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This book examines same-sex unions policy (SSU) 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 couples since 1989. Drawing on...

Why adopt a poststructural lens for the reading of the military strategy of national missile defence (NMD)? No doubt, when contemplating an attack on US territory by intercontinental ballistic missiles, consulting Michel Foucault and critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788177081831Author Seema ShekhawatFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint New Century PublicationsPublisher New Century PublicationsWeight(grams) 586g

This 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...

This book analyses changes in intelligence governance and offers a comparative analysis of intelligence democratisation. Within the field of Security Sector Reform (SSR), academics have paid significant attention to both the police and military. The...

This work is a meditation on the shaping of time and its impact on living with and understanding atrocity in South Africa in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It is an examination of the ways that the institutionalization of...

The essays in this volume are concerned with armed conflicts in South Asia and the conflict management efforts made to mitigate them. Articles in the volume study conflict management, look at the direction armed conflict is likely to take and provide a...

This 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,...

'Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history - and then go out and change it' Barack Obama'The authentic voice of Mandela shines through this book' The Times'Burns with the luminosity of faith in the invincible nature of human hope and...

His style was iconic, and vintage '80s: aviator goggles, Jheri curls, neck roll, boxy pads. For the first time, Dickerson is telling his story. And he's not holding anything back.Eric Dickerson is the greatest player in Los Angeles Rams history and the...

Cyber security has become a defining legal and political predicament of our time, and where it has been found ineffective, a sense of vulnerability has developed in society. The internet-age has challenged the implications and execution of personal and...

As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and what policies should be undertaken to regulate guns remain issues of vigorous scholarly and public debate...

This new textbook outlines the main theories and concepts from a variety of disciplines that support homeland security operations, structures and strategies.Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, "homeland security" (HLS) grew in importance...

Fractal Leadership investigates leadership construction in social movements afforded (or intensified) by algorithm-based flows of information and viral affectivity. The book illustrates how a somewhat amorphous structure is replicated from an intimate,...

This book examines Egypt’s turbulent and contradictory political period (2011-2015) as key to understanding contemporary politics in the country and the developments in the Arab region after the mass protests in 2010/11, more broadly. In doing so, it...

This volume explores the digitization, privatization, and spatial displacement of border security and the effects these have on political accountability and migrant rights.The governance of security and migration is unfolding in new political spaces...

This textbook offers an accessible introduction to the topic of cybersecurity ethics. The second edition has been revised and updated, and contains new chapters on social justice, AI and big data. The book is split into three parts. Part I provides an...

While other books in the field focus on specific aspects of privacy or how to avoid invasions, David H. Holtzman--a master technologist, internet pioneer, security analyst, and former military codebreaker--presents a comprehensive insider's expose of the...

This edited book provides a range of perspectives on the handling of particular aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic across the principal states of South Asia. As the first academic volume to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in South Asia, it examines such...

Presenting securitization as a communication issue, this book combines media framing with the theory of securitization to explain how the discourse of security informs media content, and what happens to policy and public understanding when it does. ...

This volume examines both historical developments and contemporary expressions of blasphemy across the world. The transgression of religious boundaries incurs more or less severe sanctions in various religious traditions. This book looks at how religious...

In this book, Ann Gordon and Kai Hamilton Gentry expertly illuminate how the public has a role to play in ensuring its own security. Recent terror attacks and mass shootings in the United States have added urgency to the need for research on terrorism,...

Spying, once the province of the KGB, CIA and MI5, has become part of everyday life. Governments routinely trawl our emails, CCTV cameras follow us on every street, while state databases of our DNA become larger all the time. Ideal for students,...

In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs-even when these beliefs...

The contributors examine the interdependence of justice and liberty and define the most sensible, reasonable principles of justice as they relate to equality, property, gender, and other factors. They compare the libertarian approach to the modern...

This is a sobering account of the ordeal of Christian Arabs of the Middle East in this era of Islamist radicalism. Although those Christians are leaving their homelands in record numbers, the author laments, the powers of the West have shown little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604861150Author L. M. BogadPage Count 48Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 70g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263415Author Ronnie KasrilsFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 1350g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626561946Author Beatrice EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Berrett-KoehlerPublisher Berrett-KoehlerDimensions(mm) 85mm * 56mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586422981Author Christopher M. FinanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Truth to PowerPublisher Truth to PowerWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399504393Author Dan DegermanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780197639924Author HedgesFormat HardbackImprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 149g

In Defense of Japan provides the first complete, up-to-date, English-language account of the history, politics, and policy of Japan's strategic space development. The dual-use nature of space technologies, meaning that they cut across both market and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928232841Author Kally ForrestFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Jacana Media (Pty) LtdPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) LtdWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Goldsmiths Book Prize 2008.Book InformationISBN 9781400079780Author Ted GupFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA...

Combining a stimulating blend of academic authority and senior practitioner experience, this book tackles the principle of openness to official documentation and information flow. It covers important areas such as the Hutton Report into the death of Dr...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989555224Author Philip SlaytonFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

This book examines the European governance of emerging security technologies. The emergence of technologies such as drones, autonomous robotics, artificial intelligence, cyber and biotechnologies has stimulated worldwide debates on their use, risks and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353043704Author Supratim SarkarFormat PaperbackImprint Rupa & CoPublisher Rupa & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587311093Author Promise HsuFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint St. Augustine's PressPublisher St. Augustine's PressWeight(grams) 540g