Political activism / Political engagement

This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time.

This book provides an in-depth study of Private International Law reasoning in the field of international sale of goods contracts.

This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood.

This book examines the experience of post-colonial territories and their attempts to manage ethnic communities within their countries.

This book provides the "e;how to's"e; of police patrol, focusing on how officers on the front line perform their duties (covering both skills and techniques), meet day-to-day challenges, and manage the tasks and risks associated with modern police patrol.

This book traces the connections between diverging postwar European integration policies and intra-Christian divisions to argue that supranational integration originates from Roman Catholic internationalism, and that resistance to integration, conversely, is based in Protestantism.

This book provides a view into the multi-dimensional and multi-contextual nature of community policing.

This book presents a comprehensive study of the influence of Immanuel Kant's Critical Philosophy in the Russian Empire, spanning the period from the late 19th century to the Bolshevik Revolution.

This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

This edited volume looks at supreme courts in China and the West.

This book explores how the contemporary threat of terrorism is eroding the concept of hospitality in the West.

This book investigates why the rate of female labor force participation in the Middle East and North Africa is the lowest in the world.

This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts.

This book explores the rise and impact of violent non-state actors in contemporary Africa and the implications for the sovereignty and security of African states.

This book examines how the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, commonly known as The New York Convention, has been understood and applied in [insert number] jurisdictions, including virtually all that are leading international arbitration centers.

This book offers a systematic analysis of how the interaction between language of security and language of rights produces policies which not only affect everyday functioning of democracy, but also redefine the understanding of sovereignty.

This book focuses on the current, chaotic world stage, which is characterized by new forms of global violence and new types of actors, such as terrorist networks.

War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions.

This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land.

This book examines the legal principle of judicial independence in comparative perspective with the goal of advancing a better understanding of the idea of an independent judiciary more generally.

This study analyses male-female violence in comparison to state-citizen violence.

This book offers an unprecedented account of the Serb Democratic Party's origins and its political machinations that culminated in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

This book offers an unprecedented account of the Serb Democratic Party's origins and its political machinations that culminated in Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

This book investigates the tensions between EU law and international commercial arbitration, i.

This book explores the impact and efficiency of Western intervention in African civil wars.

This book analyses the instruments and approaches offered by public international law to resolve cultural heritage related disputes and facilitate the return of illicitly transferred objects to their countries of origin.

This edited collection brings together leading scholars to comparatively investigate national security, surveillance and terror in the early 21st century in two major western jurisdictions, Canada and Australia.

This is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examines the historical, political, and social significance of 9/11.

This book examines the fascinating story of how the chief architects of realism (Hans Morgenthau, Kenneth Waltz and John Mearsheimer) dealt with some of the most pressing political issues of our time through the lenses of fear.

This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal.

This book addresses the issue of privacy and confidentiality in the broader context of the Egyptian legal system.

This book examines the history of "e;the Troubles"e; in Northern Ireland in the 1970s-1990s and compares it with the situation in the Gaza Strip.

This book begins with an account of the evolution of improvised explosive devices using a number of micro case studies to explore how and why actors have initiated IED campaigns; how new and old technologies and expertise have been exploited and how ethical barriers to IED development and deployment have been dealt with.

This book demonstrates that societies experiencing prolonged and severe crises of legitimacy are prone to intense and persistent political violence.

This timely treatise introduces an innovative prevention/preparedness model for cities to address and counter terrorist threats and events.

Thisbook analyzes the origins and organizational structure of Islamic State (IS), examiningits military triumphs and success in securing new recruits via social media.

This edited volume looks at supreme courts in China and the West.

This book takes a completely new and innovative approach to analysing the development of EU law.

This book adopts an international perspective to examine how the online sale of insurance challenges the insurance regulation and the insurance contract, with a focus on insurance sales, consumer protection, cyber risks and privacy, as well as dispute resolution.

This book introduces andcontextualizes the revised and strengthened legislation on the laundering ofcriminal funds mandated by the European Union on the 20th May 2015.

By means of the analysis of more than 20 national jurisdictions of different legal and geographical origin this book provides a general understanding of the developments that civil and commercial mediation is currently undertaking across the world.

This book investigates how a North African solar thermal power plant can be set up under the guidance of European investors (e.

This volume offers unique conceptual and empirical insights into ordinary lives in the violent aftermath of the Cold War.

This book identifies institutional mechanisms that can be used to promote consumer confidence in direct online sales with businesses (B2C e-commerce).

This book provides theoretical and practical insights for effective decision making in situations that involve various types of conflict cleavages.

The International Court of Justice is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, and epitomizes the very notion of international judicial institution.

This book explores the importance of autonomy in family law.

This book offers an analysis of the current trends and developments in Nordic civil litigation and is divided into four main parts.

This volume offers unique conceptual and empirical insights into ordinary lives in the violent aftermath of the Cold War.