Political activism books

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Human Security in Turkey: Challenges for the 21st century

Human Security in Turkey: Challenges for the 21st century...

Author: Alpaslan Özerdem (Coventry University, UK) ,  Füsun Özerdem (Koçman Sıtkı Mugla University, Turkey)
ISBN: 9780415810739
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This edited volume explores human security challenges in the context of Turkey, a rising power occupying a critical...  Read More >>

Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical Democratic Thought in the Early American Republic

Government by Dissent: Protest, Resistance, and Radical...

Author: Robert W.T. Martin
ISBN: 9780814738245
Format: Hardback
$109.00

Explores the idea that the people most important in a flourishing democracy are those who challenge the status quo....  Read More >>

Globalization, Social Movements and Peacebuilding

Globalization, Social Movements and Peacebuilding

Author: Jackie Smith ,  Ernesto Verdeja
ISBN: 9780815633211
Format: Hardback
$105.47

This book considers how global capitalism affects fragile peace processes in countries suffering under years of...  Read More >>

Agitation with a Smile: Howard Zinn's Legacies and the Future of Activism

Agitation with a Smile: Howard Zinn's Legacies and the...

Author: Stephen Bird ,  Adam Silver
ISBN: 9781612051819
Format: Hardback
$389.00

Assesses the legacy and contemporary relevance of the radical US historian and activist, Howard Zinn, with contributions...  Read More >>

Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since 9/11

Hunting in the Shadows: The Pursuit of al Qa'ida since...

Author: Seth G. Jones
ISBN: 9780393345476
Format: Paperback
$27.95

From one of our most trusted counterterrorism experts, a sweeping, insider's account of the decade-long chase for...  Read More >>

Picturing Transformation

Picturing Transformation

Author: Katherine Dodds ,  Chief Bill Williams
ISBN: 9781553659303
Format: Hardback
$54.99

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Neojihadism: Towards a New Understanding of Terrorism and Extremism?

Neojihadism: Towards a New Understanding of Terrorism...

Author: Pete Lentini
ISBN: 9781847207449
Format: Hardback
$254.75

Additionally, it draws from unique primary materials – including recorded conversations of terrorists preparing...  Read More >>

Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict

Gods and Arms: On Religion and Armed Conflict

Author: Kjell-Åke Nordquist ,  Kjell-Ake Nordquist
ISBN: 9780718893163
Format: Paperback
$33.00

A multi-perspective collection of essays on the role of religion in promoting armed conflict, and how religious...  Read More >>

Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning

Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional...

Author: Justin Buckley Dyer (University of Missouri, Columbia)
ISBN: 9781107031944
Format: Hardback
$194.06

One particularly contentious dispute in American constitutional politics concerns the relevance of American slavery...  Read More >>

Britain and the War on Terror: Policy, Strategy and Operations

Britain and the War on Terror: Policy, Strategy and...

Author: Warren Chin ,  Professor Howard M. Hensel
ISBN: 9780754677802
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book is an analysis of Britain's war against Al Qaeda and the phenomenon of international terrorism which marked...  Read More >>

Civilization and War

Civilization and War

Author: Brett Bowden
ISBN: 9781782545712
Format: Hardback
$239.50

In a succinct yet wide ranging survey of history and of ideas that calls in to question a number of conventional...  Read More >>

The Secret War in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union, China and Anglo-American Intelligence in the Afghan War

The Secret War in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union, China...

Author: Panagiotis Dimitrakis (National Centre for Scientific Research, Greece)
ISBN: 9781780764191
Format: Hardback
$260.00

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and the subsequent war with the Afghan Mujahedeen, was one of the bloodiest...  Read More >>

Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance

Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art...

Author: M. Branagan
ISBN: 9781137010094
Format: Hardback
$249.95

'Active resistance', initiated in Australian environmental blockades and now adopted globally, makes the song 'We...  Read More >>

The Sharia State: Arab Spring and Democratization

The Sharia State: Arab Spring and Democratization

Author: Bassam Tibi
ISBN: 9780415662161
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"Set against the backdrop of the Arab Spring, The Sharia State examines the Islamist concept of political order....  Read More >>

Critical Theory and Political Engagement: From May 1968 to the Arab Spring

Critical Theory and Political Engagement: From May 1968...

Author: C. Pawling
ISBN: 9780230275652
Format: Hardback
$84.99

In this timely study, Pawling argues for a renewal of the 'politics of intellectual life', calling for an engaged...  Read More >>

Forces for Good?: Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq

Forces for Good?: Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding...

Author: C. Duncanson
ISBN: 9780230282261
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how...  Read More >>

Prediction and Recognition of Piracy Efforts Using Collaborative Human-Centric Information Systems

Prediction and Recognition of Piracy Efforts Using Collaborative...

Author: E. Bosse ,  E. Shahbazian
ISBN: 9781614992004
Format: Hardback
$297.56

Maritime piracy is the cause of widespread international concern, and the number of pirate attacks has increased...  Read More >>

Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters

Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters...

Author: Andrew Kreig
ISBN: 9780988672826
Format: Hardback
$93.15

Presidential Puppetry documents what many millions have long suspected: secretive elites guide our government leaders....  Read More >>

Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect: Politics, Ethnicity and Genocide

Sri Lanka and the Responsibility to Protect: Politics,...

Author: Damien Kingsbury (Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia)
ISBN: 9780415721301
Format: Paperback
$92.99

This book is about the issues and challenges facing the implementation of the Responsibility To Protect principle...  Read More >>

Pakistan's War on Terrorism: Strategies for Combating Jihadist Armed Groups since 9/11

Pakistan's War on Terrorism: Strategies for Combating...

Author: Samir Puri
ISBN: 9780415721271
Format: Paperback
$114.00

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Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace?

Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling...

Author: Dominik Zaum (University of Reading, UK) ,  Christine Cheng (Exeter College, Oxford, UK)
ISBN: 9780415721561
Format: Paperback
$105.00

This volume brings together leading international scholars and practitioners to develop a framework for thinking...  Read More >>

The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order

The Archival Turn in Feminism: Outrage in Order

Author: Kate Eichhorn
ISBN: 9781439909515
Format: Hardback
$188.76

Chronicles these important cultural artifacts and their collection, cataloging, preservation, and distribution....  Read More >>

Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia: Regional Power Strategies

Indian Foreign and Security Policy in South Asia: Regional...

Author: Sandra Destradi (GIGA Institute for Asian Studies, Germany)
ISBN: 9780415721240
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This book provides an in-depth analysis of India’s foreign policy towards its eastern neighbourhood in the field...  Read More >>

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