Palgrave Macmillan imprint: 14111 books
by C. Flood, S. Hutchings, G. Miazhevich
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, this book provides the first comparative account of how television broadcasting in different geo- and socio-political environments integrates discourses on Islam into nationally oriented, representational systems.
Institutional Change in Turkey
The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policing
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
How do state institutions reform themselves in the face of outside pressures? This study undertakes an in-depth analysis of the institutional and human rights reform process within the Turkish National Police, which faces pressure from the EU as part of Turkey's EU membership process, and examines the challenges and consequences of the process.
The Arab Spring
Will It Lead to Democratic Transitions?
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
This timely project on the Arab Spring was initiated to provide The Asan Institute's own assessment of the changes currently taking place in the region and their significant implications for South Korea.
Managing Muslim Mobilities
Between Spiritual Geographies and the Global Security Regime
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Fábos and Isotalo address the issue of forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. Their work explores the tensions between Muslim religious conceptions of space and place and new policies of 'migration management' and secure borders.
Religion and the State in Turkish Universities
The Headscarf Ban
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book explores educational and cultural experiences of 'part-time' unveilers during their undergraduate degree programs in public institutions in Turkey. The term 'part-time unveiler' refers to undergraduate female students who cover their hair in their private lives but who remove the headscarf while at a Turkish university.
The Chechen Struggle
Independence Won and Lost
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it continues. Features new insights, intimate portraits of key personalities and a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
by Jeremy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
The fall of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states in December 1991 was one of the most significant events of the twentieth century. In the last years of Soviet rule, images of mass protests on the streets of Moscow, Tbilisi and Vilnius, bloodshed in Baku, striking...
The Practice of Public Diplomacy
Confronting Challenges Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
The conduct of public diplomacy is carried out as much abroad, by Foreign Service Officers (FSOs) stationed at U.S. embassies, as it is in Washington. This book focuses on what FSOs do in actual practice in field operations.
Raúl Castro and Cuba
A Military Story
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
This book tells the story of the military life of Raúl Castro, an impressive military commander and highly original thinker who is also the longest-serving minister of defense of any country in recent times.
The Borderlands of South Sudan
Authority and Identity in Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state."
The Making of Contemporary Africa
The Development of African Society since 1800
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
This established text provides a refreshing account of the complex events in sub-Saharan Africa since 1800. Now fully revised and updated throughout, the third edition incorporates the latest scholarship and includes new chapters on Africa in the twenty-first century, and social history since independence.
The Moral Geographies of Children, Young People and Food
Beyond Jamie's School Dinners
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
This book takes Jamie Oliver's campaign for better school meals as a starting point for thinking about morally charged concerns relating to young people's nutrition, health and well-being, parenting, and public health 'crises' such as obesity. The authors show how these debates are always about the moral project of the self.
Technology, Culture, Family
Influences on Home Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
This book examines connections between personal, relational and material matters in everyday life in the context of broader and long standing social problems. It explores the connections between mundane practices in the reproduction of our bodies and our relations with those we live with, and the technological practices that inform daily life.
Political Extremism in Democracies
Combating Intolerance
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
When political 'extremists' - organized into parties that compete openly and successfully in democratic elections - enter the conventional institutional arena, how do mainstream actors react? This book deals with understanding how democracies respond to party-based extremism and with what consequences.