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Climate of Fear
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 14.00In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize?winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics. Decades ago, the idea of collective fear had a tangible face: the atom bomb. Today our shared anxiety has become far more complex... more...
The 'New' Policy Partnership
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 199.00This e-book explores policy-academic partnerships. The e-book contains articles that address innovative ways that researchers and policymakers can collaborate to move policy agendas forward. more...
Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 48.95This book seeks to examine the causes of escalation and de-escalation in intrastate conflicts. Specifically, the volume seeks to map the processes and dynamics that lead groups challenging existing power structures to engage in violent struggle; the processes and dynamics that contribute to the de-escalation of violent struggle and the participation... more...
From Terrorism to Politics
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95How do terrorists become politicians? This book embraces a series of comparative case studies in order to examine important issues regarding the relationship between terrorism and political processes. It identifies the characteristics necessary for the transition from a 'terrorist' organization to a political party and situates this within... more...
The Geography of Ethnic Violence
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 29.95The Geography of Ethnic Violence is the first among numerous distinguished books on ethnic violence to clarify the vital role of territory in explaining such conflict. Monica Toft introduces and tests a theory of ethnic violence, one that provides a compelling general explanation of not only most ethnic violence, civil wars, and terrorism but many... more...
Crisis of the State
Berghahn Books 2009; US$ 90.00Analyzing both historical contexts and geographical locations, this volume explores the continuous reformation of state power and its potential in situations of violent conflict. The state, otherwise understood as an abstract and transcendent concept in many works on globalization in political philosophy, is instead located and analyzed here as an... more...
Violence, Extremism and Transformation
Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung 2010; US$ 10.77Hauptbeschreibung Based on the results of the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2006 (BTI), this study challenges widespread assumptions and stereotypes about the nature of political violence. It reminds us that religious extremism, while on the rise, accounts for only a small fracture of armed conflict in the world. Moreover, Western countries' preoccupation... more...
War and the Rise of the State
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableStates make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, ?Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars have been catalysts for increasing the size and power of Western governments since the Renaissance. The state?s monopoly of effective violence has diminished not only individual rights and liberties,... more...
Message to the Movement
Zuccotti Park Press 2012; US$ 5.99Radical black journalist gives organizing advice, political analysis and encouragement to activists from his cell on Death Row more...
Healing the Wound
Twaweza Communications 2009; US$ 34.95The narratives collected by Twaweza Communications in this volume tell yet another side of the story about the violence that engulfed Kenya towards the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008. The narratives are part of a Daraja Initiative involving media monitoring, reflections and documentation of the traumatic post-election violence period often associated... more...









