This collection of essays addresses American culture as a space of tension between conformity and resistance. It gives justice to marginalized voices that have shaped the nation’s uniqueness and proposes possible formulas for a new American identity.
From Utah Beach to Okinawa, they braved live bombs and enemy rockets. Nine from Aberdeen is the first history of the US Army’s Bomb Disposal Branch in WWII, the courageous forerunners of today’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists.
The Moral Psychology of Terrorism
Why do terrorists kill? This volume moves beyond politics to explore the psychology, morality, and beliefs that fuel terrorism. With perspectives from many disciplines, it probes the minds of terrorists to understand this tragic path to violence.
Citizenship in Transition
The Arab Spring and new waves of migration challenge dominant ideas about citizenship. This timely book deconstructs the debates shaping migration and integration in Europe, illuminating emerging patterns in cultural identity, education, and citizenship.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of studies in administration, management, and law explains complex concepts through theoretical and empirical research. It is an educational support for professionals and is accessible to a broader audience interested in an interdisciplinary approach.
The Future of Post-Human Martial Arts
Contrary to the popular belief that martial arts are a spiritual path, their dark sides remain unexplored. This book offers an alternative way to understand their true nature, fundamentally changing how we think about the warrior’s body and spirit.
Knowledge and learning are key to policy change. This book provides theoretical tools to analyse how ideas affect policy outcomes, offering new perspectives on welfare state reform, policy transfer, and diffusion processes in Europe.
This book challenges the idea of a singular Europe. It moves beyond a narrow focus on integration to reveal the multiplicity all around us. Confronting binaries like East/West, it makes a compelling case that Europe is best understood in its many forms.
The European Debt Crisis
The global financial crisis led to a European sovereign debt crisis that threatens the future of the EU. This book provides answers from theoretical and empirical perspectives, exploring the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the ongoing crisis.
Bridging the Sino-American Divide
In this volume, nearly forty scholars based in China reflect on American Studies. Major themes include globalization, the transmission of ideas across cultural boundaries, and the state of Sino-American relations, offering a sample of the field in China today.
This book debates the changing notions of identity in Central and Eastern Europe influenced by EU integration. Researchers from Europe, the USA, and Asia analyze the breaking of national identity borders and the transition towards new transnational identities.
This book is an empirical investigation of the EU’s growing external challenges. Exploring security policy, military operations, and relations with powers like Russia and China, it argues for the need for the EU to develop innovative external action.
Explorations and Proposals toward Market Socialism and World Government
This book makes a compelling case for misunderstood concepts like market socialism, a Global Marshall Plan, and world government. Blending intellectual and personal history, it is a story of steadfast determination that will resonate with every person with an idealistic vision.
This book brings together diverse perspectives on the War of 1812, exploring its effects through religion, literature, the press, Native American experiences, and the forging of a new Canadian identity.
Karakoç and Ersoy bring together papers which examine how the post-Arab uprisings period, with its diverse issues and actors, challenges existing policies and national borders in the Middle East, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the ongoing social changes.
The Relationship between the Italian Leftist Parties and the Conflict in the Middle East
Through an historical, political, and ideological investigation, Seu explores the changes in the Italian leftist perception of Israel from being a symbol of the success of the labour movement to the personification of Western imperialism almost overnight.
Guardians or Oppressors
This book analyzes why militaries in the Middle East and Mediterranean seek a guardianship role and how they react to democratization. It provides a multi-faceted understanding of complex civil-military relations in one of the world’s most unstable regions.
Resilience Under Siege
This anthology explores the challenges and solutions experienced within Zimbabwe’s economic and social spheres, with particular reference to the “crisis years” (2000-2008) and the “promising turn” (2009-2012), analysing how individuals and institutions responded to the crisis.
Global Justice and Consecutive Constructivism
Chung suggests a new approach to the problem of global justice, providing a way of coping with procedural justice at the global level, while also alleviating the problem of structural injustice insofar as it exacerbates procedural injustice.
Challenging the assumption that politics is in crisis, this volume explores crises in political institutions, action, and theory. It is an engaging read for anyone interested in democratic deficit, political transformation, and systems of governance.
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