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Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation by Robert Rauchhaus
RRP: £32.99£29.16This book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation. Through the development of new datasets and the application of cutting edge research methods, contributors to this volume significantly advance the... -
Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact?: Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide by Farida Jalalzai
£30.22How do men's and women's paths to political office differ? Once in office, are women's powers more constrained than those of men? The number of women in executive leadership positions has grown substantially over the past five decades, and women now... -
Transitional Justice in the Middle East and North Africa by Chandra Lekha Sriram
RRP: £25.00£22.03Following the 'Arab Spring' uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, many had high hopes not only for democratisation but also for transitional justice to address the myriad abuses that had taken place in the region, both during the uprisings and... -
Hong Kong's 2019-2020 Social Unrest: The Trigger, History And Lessons by Bernard Yeung
RRP: £25.00£21.79This book provides an anatomy of Hong Kong's 2019-2020 social unrest, which has significantly damaged its economy and image. A coalition of Opposition to the Communist Party of China (CPC) emerged in Hong Kong after the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident... -
John Stuart Mill: On Democracy, Freedom and Government & Other Selected Writings by John Stuart Mill
RRP: £36.00£31.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587314063Author John Stuart MillFormat HardbackPage Count 812Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 1157g -
The History of the Russian Revolution: The Triumph of the Soviets: v. 3 by Leon Trotsky
£14.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900007283Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red PublicationsWeight(grams) 205g -
Transnational Companies and Security Governance: Hybrid Practices in a Postcolonial World Jana Hoenke 9781138809031
RRP: £53.99£46.87This book investigates governance practiced by non-state actors. It analyses how multinational mining companies protect their sites in fragile contexts and what that tells us about political ordering 'beyond' the state. Based on extensive primary... -
Private Military and Security Companies as Legitimate Governors: From Barricades to Boardrooms by Berenike Prem
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines the legitimation of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), focusing on the controversy between PMSCs and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). While existing studies disproportionately emphasizes the ability for companies... -
Islam and Secularity: The Future of Europe's Public Sphere by Nilufer Gole
RRP: £21.99£19.19In Islam and Secularity Nilufer Goele takes on two pressing issues: the transforming relationship between Islam and Western secular modernity and the impact of the Muslim presence in Europe. Goele shows how the visibility of Islamic practice in the... -
Indigenous Nations and Modern States: The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power Rudolph C. Ryser (Capella University, USA) 9780415639385
RRP: £53.99£46.87Indigenous peoples throughout the world tenaciously defend their lands, cultures, and their lives with resilience and determination. They have done so generation after generation. These are peoples who make up bedrock nations throughout the world in... -
Ethics and Global Security: A cosmopolitan approach by Anthony Burke
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book will be the first systematic examination of the role that ethics plays in international security in both theory and practice, and offers the reader a concrete ethics for global security. Questions of morality and ethics have long been... -
The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe by Roel Meijer
RRP: £35.00£31.24The Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has always attracted widely divergent attention. Scholars have regarded it both as the source of terrorism, and, more recently as the potential harbinger of democratization. The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe has... -
Worst-Case Scenario?: Governance, Mediation and the Security Regime by Stuart Price
£26.93In this original and provocative new book, Stuart Price identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime - the worst-case scenario. This consists of the projection of a significant material threat, made by an... -
Iranian Writers Uncensored: Freedom, Democracy and the Word in Contemporary Iran Shiva Rahbaran 9781564786883
RRP: £12.99£8.63These interviews with poets and writers still living and working in Iran demonstrate their belief that literature's value is in opening spaces of awareness in the minds of the reader.About the AuthorShiva Rahbaran was born in 1970 in Tehran. She left... -
Iran on the Brink: Rising Workers and Threats of War Andreas Malm 9780745326030
RRP: £29.99£19.40While the world keeps its eyes riveted on Iran's nuclear programme, the Islamic Republic has gone through a crisis of its own. This book shows how soaring unemployment and poverty has given way to social protest. A new labour movement has come to the... -
Cultures of Resistance: Collective Action and Rationality in the Anti-Terror Age by Heidi Reynolds-Stenson
RRP: £23.99£20.84Cultures of Resistance provides new insight on a long-standing question: whether government efforts to repress social movements produce a chilling effect on dissent, or backfire and spur greater mobilization. In recent decades, the U.S. government's... -
The History of the Russian Revolution: The Attempted Counter-revolution: v. 2 by Leon Trotsky
£13.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900007276Author Leon TrotskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Well Red PublicationsPublisher Well Red PublicationsWeight(grams) 205g -
Transformations of Security Studies: Dialogues, Diversity and Discipline by Gabi Schlag
RRP: £100.00£87.01This volume brings together a group of distinguished scholars to engage in a dialogue on key developments in the study of security. The book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical, empirical and methodological developments within security... -
Crypto-Politics: Encryption and Democratic Practices in the Digital Era by Linda Monsees
RRP: £115.00£99.36This book examines current debates about the politics of technology and the future of democratic practices in the digital era. The volume centres on the debates on digital encryption in Germany and the USA, during the aftermath of Edward Snowden's... -
The End of Intelligence: Espionage and State Power in the Information Age by David Tucker
RRP: £23.99£20.84Using espionage as a test case, The End of Intelligence criticizes claims that the recent information revolution has weakened the state, revolutionized warfare, and changed the balance of power between states and non-state actors-and it assesses the... -
Balance Sheet: The Iraq War and U.S. National Security by John S. Duffield
RRP: £29.99£12.86The last six years have witnessed a virtually unending debate over U.S. policy toward Iraq, a debate that is likely to continue well into the new administration and perhaps the next, notwithstanding recent improvements on the ground. Too often,... -
Globalization and Religious Nationalism in India: The Search for Ontological Security by Catarina Kinnvall
RRP: £43.99£38.44Exploring the effects of globalization in India and the problem of identity formation, this book contributes to the theoretical and empirical debate on identity, globalization, religious nationalism and (in)security. The author puts forward a new... -
A New Trusteeship?: The International Administration of War-torn Territories Richard Caplan 9780198515654
RRP: £35.99£31.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198515654Author Richard CaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Thomson WestWeight(grams) 158g -
Securing Health: HIV and the Limits of Securitization by Suzanne Hindmarch
RRP: £39.99£35.06This book offers a critical inquiry into the framing of health and disease as a security issue. In particular, the book examines what happens in the United Nations when the ostensibly ‘low’ politics of global health meet the ‘high’ politics of security,... -
The Routledge Handbook of the Responsibility to Protect W. Andy Knight 9781138831872
RRP: £51.99£45.19This Handbook offers a comprehensive examination of the Responsibility to Protect norm in world politics, which aims to end mass atrocities against civilians. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is amongst the most significant norms in global politics... -
Contesting Security: Strategies and Logics by Thierry Balzacq
RRP: £49.99£43.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Between Threats and War: U.S. Discrete Military Operations in the Post-Cold War World by Micah Zenko
RRP: £19.99£17.54When confronted with a persistent foreign policy problem that threatens U.S. interests, and that cannot be adequately addressed through economic or political pressure, American policymakers and opinion formers have increasingly resorted to recommending... -
Foucault, Freedom and Sovereignty by Sergei Prozorov
RRP: £135.00£117.28Against the prevailing interpretations which disqualify a Foucauldian approach from the discourse of freedom, this study offers a novel concept of political freedom and posits freedom as the primary axiological motif of Foucault's writing. Based on a... -
Unfree in Palestine: Registration, Documentation and Movement Restriction Nadia Abu-Zahra (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa) 9780745325279
RRP: £27.99£18.19This book reveals the role played by identity documents in Israel's apartheid policies towards the Palestinians, from the red passes of the 1950s to the orange, green and blue passes of today. The authors chronicle how millions of Palestinians have... -
The Same-Sex Unions Revolution in Western Democracies: International Norms and Domestic Policy Change Kelly Kollman 9780719099946
RRP: £19.99£14.52Now available in paperback, this book examines same-sex unions (SSU) policy developments in eighteen western democracies and seeks to explain why the overwhelming majority of these countries has implemented a national law to recognise gay and lesbian... -
In/Security in Colombia: Writing Political Identities in the Democratic Security Policy by Josefina A. Echavarria
RRP: £85.00£60.57Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict. Using the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP), Echavarria... -
Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding: Postconflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone by Christine Cubitt
RRP: £94.99£82.75Local and Global Dynamics of Peacebuilding examines the complex contributing factors which led to war and state collapse in Sierra Leone, and the international peacebuilding and statebuilding operations which followed the cessation of the violence. ... -
Contemporary Authoritarianism in Southeast Asia: Structures, Institutions and Agency by William Case
RRP: £53.99£46.87Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building. But recently, democracy's... -
Biopolitics of Security: A Political Analytic of Finitude Michael Dillon 9780415484336
RRP: £45.99£40.13Taking its inspiration from Michel Foucault, this volume of essays integrates the analysis of security into the study of modern political and cultural theory. Explaining how both politics and security are differently problematised by changing accounts of... -
Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond by Anne Holohan
RRP: £20.99£18.37Most work on peacekeeping and peacebuilding focuses almost entirely on policy. Networks of Democracy provides a distinct and important perspective that links daily activities to mission outcomes. This book is an ethnography of the interaction between the... -
THE GREAT TRIBAL WARRIORS OF BHARAT by Tuhin A. Sinha with Ambalika
£18.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789355205674Author Tuhin A. Sinha with AmbalikaFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd.Publisher Rupa Publications India Pvt... -
Routledge Handbook of International Statebuilding David Chandler (University of Westminster, UK) 9781138930698
RRP: £49.99£43.90This new Handbook offers a combination of theoretical, thematic and empirical analyses of the statebuilding regime, written by leading international scholars. Over the past decade, international statebuilding has become one of the most important and... -
Constructing Cassandra: Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001 by Milo Jones
RRP: £116.00£100.62Constructing Cassandra analyzes the intelligence failures at the CIA that resulted in four key strategic surprises experienced by the US: the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, the Iranian revolution of 1978, the collapse of the USSR in 1991, and the 9/11... -
The EU and Effective Multilateralism: Internal and external reform practices by Edith Drieskens
RRP: £100.00£86.61This book investigates the extent to which the EU has defined and operationalised the notion of effective multilateralism. Reform has dominated the agenda of the EU in recent years with the adoption and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. However,... -
Human Security as Statecraft: Structural Conditions, Articulations and Unintended Consequences Nik Hynek 9780415723886
RRP: £43.99£38.44This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them. Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the...