'An affirmation of the power of love, kindness, courage and human resilience' - Lara Marlowe, author of Love in a Time of WarBernard Phelan was working for an Iranian tour operator when he was arrested on false charges of spying on 3rd October 2022, becoming a political hostage.
This book offers a detailed understanding of 'enemy images', which are used in political rhetoric to dehumanize adversaries for various purposes, such as to legitimate violent conflicts.
First published in 1992, Latin America in the Time of Cholera questions many ideas regarding the advent of a new era of democracy, peace, and north-south cooperation for development in the post-Cold War period by challenging several myths that shape United States policy toward Latin America.
This book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and the changes in class and state formation emanating from it in Iran during the global neoliberal era.
The central country in the Western Balkans, Serbia puzzles observers by balancing its foreign policy between two competing great powers - Russia and the West.
In the wake of the post-Cold War era, the aftermath of 9/11, the 2008 global financial crisis, and the emergence of the G20 at the leaders level, few commentators expected a reshaping of the global system towards multipolarity, and away from the United States.
This book presents the legislative networks in charge of drafting democratic reforms as gatekeepers to the actual adoption, implementation and internalisation of democratic norms in selected post-Soviet countries.
After reading this groundbreaking textbook, you will have a solid understanding of state-of-the-art populism research and be ready to take a deep dive into more complex debates.
Les bombes atomiques larguées sur Hiroshima et Nagasaki les 6 et 7 août 1945 interpellent peu la conscience de l’Occident car elles restent quelque chose d’abstrait pour elle.
Le professeur Mwayila Tshiyembe est une des figures emblématiques de l’Université de Kisangani, où il continue de former de nombreux disciples et cadres universitaires.
Since the Russian Federation's illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014 160 years after the Crimean War the peninsula has returned to the fore on the global geopolitical stage.
In this book, a former US Department of State senior arms control official critically analyses two pivotal nuclear arms control treaties: the established Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the rising Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).
Ein Leben im Zentrum der MachtBill Clintons eindrucksvolle Memoiren über sein Leben nach dem Weißen Haus – und ein Gegenentwurf zu dem von Kulturkämpfen geprägten Amerika der Gegenwart.
This book facilitates a critical investigation of gaps in theorizing and framing dark tourism by navigating through some onto-epistemological issues, theoretical entanglements, future possibilities, and the application of critical theoretical perspectives related to affect and emotions, human-animal studies, postcolonialism, feminism, trauma studies, posthumanism, power and identity.
While everyday high level practices have become an important area of study, the everyday of the every(wo)man has been overlooked both in theoretical and empirical conceptualizations.
This book critically engages with the concepts of small states and soft power and advances a new approach to defining small states, a new conceptualisation of soft power, and a method for empirically analysing the exercise of soft power.
This book analyses the French war on terror, covering the French contributions to the US-led 'war on terror' and the wars in the Sahel Region since 2013.
North Korea's Nuclear Cinema examines why and how North Korea has transitioned to an image-based nuclear power in the changing context of a post-Cold War world.
Gives readers the resources to explore and understand the wide range of factors that shape American foreign policy, as well as a fact-based approach to examining partisan debates about national security priorities, economic prosperity, capitalism, and human rights.
