Politics/Current Affairs

How do you protect rights without a Bill of Rights? Australia does not have a national bill or charter of rights and looks further away than ever from adopting one. But it does have a range of individual elements sourced from common law, statute and the Constitution which, though unsystematic, do provide ...

The aborted coup in Turkey has fired up interest in a country which will play a critical geopolitical role in the wars of the Middle East.

The environment suffers enormously during armed conflicts and, despite the increasing awareness of the pressing need to protect the planet, devastating environmental damage can occur legally at times of war. This book suggests that - apart from the protection offered under law of armed conflict - environmental ...

Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which they have developed. Placing them in the context of the region, separate chapters cover the organizations ...

The prominent Buddhist religious leader and advocate for peace, Daisaku Ikeda, has placed dialogue at the centre of his efforts towards securing global justice and conflict resolution. This book offers detailed exploration of this crucial aspect of Ikeda's philosophy of peace.

Charitable organisations occupy a central place in society across much of the world, accounting for billions of pounds in revenue. As society changes, so does the law which regulates nonprofit organisations. From independent schools to foodbanks, they occupy a broad policy space. Not immune to scandals, ...

A refreshing insightful and comprehensive analysis of how an exit may actually be possible - drawing on real experience and as such supplying a simple summary of recommended policy steps.

An ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.

The historian, wrote E. L. Doctorow, will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like. This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art of the interviewer, a craft at once sensitive and probing. "Reflections "collects transcripts of the best ...

Focusing on the state of Western culture, from politics and the media to show business and science, this book concludes that we are all Big Babies. It argues that the Baby-Boom generation is running the show, and its own commitment to perpetual infantility is reflected in its unstoppable drive to infantilize the rest of us.

Talking to Children About Race is an enlightening and practical book for anti-racist parents seeking to bring up anti-racist children.

The classic memoir of growing up in South Africa during the apartheid regime from literary tour de force, Christopher Hope.

The essential guide to understanding what populism is, why it's flourishing and what we should do about it

India has fallen far and fast from the runaway growth rates it enjoyed in the first decade of the twenty-first century. This book coincides with the 2014 Indian elections to spur a public debate about the program that the next government should pursue in order to return the country to a path of high growth.

The word security has a military connotation and refers to the activities involved in protecting or defending a country, in which the State has a central role. This book argues that the State provides as well as threatens security, and that by broadening the concept of security to include both military ...

The linguistics and philosophy professor from MIT is an elder statesman of a resurgenct left. From meditations on human nature to strategic advice for the Trump era, Chomsky remains the thinker who shaped a generation and is a beacon of hope in the darkest of times. The book begins with his razor-sharp ...

An accessible, practical and ultimately inspiring book that not only serves as a much-needed call to arms to end the plastic pandemic, but gives useful tools on how to make meaningful change in our everyday lives and advice on how to demand long-lasting action.

The world looked on with astonishment as the bitter, bloody conflict in Northern Ireland came to an end. This [book] encompasses the historic power-sharing agreement of 2007 between Sinn Féin, politicla wingo of the IRA, and Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party. --back cover.

Seeking a fresh perspective on one of the major issues of our day, global financial capitalism and its devastating effects on our democracies, this is an ideal text for students and teachers in the political sciences and philosophy; corporate and labor law; economic sociology; social and economic history; and industrial relations, business, and management.

Hennessy surveys the constitutional building site opened up for the whole of the UK by the Scottish referendum, offering personal impressions of the time when the 300-year-old Act of Union was called into question and when he, as the UK's foremost expert on our unwritten constitution, became an important voice in what may happen next.