Politics/Current Affairs

An examination of the attempts authoritarian Syria has made to create consent for its rule.

Brings to light the specific conditions motivating sexual crimes against women of minority communities during communal conflict in post-independence India

This global volume explores migration, precarious employment, transformation of paid work and the political actions of immigrant and migrant workers.

How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? This volume shows that anthropology is put to work in diverse ways. Its goal is to help graduate students and early-career scholars accept the changes without feeling something essential to anthropology has been lost.

This book is the most detailed study yet carried out of special advisers. The Constitution Unit's research team, led by Dr Ben Yong and Professor Robert Hazell, assembled a comprehensive database of over 600 special advisers since 1979.

Examines the dynamics of Arab foreign-policy-making in the twenty-first century. This book includes four case studies, the Middle East Peace process, the Water crisis, the Food crisis, and Saudi Arabia's foreign policy, that enable a wide-ranging analysis for understanding contemporary Arab politics and its role in world affairs.

The authors writing here demonstrate that Islam is not only compatible with liberalism, but is inherently liberal.This book provides ammunition to those who wish to battle the claim that Islam and freedom are incompatible.

Exploring the global character and effects of culture and politics, this journal examines what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. It analyses how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined and resolved.

Responds to the explosion of gay and lesbian creativity on modern-day France. This book seeks to open up 'homotextualities,' understood as constructions and deconstructions of both homosexuality and its environments. It provides an assessment of this approach when dealing with a tradition notoriously discreet about the concept of a gay writer.

Dealing with globalization, this book explains that the process is far more subtle, complex, and uneven. Examining the ways in which globalization contributes to patterns of conflict, it explores case studies, ranging from 9/11 to identity formation. It offers the ramifications of globalization on society, government, and everyday lives.

This book provides an insider's account of the use of cultural diplomacy to protect and expand France's global influence.

Cut Out speaks to people whose support from the state - for whatever reason - is now being withdrawn, rendering their lives unsustainable.

Contrary to those who argue that demographics are political destiny, social trends are transforming identity categories of race, gender, and youth - all of which provide rich opportunities for Republicans to create a new majority. To accomplish this, Republicans will need imagination and political acumen ...

Why Social Security is not only sustainable but should be substantially expanded Social Security is bankrupting us. It's outdated. It's a Ponzi scheme. It's stealing from young people. These are some of the biggest myths and lies about one of the most successful programs in our nation's history. Three-quarters ...

This book provides a timely discussion of public service broadcasting and the future of the BBC. It is a blueprint for how the BBC could be freed from the shackles of the state to become a major player on the world media stage. It deserves attention from those with an interest in the BBC and broadcasting.

The material included in this publication constitutes the quintessence of what ABC Economics really is, a business news portal which is beginning to establish its own place in the world of national and international media. The author has interpreted the current economic situation from two points of view, ...

Presents the investigation of how the phenomenon of political legitimacy operated within Europe's political cultures during the period of the Second World War. Exploring political discourse, state propaganda, and high and low culture, this book contributes to the study of the political culture of European history from the 1930s to the 1950s.

This book spells out what can and should be done to avert the real risks of disaster. It explores the interconnected issues of climate and development, laying the groundwork for such a new deal. It presents a challenging agenda, and highlights the needs and perspectives of developing countries which may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable to readers in high-income countries.

Zoe Williams brings together here all the arguments that occupy the current political landscape and shows us that on all levels, it's lunacy to be anything other than left-wing unless you're actually already an oligarch.