Political control and freedoms

In the last ten years, there has been a resurgence of interest in repression and violence within states.

This two-volume book addresses the economic transformation occurring in China at present.

In December 1989, Vaclav Havel and a relatively small group of intellectuals and students brought about the collapse of the communist regime of Czechoslovakia in what is now known as the Velvet Revolution.

This volume explores the connections between Thomas Aquinas' doctrine of natural law and contemporary social thought.

Seeking a way out of today's bewildering rush of rights claims, Tara Smith's Moral Rights and Political Freedom offers a systematic account of the nature and foundations of rights.

This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood.

This book examines one of the most contested issues facing feminists, human rights activists and governments around the globe - the international sex trade.

This is a comparative study of prisoners' human rights in England, Wales and the Netherlands.

In 1987, in Edwards v.

This book assesses the concept of religious liberty in the United States according to the political theory of John Locke.

This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing.

This book presents an in-depth account of nine Black British women's experiences of violence and abuse.

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance.

This book offers a unique exploration of the current state of freedom of speech as a basic right available to everyone.

Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon_conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million.

There is growing recognition around the globe that people's fundamental human rights are being imperiled in a world economy that is being driven by multinationals, investors, and banks.

Since Somalia, the international community has found itself changing its view of humanitarian intervention.

As one of al-Qaeda's most respected bomb-makers, Aimen Dean rubbed shoulders with the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks and swore allegiance to Osama bin Laden.

Tourists killed in Tunisia, Jihadi John targeted by drone strikes, carnage in Paris and hundreds of thousands of Syrians risking everything to reach Europe in an attempt to escape the violence.

John Nutting is nineteen years old in 1966.

Back in print with its original title, Harold Weisbergs detailed and devastating analysis of the Martin Luther King assassination is as timely as ever.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;THE HISTORY OF THE DEVIL - Exploration of the Devil's Role in the History of Civilization: The Political and the Religious Aspects"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The Threat From Within examines what drives Al Qaeda-inspired radicalization to violence, how to detect it, and how to confront it.

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s.

An exploration of military responses to revolutions and how to predict such reactions in the futureWe know that a revolution's success largely depends on the army's response to it.

Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism.

The religious beliefs of America's founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers.

A landmark study of racism, inequality, and police violence that continues to hold important lessons todayThe Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States.

An incisive account of the foreign policy beliefs of American Jews from the nineteenth century to the presentHow do American Jews envision their role in the world?

Twenty essential tips for picking great leaders from the father of modern politicsOne of the greatest political advisers of all time, Niccolo Machiavelli thought long and hard about how citizens could identify great leaders-ones capable of defending and enhancing the liberty, honor, and prosperity of their countries.

Cases of sexual violence against men have been documented in a great number of conflicts and wars, both ancient and contemporary.

This important anthology provides students and teachers with voices of social and global justice that have been marginalized or forgotten by history.

This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today.

Although religion is almost never a root cause, it often gets pulled into conflict as a powerful element, especially where conflicting parties have different religious identities.

Why Islam is more political and fundamentalist than other religionsWhy does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions?

The Color of Success tells of the astonishing transformation of Asians in the United States from the "e;yellow peril"e; to "e;model minorities"e;--peoples distinct from the white majority but lauded as well-assimilated, upwardly mobile, and exemplars of traditional family values--in the middle decades of the twentieth century.

This report covers the continuing political and economic crisis in Egypt.

In the last six decades, one of the most striking developments in international law is the emergence of a massive body of legal norms and procedures aimed at protecting human rights.

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.

Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the tension between civil rights and public safety has dominated public discourse.

This book addresses the challenges to achieve food security, which can arguably be one of the axis of any transformational solution to the structural production and reproduction of hunger, malnutrition, and poverty.

The Universal Declaration for Human Rights was approved in 1948 and yet more than fifty years later some human rightsespecially the rights of groups such as women, minorities, and indigenous peoplescontinue to be at risk.

The quotable Ai WeiweiThis collection of quotes demonstrates the elegant simplicity of Ai Weiwei's thoughts on key aspects of his art, politics, and life.

Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society.

Politics and the Past offers an original, multidisciplinary exploration of the growing public controversy over reparations for historical injustices.

What rights govern heterosexual and homosexual behaviors?

An unprecedented look at secret documents showing the deliberate nature of the Armenian genocideIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects.

If you were to examine an 1816 map of the world, you would discover that half the countries represented there no longer exist.

As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents.