caucasus, specifically Chechnya and Ingushetia is a region that has experienced some of the deadliest and most protracted confl...

The Coming Wave - Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global or...

Tyranny of the Minority - How to Reverse an Authoritarian Turn, and Forge a Democracy for All

THE MUCH-ANTICIPATED FOLLOW-UP TO INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER HOW DEMOCRACIES DIE - essential reading ahead of the 2024 US election 'Tyranny...

Permacrisis - A Plan to Fix a Fractured World

Three of our leading public intellectuals come together to offer an urgent way to escape our current permacrisis.

Foreign Policy Rhetorics in a Global Era - Concepts and Case Studies

The field of rhetorical studies often assumes a US-centric approach that elevates American chief executives as the sole doers and makers ...

Indivisible Under God - Restoring American Unity with Diversity

In a nation as diverse as America, unity will always be a challenge. However, by uniting around the biblical principles and values on whi...

Political Ecologies of the Far Right - Fanning the Flames

Political ecologies of the far right engages with the alarming convergence of far right thinking and the ecological crisis in contemporar...