Political activism / Political engagement

In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe.

Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection.

This book offers a fresh look at Taiwan's state workers in from the postwar period to the present day and examines the rise and fall of labor insurgency in the past two decades.

This edited book explores the development and reconfiguration of Middle Eastern diasporic communities in the West in the context of increased political turmoil, civil war, new authoritarianism, and severe constraints on media in the Middle East.

This book revisits post-Cold War Disarmament Disintegration and Reintegration (DDR) programmes in the light of previous experiences of disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration.

Im Wein soll Wahrheit sein, hieß es bei den alten Germanen.

This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era.

In The Believer, Will McCants tells the story of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (a.

Because all wars in the twenty-first century are potentially global wars, the centenary of the first global war is the occasion for reflection.

Als scharfer Beobachter der Aufstände im Nahen Osten seit dem Arabischen Frühling wagt der renommierte Politikwissenschaftler Marc Lynch starke Thesen: Es gibt keinen Weg zurück zu den alten autokratischen Systemen.

En "Los segundos ocupantes en el proceso de restitución de tierras" se encuentran los resultados de una investigación acerca de las ocupaciones secundarias en el proceso de restitución de tierras previsto en la Ley 1448 de 2011, elaborado a partir del análisis a profundidad de algunos casos en el departamento de Sucre.

This radical new perspective from the Global South casts a fresh light on a major aspect of contemporary history and in doing so suggests an alternative interpretation of twentieth century revolutions, Socialism, left thinking and radical politics.

How did religion contribute to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

Historia de la Revolución rusa ofrece un relato sin precedentes de uno de los acontecimientos más cruciales de la historia del mundo.

Si observamos de cerca las manifestaciones sociales de octubre de 2019 en Latinoamérica podremos ver que los pueblos originarios tuvieron una presencia protagónica.

»Das ist ein Schlachtfeld.

Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.

The EU has long been seen as confederation that has failed to assert itself effectively on the international stage.

This book considers the ethics and politics of state apologies made to Indigenous peoples.

Church of Our Granddaughters is a visionary work of theology and ethics that looks hopefully and lovingly two generations into the future, imagining the Orthodox Church's practices and realities rightfully aligned with its core theological teachings and truths regarding women.

FIDIC 2017: A definitive guide to claims and disputes second edition serves as a practical legal companion for managing the procedures for claims and disputes within the 2017 FIDIC suite of contracts.

Embodied Pedagogies in the Study of Religion provides a forum for creative, renowned teachers (professors and instructors) of religion to discuss ways in which they think about the embodied dimension of teaching and learning specific to their areas of expertise and how they have shaped their curriculum to engage and reflect their thinking.

Considering an under-researched dimension of political violence, this interdisciplinary collection provides an extensive examination of terrorist victimisation.

Das im Jahr 2020 veröffentlichte sozialethische Dokument des Ökumenischen Patriarchats "For the Life of the World" bietet seitens der Orthodoxie wichtige Impulse für eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Gegebenheiten der modernen Welt.

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.

Sacred Violence and Religious Violence examines the place that ideology or political religion plays in legitimizing violence to bring about a purer world.

The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy.

The global financial crisis has led to a new shop-floor militancy.

He buscado en los demás sin encontrar las respuestas; con el paso de los años comprendí que esas respuestas que buscaba estaban dentro de mí.

Jina Kim investigates how North Korea rationalized its pursuit of nuclear weapons programs for more than two decades, by exploring the dialectical development of the nuclear crisis and the obstacles generated by complex internal Korean dynamics and conflicting interests amongst the major players concerned.

Winner of the 2007 Paul Guggenheim Prize!

In this volume, the USA is treated as a system that has been stress-tested by four unique events: the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the Financial Meltdown that led to the Great Recession and the Giant Oil Spill.

WINNER OF A CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD 2019The political violence that erupted towards the end of the twentieth century between the Peruvian state and militant group `Shining Path' left an indelible mark on the country that resonates even today.

This book explores emotional-affective implications of partnership and rivalry in Turkey-Iran relations.

The book analyzes how the administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.

Hat die deutsche Armee, als sie den Ersten Weltkrieg mit dem Einmarsch ins neutrale Belgien eröffnete, grundlos Massaker an den Einwohnern verübt?

Drawing from theories of world society and from historical-sociological theories the book studies the past, present, and future of Middle East Christianity.

A must-read for those intrigued by the ever-shifting landscape of unconventional warfare and its profound impact on contemporary global dynamics Throughout history, conflicts have given rise to unconventional forms of warfare, often propelled by personal, religious, tribal, or national ambitions.

Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now than at any point in their history.

Shirley, Goodness & Mercy is a heart-warming, yet compellingly honest story about a young boy growing up in Newclare, Coronationville and Riverlea during the apartheid era.

Tomás Alcoverro ha viajado a Siria para ofrecernos la crónica del conflicto que desangra al país, ocho años después de haber comenzado en 2011.

El fenómeno del cristianismo sionista nos invita a preguntarnos sobre la secularización de las sociedad, qué problema plantea a la separación de Iglesia y Estado o más aún: la separación entre religión y política.

From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.

This book is not just an update to studies of Middle Eastern policy and diplomacy, but an in-depth analysis that covers the United States' foreign and strategic policy from the days of President Roosevelt to President Obama and Pakistan's security and strategic planning since its inception to 2011, under the shadow of India and Afghanistan.

Muslim Eurasia (1995) looks at the Muslim states that came into being on the ruins of the Soviet Union, and their complex legacies of Russian colonialism, russification, de-islamicization, centralization and communism - on top of localism, tribalism and Islam.

The book focuses, through multiple levels of international reality, on the pervasive and widespread effect of the Syrian civil war on the unravelling of established norms---both global or national--- which have determined international relations during the last seven decades.

Muslim Eurasia (1995) looks at the Muslim states that came into being on the ruins of the Soviet Union, and their complex legacies of Russian colonialism, russification, de-islamicization, centralization and communism - on top of localism, tribalism and Islam.

The year 1968 was ablaze with passion and mayhem as protests erupted in Paris and Prague, throughout the United States, and in cities on all continents.