Political control and freedoms

This book advances an Islamic political philosophy based on the concept of Ihsan, which means to do beautiful things.

This book examines how digital communications technologies have transformed modern societies, with profound effects both for everyday life, and for everyday crimes.

This book focuses on popular struggles in Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1700-2015, and how popular struggle in the form of hunger riots, tax rebellions, petition drives, strikes, demonstrations, public meetings and social movements paved the way for the introduction and development of civil liberties and political rights.

For the first time, the author has explored the intertwinement of written law, Islamic law, and customary law in the highly complex Afghan society, being deeply influenced by traditional cultural and religious convictions.

This book traces and analyses the role of heritage in the urban transformation of the city of Cape Town.

Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West.

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched.

Clarence Mitchell, Jr.

The first volume of the International Yearbook of Soil Law and Policy includes an important discussion on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals that are the basis for the post-2015 development agenda up to the year 2030; the Yearbook focuses in particular on Goal 15, which includes achieving a "e;land degradation-neutral world.

This book considers the effectiveness and fairness of using international cooperation to obtain confession evidence or evidence of a suspect or accused person's silence across borders.

This book analyzes human rights and crime prevention challenges from the perspective of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda, in particular its goal 16 on promoting peaceful, inclusive and just societies, the creation and development of which depend on the interplay between various secular and non-secular (f)actors.

This Commentary provides the first comprehensive legal article-by-article analysis of the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.

This textbook examines a wide range of humanitarian action issues in five parts, presented by specialists from different academic fields.

This study analyses male-female violence in comparison to state-citizen violence.

One of the hallmarks of the present era is the discourse surrounding Human Rights and the need for the law to recognise them.

The late Pope John Paul II frequently invoked Dignitatis Humanae as one of the foundational documents of contemporary Church social teaching.

This powerful reference explores the processes and practices of family systems therapy as conducted in humanitarian situations across the globe.

This book considers contested responsibilities between the public and private sectors over the use of online data, detailing exactly how digital human rights evolved in specific European states and gradually became a part of the European Union framework of legal protections.

This book explores one of the 20th century's most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked.

Providing an expansive view of the making and meaning of African American conservatism, this volume examines the phenomenon in four spheres: the political realm, the academic world, the black church, and grass-roots activism movements.

This biography tells the story of Theo van Boven's dynamic and courageous leadership to develop UN protection.

This book examines the manner in which the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount has been appropriated by both Palestinians and Israelis as a nationalist symbol legitimizing respective claims to the land.

This concise volume guides public health advocates on how to successfully advocate for their cause, strengthen their messaging and communication strategies, build coalitions, and gather political allies.

This books demonstrates the difficulty of protecting victims of human trafficking from being held liable for crimes they were compelled to commit in the course, or as a consequence, of being trafficked, under current European law.

The volume gathers theoretical contributions on human rights and global justice in the context of international migration.

This book argues that the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the Libyan people played an important role in the U.

This book investigates the often-fragmented nature of Ulster Nationalist / Republican / Roman Catholic politics, culture and identity.

The project discusses Hezbollah's political ideology and how it evolves over time and the conditions that lead to the change of ideology.

This book addresses the ongoing problem of HIV in black South African women as a health inequity.

Veiled women in the West appear menacing.

This book examines the unintended consequences of top-down reforms in Iran, analysing how the Iranian reformist governments (1997-2005) sought to utilise gradual reforms to control independent activism, and how citizens responded to such a disciplinary action.

This book addresses the discourses, agendas and actions of Muslim faith-based organizations and activists to empower Muslim communities in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa.

Situated within the wider post-secular turn in politics and international relations, this volume focuses not on religion per se, but rather explicitly on theology.

Using legal arguments consistent with international law, this book explores whether and under which circumstances a State (or States) may establish and militarily enforce safe zones in countries that produce large-scale refugee outflows so as to protect its (or their) own interests by averting said outflows, as well as to alleviate human suffering in today's world of civil and internal warfare.

This book shows how the introduction of  intermediation is relevant in studying political and public policy processes, as they are increasingly accompanied by grey spaces in public and non-public arenas that cannot be categorized as purely representative or purely participative.

This book examines lifelong learning from different angles and follows the trajectory beginning with the expansive notion of lifelong education promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its subsequent version intended to better suit the neoliberal framework and make EU countries more competitive in the global economy.

This book analyses current developments in Europe and Latin America towards the greater involvement of the parties in the administration of criminal justice.

This book brings together theories of world society with poststructuralist and postcolonial work on modern subjectivity to understand the universalising and particularising processes of globalisation.

This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution.

This contributed volume motivates and educates across fields about the major challenges in global health and the interdisciplinary strategies for solving them.

This anthology constitutes an important contribution to the interdisciplinary debate on poverty measurement and alleviation.

This book brings to life the experiences of children affected by maternal imprisonment, and provides unique, in-depth analysis of judicial thinking on this issue.

This book offers a thematic study of key debates in the history of the ethnic politics, democratic governance, and minority rights in Nigeria.

This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services.

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact.

This book brings together leading scholars researching the field of gender, sexuality, schooling, queer activism, and social movements within different cultural contexts.

This book discusses the threats and challenges facing the Persian Gulf and the future security in the region, providing an overview of the major regional and extra-regional actors in Gulf security.