Social science / Political science / Political Freedom & Security

Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC's Coverage of War and Terrorism

by Daniel Bennett

This book explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC's coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists'...

In Defense of Our America

by Anthony D. Romero, Dina Temple-Raston & Anthony Romero

Executive Director of the ACLU Anthony D. Romero and award-winning journalist Dina Temple-Raston present stories of real Americans at the front lines of the fight for civil liberties at a time when our most...

The New York Review Abroad: Fifty Years of International Reportage

by Robert B. Silvers & Ian Buruma

For the past fifty years, The New York Review of Books has covered virtually every international revolution and movement of consequence by dispatching the world’s most brilliant writers to write eyewitness...

Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936-1941

by Silvio Pons

This is a study of the responses of the Soviet Union to the European crises which led to World War II. It is based on a substantial body of political and diplomatic documents that has become accessible to scholars...

Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions: An Attributional Approach

by Bernard Weiner

Social Motivation, Justice, and the Moral Emotions proposes an attribution theory of interpersonal or social motivation that distinguishes between the role of thinking and feeling in determining action. The...

Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism

by Derek S. Reveron & Jeffrey Stevenson Murer

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of international political violence by bringing together foreign policy experts on several regions who examine conflicts in the Fertile Crescent, the Balkans, the...

Understanding U..S.. Human Rights Policy: A Paradoxical Legacy

by Clair Apodaca

This book provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understanding the formation of US human rights policy over the past thirty-five years, a period...

Migration Theory: Talking Across the Disciplines

by Caroline B. Brettell & James F. Hollifield

During the last decade the issue of migration has increased in global prominence and has caused controversy among the host countries around the world. Continuing their interdisciplinary approach, editors Catherine...

Intelligence Cooperation and the War on Terror: Anglo-American Security Relations after 9/11

by Adam D.M. Svendsen

This book provides an in-depth analysis of UK-US intelligence cooperation in the post-9/11 world.

Seeking to connect an analysis of intelligence liaison with the wider realm of Anglo-American Relations, the...

Critical Theory of International Politics: Complementarity, Justice, and Governance

by Steven C. Roach

Critical international theory encompasses several distinct, radical approaches that focus on identity, difference, hegemonic power, and order. As an applied theory, critical international theory draws on critical...

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

by John Russell Rickford & Russell John Rickford

In Praise of Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

"Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."

-Ralph...

Secret History of the Iraq War

by Yossef Bodansky

In the months leading up to March 2003, fresh from its swift and heady victory in Afghanistan, the Bush administration mobilized the United States armed forces to overthrow the government of Iraq. Eight months...

Tourism Crises: Management Responses and Theoretical Insight

by Eric Laws

Don’t wait until it’s too late to learn how to manage a crisis situation

The impact of crises on tourism has increased in the last ten years in response to terrorism, war, health emergencies, and natural...

Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and South-East Asia

by Rajat Ganguly

This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-East Asia....

Coercion, Cooperation, and Ethics in International Relations

by Richard Ned Lebow

This volume brings together the recent essays of Richard Ned Lebow, one of the leading scholars of international relations and US foreign policy.

Lebow's work has centred on the instrumental value of ethics...

The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty

by Thomas E. Patterson

From the award-winning author of Out of Order—named the best political science book of the last decade by the American Political Science Association—comes this landmark book about why Americans don’t vote....

Black Reconstruction in America: Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy in America, 1860-1880

by W.E.B. Du Bois & Mack H. Jones

After four centuries of bondage, the nineteenth century marked the long-awaited release of millions of black slaves. W. E. B. Du Bois, one of the greatest intellectual leaders in United States history, evaluates...

Contemporary Piracy and Maritime Terrorism: The Threat to International Security

by Martin N. Murphy

Do piracy and maritime terrorism, individually or together, present a threat to international security, and what relationship if any exists between them?

Piracy may be a marginal problem in itself, but the connections...

The Search for Security in Post-Taliban Afghanistan

by Cyrus Hodes & Mark Sedra

By the middle of 2007, Afghans had become increasingly disillusioned with a state-building process that had failed to deliver the peace dividend that they were promised. For many Afghans, the most noticeable...

Civil Rights

by Thomas Sowell

It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades...