Political activism / Political engagement

This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval.

Tackling one of the most prevalent myths about insurgencies, this book examines and rebuts the popular belief that Mao Zedong created a fundamentally new form of warfare that transformed the nature of modern insurgency.

This book questions when, why, and how it is just for a people to go to war, or to refrain from warring, in a post-9/11 world.

This book employs game theory to warfare and in particular to military operations.

Extensive previous research has investigated environmental conflict management issues in networked settings and the design of policy networks, but the emergence and evolution of self-organizing policy networks are still not fully understood.

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

This book re-constructs the evolution of the border conflict between Croatia and Slovenia.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book is based on a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo.

This edited volume examines how the multiple manifestations of social violence in Brazil impacts the building of a peaceful society.

This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes.

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies since the Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy as it evolved after World War II.

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

This textbook provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to genocide with an emphasis on the criminal aspect of genocide.

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.

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.

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

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror continues to cast a long shadow over the world.

The second volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (BYEIL) focuses on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG), which was signed 40 years ago.

This book focuses on emotional engagement in academic research with victims of violence and testimonial documentation in Latin America.

This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya.

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

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

Challenging the standard paradigm of terrorism research through the use of Norbert Elias's figurational sociology, Michael Dunning explores the development of terrorism in Britain over the past two centuries, focusing on long-term processes and shifting power dynamics.

This book examines the projects of administrative and territorial reconstruction of Arab countries as an aftermath of the "e;Arab Spring"e;.

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

Moving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean.

This book develops a conceptual approach to understanding the face of contemporary terrorism as manifested in the recent attacks in Mumbai and Paris.

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 both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

Following up on Donna Starr-Deelen's previous book Presidential Policies on Terrorism: From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama (Palgrave, 2014), this book compares and contrasts the approach of the Obama administration with the Trump administration regarding national security and counter-terrorism.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe.

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

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This book discusses Kenya's transition from authoritarianism to more democratic forms of politics and its impact on Kenya's multi-ethnic society.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This book argues that homophobia plays a fundamental role in disputes for hegemony between antagonists during political transitions.

This book explores how Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council, can influence inter-religious dialogue and understanding in the modern world.

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 volume examines contemporary political relations between Turkey and the Middle East.

This book describes three impactful cases of political violence that broke out in Mexico in 1994, pointing to an important juncture in Mexican political development.

Volume 8 of the EYIEL focuses on the external economic relations of the European Union as one of the most dynamic political fields in the process of European integration.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region.