Communication studies

This book builds upon our knowledge of the far-reaching economic, political and social effects of the Euro crisis on the European Union by providing a unique study of European identities.

This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared.

This book investigates recent policy initiatives dealing with the online enforcement of copyright in the European Union, providing unique insights into the current stalemate in the field.

This book critiques mainstream beliefs about cyberwarfare and forges a new path in the way of defining this largely misunderstood concept.

Drawing on an original UK-wide study of public responses to humanitarian issues and how NGOs communicate them, this timely book provides the first evidence-based psychosocial account of how and why people respond or not to messages about distant suffering.

This book explores and problematises the war discourse regarding Egypt's victory in the 1973 War.

This book presents a comprehensive framework, six pathways of connection, which explains the impact of public diplomacy on achieving foreign policy goals.

This practice-building resource examines the psychology behind non-adherence and the importance of building commitment to treatment as the foundation of successful therapy.

This book offers a comprehensive account of the nature and development of political communication in Africa.

This book explores, describes and explains the predictors essential for the acceptance of social media as a digital platform to share professional knowledge in the field of automotive repair in Germany.

This book examines instances of transformative dissent, turning points or shifts in popular mobilisation patterns in contemporary India, while adopting a historical approach and analysing past events.

This collection investigates modern imperialist practices and their management of hunger through its punctuated distribution amongst asymmetrically related marginal populations.

This book examines the distinctive contribution that the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer make to democratic theory.

This book provides a contemporary account of the linkages between the academic field of conflict resolution and the practice of military peacekeeping, through the lens of pre-deployment training for military personnel about to embark on UN peacekeeping operations.

This book elucidates fundamental governance features and issues in contemporary China.

This book addresses two main questions: under what conditions does reciprocity fail to produce cooperation?

This first-of-its-kind volume assembles current research on psychosocial issues and behavioral and safety concerns inherent in life and careers at sea.

This collection reflects on the emerging phenomenon of 'selfie citizenship', which capitalises on individual visibility and agency, at the time when citizenship itself is increasingly governed through biometrics and large-scale dataisation.

This book presents research and best practice examples from the Asia Pacific region to address the gap in global expertise on psychosocial factors at work.

This book explores the social and political implications of what the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered, entitled, and independent.

This book is an attempt to save "e;the sexual"e; from the oblivion to which certain strands in queer theory tend to condemn it, and at the same time to limit the risks of anti-politics and solipsism contained in what has been termed antisocial queer theory.

This volume explores the interpersonal, organizational, and technological enablers and barriers to information and intelligence sharing in multinational and multiagency military, humanitarian, and counterterrorism operations.

This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics?

This book offers a unique exploration of the 2015 General Election from the perspectives of those most intimately involved as strategists, journalists and analysts.

This book contributes to and expands on the major international Comparative Policy Agendas Project.

This ambitious resource describes innovative intervention programs for treating substance abuse and other mental health problems in the Middle East in the context of larger issues in the region.

This book examines how Ronald Reagan's electrifying 1964 televised speech, "e;A Time For Choosing,"e; ignited the conservative movement within the GOP.

This volume examines and applies classical and contemporary concepts of rhetorical theory and criticism to the context of late capitalism.

This book contends that the impasse of the Left today is in part, a result of an anarchist 'common sense' among activists.

This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world.

The politics of claiming rights and strategies of mobilisation exhibited by marginalised social groups lie at the heart of this volume.

This book presents a comparative perspective on different government communication strategies to COVID-19 around the globe.

This book examines the history and role of election posters as one of the most crucial forms of political communication, especially in electoral campaigns, in a number of countries around the globe.

This book provides a comprehensive look atnonhuman primate social inequalities as models for health differences associated with socioeconomic status in humans.

This master-class-in-a-book is designed to guide teachers of mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) in continuing to develop more competence while raising global standards of practice and pedagogy.

The aim of this edited book is to provide health professionals, across a wide variety of specialisms, with a targeted access to evolutionary medicine.

By analysing a wide range of empirical research into leadership, this book provides a composite portrait of frequent characteristics, such as personality and demeanour, that influence both the success and popularity of political leaders.

This book analyses the India, Brazil, South Africa Dialogue Forum(IBSA), focusing on the communalities and differences in the way foreign policyis conceptualized in its member states.

This book explores models and concepts of trust in a digitized world.

This book provides a timely synthesis and discussion of recent developments in mindfulness research and practice within mental health and addiction domains.

This textbook provides a thorough introduction to natural disaster risk management.

This book offers a framework for the analysis of political communication in election campaigns based on digital trace data that documents political behavior, interests and opinions.

Today, social media have attracted the attention of political actors and administrative institutions to inform citizens as a prerequisite of open and transparent administration, deliver public services, contact stakeholders, revitalize democracy, encourage the cross-agency cooperation, and contribute to knowledge management.

This book provides research findings and practical information on online communication strategies in politics.

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This book purports to examine the international dimensions of the democratization process in Egypt in the post Cold War era; a theme which acquired significance at the academic and policy-oriented levels in light of the growing internationalization of reform arrangements in the Arab world in post 9/11 and the greater involvement of external powers in Arab politics following the Arab Spring uprisings.

This timely professional reference and educational resource applies current concepts of pediatric adherence to medical treatment to create a model for a family-centered, collaborative approach to managing chronic illness.

The explosive growth in data, computational power, and social media creates new opportunities for innovating the processes and solutions of Information and communications technology (ICT) based policy-making and research.

The goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive, multi-dimensional approach to research and practice in e-government 2.

This book presents the most serious and comprehensive study, by far, of American public perceptions about the meaning of space exploration, analyzing vast troves of questionnaire data collected by many researchers and polling firms over a span of six decades and anchored in influential social science theories.