Social Sciences  /  Political Sciences & Current Affairs
Boundless Frontiers Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9788869774430
Pub Date: 31 May 2025
Series: Politics
Description:
The experience of democratic self-government of migration practiced in the village of Riace, Calabria, is an important case study for the potential development of migration in relation to three aspects of last Italian government's policies, all of which have both European and international relevance: the failure to sign the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration; the securitarian management of the migration crisis; and distorted media narratives around migration. This book derives from the collective efforts of a group of young social scientists in the fields of politics, law, economic geography, and media analysis, all of whom have past and present practical experience in the field. The book focuses on the high-impact local policies implemented in the small Calabrian village which turned out to possess one of the best vantage points for examining human migration on a global level.
Migrations: governance, policies, and rights Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9788869774362
Pub Date: 31 May 2025
Series: Drift Maps
Description:
Increased migration is a global phenomenon associated with regional instabilities and insecurities, including long-term push factors and other elements related to processes of globalization that influence economics (the gap between the global South and the global North), politics (expectations of human rights and democratic practices), demographics (declining population in the North, rising population in the South) and technology (innovation in transport and communication). Local push factors are also extremely important, however, and need to be properly assessed in order to understand on-going migration processes and their variations. In many parts of the world, the closure of nearly all legal channels for entry risks increasing irregular migration, with the collateral effect of encouraging people smuggling and human trafficking.
Migrations: socio-cultural contexts and constitution Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9788869774355
Pub Date: 31 May 2025
Series: Drift Maps
Description:
Cultural studies do not represent a historicist approach focused on the origins and development of particular social and cultural expressions, but - especially in its most recent form - instead analyses and engages with specific socio-cultural contexts and their formation, as well as bringing critical sensitivity to the conjunctural and contextual – especially in terms of tensions, contradictions and crises. Within this new framework, migration studies – with its interest in forms of regulation and management, control and practices of resistance – has become an essential platform not only for updating conceptual categories but also for highlighting the “contested terrain” of contemporary cultural studies itself. The current volume aims to explore the connection between these two fields of study, proposing new ideas, themes and approaches that speak to the varied field of migration studies, starting from the approach of cultural studies and post-colonial studies, both of which open up horizons and trajectories that often remain invisible in other discourses and narratives.

Lessons Learned from the War in Ukraine

Security Strategies for the Nordic-Baltic Five
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9798991076616
Pub Date: 28 May 2025
Imprint: The Jamestown Foundation
Description:
In the context of Russia's war against Ukraine, the authors present crucial strategies for improving security in five NATO eastern flank states: Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Sweden. They also offer recommendations for NATO countries overall with regard to defending against future Russian aggression.
Counterintelligence at Its Core Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 220
ISBN: 9781962551489
Pub Date: 25 May 2025
Description:
"An essential guide to counterintelligence, blending theory with case studies to fill a crucial gap in the intelligence literature. Both insightful and accessible, this book offers a rare, practitioner-driven perspective for anyone keen to explore the intricacies of CI." —Giangiuseppe Pili, James Madison UniversityWhat is the core purpose of counterintelligence?
Alliances & Armor Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 174
ISBN: 9781636245362
Pub Date: 01 May 2025
Description:
The People’s Army of Vietnam’s decision to utilize armor as part of its warfighting strategy was a product of various geopolitical factors that surrounded Hanoi during various parts of the Vietnam War. During the First Indochina War, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) emerged as the foremost communist benefactor of North Vietnam. The Soviet Union however, largely stood by.
RRP: £22.95
Prognosis / Saudi Arabia Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 444
ISBN: 9781861543875
Pub Date: 01 May 2025
Illustrations: 800 colour illustrations including artwork and personal archive
Description:
This richly illustrated and superbly designed book explores its author’s life and work against the backdrop of 40 years of transformation and conflict across the Arabian Gulf and Islamic world. A doctor-turned-artist, Ahmed Mater has continually confronted his traditional context. Here he explores Arab and Islamic society in an era of globalization and social upheaval to uncover the unofficial histories that have shaped the present.
RRP: £65.00
AI and Early Warning Systems Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9781962551687
Pub Date: 25 Apr 2025
Description:
"Mandel rightfully challenges the conventional wisdom that AI is limited to efficiency enhancements or low-level cognitive tasks and offers a commendable focus on the political and bureaucratic challenges in early warning systems." —Michael Frank, Seldon StrategiesFrom the September 11 attacks to the coronavirus pandemic, recent deficiencies in early warning systems have been jolting, reflecting startling failures of intelligence and security decisionmaking. Can technological innovation remedy the flaws in threat detection?
Qatar and the United Arab Emirates Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 250
ISBN: 9781962551069
Pub Date: 15 Apr 2025
Description:
"A rich and compelling comparative analysis of the UAE and Qatar's divergent but similar trajectories."—Marc Lynch, George Washington UniversityIn the years following the turmoil of the Arab Spring, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates jockeyed for power, becoming significant forces—and rivals—in regional politics. Emma Soubrier unpacks the nuts and bolts of these two small states' rise to prominence, exploring how their diverging foreign and security policies have enabled both of them to become power players in the Middle East and beyond.
Latin America, China, and Great Power Competition Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 193
ISBN: 9781962551717
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2025
Description:
The emergence of Latin America and the Caribbean as an arena for US-China competition raises a number of important questions: What are China’s goals in LAC? Is its presence there a good thing for the region? What challenges does it create?
Weaponizing Water Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 245
ISBN: 9798896160069
Pub Date: 25 Mar 2025
Description:
“A valuable contribution.” —Daniel Volman, African Studies Review"Provides timely and essential research on an understudied topic..
Homeland Security Intelligence Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 329
ISBN: 9781962551601
Pub Date: 17 Mar 2025
Description:
"Current and comprehensive…. Readers will find cutting-edge information essential for anyone interested in homeland security. This book should be a cornerstone resource for upper-division and graduate courses, libraries, and analysts.
Rhet Ops Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780822967149
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2024
Description:
In this edited volume, authors seek to document and analyze how state and non-state actors leverage digital rhetoric as a twenty-first-century weapon of war. Rhet Ops offer readers a chance to focus on the human dimension of rhetorical practice within mobile technologies and social networks: to reflect not only on the durable question of what it means to conduct oneself ethically as a speaker or writer, but also what it means to learn the art of rhetoric as a means to engage adversaries in war and conflict.
The Global Spatial Revolution Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9788869774294
Pub Date: 10 Apr 2024
Series: Politics
Description:
The volume examines the process of globalization from a genealogical point of view. By doing so, it offers a contribution to the understanding of the deep and critical spatial transformation reshaping our world from both a political and a conceptual point of view, taking into consideration recent developments including Brexit and the politics of Donald Trump. Focusing his analysis on the natural element of “air”, Vegetti provides an original approach to globalization.
Strengthening South Korea–Japan Relations Cover Strengthening South Korea–Japan Relations Cover
Format: 
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9780813199214
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2024
Illustrations: 16 figures, 26 tables
Pages: 234
ISBN: 9780813199221
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2024
Illustrations: 16 figures, 26 tables
Description:
At the conclusion of WWII, no part of the world experienced a more dramatic transformation than East Asia. The region's political stability throughout the postwar period prompted exponential economic growth that ultimately established South Korea, Japan, and China as East Asia's most important powers. While many citizens of these nations now live in a time of unprecedented prosperity, the arrangement that supported this region's transformation is fragile.
Refusing to Be Silent Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9788869774386
Pub Date: 29 Feb 2024
Series: Politics
Description:
How can we approach the world and guide our thinking in the face of profound, myriad challenges? This is the ambitious question that animates the current volume. The book seeks to formulate these challenges and develop ways to tackle them through a set of wide-ranging interviews with leading intellectuals of our times, including Nancy Fraser, Seyla Benhabib, Michael Walzer and Etienne Balibar.