In the past 18 years, after the handover of the former British colony Hong Kong to China, Beijing and the Special Administration Region (SAR) have been trying to work out a mutually beneficial relationship based on pragmatism and a focus on economic prosperity.
This book brings together the latest literature and European experiences on preventing youth violent radicalisation and violent actions in intergroup relations.
This title gives students and other users a clear understanding of the true state of voting and representative democracy in the United States by impartially examining claims surrounding voter fraud, voter suppression, gerrymandering, and other voting-related issues in the U.
Constance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris.
When John Kennedy won the presidency in 1960, he also won the right to put his own spin on the victorywhether as an underdogs heroic triumph or a liberal crusaders overcoming special interests.
Being autistic, you might come across more challenges than others around you, such as dealing with ableism, discrimination in employment or difficulties in your relationships.
Es gärt und brodelt überall: Syrien und der Irak versinken im grausamen Bürgerkrieg aller gegen alle, in der Türkei ringen islamistische und säkulare Kräfte um die Vormacht.
Explores current debates around religious extremism as a means to understand and re-think the connections between terrorism, insurgency and state failure.
Este libro centra su atención en la presentación de "tensiones" manifiestas durante el III Encuentro Nacional de Historia Oral y Memoria: Usos, Construcciones y Aportes para la Paz y el II Encuentro Distrital de Experiencias de Historia Oral: Archivos, Historias de Vida, Memorias e Identidades.
This edited book provides an insight into the new approaches, challenges and opportunities that characterise open source intelligence (OSINT) at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
An incisive narrative history of the Islamic State, from the 2005 master plan to reestablish the Caliphate to its quest for Final Victory in 2020 Given how quickly its operations have achieved global impact, it may seem that the Islamic State materialized suddenly.
Winner of the 2026 Serbest Best Book Award in Social Sciences in Kurdish StudiesCentralising the experience of victims-survivors and other grassroots actors, this book examines how transitional justice can be used in transforming the Kurdish conflict in Turkey.
The Republic of Sudan's former Culture Minister and a leading architect in the movement to gain independence for South Sudan, Bona Malwal, provides a factual and personal account of the break up of Sudan.
For anyone who feels less-than about your work, your worth, your body, or the life you're building, find here an incredible hope: you don't have to have it all together to "e;qualify"e; for your life's calling.
The first inside account of America’s continuing legal experiment at Guantanamo Bay—a permanent, offshore justice system designed to assure convictions by denying constitutional rights Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world.
In this book, leading academics and policy practitioners develop approaches for managing critical contemporary and emerging security challenges for South East Europe.
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.
»Über den Nahen Osten und den dortigen Dauerkonflikt kursieren Schlagwörter und Klischees, die zwar einiges über die Weltsicht derjenigen, die sie formulieren, aussagen, aber wenig über die dortigen Verhältnisse.
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.
Si observamos de cerca las manifestaciones sociales de octubre de 2019 en Latinoamérica podremos ver que los pueblos originarios tuvieron una presencia protagónica.
Die berühmten Augenzeugenberichte und Reportagen John Reeds von der Russischen Revolution 1917 sind gerade heute angesichts der revolutionären Entwicklungen in den arabischen Ländern hochaktuell.
