Between 1983 and 1987, mercenaries adopting the pseudonym GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberacion, Antiterrorist Liberation Group) paid by the Spanish treasury and relying upon national intelligence support were at war with the Basque militant group ETA (Euskadi (e)Ta Askatasuna, Basque Country and Freedom).
This book investigates how schools deal with racism and extremism, focusing on everyday life, students, and the surrounding community and geographical area.
This book examines the possibilities - and realities - of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.
This book explores how modern Russian cinema is part of the international information war that has unfolded across a variety of battlefields, including social media, online news, and television.
This book provides an accessible resource for understanding the world behind the advertising jingles and Super Bowl commercials and digital algorithms.
Human Costs of War documents and analyses the direct and indirect toll that war takes on civilians and their livelihoods, taking a human security approach exploring personal, economic, political and community security in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, in the contexts of the War on Terror and the New Cold War.
This book examines the possibilities - and realities - of positive, humanist change and revolution that have burst forth in the first decades of this century.
This book provides an accessible resource for understanding the world behind the advertising jingles and Super Bowl commercials and digital algorithms.
Religion and Conspiracy Theories: An Introduction is the first accessible volume to systematically examine the relationship between religion and conspiracy theories in the contemporary world in critical and historical perspective.
Spätestens seit den Pegida-Aufmärschen und den Exzessen von Heidenau, Freital und Chemnitz hat sich das Bild von Sachsen über die deutschen Grenzen hinaus verdunkelt.
As public order policing become more prominently widespread so is the need to better explain why some instances of collective action transform into civil disorder.
Dies ist der mit weitem Abstand umfangreichste Überblick zu angelsächsischen Politikromanen und politischen Filmen; damit bildet dies die stärkste Forschungsbasis für weiterführende Betrachtungen in diesem Genre.
Maral Jefroudi presents a comprehensive picture of one of the largest migration waves in contemporary history by analyzing refugees' interactions with the Turkish State, the UNHCR, and within the community of Iranians in transit after the 1979 revolution.
En la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), de los conceptos de máximo responsable y de partícipe no determinante y cómo diferenciarlos depende quiénes son las personas con la más alta responsabilidad para los crímenes de sistema cometidos durante el conflicto colombiano que merecen un trato sancionatorio (máximos responsables) y quiénes recibirán un trato no sancionatorio, salvo en circunstancias excepcionales (participes no determinantes).
'Punctuated by the stories of a host of interesting and extraordinary characters, Crossland has produced a fascinating exploration of the long nineteenth century's development of terrorism and counterterrorism, highlighting the role of fear and the paranoia, repression, and overreaction it engendered.
This book explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights; civil and political rights (CPR); economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR); and freedoms around the world.
Multicultural Citizenship: Legacy and Critique allows the philosopher an opportunity to consider the evolution and transformation of Will Kymlicka's theories from Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights.
This book investigates what faith means in the actual day-to-day practice of faith-based NGOs working in the development, humanitarian, and advocacy sectors.
Focusing on British broadsheets such as The Times and The Guardian, and tabloid publications such as The Sun and The Daily Mail, this book looks at the visualization of post-colonial Britain through cartoons.
Towards A New Christian Political Realism presents a new theoretical approach to understanding the role of religion in international relations, considering the strengths of Christian realism, classical realism, and neorealism, as well as the literature about the relevance of religion for IR.
Whether pushing for change at the hyper local level or at the international level, public leaders deploy a type of practice-based knowing that helps them advance their cause.
The world has been shocked by the destruction of world cultural heritage sites over the past two decades, as seen in widely disseminated videos depicting events such as the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan and the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.
This book provides a unique insider's look at the world's largest film industry, now globally known as 'Bollywood' and challenges existing notions about Indian films.
Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades.
