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Foreign Policy Analysis
Classic and Contemporary Theory Valerie M. Hudson & Benjamin S. Day The go-to text for understanding both the historical development and contemporary contours of foreign policy analysis. This comprehensive introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is geared toward advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Cogently written, clearly organized, and filled with illuminating examples, the fourth edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Beginning with an overview of this broad field of study, Hudson and Day consider theory and research at multiple levels of analysis, including personality and psychology of foreign policy decision makers, small UK May 2026 • US March 2026 384 Pages • 16 b/w illustrations; 6 tables HB 9798881807269 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9798881807276 • £34.99 / $47.95 ePDF 9798881867331 • £31.49 / $43.15 ePub 9798881807283 • £31.49 / $43.15 Bloomsbury Academic
group dynamics, the organizational process, bureaucratic politics, domestic politics, cultural and societal influences, national attributes, and system-level effects on foreign policy. The authors also examine the promise and frustration of theoretical integration in FPA and overview promising new work by non-North American scholars.
Unfinished Transformation
Domestic Politics and International Relations since the COVID-19 Pandemic Edited by Wonhyuk Lim The end of the Cold War, the acceleration of globalization, and 'the rise of the rest' posed serious challenges to the existing international order based on World War II settlements and Cold War modifications. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 provided an opportunity to address this problem, as evidenced by the emergence of the G20 at the leadership level, but this adjustment, reflecting a sea change in international economic and political realities, was by no means a smooth process. Domestically, in many advanced industrial countries, there was a populist/nativist backlash as increasing socioeconomic disparities and interaction with the outside world produced economic anxiety and status anxiety. Politicians who promised to take back control appealed to a large number of voters, using 'us vs. them' rhetoric to divert attention from socioeconomic inequality. Thus, even before the outbreak of COVID-19, the combination of international power shift and populist/nativist UK May 2025 • US May 2025 240 Pages • 11 b/w illustrations; 3 tables; HB 9780815740193 • £62.00 / $80.00 PB 9780815739890 • £25.00 / $29.95 ePDF 9780815741152 • £22.50 / $26.95 ePub 9780815739906 • £22.50 / $26.95 Brookings Institution Press
backlash made global cooperation a precarious proposition, even though the proliferation of global value chains, climate change, and infectious diseases made global cooperation more imperative than ever before. The pandemic has accelerated the pre-existing trends of increasing inequality at home and decreasing inequality among countries, especially U.S.-China competition. It is evident that these accelerating trends cannot lead to stable outcomes, as they exacerbate the risks of crisis and conflict if they continue. This book explores how domestic and international transformation can address these problems.
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Nuclear Responsibility
Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition Edited by Todd C. Robinson, Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell AFB & Stephanie A. Stapleton, Kennesaw State University What does it mean to be a responsible nuclear power in 2025? As strategic competition, and indeed great power competition, reemerged in the late 2010s and early 2020s, competing nuclear states increasingly employ the language of nuclear responsibility to label a strategic competitor as an irresponsible actor on the international stage. However, there remains a lack of consensus on what responsibilities nuclear-weapon states are assigned while other states and scholars argue that the possession of nuclear weapons can never be responsible. In Nuclear Responsibility: Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition, the editors Todd C. Robinson and Stephanie A. Stapleton have asked a broad range of nuclear scholars and policy practitioners to answer the question, “What is nuclear responsibility?” UK March 2026 • US March 2026 304 Pages • 11 tables and 3 figures PB 9798216388494 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666969955 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216258964 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978765214 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Olof Palme, Sweden, and the Vietnam War A Diplomatic History Lubna Z. Qureshi In 1972, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme’s fierce condemnation of the Christmas Bombings of the North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong led to a breakdown in diplomatic relations at the highest level between Sweden and the United States. The author argues that Sweden’s official position of neutrality allowed its Prime Minister greater independence of action on the international stage. Palme opposed the American military intervention in Southeast Asia for its violation of Vietnamese self-determination. Superpower aggression against one small country threatened all others, including Palme’s own. At the same time, the diplomatic freeze did not substantially damage Swedish-American relations. In spite of the tension with the Nixon White House, Stockholm and its embassy in Washington maintained excellent relations with Congress, with many ordinary Americans, and even with Nixon’s own State Department. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 308 Pages HB 9781793638441 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781793638465 • £22.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781978798601 • £20.69 / $35.95 ePub 9781793638458 • £20.69 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Margaret Bondfield
The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister Nan Sloane Rising from modest semi-rural, semi-industrial origins in the West Country, and years of apprenticeship in shops in Brighton, Bondfield became the first woman to chair the TUC, one of the first female Labour MPs, the first woman to hold government office (1924) and in 1929, the first female Cabinet Minister. Most of her life was lived in the public eye, but what lay behind her public achievements? In this remarkable book, historian Nan Sloane looks beyond the public façade to reveal Bondfield's hidden personal story, from her complicated personality with a difficult background, a private life which was either secret or non-existent, and a lifelong struggle with imposter syndrome. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 248 Pages HB 9781350513655 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePDF 9781350513679 • £18.00 / $24.30 ePub 9781350513662 • £18.00 / $24.30 Bloomsbury Academic
Drawing on newly uncovered archival material, including Bondfield's own diaries, this is a fresh and vitally needed reassessment of Margaret Bondfield’s influential life and contribution. A vital and timely biography that restores Bondfield to her rightful and prominent place in British political history.
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Campaign of Chaos
Trump, Biden, Harris, and the 2024 American Election Edited by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik & J. Miles Coleman Larry Sabato, one of the leading experts in American politics, brings together respected journalists and academics from across the political spectrum to examine every facet of the 2024 election, and what its development and outcome will mean for the nation moving forward. In frank, accessible prose, each author offers insight that goes beyond the headlines, and dives into the underlying forces and shifts that drove the election from its earliest developments to its dramatic conclusion. Following Sabato’s introductory analysis, the contributors provide a comprehensive review of everything in play during the 2024 elections, exploring the nominating processes, the unexpected handoff to Kamala Harris, conventions, and futures of UK August 2025 • US August 2025 272 Pages • 13 bw figures, 34 tables HB 9798765151365 • £60.00 / $80.00 PB 9798765151358 • £22.99 / $30.00 ePDF 9798765151334 • £20.69 / $27.00 ePub 9798765151341 • £20.69 / $27.00 Bloomsbury Academic
both the Democratic and Republican parties, and what recent geographic and demographic electoral realignments might mean for America’s politics beyond 2024.
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The Comeback
The 2024 Elections and American Politics Andrew E. Busch & John J. Pitney Jr. Continuing a tradition now in its fourth decade, this book provides the most comprehensive and authoritative account of the national election, as well as congressional and state elections. From the nominating process to the ratification of the electoral college vote, Andrew E. Busch and John J. Pitney Jr. revisit the campaigns and results through the short lens of politics today and the long lens of American political history. With its keen insights into the issues and events that drove the 2024 elections, The Comeback will be an invaluable resource for students and all political observers seeking to understand a historic election that will continue to resonate throughout American politics for many years to come.
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The Navajo Nation Political Experience David E. Wilkins, Wendy Greyeyes, Lloyd L. Lee & Tiffany S. Lee Tribal nations, like the Navajo nation, have proven to be remarkably adept at retaining and exercising ever-increasing amounts of self-determination even when faced with powerful external constraints and limited resources. Now in this fifth edition of The Navajo Nation Political Experience, the current Diné political developments of the last decade are analyzed thoroughly and accessibly against a historical backdrop. The Diné people and their leaders have recently experienced a host of events that dramatically affected the shape of the nation. David Wilkins and new co-authors Wendy Greyeyes, Lloyd Lee, and Tiffany Lee provide the only comprehensive analysis of Diné governance structures, leaders, and political participation.
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The New Politics of the Old South An Introduction to Southern Politics
Edited by Charles S. Bullock III & Mark J. Rozell Now in its eight edition, The New Politics of the Old South is the best and most comprehensive analysis and history of political behavior and shifting demographics in America’s southern states. Edited by leading scholars Charles S. Bullock III and Mark J. Rozell, this book has been updated through the 2024 elections to provide the most accurate and useful snapshot of the state of southern politics, and the ways in which they have developed over time. The southern electorate is a fascinating, dynamic body politic, and the study of its evolution is paramount to understanding the broader political developments occurring at a national level. While accessible to any interested reader, this edition illuminates the South’s essential and growing role in the study, and the story, of American politics. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 376 Pages • 33 bw illus HB 9798881806460 • £110.00 / $150.00 PB 9798881806477 • £34.99 / $47.95 ePDF 9798881867713 • £31.49 / $43.15 ePub 9798881806484 • £31.49 / $43.15 Bloomsbury Academic
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This new edition addresses the most recent round of statewide contests from the 2024 election—from gubernatorial, congressional, and state legislative races to the presidential race, especially significant in Georgia and North Carolina. A major theme in this eighth edition is the increasing population diversification, especially in the Growth States.
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A Concise History of U.S. Foreign Policy Joyce P. Kaufman Including new photos and expanded discussions on key issues, this updated edition offers a uniquely historical perspective of U.S. foreign policy and it's ever-changing evolution. In a fully updated Sixth Edition, this compact and accessible introduction offers a historical perspective on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy from the founding of the country to the present. Joyce P. Kaufman provides students with a clear and concise understanding of key foreign-policy decisions and why they were made. She identifies the major themes that have guided foreign policy and the reasons that the United States pursued certain policies in the context of specific periods in the nation’s history. Kaufman focuses on the major actors involved in the making of foreign policy and the changing relationships among them. She also explains the major theoretical perspectives within international relations and contextualizes key foreign policy decisions as they fit these frameworks. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 496 Pages • 5 b/w figures, 16 textboxes HB 9798881806439 • £70.00 / $95.00 PB 9798881806446 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798881867706 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9798881806453 • £26.09 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Presidential Leadership Politics and Policy Making
George C. Edwards III, Kenneth R. Mayer & Stephen J. Wayne Long established as a leading introduction to the American presidency, Presidential Leadership, Fourteenth Edition, provides students with a comprehensive survey that addresses the capacity of chief executives to fulfill their tasks, exercise their powers, and utilize their organizational structures to affect the output of government. The authors examine all aspects of the presidency in rich detail, including presidential powers, presidential history, and the institution of the presidency. Edwards, Mayer, and Wayne analyze the institution and the presidents who hold the office through the key lens of leadership. The authors explain the leadership dilemma presidents face and their institutional, political, and personal capacities to meet it. Two models of presidential leadership help students understand the institution: one in which a strong president dominates the political environment as a director of change, and another in which the president performs a more limited role as facilitator of change. Each model provides an insightful perspectives to better understand leadership in the modern presidency and to evaluate the performance of individual presidents. With no simple formula for presidential UK February 2026 • US February 2026 664 Pages • 57 b&w figures HB 9798216391562 • £150.00 / $200.00 PB 9798216391555 • £64.99 / $89.95 ePDF 9798216391593 • £58.49 / $80.95 ePub 9798216391586 • £58.49 / $80.95 Bloomsbury Academic
success, and no partisan perspective driving the analysis, the authors help us understand that presidents and citizens alike must understand the nature of presidential leadership in a pluralistic system in which separate institutions share powers. The fourteenth edition is fully updated through the start of Trump’s second administration, with recent policy developments, the 2024 elections, changes to the media environment, and the latest data. In addition, material from the prior edition’s chapter on domestic and economic policy has been incorporated into other chapters for an overall briefer text.
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I Yell Because I Care
The Passion and Politics of John Burton, California's Liberal Warrior John Burton & Andy Furillo Profane, irascible, and beloved, California political icon John Burton has stood for nearly 60 years as the state Democratic Party's beating heart and one of its leading voices for social justice. As an assemblyman, congressman, state senator, party chairman and street-fighting activist from San Francisco, Burton as a blue-collar liberal has been at the forefront of the mainstream Democratic movement in its battles on behalf of the poor, against a disastrous foreign war, and in favor of the environment and working people from even before he ran and won his first elected office in 1964.
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In this book, Burton shows how he fought and won on behalf of working people, the environment, people of color, the peace movement, and most of all, for the poor and underprivileged. Hard-nosed and acerbic, Burton still shared a common humanity with his political adversaries, most notably Ronald Reagan. Despite his battles with conservatives, he occasionally earned their votes to pass his own bills that created the first special education program for autistic children in California and reformed the state's confiscatory police asset-seizure practices. His life's record provides a template to bridge the polarization of the current political era that his torn the country apart.
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Migrant Midwest
The Case for Immigration and Economic Growth in the American Heartland Jonathan Burkham The American heartland is poised for a demographic decline with very real consequences. Migrant Midwest tracks the history of population growth and its projected decline in the Midwest to highlight the need for increased international migration to the region. Burkham first illustrates how the forces of fertility and migration drove the development of the region’s agricultural and industrial economies, and how the region has more recently struggled with deindustrialization, outmigration, and declining fertility, a global trend. The Midwest is now the slowest-growing region in the country and has the lowest share of immigrants, contributing to stagnation at the national level. Burkham goes on to evaluate the impact of demographic decline on the regional labor market and its fiscal implications for cities, states, and the nation. His thoughtful analysis highlights global trends in fertility decline and raises doubts about the prospect of significantly boosting fertility in UK February 2026 • US February 2026 184 Pages • 7 b&w figures HB 9798216276098 • £30.00 / $36.00 ePDF 9798216276111 • £27.00 / $32.40 ePub 9798216276104 • £27.00 / $32.40 Bloomsbury Academic
modern society. This timely book proposes a bipartisan model of immigration reform designed to replenish the region’s workforce and population, stabilizing communities and fueling a manufacturing renaissance.
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Overcoming Trumpism
How to Save American Democracy Larry N. Gerston, San Jose State University, USA Defining Trumpism as an ideology that preceded Trump's election and will outlast his political career, this book explores solutions to problems that have long plagued contemporary American democracy. Larry N. Gerston identifies deep-rooted pain points in U.S. governance that gave rise to and were exacerbated by Trumpism —bigotry, discrimination, voter disenfranchisement, and corruption—as well as key areas of government and society that Trumpism endangers—political institutions, civic culture and community, law and order, and public education.
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Overcoming Trumpism offers a combination of solutions to preserve American democracy: repairing its battered institutions, assuring a free and responsible press, and restoring public participation in democratic society. Democracies are much more likely to disappear from imposition than war. As such, an invested and attentive public will be necessary to overcome Trumpism.
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The Folkways of Congress
Legislative Norms in an Era of Conflict Edited by Brian Alexander How are congressional norms changing, and what does their evolution mean for how Congress serves American democracy today? Political scientists have long looked to the role of traditional norms to signal a general attitude among lawmakers that cooperation is part of their identities as members of Congress. But in this age of heightened political and partisan conflict, many “folkways” such as courtesy and reciprocity seem to be eroding, while other new norms are emerging. This volume brings together leading congressional scholars to examine how norms have changed, what new norms are most prevalent in the modern Congress, and what effects norms have on the functioning of Congress in an era rife with political conflict. These essays address critical questions about how the U.S. Congress functions to serve American UK February 2026 • US February 2026 424 Pages HB 9780815740919 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9780815740926 • £24.99 / $34.95 ePDF 9780815741084 • £22.49 / $31.45 ePub 9780815740933 • £22.49 / $31.45 Brookings Institution Press
democracy and whether the functioning of Congress in the Twenty-first century is fundamentally different today from how the framers of the Constitution imagined it.
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Modern Political Campaigns
How Professionalism, Technology, and Speed Have Revolutionized Elections Michael D. Cohen Dr. Michael D. Cohen, a 30+ year veteran of working on, teaching, and writing about political campaigns shows readers how campaigns are organized, explains state-of-the-art tools of the trade, and reveals how some of the most interesting people in politics got their big breaks. He combines academic insights and practical advice that will be of interest to practitioners and students considering careers in politics, and people interested in how elections are won. The second edition, updated to include a new chapter on how campaigns are using artificial intelligence and what that means for democracy, has been completely revised throughout to provide readers with an up-to-date understanding of how candidates succeed.
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Real Regulatory Reform
The Need for Regular Order Today Daniel V. Flanagan Jr. The author, through his unique experience and recognition as a master coalition builder in the policy sphere, can attest to the many virtues of congressional regular order. The twelve chapters of this book provide examples and context for a number of major economic regulatory reform initiatives that Dan Flanagan was closely linked, and were seriously considered, with many passed by Congress within the regular order tradition of that 1970–2000 era. Dan Flanagan observed committee hearings, markups, and bills reported from committee on a bi-partisan, regular order basis, and recounts and editorializes them within his writing. For quality congressional legislation, important regulatory issues benefit from bipartisan legislation via regular order in the relevant congressional committees, otherwise partisan UK February 2026 • US February 2026 328 Pages HB 9780761892076 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9780761874812 • £23.99 / $32.95 ePDF 9780761880394 • £21.59 / $29.65 ePub 9780761879152 • £21.59 / $29.65 Hamilton Books
rulemaking takes over, thus underscoring the lackluster performance of Congress these last twenty years. Rarely unanimous, the committee process was polite, informative, and positive during this period. The members were articulate, quite knowledgeable, and deferential to their colleagues. It would be nearly impossible today for Congress to pass the major regulatory reform measures that Flanagan describes in this book, without regular order reestablished and implemented.
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Campaigns Inc.
Leone Baxter, Clem Whitaker, and the Invention of Political Consulting Cayce Myers Set against the changing and turbulent politics of California from the 1930s through the 1950s, Campaigns Inc.: Leone Baxter, Clem Whitaker, and the Invention of Political Consulting examines the life and work of Leone Baxter and her husband Clem Whitaker. During this era, Baxter and Whitaker invented and refined the field of campaign consulting, a form of public relations practice that manages reputation, image, and communication during a political campaign. This book details their work and the development of their successful political consulting firm Campaigns Inc. They worked for mainly conservative and Republican clients, and it was through this work that Campaigns Inc. set the standard for how campaigns would be structured and run through the next century. The book begins with an overview of Baxter and Whitaker's core philosophy of communication, campaigns, and politics. Cayce Myers details their early work in California's Women in American Political History UK June 2025 • US June 2025 272 Pages PB 9781666905618 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666905595 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765154625 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666905601 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Central Valley and their first big campaign against Democratic nominee Upton Sinclair who ran for California Governor in 1934. The book then examines Baxter and Whitaker's campaign for the successful 1942 Gubernatorial candidacy of Earl Warren. The Warren campaign served as a template for building a campaign around a candidate and not a party. Following that election, Baxter and Whitaker's work transformed to focus on defeating compulsory health insurance reforms. They successfully defeated healthcare reform initiatives by California Governor Earl Warren and later President Harry Truman by shaping public sentiment against the specter of "socialized medicine."
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Democracy on the Line
The Turbulent 2024 Presidential Election Edited by Benjamin R. Warner, University of Missouri, USA, Dianne G. Bystrom, Iowa State University, USA, Mitchell S. McKinney, University of Missouri, USA & Mary C. Banwart, University of Kansas, USA Leading scholars of political communication analyze the most defining and groundbreaking moments of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. With cutting-edge work on the ubiquitous presidency, a new theory of racial socialization, trailblazing theorizing on neurodiversity in political media coverage, and new conceptualizations of masculinity, this volume covers the key events and messages that defined 2024's polarizing election cycle. Chapters include analysis of some of the most significant presidential debates in the history of the United States; the replacement of Joe Biden with Kamala Harris on the Democratic UK June 2026 • US June 2026 304 Pages PB 9798765144978 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765144930 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765144947 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765144954 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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presidential ticket; the memes that Harris’s surprise candidacy launched; the battle on the airwaves for message supremacy; broader discourses around threats to democracy, reproductive rights, and immigrants; and cultural conversations about race, gender, and sexuality. The book will include quantitative, qualitative, and rhetorical scholarship to provide a full picture of campaign communication that engages every corner of the field. The result is an essential collection for anyone seeking to understand modern campaign communication or anyone wishing to keep a permanent record of this historic election.
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The United States Government Manual 2025 Edited by National Archives and Records Administration For over eight decades, The United States Government Manual has been known as the official handbook of the federal government. This annual resource provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, boards, commissions, and committees. The Manual begins with reprints of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Each agency's description consists of a list of principal officials heading major operating units; a summary statement of the agency's purpose and role in the federal government; a brief history of the agency, including its legislative or executive authority; and a description of consumer activities, contracts and grants, employment, and publications. The United States Government Manual is published as a special edition of the Federal Register. Its focus is on programs and United States Government Manual
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Congressional Directory, 2025–2026, 119th Congress Joint Committee on Printing The official Congressional Directory, published by the United States Congress, is the official source for making the right connections to members of Congress, their key staff, and important contacts throughout the federal government. This authoritative and comprehensive reference source, designed for quick, easy access, is organized alphabetically by state congressional districts, committee, and federal agency. Political science graduate and undergraduate students, staff in think tanks, lobbying firms, businesses with congressional or lobbying personnel, general contractors working with the federal government, the general public, and the library market will find this Congressional Directory a key title in their reference collection. UK June 2026 • US April 2026 1258 Pages HB 9798892050784 • £50.00 / $68.00 PB 9798892050777 • £15.99 / $37.95 ePDF 9798765165300 • £14.39 / $34.15 ePub 9798765162606 • £14.39 / $34.15 Bloomsbury Academic
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The United States Government Internet Directory 2026 The United States Government Internet Directory serves as a guide to the changing landscape of government information online. The Directory is an indispensable guidebook for anyone who is looking for official U.S. government resources on the Web. The U.S. government's online information is massive and can be difficult to locate. The United States Government Internet Directory navigates the maze of data and locates the materials that you seek. The subject-based approach of this book allows you to browse for relevant sites in your field of interest rather than sift through hundreds of search results or try to guess which federal agency to consult.
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The Art of Diplomacy
How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World Stuart E. Eizenstat Now with a substantive afterword covering the start of the second Trump administration! A riveting retelling of diplomatic history with praise from Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Bertie Ahern (Ireland), Tony Blair (UK), Ehud Olmert (Israel), and more. Inside the greatest diplomatic negotiations of the past 50 years. Diplomat and negotiator Stuart E. Eizenstat covers every major international agreement, from the treaty to end the Vietnam War to the Kyoto Protocols and the Iranian Nuclear Accord. Eizenstat recounts the events that led up to the negotiation, the drama that took place around the table, and draws lessons from successful and unsuccessful strategies and tactics. Based on interviews with over 60 key figures in American UK February 2026 • US February 2026 552 Pages • 28 BW Photos HB 9781538167991 • £30.00 / $35.00 PB 9798216277651 • £14.99 / $21.95 ePDF 9798216332794 • £13.49 / $19.75 ePub 9781538168004 • £13.49 / $19.75 Rowman & Littlefield
diplomacy, including former presidents and secretaries of state, and major political figures abroad, Eizenstat provides an intimate view of diplomacy as today’s history. This book is an indispensable volume to understand American foreign policy and provide insights on the art of negotiation for anyone involved in government or business negotiations.
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The Unraveling
Reflections on Politics without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis Bob Bauer Now with a new foreword by Harvard Law Professor and former Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith, and with a new concluding chapter from the author on the unprecedented ethical challenges in the first year of Trump 2.0. Part memoir, part rumination on the declining moral compass of the American political class, The Unraveling is the first book to place restoring political ethics at the center of the renewal of American democracy. Politics is a brutal game, but Bauer asks where does the line fall between the “hardball” of politics and attacks on the very foundation of democracy? Looking back on 46 years in the political arena, Bauer tries to better grasp what has gone wrong and to understand what shaped his UK February 2026 • US February 2026 304 Pages • 10 BW Photos HB 9781538191842 • £19.99 / $26.00 PB 9798216367918 • £12.99 / $17.95 ePDF 9798216389996 • £11.69 / $16.15 ePub 9781538191859 • £11.69 / $16.15 Rowman & Littlefield
own decisions and actions. He offers anecdotes, perspectives, and insights that are vitally relevant in our world today, including efforts in 2020 (and 2024) to defend our democratic system of elections from attack and distrust, and the struggles with social media, such as Meta, to combat disinformation in a post-truth politics. The expanded paperback edition includes a new concluding chapter highlighting the ethical failures of public institutions under the the second Trump administration— law firms, universities, and the media, as well as the Trump administration itself—and the imperative to do better in order to preserve the consent of the governed in American democracy.
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Today's Civil Rights and Liberties Issues Democrats and Republicans
Kara E. Stooksbury, Carson-Newman University, USA This indispensable, one-stop resource examines where Democrats and Republicans stand on current civil rights and liberties issues related to voting, free speech, abortion and reproductive rights, guns, and other hot button topics. Both the Democratic and Republican parties claim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart, and they are equally adamant that they have the best policy solutions to address the nation's problems and challenges. Each volume in the Across the Aisle reference series examines the stated policy positions and actual voting/legislative records of the two parties (they are not always the same) on important areas of public policy, both historically and in the present day. Across the Aisle
This volume sorts through the rhetorical clutter and partisan distortions that typify so many disputes between Republicans
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Contemporary Mexican Politics Emily Edmonds-Poli & David A. Shirk This widely acclaimed book provides a comprehensive analysis of Mexico’s current, complex political landscape, up to the López Obrador administration and Claudia Sheinbaum’s 2024 election. Leading experts Emily Edmonds-Poli and David A. Shirk offer highly accessible coverage of Mexico’s political development over the course of the twentieth century and an insightful examination of some of the most important policy issues facing Mexico in the twenty-first century. The first half of the book provides an overview of Mexican history and political development, from the pre-Columbian era to the present. The second half of the book analyzes the structure of Mexican governance and key policy issues currently facing Mexican society, including macroeconomic growth and stability, poverty and inequality, the development of civil UK May 2026 • US May 2026 376 Pages • 5 bw illustration, 23 bw line art, society, drug trafficking, the rule of law, and foreign relations. 12 tables HB 9798881803131 • £110.00 / $150.00 PB 9798881803148 • £34.99 / $47.95 ePDF 9798881862336 • £31.49 / $43.15 ePub 9798881803155 • £31.49 / $43.15 Bloomsbury Academic
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The U.S.-Mexico Border A Reference Handbook
Michael C. LeMay, California State University-San Bernardino, USA This book offers answers to essential questions about the border between the United States and Mexico and connected issues that are accessible to readers interested in immigration, border security, and international relations. Readers will learn about the political, social, and economic contexts in which the border came to exist; the problems, controversies, and proposed solutions surrounding it; the major organizations and people who, as stakeholders in border politics, drive the agenda on the issue. The book presents data and documents on the topic, giving readers the ability to analyze the facts for themselves. Contemporary World Issues
Additional resources that the reader may wish to consult, such as books, journal articles, and films are provided. A detailed
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chronology of important events follows, and the book closes with a useful glossary and a comprehensive subject index.
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Sustainable Coffee in Costa Rica
Solutions for People, Economic Development, and Biodiversity Andrew P. Miller, Wilkes University & Jeffrey A. Stratford, Wilkes University The book examines the intersection of politics, economic development, and environmental sustainability of the coffee industry in Costa Rica. Ecological impacts of coffee production are analyzed through the lens of mitigating damage to the region's biodiversity. Sustainable Coffee in Costa Rica: Solutions for People, Economic Development, and Biodiversity analyzes the intersection of politics, economic development, and environmental sustainability in coffee production. Coffee has long been central to understanding Costa Rican politics and society. From the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, coffee was the most important economic engine for the country and coffee growers held a great deal of political power. Beginning with the UK August 2025 • US August 2025 144 Pages • 3 tables PB 9798765189870 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666912791 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765155059 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666912807 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
historical and socio-economic importance of coffee in Costa Rica as well as the broader region, this book argues that longterm economic success for the Costa Rican coffee industry is enhanced and catalyzed by economic, social, political, and especially ecological sustainability. This book also explores the ecological effects of coffee growing, from creating plantations to the disposal of waste products, to examine how these effects can be mitigated to lessen the impact on the region's incredible biodiversity.
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State Lethality, Organized Crime, and Criminal Governance as a Political Agenda in Latin America Edited by Luiz D. Vazquez, Autonomous University of Mexico, Marcial A. Garcia Suarez & Marília Carolina B. de Souza, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Franca This edited collection proposes a cross-cutting discussion on the connection between three main focuses, namely, the State, Criminal Organizations, and Criminal Governance understood as an effect often seen in Latin America through the approach between the State and its public security agencies and the non-state violent actors. State Lethality, Organized Crime, and Criminal Governance as a Political Agenda in Latin America provides the public with an updated reading of the issue of criminal violence in Latin America from a comparative perspective, exploring both the actions of non-state violent actors and, primarily, state actions as promoters, regulators, and sometimes partners of criminal UK June 2026 • US June 2026 256 Pages • 25 tables PB 9781666956405 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666956382 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216201502 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978760295 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
actors at various levels and sectors of society and the State itself. This book presents eight chapters that aim to directly and carefully showcase distinct political, social, economic, and security scenarios in Latin America, where emblematic cases for the region are analyzed comparatively.
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Memories and Social Struggles in Contemporary Bolivia Platforms in Convulsive Times
Sue A. S. Iamamoto, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil) Through investigation of three case studies in Bolivia, this book offers an innovative perspective to explain the role of collective memories in moments of intense social struggle and political change. Memories and Social Struggles in Contemporary Bolivia: Platforms in Convulsive Times examines social memories as functioning, powerful platforms that structure the experience of activists in convulsive times. The first case analyses how the inhabitants of the province of Omasuyos mobilized the memory of the anti-colonial rebellion of Tupac Katari and Bartolina Sisa during the so-called ‘Gas War’ in 2003. The second case concentrates on how activists in El Alto recalled the War of the Pacific to make sense of the same conflict. Thirdly, this book explores the civic strike in Potosí in 2010 and its relation to Social Movements in the Americas
the memory of the rise and fall of the Imperial City of Potosí. Sue A. S. Iamamoto argues these memories and narratives
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have often experienced a path-dependent continuous remembrance through history which is both constitutive and instrumental for the activists claiming it.
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Changing Presidential Approval through Democratization in Mexico The Different Effects of Corruption Before and After the 2000 Transition Ricardo R. Gómez-Vilchis This book analyzes the trends of democratic transition in Mexico in relationship to presidential approval and argues that democratization alters approval in this form: after a democratic transition, corruption's effect on support for the president becomes stronger. During the process of democratic transition, corruption matters a lot for presidential approval because a negative performance of dealing with corruption leads to unpopularity. The temptation for an authoritarian return can eventually emerge in the political arena. Changing Presidential Approval through Democratization in Mexico examines approval at the individual, aggregate, and hierarchical levels by using extensive data. This book includes survey data with samples between UK September 2025 • US September 2025 216 Pages • 18 b&w diagrams and 32 Tables PB 9781666978490 • £28.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666978476 • £90.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216197614 • £81.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978768079 • £81.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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1,000 and 3,000 respondents, which are representative at the national level. The analysis employs sixty-nine surveys from 1990 to 2018, more than 97,300 observations and includes a database of corruption provided by the Ministry of the Public Function in Mexico with 633,500 state complaints against government employees. The quality of the data allows the author to offer reliable and valid analysis with the focus on presidential approval, democratization and corruption.
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The Government and Politics of the European Union Neill Nugent, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK & Ariadna Ripoll Servent The definitive textbook on EU politics and governance, now in its 9th edition, has been thoroughly updated to take into account the ongoing developments and evolution of the EU. Major changes, recent developments, and the crises that have befallen the union in recent times are analysed within this context. By detailing the evolution of European integration, Nugent and Ripoll Servent give the necessary historical context to their exhaustive analysis of policies, process, institutions and treaties. In this revised edition, this has grown to include new chapters that detail both diverse theoretical perspectives and inter-institutional relations. In doing so, this book enables students with no prior knowledge of the EU to truly master the subject. With a new structure to increase readability, a broad range of pedagogical features - document excerpts, case studies, maps figures - and a fully developed companion website with resources for both students and lecturers, this text remains an essential for students new to EU studies.
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Understanding the European Council Desmond Dinan & Ralf Drachenberg This book examines the political dynamics and complexities of the European Council at a time of seemingly chronic crisis and rapid political change. Providing insight into the everyday workings of this critically important EU institution, it covers: why the European Council matters; its roles and responsibilities; its impact on the EU over time, including in response to the Russian War and the COVID-19 pandemic; and the role that the European Council might play in the EU’s uncertain future. Including pedagogical features such as boxes, tables and graphics to help study and revision, the book also covers underresearched areas such as: - The relationship and rivalry of the European Council President and the European Commission President - The role of European political parties in summits and debates The European Union Series UK May 2026 • US July 2026 472 Pages HB 9781350514041 • £110.00 / $150.00 PB 9781350514058 • £34.99 / $47.95 ePDF 9781350514027 • £31.49 / $43.15 ePub 9781350514034 • £31.49 / $43.15 Bloomsbury Academic
- Communication around the European council, including the use of social media, doorstops, and press briefings - The background of members of the European Council - How national coalition government affects leaders’ participation in the European Council - The involvement of the European Council in the EU policy cycle - The changing nature and political significance of European Council meetings and conclusions
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European Union Politics John McCormick, Indiana University, USA Reflecting the numerous recent shocks and challenges to the global system and to the EU’s place in that system, McCormick’s European Union Politics cuts through the myths and misunderstandings about EU politics. It explains the origins of the EU, the way in which its key institutions work, and its impact on policies as diverse as the economy, education, climate change, and the defence of Europe from new threats. This new edition covers critical recent developments, including the 2024 European Parliament elections, leadership changes within the European Commission and the European Council, the rise of right-wing political parties, developments in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the dramatic aftermath of the 2024 US presidential election. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 544 Pages HB 9781350517196 • £120.00 / $160.00 PB 9781350517202 • £37.99 / $51.95 ePDF 9781350517219 • £34.19 / $46.75 ePub 9781350517226 • £34.19 / $46.75 Bloomsbury Academic
Striking a balance between theoretical insights and practical content, the book ties the work of the EU to real-world events. With illustrations, maps, figures and tables, this text is ideal for those studying EU politics and policies, and a valuable resource for anyone wishing to deepen their knowledge of this critical actor in European and global affairs.
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Russian Foreign Policy Eric Shiraev, George Mason University, Fairfax, USA Authored by a leading scholar, this new edition of Russian Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive and updated exploration of Russian policy in the 21st century. Integrating both domestic and international perspectives, the text explores the historical development, key institutions and actors that shape Russia’s global influence. With fully revised content, including in-depth analysis of the Russia-Ukraine War and Russia-China relations, the book offers a thorough investigation of the principles and strategies driving Russia's actions on the global stage. Alongside this, the text introduces new theoretical frameworks and addresses emerging trends in international relations, such as cybersecurity, UK April 2026 • US April 2026 312 Pages HB 9781350531888 • £120.00 / $160.00 PB 9781350531871 • £36.99 / $49.95 ePDF 9781350531895 • £33.29 / $44.95 ePub 9781350531901 • £33.29 / $44.95 Bloomsbury Academic
hybrid warfare, and the transformative impact of technology on diplomacy. With the addition of case studies and online resources—including supplementary readings, quizzes, discussion prompts, and video lectures—this text is designed to guide students of Russian foreign policy and those taking broader comparative foreign policy courses. Russian Foreign Policy remains a crucial resource for anyone seeking to understand the complexities of Russia's dynamic foreign policy landscape.
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Russia's Foreign Policy Change and Continuity Andrei P. Tsygankov This clear and comprehensive text explores the past thirty years of Soviet/Russian international relations, comparing foreign policy formation under Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Medvedev, and Putin. Challenging conventional views of Moscow’s foreign policy, Andrei Tsygankov shows that definitions of national interest depend on visions of national identity and is rooted both in history and domestic politics. Yet the author also highlights the role of the external environment in affecting the balance of power among competing domestic groups. Drawing on both Russian and Western sources, Tsygankov shows how Moscow’s policies have shifted under different leaders’ visions of Russia’s national interests. He gives an overview of the ideas and pressures that motivated Russian foreign policy in six different periods: the Gorbachev era of the late 1980s, the liberal “Westernizers” era under Kozyrev in the early 1990s, the relatively hardline statist policy under Primakov, the more UK June 2025 • US June 2025 328 Pages • 37 tables HB 9798881808600 • £77.00 / $100.00 PB 9798881808617 • £30.00 / $37.00 ePDF 9798765154847 • £27.00 / $33.30 ePub 9798881808624 • £27.00 / $33.30 Bloomsbury Academic
pragmatic course of limited cooperation under Putin and then Medvedev, and the assertive policy Putin has implemented since his return to power, most importantly in his invasion of Ukraine which began in 2022.
Failure. Russia Under Putin Edited by Harley D. Balzer & Steven A. Fisher Examines the significant failures Russia has faced under Vladimir Putin’s leadership and presents an important counterpoint to a broad range of studies emphasizing Russia’s resurrection, status as a persistent power, or successful military reform. Despite Putin’s claims of restoring Russia’s rightful place in the world, reviving the economic and industrial capacity destroyed in the 1990s, and improving living standards, data show that the gains from the oil price bonanza of 2000-2008 have long since vanished. The success Putin has achieved in centralizing power and repressing opposition now prevents any effective changes to address Russia’s long-term decline. Failures include the inability to diversify the economy, reduce corruption, reverse demographic and educational decline, alleviate poverty, or address social inequalities. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 496 Pages HB 9780815740827 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9780815740834 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9780815741077 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9780815740841 • £19.79 / $26.95 Brookings Institution Press
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This edited volume examines how Putin’s policy choices have led to Russia’s inexorable decline on the global stage. Depicting Russia’s inability under Vladimir Putin’s rule to improve critical spheres of its national life, aggravated by military belligerence and adventurism abroad, chapters detail how Putin's policies have severely limited Russia's development and institutional stability, leaving the country without a clear leadership transition mechanism or capacity to abandon flawed policies.
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On Top of the City
Youth Culture and Urban Resistance on the Rooftops of St Petersburg Abigail Karas St Petersburg - known for its horizontal skyline, with buildings of low and corresponding height, punctuated with the gold domes and spires that, along with its rivers and canals, have become iconic features of the city. Drawing on original, on-the-ground research, On Top of the City shines a unique spotlight on the hidden youth communities of St Petersburg, Russia, where space and power collide and co-exist. Focusing on urban exploration, Abigail Karas demonstrates how the city’s panoramas - especially its rooftops - contribute to the city’s fascinating underground culture and the formation of a local St Petersburg identity where young people turn the rooftops into safe spaces, where they can resist the encroaching political repression of Putin’s Russia. Arguing that young Petersburgers’ skyline trespassing is a way for them to reclaim their rights - over themselves and the UK June 2026 • US June 2026 320 Pages PB 9781350512894 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350512856 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350512870 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350512887 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
city - On Top of the City invites readers to look upwards, at what these young communities create, as well as downwards, to the social and political control they are trying to escape.
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International Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space
Former Soviet Republics and Theories of International Politics Farhad Huseynov, Baku State University The book examines relations between the post-Soviet countries to detect opportunities and limitations of cooperation between them. Existing bilateral and multilateral cooperation are analyzed against the background of security issues. International Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space: Former Soviet Republics and Theories of International Politics defines models of international cooperation through application of the main theories of international politics. It is often claimed that complex regional relations are subject to transformation due to constantly changing geopolitical environment. Aggressive policies under such conditions cannot contribute to regional stability and cooperation. From this position, Farhad Huseynov asserts the incorrectness of the main postulate of offensive realism, that security can be achieved through domination and regional hegemony. In the region domination had provoked counterbalancing behavior and aggression met resistance thereby worsening the situation. This book argues that the security, which is vital for cooperation to take place, has been UK October 2025 • US October 2025 176 Pages PB 9781666935530 • £26.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666935516 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765154472 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666935523 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
attained when the regional states maintain moderate and reserved policies according to defensive realist approach.
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Russia’s Arctic
Climate Change, Domestic Policy, and Geopolitics Marlene Laruelle, The George Washington University, USA & Jean Radvanyi, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations, France This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia’s Arctic policies since the 2022 war with Ukraine began. It reflects on how, with more than half of the circumpolar territories, Russia’s Arctic regions generate between 10 and 15% of Russia's GDP and a quarter of its exports, with the yet-to-be-explored reserves of the Arctic continental shelf also offering immense potential. Russia’s Arctic analyses the growth of hydrocarbon deposits in the far north of Siberia and nearby offshore areas and how this has contributed to the rapid development of the Northern Sea Route. Marlene Laruelle and Jean Radvanyi examine the Russian Shorts
long-term importance of the region for Russia, regardless of internal political developments and the state of relations with the
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West. Long a place for science diplomacy and transborder dialogue, the region has once again become a hotspot for geostrategic tensions and a new interface between an expanded NATO and Russia. While the West is imposing increasingly broad sanctions specifically targeting Arctic hydrocarbon development projects, the Russian government is striving to circumvent or mitigate their effects with countermeasures by relying on their allies, most of whom are Asian.
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The Age of Change
How Urban Youth Are Transforming African Politics Michelle D. Gavin Africa is in the midst of a historically unprecedented demographic surge that has skewed the median age in most countries to below twenty years old. This demographic moment coincides with three factors likely to amplify the political agendas of African youth: rapid urbanization, dramatically increased digital connectivity, and increasing recognition that old political narratives are no longer fit for purpose. Michelle D. Gavin argues that these clear trends will result in an increase in political volatility. Anti-government movements will continue to find new expression, incumbents will be more vulnerable, honeymoon periods for new leaders will be shorter, and transfers of power and leadership will be more frequent. Citizens frustrated by the status quo will show more willingness UK September 2025 • US September 2025 192 Pages • 10 BW Photos HB 9781538194584 • £25.00 / $32.00 ePDF 9798765152416 • £22.50 / $28.80 ePub 9781538194591 • £22.50 / $28.80 Bloomsbury Academic
to experiment with different forms of government and different external partnerships, all with significant implications for those hoping for a global democratic resurgence. This book explores growing dissatisfaction and desire for change as the political through line emerging on a diverse continent.
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Current Issues in Northern Africa Edited by Arda Özkan, Pinar Yürür & Levent Kirval Conflict areas and thematic issues of different states of North African are studied in this book. All chapters deal with a wide range of intra-state and inter-state issues. Some of the chapters focus on the domestic problems related to consociationalism in different states whereas some of them shed light on minority problems and territorial conflicts or maritime disputes within and between regional states. The scope of the book is comprehensive that many issue areas are being examined in different chapters. In addition, while focusing on the different perspectives of international relations (IR), current problems are evaluated in the axis of both classic and post-modern security theories. Particularly, the chapters on different countries of the region will be an important contribution to the existing academic works and broad analyses about the region will be beneficial to the reader. Also, the political relations of the North African countries with the European, Middle Eastern and Asian countries will be analysed in the book and this will be another important benefit of the book to IR UK May 2030 • US May 2026 304 Pages PB 9781666975109 • £17.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666975086 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9781666975093 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978770782 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Contemporary China Kerry Brown, Lau China Institute, King's College London, UK The fourth edition of this concise textbook offers students a comprehensive introduction to the politics, economy, culture and society of modern China, while grounding all of these areas in the context of China’s recent history in the 19th and 20th centuries. Fully up to date, this accessible text examines key developments that are shaping China's place in the world today, including the Xi Jinping era, a complete update on the position of Hong Kong, international relations with the US and Latin America, and Chinese outward investment and financial internationalisation. Authored by a highly-regarded expert on the topic, the book is an ideal introductory text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on China studies and contemporary China, regardless of whether students approach the topic from a political, historical, sociological, cultural or geographical viewpoint. It can also be used on modules focussing more specifically on
Contemporary States and Societies Chinese politics, Chinese history or Chinese society. UK March 2026 • US March 2026 256 Pages HB 9781350518414 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9781350518407 • £29.99 / $40.95 ePDF 9781350518421 • £26.99 / $36.85 ePub 9781350518438 • £26.99 / $36.85 Bloomsbury Academic
New to this edition: - Coverage of the pandemic and recent protests - A brand new chapter on China's environmental challenges - Attention to the management of Xinjiang - Full updates on the impact of the Russia–Ukraine war and the conflict in the Middle East
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Tsai Ing-wen and Taiwan
An Assessment of the First Administration, 2016-2020 Edited by Sabella Ogbobode Abidde Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan: An Assessment of the First Administration, 2016-2020 critically examines the public policy and presidency of Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, who first came into office in 2016 and completed a second term in 2024. Enough time has passed since the end of Tsai’s first term in office for scholars, commentators, and observers to have a clear view and understanding of her presidency. Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan analytically appraises her first term in office vis-a-vis her economic, social, and political agenda and policies and, ultimately, the implications of those agendas and policies on the national interest of Taiwan and its 24 million citizens. The book answers the many questions concerning whether the president kept the promises she made during the campaign, whether she was able to overcome the challenges her administration faced. Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan also looks at her government’s ability to balance the hostilities emanating UK April 2026 • US March 2026 288 Pages • 18 figures and 16 tables PB 9781666979244 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666979220 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216265580 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978762343 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
from the other side of the Taiwan-Strait (China) and the demands and ambiguities of US foreign policy. Finally it assesses whether her administration was in tune with the changing undercurrents of an increasingly shifting society, and if her government’s policies resulted in the better economic outlook of the average Taiwanese.
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China in the World Bank, IMF, and WIPO
Understanding Trends in Global Governance Behavior James Frick Previously one of the least connected states in the world, China is taking on a considerable role as a leading global power. It has participated and benefited from international organizations (IOs) while also influencing their institutional behavior, but it has also demonstrated limited compliance at times. China’s behavior has shifted from following the rules to a desire to make and set the rules. China in the World Bank, IMF, and WIPO: Understanding Trends in Global Governance Behavior explores 40 years of China’s participation within these organizations, drawing on in-depth interviews and analysis of annual reports, meeting minutes, consultations, and transcripts obtained from archived records to argue how China views its behavior can achieve its desired interests. James Frick paints a detailed picture to illustrate that in the context of relative shifts in power, variation in China’s IO behaviors is predicated by the extent to which IOs conform to China’s national interests. This rational UK August 2025 • US August 2025 264 Pages • 5 tables, 24 figures PB 9781666963397 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666963373 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765154304 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666963380 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
behavior approach (RBA) outlines four strategies: rule-taking, rule-breaking, rule-changing, and rulemaking. As China’s relative power increases over time, so does its bargaining power, leading to a more assertive rule-changing behavior as it attempts to adapt the organization to allow its ascendancy as a rule-maker.
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North Korea and South Korea
Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula Qingming Huang, Institute for International Affairs, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen The autocratic regimes in both North Korea and South Korea attempted to legitimize their rule through efforts in nationbuilding but achieved different results. North Korea and South Korea: Monopolizing Nationalism in a Divided Peninsula seeks to answer: How did these regimes’ nation-building strategies through a variety of tools and venues differ in the process of regime development? How was nationalism utilized to construct a regime-legitimizing founding myth? What implications did these varied efforts have on authoritarian legitimacy and state-society relations under authoritarian rule? Focusing on the period from the end of the Second World War and the start of the Korean War to South Korea’s democratic transitions in the 1980s and North Korea’s crises in the 1990s, Qingming Huang examines the authoritarian regimes’ efforts in monopolizing the narratives of nationalism and constructing the founding myths of the regimes through textbooks and Bloomsbury Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations UK February 2026 • US February 2026 184 Pages • PB 9798216391975 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666962680 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798216258902 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781978765177 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
other myth-making venues. Huang argues that the North Korean regime’s monopoly of nationalism helped it construct the founding myth of the party-state as an essential source of regime legitimacy. In contrast, the autocratic regimes in South Korea failed to eliminate the competing narratives about the nation and were unable to monopolize nationalism. As a result, South Korea struggled to construct a founding myth to buttress the regimes and became more vulnerable to domestic challenges.
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North Korea, Nuclear Risk-Taking, and the United States Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il, and Kim Jong Un Jihwan Hwang Jihwan Hwang analyzes Pyongyang’s nuclear policy changes over the last three decades under Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un. Why did a weaker North Korea take the risk of standing up against the much stronger U.S. with its nuclear weapons program, even escalating the crisis to the point of a war? Later, why did North Korea change its course of action amid the crisis even though the security environment remained essentially the same? Hwang draws on the main tenets of prospect theory in international relations and argues that Pyongyang becomes either risk-acceptant or risk-averse toward the U.S., depending on the situation it faces. When Pyongyang perceived the status quo to be deteriorating, it framed its situation as a loss and chose a risk-acceptant of confrontation to restore the status quo. Equally, when Pyongyang perceived the situation to be improving, it chose a risk-averse engagement in the domain of gain. In contrast, when Pyongyang Bloomsbury Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations UK February 2026 • US February 2026 216 Pages • 13 tables; HB 9781793650269 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9781793650283 • £22.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798881881832 • £20.69 / $35.95 ePub 9781793650276 • £20.69 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
perceived an extreme loss such as military confrontation against the United States, it would rather choose a risk-averse policy to avoid the catastrophic outcome of war. The issues of risk are central to an understanding of Pyongyang’s nuclear policy decision-making.
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Strategies of Survival
North Korean Foreign Policy under Kim Jong-un Edited by Jun Taek Kwon & Weiqi Zhang The North Korean nuclear issue has been one of the most significant challenges to international peace and security in the 21st century. The failure to peacefully resolve the issue could trigger regional instability or even nuclear warfare in the worst scenario. Since its first successful nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has repeatedly defied the international community regarding its nuclear program despite the effort and resources that the international community has focused on the issue. Many consider Pyongyang decision-makers irrational or simply crazy. Nonetheless, since early 2018, North Korea has drastically changed its foreign policy and actively pursued rapprochement. How to understand DPRK foreign policy, its past, and future? How will the nuclear issue develop under a possibly new Bloomsbury Studies on Korea's Place in International Relations UK February 2026 • US February 2026 176 Pages • 5 b/w illustrations; 1 tables; HB 9781666922318 • £75.00 / $100.00 PB 9781666922332 • £22.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781978772366 • £20.69 / $35.95 ePub 9781666922325 • £20.69 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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paradigm of North Korean foreign policy? This book seeks to provide readers with a comprehensive analysis of North Korean foreign relations. As the existing analysis and literature on North Korean foreign relations focus primarily on China, the United States, South Korea, and Japan, but such analysis ignores the DPRK’s relations with many other states and organizations that not only interact with North Korea nevertheless also play important roles in its strategy of surviving in the international systems.
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A Hard Freedom
The Dreams and Trauma of North Korean Refugees Dan Chung Over the past 20 years, 33,000 North Korean refugees have escaped to South Korea, though their plight in South Korea is largely unknown to the Western World. These North Korean refugees who have made it to freedom are struggling. Within South Korea, North Koreans find themselves in a land of plenty but can’t seem to move on. For many, they are not in danger for the first time in decades but cannot turn off the traumatic memories from their lives in North Korea and the peril they faced during their escape. After fleeing North Korea, refugees travel the 6,000 mile modern day underground railroad in UK July 2026 • US April 2026 208 Pages • 8 BW Illustrations HB 9781538191729 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePDF 9798881855253 • £18.00 / $24.30 ePub 9781538191736 • £18.00 / $24.30 Bloomsbury Academic
China and other Asian countries. Gathered from the author's work with the NGO, Crossing Borders, this book shares the real life stories of North Koreans trapped under the weight of lingering trauma, depression, and discrimination in South Korea. These stories help us to imagine what the future might hold for North Korea and North Korean refugees in a changing world.
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Climate Change, Environmental Refugees, and Human Rights in the Middle East Mahmood Monshipouri This in-depth and readable text introduces students to the current and historical impacts of climate change on the region. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has experienced more frequent droughts, heat waves, and other extreme weather events than the rest of the world. Flooding has forced human migration and displacement in Egypt, Iran, and Tunisia in 2020, while wildfires have spread in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey. The author, a specialist in the MENA region, unpacks the implications of several developments that have triggered large-scale migration from rural to urban areas in the developing world, and Middle East, and North Africa, and threaten to destabilize the region. These include, among other things, widespread famine, population displacement, and the growing decline of agricultural productivity. Digging deep into key terminology and frameworks such as the 1951 Refugee Convention, climate–human rights nexus, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 328 Pages HB 9781538169124 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9798216376576 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798216376590 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9798216376583 • £26.09 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
climate-related protest, environmental politics, green investment, and climate governance, the author demonstrates how human rights and climate change are inextricably intertwined and provides additional context to support student learning. This books examines the environmental threats and history of individual countries, including a broad and detailed survey of how the issues of climate change, forced migration, and human rights interface with socioeconomic, political, and legal perspectives.
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The Crisis of Israel's Democracy, 1948–2025 Origins, Developments, and Consequences Ilan Peleg & Ruth Amir The Crisis of Israel’s Democracy, 1948 - 2025: Origins, Developments, and Consequences focuses on Israeli democracy, its deep historical origins, development over seven decades, long-term consequences, and possible resolutions. While most commentaries on Israel’s crisis focus on the proposals for judicial reform by the Netanyahu government, this study focuses on what it identifies as the fundamental problems of the Israeli regime—its ethnonational (rather than liberal-democratic) form, its lack of a written constitution undermines the country’s deeply divided society, the greatly dysfunctional relations between the secular majority and the sizeable Orthodox minority, and above all the seemingly permanent occupation of the Palestinian-inhabited West Bank. Peleg and Amir offer a broad perspective on these causes, covering the historical failures of the country’s founders, an analysis of Israel’s constitutional order and regime type, commentary on sociopolitical UK August 2025 • US August 2025 280 Pages • 3 tables PB 9781666977141 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666977127 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765155127 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666977134 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
cleavages and the dominant social psychology of Israelis, and analysis of the charismatic populism of longtime Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The volume concludes with analyzing future scenarios and possible solutions for Israel’s democratic crisis. The Crisis of Israel’s Democracy offers the most comprehensive analysis of Israel’s democratic backsliding to date, comparing it to similar worldwide processes.
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Colonial Cyprus A Cultural History
Edited by Maria Hadjiathanasiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, Andreas Karyos, University of Nicosia, Cyprus & Emilios A. Solomou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the island’s colonial past. The book focuses on the often-overlooked cultural dimensions of the island’s colonial experience and demonstrates the crucial role culture played in shaping its historical trajectory and future. This is the first volume to explore various aspects of the island’s cultural life from 1878, when it transitioned from Ottoman to British rule, until the establishment of the Republic of Cyprus in 1960. It features a series of thematic chapters by female authors, focusing on photography, architecture, literature, theatre, art and collecting, cultural policy, advertising, fashion, antiquities and archaeology, public gardens, and sports clubs. Individual chapters bring to light previously unpublished UK June 2026 • US June 2026 256 Pages HB 9780755640638 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9780755640676 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9780755640652 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9780755640645 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
source material in Greek and English, both written and visual, from state and private archives. Using cross-disciplinary analytical tools from fields such as imperial and colonial history, politics, cultural studies, and media and communication studies, the authors provide new insights.
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The Spectral Palestinian Presence before Politics
John Randolph LeBlanc, University of Texas at Tyler Long before October 7, 2023, Palestinians haunted the West and its political categories. In this work of political theory, John Randolph LeBlanc reads works by Raja Shehadeh, Sari Nusseibeh, and Mahmoud Darwish to track the manifold ways existing political language and norms (e.g., rule of law, human rights, international law, the nation-state) failed to capture and address the experience of a people living permanently under conditions of occupation/domination. The Spectral Palestinian: Presence before Politics finds that their periodic use of the language of ghosts and haunting signals the relationship between Palestinian experience and the ‘promise’ of Western political language and its institutions. LeBlanc argues that this resulting sense of ‘spectrality’ constitutes an underexplored form of Palestinian self-awareness and agency. Initially, the specter is the product of the others’ fear, that is, nearly disembodied sites of violence carrying the threat of non-being. While reading the UK February 2026 • US February 2026 216 Pages • PB 9798216397250 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666962147 • £85.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216264675 • £76.50 / $108.00 ePub 9781978760066 • £76.50 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
accounts of these Palestinians’ frustrating confrontations with the apparatuses and language of Western politics, LeBlanc finds the latent possibility of Palestinians taking hold of the specter’s power. Turning the spectral on its authors, the Palestinian defies a political language that has abandoned them and rejects the accompanying stigmas by standing fast in their spaces and fully appearing in the demand for human dignity.
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Inside the Belly of the Whale Islamism in the Jewish State Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud Inside the Belly of the Whale: Islamism in the Jewish State explores the rise of Islamism in Israel and the challenges faced by the Islamist movement as it navigates the intersection of Islam as a universal faith with the principles of democracy, nationalism, and Zionism. It examines how the movement leverages religion to shape the cultural, political, economic, and social realities of the Palestinian Arab minority and the broader Israeli landscape. Additionally, it raises compelling questions about whether the movement remains aligned with the principles of political Islam or has it evolved into a democratic Islamic party functioning within a Jewish state with limited democratic practices. The discussion situates the rise of Islamism within the historical context that saw Palestinians—once the majority and indigenous inhabitants of Palestine—reduced to a minority under the governance of the Jewish state since 1948. UK July 2026 • US June 2026 384 Pages • 15 tables, 1 figure, 1 Map PB 9798216387916 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666955484 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798216257028 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781978769540 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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Patriotism to the Earth
A Quest for Humane Global Governance Richard A. Falk Should national security still be our biggest priority on a burning planet? And does it matter that a policy is feasible if it fails to produce an outcome that is necessary and desirable? Political realists responsible for formulating foreign policy would say yes, but in this book Richard Falk and Sasha Milonova favor reorienting our loyalties away from increasingly militarized and nationalist states towards a system of governance that gives priority to global ecological resilience. They trace the deficiencies of the existing international order from the emergence of the Westphalian framework to its entrenchment in the institutions created after World War II, and again after the Cold War, and show why it has consistently failed to generate the international cooperation and political imagination required to stall, let alone reverse, biodiversity loss, UK April 2025 • US April 2025 348 Pages HB 9781538196878 • £81.00 / $105.00 PB 9781538196885 • £30.00 / $35.00 ePDF 9798881866136 • £27.00 / $31.50 ePub 9781538196892 • £27.00 / $31.50 Rowman & Littlefield
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war, wealth inequality, and other challenges that credibly threaten the security of the entire planet. This book offers an original approach to international relations that adds to the management of power the distinctive issues present in the prudent management of the ‘the global commons.’ The work of several visionary thinkers is considered, as is crucial relevance of inter-cultural dialogue, a critical appreciation of the limits of rationality and modernity, and an ethos of compassion for the suffering of all others who cohabit the earth.
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International Ethics
Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politics Mark R. Amstutz Through case studies and careful arguments, this book shows that moral values are an essential element of foreign policy and that ethical analysis is indispensable to the study of international relations. Mark Amstutz explores two distinct dimensions of international political morality: the role of moral norms in foreign affairs and the ethical foundation of the rules, institutions, and structures of global society. Amstutz illustrates the role of moral norms in global politics through twenty-six case studies, assessing the nature, role, and impact of political morality on international relations. The cases address six major global issues: migration, human rights, war, irregular war, foreign intervention, and international economic relations. The book’s third section examines justice among states and the challenge of pursuing global justice. UK July 2025 • US July 2025 384 Pages • 4 tables; 26 textboxes HB 9798881806514 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9798881806521 • £29.99 / $54.00 ePDF 9798765148884 • £26.99 / $48.60 ePub 9798881806538 • £26.99 / $48.60 Bloomsbury Academic
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Reemergent Commons
Land Loss, Emigration, and the Immigrant Diaspora David Toohey Introduces a theoretical perspective on the loss of communal lands and subsequent migration, with a focus on how media can help sustain diaspora communities' culture and their relation to land amidst such crises. Through an exploration of the impact of land loss on emigration and immigration, this book lays out the permanent consequences of land loss and how these consequences have been explored and conceptualized in post-World War II cinema, literature, and visual art. A historical understanding of the loss of rural and urban common land helps illuminate violent anti-immigrant, and, surprisingly, anti-emigrant practices. This book considers immigration and emigration from both impoverished and wealthy countries, and offers a combined theorization of cultural artefacts and reference to historical UK April 2026 • US April 2026 234 Pages PB 9798765166536 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765166543 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765166581 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765166598 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
context and current facts. Examples in this book illuminate immigration and emigration in South America, Central America, North America, and Asia.
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Algerian Independence and the British Left
Solidarities and Resistance in a Decolonising World Mélanie Torrent Based on archives from governments, parties, organisations and individuals, this book investigates the relationship between the British left and Algerian liberation movements during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962). It explores the presence of representatives of the Mouvement national algérien (MNA) and the Front de libération nationale (FLN) in London, where they actively sought support for peace, independence from France and the global end of European domination. By surveying their interactions with individuals and groups in the anticolonial left, including prominent Labour MPs, and Trotskyist groups, Asian and African associations and students’ unions, Torrent shows how and why solidarity was interpreted differently across the left, and in relation to Britain’s own end-of-empire conflicts. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 616 Pages HB 9781784537890 • £100.00 / $135.00 PB 9781350474918 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781788318419 • £90.00 / $121.50 ePub 9781788318426 • £90.00 / $121.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Tracing connections across Europe and beyond, this book demonstrates how the war influenced conceptions of socialism, communism and internationalism in Britain, what being European meant, and what place the Commonwealth should have in a world where armed struggle and liberation diplomacy disrupted boundaries.
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Education Realities for Sexual and Gender Minorities in the Caribbean Possibility and Progress in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Andrew B. Campbell, University of Toronto, R. Anthony Lewis, University of Technology, Jamaica & Kaschka R. Watson, Brock University The edited collection addresses the complexities, challenges—including antipathies—that continue to harm but also facilitate the progress of sexual and gender minority groups in education systems in the Caribbean. Education Realities for Sexual and Gender Minorities in the Caribbean is a collection of perspectives that challenge the commonly held view in academic and activist circles in the Global North that the Caribbean are dangerous and “unsafe” regions for sexual and gender minorities. Compounding this narrative is the underrepresentation of Caribbean people who do not conform to normative heterosexual patterns of behaviour or gender expression in various social domains and the UK May 2026 • US May 2026 256 Pages • 15 tables PB 9798216278399 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666967463 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216254171 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978772014 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
reinforcement of negative stereotypes about their experiences by the media and education systems. Despites the persistence of negative stereotypes and stigma levelled against sexual and gender minorities, there are noteworthy possibilities and progress to be highlighted. The collection will cover these through the lenses of a variety of scholarly perspectives.
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The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora
Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations Edited by Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY) This book expands notions of the Caribbean diaspora, which is often cast in very specific ways, so as to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora. It seeks to be descriptive, while also countering a limited discourse on the Caribbean diaspora. The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora is grounded in the very histories and legacies of indentureship, contract labor, later migrations to the region, and encounter. The Asian presence has long been felt in the greater Caribbean – the result of colonial powers which necessitated labor on Caribbean plantations against the backdrop of empire and burgeoning capitalist structures; and later migrations as "free" migrants compelled by emigration schemes and economic opportunity. UK January 2026 • US January 2026 296 Pages • 18 b&w figures PB 9781666968507 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666968484 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798216262602 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781978760868 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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This work is descriptive, while also countering a limited discourse on the Caribbean diaspora. Its collection of interdisciplinary chapters which center the Chinese, Indian, Japanese and Javanese in and outside of the Caribbean, reveal migration narratives, encounters on Caribbean plantations and in diasporic urban centers, notions of homeland and experiences of return, family histories, identity formation and subjectivity, the ways in which Caribbean people create and convey meaning about these histories, experiences and self, and the contributions of Caribbean people of Asian descent to the framing of the Caribbean and Asian diasporas.
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Manuel Colom Argueta and the Democratic Collapse of the Central American Cold War, 1954–1979 Rodrigo Véliz Estrada Manuel Colom Argueta and the Democratic Collapse of the Central American Cold War, 1954–1979 reconstructs the political career of one of Guatemala’s most important and understudied Cold War democrats. Drawing on archival research across six countries, this volume offers a detailed account of how Colom Argueta and his political movement navigated a polarized landscape shaped by authoritarian rule, guerrilla insurgency, and international pressure. Focusing on Colom’s efforts to advance democratic socialism through institutional means, this book navigates Colom's political philosophy and direction emphasizing urban policy, popular participation, and inter-municipal cooperation. It explores the multiple political strategies he employed, including alliances with military and guerrilla sectors, and situates them within broader Central American patterns of failed democratic transitions. Colom’s assassination in 1979, shortly after achieving legal recognition for his party, UK February 2026 • US February 2026 192 Pages PB 9798216375289 • £28.99 / $29.95 HB 9781666969566 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216254812 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978771239 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
marked a critical turning point in Guatemala’s descent into widespread political violence. Rather than treating political violence as inevitable, this monograph underscores how political alternatives were systematically dismantled by domestic elites and international actors. Through the lens of biography, we're offered a new interpretation of the Central American Cold War, showing how political moderates were excluded, targeted, and ultimately eliminated. Colom’s life provides a compelling entry point into the history of lost democratic possibilities in the region.
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Culture, Cash, and Class in Jamaica's Carnival Edited by Alpha Obika, Caribbean School of Media and Communication & Yvette Rowe, Caribbean School of Media and Communication The collection details the development and cultural and economic significance of Jamaica’s Carnival. The publication is a useful resource that openly explores emerging trends and debates in the carnival sector while mapping a course for its sustainable future. The critique of Jamaica’s Carnival is solidly framed in scholarly theory and robust methodologies to derive empirically an sound analysis and adds value to understanding this cultural phenomenon. In addition to full chapters on the critical topics, this publication features interviews from pioneers at the forefront of the development of carnival in Jamaica: including carnival band owners, event promoters, and politicians. Contributors to this volume include academics, cultural researchers and carnival arts practitioners. Despite the festival’s existence for almost 75 years, this will be the first scholarly publication UK May 2026 • US May 2026 256 Pages • 10 tables PB 9781666971958 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666971934 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216253433 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978770768 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
dedicated to the comprehensive documentation and critique of Jamaica’s Carnival. It is therefore a pioneering project that will lay a foundation for the future study and analysis of the festival.
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The Other in Contemporary Arab Culture and Society Longing to Belong
Dalya Cohen-Mor, Independent Scholar This book by Dalya Cohen-Mor explores the issue of the Other in Arab culture and society as reflected in modern Arabic literature. Drawing on insights from identity studies, cultural studies, and women's studies, and analyzing in depth a large body of works from modern Arabic literature, this book provides a vivid account of how otherness is produced, experienced, and contested in Arab society.
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external Others in Arab society, uses the concept of the Other to shed light on the parameters of Arab identity and selfdefinition, and focuses on the relationship with the Other to explore the dynamics of Arab culture and society. The selection of literary works includes autobiographical novels, novels, novellas, short stories, and poems by contemporary Arab writers, both male and female, from across the Middle East. The analysis highlights the ways in which literary texts critique, complicate, or modify stereotypical representations of the Other, illustrates the values and orientations of Arab society, and assesses the agency of literature and its power to raise public awareness and shape reality.
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Citizen Politics and Democracy
Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Societies Russell J. Dalton & Timothy Hellwig Since its first edition in 1988, Citizen Politics and Democracy has provided a concise examination of citizens’ political behavior and politicians’ responses in advanced industrial democracies. It communicates findings from state-of-the-art research on parties, public opinion, and voters in a way that is at once accessible and comprehensive. It argues that ordinary people do, in fact, have what it takes to meet the demands of their roles as citizens in representative democracies. Informed by evidence from cross-national public opinion surveys, past editions of the book offered a tone of moderation—or perhaps guarded optimism—that leans against the more extreme, attention-grabbing approach of the 24-hour news cycle. The eighth edition will continue in this vein. The text will focus on opinion, voter choice, and political representation by UK April 2026 • US March 2026 376 Pages • 64 b/w illustrations; 27 tables HB 9798881800314 • £95.00 / $125.00 PB 9798881800321 • £36.99 / $49.95 ePDF 9798881855673 • £33.29 / $44.95 ePub 9798881800338 • £33.29 / $44.95 Bloomsbury Academic
comparing recent elections in the UK, France, Germany, and the United States. This four-nation comparison strikes the right balance between depth and breadth and does so in the space of 300 pages.
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Strong Mayors and Leadership Capital New York, London, and Amsterdam
Max W. Stafford, The University of Southampton, UK Examining how local leadership has evolved by comparing the mayoralties of New York, London, and Amsterdam, this book uniquely focuses on Michael Bloomberg (2002–2014), Ken Livingstone (2000–2008), Boris Johnson (2008–2016), and Job Cohen (2002–2010) to reveal the cultural and operational contrasts that shaped their approaches to governance. Drawing on the Leadership Capital Index (LCI) - a recent innovation in political leadership studies, Stafford offers a fresh perspective on the strong-mayor model, not only evaluating the strengths and limitations of the LCI but also advancing the debate on what makes effective urban leadership. Original and insightful, this book redefines how we understand mayors as pivotal political actors. UK May 2026 • US May 2026 248 Pages PB 9781350498099 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350498051 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350498075 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350498082 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Covidocracy
Do Pandemics Defend Dictatorships and Challenge Democracies? Nicolai Due-Gundersen In December 2019, China reported the first COVID cases to the World Health Organization going on to impose lockdowns as early as January 2020. Saudi Arabia announced national curfews after only a few hundred cases, under threat of fines and jailtime. By mid-March, the UK too, went into its first lockdown. But how did COVID-19 go on to impact different political regimes - did it support authoritarianism and did it erode democracy? In this book, Due-Gundersen discusses what elements of political legitimacy world leaders drew on to justify COVID restrictions. It traces the history of how China, Saudi Arabia, Britain and the United States responded to previous pandemics and to what extent leaders in power attempted to centralize their authority in the years leading up to COVID. Through analysis of public discourse given in response to COVID and to vaccine development, Due-Gundersen uses novel methodology to measure political legitimacy and political persuasion to UK April 2026 • US April 2026 256 Pages HB 9781350581241 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350581258 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350581272 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350581265 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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reveal how COVID affected democratic and non-democratic legitimacy.
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Radically Reframing Climate Change A Guide to Saving Ourselves
Will Hackman, The Pew Charitable Trusts, US An inspirational guide to discussing and fighting climate change for millennial and GenZ voters that cuts through the usual myths and scare tactics to provide practical advice. In Radically Reframing Climate Change: A Guide to Saving Ourselves, Will Hackman identifies three main obstacles to solving climate change: polarization, paralysis, and stale, ineffective messaging. He empowers readers to turn their anxiety or apathy into passion, and anger into action at the personal, community, and government levels. The climate rallying cries to “Save the Planet” no longer work in our hyper-partisan world, nor do images of polar bears on melting glaciers. The problem isn’t scientific, fact-based, or even technological. It’s political, emotional, and ideological. Hackman provides a path UK April 2026 • US April 2026 264 Pages HB 9798881842666 • £20.00 / $27.95 ePDF 9798765155684 • £18.00 / $25.15 ePub 9798765155677 • £18.00 / $25.15 Bloomsbury Academic
forward for engagement and voter mobilization that combats apathy, dread, and resentment, and builds greater issue identification. Hackman reframes the climate crisis as a humanity crisis, arguing that we must change how we think and talk about climate change, both in our conversations with non-believers and among those who care. Assuring humanity’s place on a changing planet will require a near universal level of public support we will never reach if we keep making the same mistakes. We know how to do this. But the stakes have never been higher and time is running out.
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Climate Diplomacy at the Crossroads A Multidisciplinary Perspective Edited by Suay Nilhan Açikalin Climate diplomacy is one of the main priorities in agenda setting of actors in international relations. Scope and aims of climate diplomacy has been under transformation, which evolved, to multidisciplinary as its nature to respond to multidimensional challenges. In this respect, Climate Diplomacy at the Crossroads: A Multidisciplinary Perspective will offer fresh insight to understand how climate diplomacy is changed and will change in light of advances and potential challenges under three dimensions that from theory to practice, tools and actors and governance.
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Environmental Crisis and Human Rights Literary and Cultural Representations
Edited by Joyjit Ghosh, Samit Kumar Maiti & Sk Tarik Ali Environmental Crisis and Human Rights: Literary and Cultural Representations engages with the human rights implications of anthropogenic environmental crisis through a critical reading of a wide spectrum of literary and cultural texts from different parts of the world. The Introduction and the eighteen theoretically informed essays included in the collection highlight how race, caste, class, gender and ethnicity contribute to and complicate human experiences of environmental degradation. The essays address a broad range of issues involving environmental human rights such as climate migration, climate injustice, resource extraction, neo-colonial intervention, politics of development, dam-induced displacement and the violation of the indigenous usufruct rights to the environment. The volume illustrates that the Anthropocene is not a unitary concept, rather a fractured discourse; and environmental crisis, far from being monolithic in nature, is determined by socio-economic Environment and Society
particularities and cultural specificities of different human communities across the globe.
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World Oceans
A Reference Handbook David E. Newton, Independent Scholar, USA This handbook offers an in-depth discussion of the world's oceans. It discusses the marine life that is dependent on the sea as well as the problems threatening the health of the ocean and its wildlife. This book opens with an overview of the history of human knowledge and understanding of the oceans and cryosphere, along with related scientific, technological, social, political, and other factors. It presents and discusses about a dozen major problems facing the Earth's oceans today, along with possible solutions. Readers are given an opportunity to express their thoughts and ideas on today's ocean issues, and are provided with additional resources, such as a bibliography, chronology, and glossary, to assist in further study of the issue. Contemporary World Issues UK November 2025 • US November 2025 360 Pages • 7 bw illus HB 9781440875434 • £50.00 / $68.00 PB 9798216392774 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781440875441 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9798216168416 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Tech Tides
How Innovation Shapes Global Power Edoardo Giglio In this thought-provoking book, Edoardo Giglio, a leading expert in cyber and strategic risk management, delves into the transformative power of innovation strategies in shaping the modern geopolitical landscape. As traditional military might gives way to technological prowess, this book reveals how countries can compete and collaborate within the global innovation ecosystem. Through detailed case studies, Giglio explores the innovation strategies of over a dozen countries, examining their successes and failures. The book also highlights the dire consequences for countries that remain outside this ecosystem, using North Korea and certain African nations as cautionary tales. UK October 2025 • US October 2025 152 Pages • 3 bw illus, 1 bw photo HB 9781538198766 • £20.00 / $27.00 ePDF 9798765150948 • £18.00 / $24.30 ePub 9781538198773 • £18.00 / $24.30 Bloomsbury Academic
Giglio makes the case that belonging to the global innovation ecosystem is crucial for rapid modernization and international relevance. He showcases how small countries can rival major powers through strategic investment in technology, research, and education. The book is informed by Giglio's extensive experience advising top international organizations and governments. Each chapter is packed with insights on the integration of innovation strategies into national policies, offering readers practical lessons on navigating the information age.
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Beyond the Populist Moment
Perspectives on Democracy's Crisis Edited by Abdelwahab El-Affendi Populism has had a transformative impact on the global political landscape, but is it invigorating and restoring modern democratic politics, or is it destroying it? This landmark study explores this question from cross-continental perspectives, with contributions from leading scholars including Chantal Mouffe, Azmi Bishara and Hamid Dabashi, engaging in this lively, multiregional and multi-disciplinary debate. Featuring a broad conversation on the rising and fast changing impact of populism on world politics, this volume tackles one of the most pressing and stimulating political and philosophical questions of our time. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 256 Pages PB 9781350574793 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350574755 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350574779 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350574762 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
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Essentials of Global Politics For Edexcel A-level Politics
Vicki Sutton, Laurie Huggett-Wilde & Joanna Wilcox Designed to align perfectly with the new Edexcel Politics A-Level specification, this new essential textbook offers students everything they need to succeed in their Global Politics exam in component 3 of the A-level course. It covers all of the core topics in global politics, from the impact of globalisation to the different areas of global governance, and shows students how to apply the relevant IR theories and perspectives to these topics. With a focus on exam success throughout, the book offers: - Exam-focused pedagogical features - including exam tips, exam-style questions, summaries of key questions and debates, and timelines of key historical events - Perfect alignment with the Edexcel specification, with a specification checklist at the beginning of each chapter and key Essentials of… for Edexcel A-level Politics UK March 2026 • 392 Pages HB 9781350353565 • £75.00 PB 9781350353572 • £25.99 / $28.99 ePDF 9781350353541 • £23.39 / $32.39 ePub 9781350353558 • £23.39 / $32.39 Bloomsbury Academic
specification terms highlighted and defined throughout - Lots of case studies based on significant recent events, with more available to download from the companion website - A separate exam skills chapter, offering advice on exam technique, including best practice examples, explaining the new assessment objectives and showing how to incorporate these into essays - An extensive companion website with essay planning templates, a specification matching chart, downloadable cases and questions, revision planning resources and much more. Essentials of Global Politics brings this fascinating subject to life, enabling students to engage with the key debates in the area and providing them with the necessary skills, tools and knowledge to perform their best in their exams.
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Essentials of UK Politics and Government For Edexcel A-level Politics
Kathy Schindler & Andrew Heywood, Freelance author, UK The must-have textbook for A-level Politics The updated sixth edition of Essentials of UK Politics and Government covers everything you need to know about UK Politics for the Pearson Edexcel specification. It will show you how politics works in the real world, and help you to think critically about the subject through examples, debates and case studies. A wealth of features helps to explain and cement your learning for the Edexcel specification, such as specification checklists, key terms from the Edexcel specification, and exam style essay and source questions in every chapter. Kathy Schindler brings this edition right up to date with every chapter being reviewed and updated including: Essentials of… for Edexcel A-level Politics UK September 2026 • US June 2026 380 Pages • 32 tables, 86 figures, 37 photos HB 9781350540125 • £80.00 / $110.00 PB 9781350540118 • £26.99 / $36.95 ePDF 9781350540149 • £24.29 / $33.25 ePub 9781350540132 • £24.29 / $33.25 Bloomsbury Academic
- coverage of the 2024 general election and 2025 mayoral elections; - extended material on devolution; - detailed analysis of the changing nature of Parliament and the way it fulfils its scrutiny function; and - brand new or updated case studies in every chapter A companion website provides extra material for students such as flashcards for key terms and definitions and tips for planning and organising revision. Teachers can also access further resources, bonus case studies, specification matching tables and example student answers.
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In Pursuit of Moral Political Leadership Edited by Glen M. E. Duerr, Cedarville University, Mark Caleb Smith, Cedarville University & Justin D. Lyons, Cedarville University This book examines political leadership utilizing a worldview centered on the Bible. There are eleven substantive case study chapters that cover a wide swath of famous political leaders across multiple centuries and in several different national contexts within systems that diverge widely. In Pursuit of Moral Political Leadership sets the objective of investigating moral leadership knowing that every human being has their flaws and shortcomings yet pursues strong leadership for the betterment of their respective polities. Notably, each author assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each leader but also analyzes the institutional constraints on their decision making that help to provide a fuller picture of their leadership legacies. Utilizing diverse scholars from Cedarville University’s Department of History and Government, the book features chapters on Oliver Cromwell, Edmund Burke, George Washington, Winston Churchill, Syngman Rhee, J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther UK September 2025 • US September 2025 320 Pages PB 9781666959970 • £29.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666959956 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798881866679 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9781978769953 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
King Jr, Margaret Thatcher, Benjamin Netanyahu, as well as two comparative chapters on i) Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, and ii) George W. Bush, Tony Blair, and Stephen Harper.
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Between Liberty and Stability
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Enduring Difficulty of Building and Maintaining a Regime Bruce A. Hunt Jr. & Robert E. Ross John Adams’s and Thomas Jefferson’s political careers spanned the most formidable times of the early republic. They worked together to draft the Declaration of Independence only to become bitter political rivals, serving as the candidates of the first American political parties and competing in the first competitive presidential election. Most accounts of their relationship tend to focus on their political rivalry and the politics of the Federalists and Republicans. Between Liberty and Stability: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Enduring Difficulty of Building and Maintaining a Regime shows how their decades-long intellectual relationship shaped their political aims and informed their distinct understanding of how to establish a functional liberal political order. Beyond their politics are important philosophic discussions of human nature, constitutionalism, and statesmanship that can help readers today to understand and reevaluate many of the contemporary UK February 2026 • US February 2026 240 Pages • n/a PB 9798765189030 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765189023 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798765189054 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9798765189047 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
commitments that are commonly associated with a liberal political order.
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Reimagining the Post-Conflict State Eric N. Budd To achieve peace and reconciliation, the post-conflict states must reimagine itself, changing power dynamics and incorporating new voices into the national narrative. While the literature on post-conflict states has focused on state-building, it has been largely silent when it comes to nationbuilding. In this work, the author argues that these states need to fundamentally reimagine themselves—who they are and who is part of their “imagined community.” On both the macro and micro levels, this book explores whether post-conflict states have fundamentally changed—altered their power dynamics, incorporated the voices of all societal groups in the national narrative, and acknowledged the disparate memories of the past, including its “inconvenient truths.” Through an indepth exploration of the peace agreements that ended the conflicts, as wells as of the nations’ constitutions and efforts at UK May 2026 • US May 2026 152 Pages • 1 bw illus PB 9798216369257 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798216369219 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePDF 9798216369233 • £67.50 / $90.00 ePub 9798216369226 • £67.50 / $90.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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constitutional change, their educational systems, curriculum reform efforts, and the history textbooks used after the conflict ends, this book examines the challenges post-conflict states face as they try to transcend their violent past and achieve peace and reconciliation.
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Conspiracy Theories A Reference Handbook
Jeffrey B. Webb, Huntington University, USA Provides a comprehensive guide to the history and current shape of conspiracy theories in American life, including the findings of research seeking to understand their origins, type, function, and widespread appeal. This all-in-one resource provides an accessible overview of conspiracy theories past and present in all their many forms. Taking an even-handed, scholarly approach, the book outlines the longer history of conspiracy theories, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome and continuing the story up to the present day, including analysis of 9/11, anti-vaccine, COVID, and QAnon theories. It surveys an array of current books and articles to try to understand why people believe in and act on outlandish and evidence-free conspiracy theories. Contemporary World Issues UK May 2026 • US May 2026 304 Pages • 8 bw illus HB 9781440877704 • £60.00 / $80.00 PB 9798765118665 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781440877711 • £54.00 / $72.00 ePub 9798216171065 • £54.00 / $72.00 Bloomsbury Academic
Notably, this resource also outlines the problems created by untrue conspiracy theories in terms of their negative impact on public debate, trust in others, and efforts to nurture an informed and educated citizenry. Instead, many conspiracy claims have become sources of misinformation, cynicism, and polarization. This book will benefit anyone who seeks a pathway through our current "epistemic crisis" in which the lines between fact and fiction—and between truth and falsehood—have become blurred.
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Life at the Bottom
The Worldview that Makes the Underclass 25th Anniversary Edition Theodore Dalrymple This 25th anniversary edition features a foreword from bestselling author Rob Henderson of the Manhattan Institute and a brand new postscript from Dalrymple. Theodore Dalrymple, a British psychiatrist who treats the poor in a slum hospital and a prison in England, has seemingly seen it all. Yet, in listening to and observing his patients, he is continually astonished by the latest twist of depravity that exceeds even his own experience. Dalrymple’s key insight in Life at the Bottom is that long-term poverty is caused not by economics but by a dysfunctional set of values, one that is continually reinforced by an elite culture searching for victims. This culture persuades those at the bottom that they have no responsibility for their actions and are not the molders of their UK April 2026 • US March 2026 248 Pages PB 9798216390701 • £12.99 / $17.95 ePDF 9798216390725 • £11.69 / $16.15 ePub 9798216390718 • £11.69 / $16.15 Bloomsbury Academic
own lives. Drawn from the pages of the cutting-edge political and cultural quarterly City Journal, Dalrymple's book draws upon scores of eye-opening, true-life vignettes that are by turns hilariously funny, chillingly horrifying, and all too revealing-sometimes all at once. And Dalrymple writes in prose that transcends journalism and achieves the quality of literature.
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At Play in a Post-Work World
AI, Mass Resignation, and the Future of Work Fetishization Micah J. Fleck, Columbia University, USA The COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally shifted our relationship with work. After years of lockdown, and with many employees working from home, this was the first time in nearly two centuries that people below the class divide found themselves with just as much time for leisure, recreation, and quality time with loved ones as those above. The time away from work changed priorities and opened minds across the working-class, and new demands were now being made in much higher numbers and in far more workplaces than ever. In cases where bosses refused to comply with these demands, a large quantity of the workers quit their jobs, giving way to a movement now referred to as “The Great Resignation.” In this book, Micah J. Fleck questions whether work will ever go back to the way it was, or whether this fundamental change Autonomy and Automation
could lead to us completely rethinking our approach to labor. Exploring also the rise in the use of A.I. to replace jobs, Fleck's
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book dives into the culture and concept of “work” as a virtue to determine how we see "work" today, whether it was an organic evolution of a system of labor, and how much of it has been enforced by an outdated and crumbling economic status quo.
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Women and Politics
Paths to Power and Political Influence Julie Dolan, Melissa M. Deckman, Michele L. Swers & Paru Shah Women and Politics: Paths to Power and Political Influence examines the role of women in politics from the early women's movement to the female politicians in power today. Focusing on women whose stories have not yet been told, this book includes new analysis and scholarship on the experiences and viewpoints of conservative women, women of color, LGBT women, and millennial women. Students will gain historical insight into how women have achieved political power and how they have influenced the American political system at the state, local, and national levels, in each branch of government. Engaging profiles of the key players who have shaped our political system are interwoven with an analysis of the most recent election data to provide a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to the study of women and politics. UK September 2025 • US September 2025 384 Pages • 3 tables, 23 figures, 36 bw photos HB 9781538178584 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9781538178591 • £29.99 / $59.95 ePDF 9798765155363 • £26.99 / $53.95 ePub 9781538178607 • £26.99 / $53.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Transgender Rights in Flux From Progress to Regress Susan Gluck Mezey Transgender rights in the United States are under attack. While transgender equality expanded during the Obama and Biden years, it was significantly eroded in the two Trump administrations, especially in the second term. Susan Gluck Mezey details how, beginning in 2020, there was an upsurge of anti-transgender bills, especially aimed at transgender youth, in many GOP-led state legislatures. The laws included barring entry to public bathrooms on the basis of gender identity, monitoring transgender-related material in public schools and libraries, and limiting transgender students’ rights to privacy. By 2025, over half the states had adopted policies restricting access to athletics and gender-affirming health care. UK April 2026 • US March 2026 232 Pages HB 9781538196502 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781538196519 • £25.99 / $35.95 ePDF 9798881858544 • £23.39 / $32.35 ePub 9781538196526 • £23.39 / $32.35 Bloomsbury Academic
Transgender Rights in Flux assesses the role of federal, state, and local authorities in determining the rights of the U.S. transgender community.
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Women and Politics Global Lives in Focus
Edited by Malliga Och, Idaho State University, USA Focusing on the distinct identities and diverse lived experiences of women in a wide range of countries and cultures, this book provides a comprehensive overview of women in local, regional, and national politics around the world. Women and Politics takes on the historical challenges women have and continue to face, and the victories they have achieved, in political cultures and structures around the world. The introduction walks readers through the key issues, pressing concerns, and foremost questions that researchers confront in their studies of women in various political roles across the globe. The remainder of the book, divided into eight chapters, covers such topics as women's suffrage, the status of women in politics today, women as national leaders, barriers to women's political representation, and others. Leading Women and Society around the World UK February 2026 • US February 2026 328 Pages • 9 bw illus HB 9781440871900 • £50.00 / $68.00 PB 9798216453529 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781440871917 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9798216184461 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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experts and emerging scholars come together in this volume to ask and provide answers to the question of why gender parity is so important in politics. They answer that only women, who as a group have a distinct identity and lived experiences that differ from men's collective identities and interests, can accurately represent themselves both at home and on the world stage.
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States Versus Markets
Understanding the Global Economy Herman Mark Schwartz, USA The book covers some of the most exciting concepts in world politics – how to connect the production of goods and services in one region to the markets for those goods, and how this can lead to conflicts among states that try to create, enhance or subdue these markets. Fundamentally, it seeks to answer an enduring question in world politics – which has more power, states or markets? This fifth edition examines globalization as a recurrent process by which markets have periodically redistributed economic activity. It links the regional production of goods and services with markets located elsewhere, showing how this can lead to conflicts among states. Taking into account the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequences of the recent revival of industrial UK February 2026 • US February 2026 496 Pages HB 9781350458352 • £120.00 / $160.00 PB 9781350458369 • £36.99 / $49.95 ePDF 9781350458338 • £33.29 / $44.95 ePub 9781350458345 • £33.29 / $44.95 Bloomsbury Academic
policy, as well as the both Chinese and American efforts to redefine the Washington consensus, this book offers coverage of the latest developments in global political economy.
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Deweaponizing Interdependence
Bringing the Idea of International Clearing Union into the Twenty-First Century Edited by Jamie Morgan & Heikki Patomaki, University of Helsinki, Finland Offering an excellent overview of critical approaches to international payment systems, this open access volume reintroduces the contemporary relevance, origins and aims of the International Clearing Union (ICU), a concept associated with J. M. Keynes and with debates of continued contemporary importance to global political economy. This volume focuses on how ICU proposals interact with economic theory and normative principles of ethics and politics. It examines key contemporary political issues including de-dollarisation, development, overcoming nationalism, principles of fairness in trade and finance, commodity pricing, fixed vs. floating exchange rates, capital controls, the need for planning, and global public investments, as well as urgent issues of climate emergency and ecological breakdown. As such, this UK February 2026 • US February 2026 304 Pages HB 9781350574809 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350574847 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350574823 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781350574816 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
important volume provides a wide range of perspectives from both the Global North and Global South, as well as from different disciplines including politics, economics and political theory. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The University of Helsinki.
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Less Is Not Enough
Minimalist Desires and Postgrowth Politics Miriam Meissner, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Less Is Not Enough examines the rise of minimalist self-help, showing how it depoliticizes middle-class frustrations with capitalist exploitation, and proposes a cultural strategy to channel minimalist desires into a more radical, postgrowth politics. In the past decade minimalist self-help has exploded, from tidying guides to media detoxes which promise to help affluent middle classes navigate a world of excess—too much clutter, stress, and distraction. Here, Miriam Meissner exposes the limits of minimalism in addressing both middle-class overload and the environmental crisis. Through a critical analysis of self-help books, TV shows, and online communities, she argues that while minimalism is UK April 2026 • US April 2026 304 Pages HB 9781350587809 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350587793 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350587823 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350587816 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
well-intended, it ultimately distracts from the root causes of the very problems it seeks to alleviate. Trends like decluttering and mindfulness depoliticize middle-class frustrations with the capitalist exploitation of labour, attention, and ecology for profit. In an era where climate justice and class struggle are inseparable, this book proposes an eco-political strategy that refuses to pit middle-class interests against the demands of a just green transition.
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Developing Consciousness for the Post-Capitalist Commons Gregory Wilpert Why do so many socialist movements fail to deliver on their promises, even after gaining state power? Gregory Wilpert argues that the answer lies not only in class politics or economic missteps, but in a deeper challenge: social-political consciousness. Building on Jürgen Habermas’s integration of developmental psychology into social theory, Wilpert updates and radicalizes this approach for today’s world. He explores how neoliberal digital capitalism has triggered a profound crisis - political, economic, social, and psychological, and makes the case for cultivating a new ‘commonist consciousness’ that can emerge out of the hyper-capitalism in which we currently find ourselves. This vision points toward post-capitalist institutions rooted in shared resources and collective decision-making: the post-capitalist commons. UK April 2026 • US April 2026 232 Pages HB 9781350592421 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350592414 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350592445 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350592438 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
Provocative and timely, this book offers a bold framework for rethinking socialist strategy in the age of digital capitalism.
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Bitcoin Bros
Masculinity, Cryptocurrency, and the Future of Men Dan Cassino, Fairleigh Dickinson University Crypto, NFTs, meme stocks and other digital currency investments are seen as either a transparent Ponzi scheme or the future of finance. But what all of these new ways of investing – and generally losing – money have in common is that they’re almost entirely held by young men. Using survey data and research into cryptocurrency and masculinity, Dan Cassino shows that these novel financial instruments are being embraced less as a way to make money than as a way to shore up threatened masculinities. Changes in how society sees masculinity, and the impossible standards that men feel they need to attain in order to prove their masculinity, can be seen as 'pushing' men towards all sorts of risky behaviors. Young men have turned to digital UK February 2026 • US February 2026 248 Pages HB 9781350508095 • £65.00 / $90.00 PB 9781350508088 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9781350508118 • £19.79 / $26.95 ePub 9781350508101 • £19.79 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
investments as a way to demonstrate their manhood to themselves and others, trying to find a short cut to the money and respect they think they deserve, while burning down the structures they think are holding them back. Looking at why they buy these products gives us a glimpse into the online communities these men inhabit, the crisis of masculinity facing young men, and the very real costs these dubious investments have on their lives.
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Farewell Addresses by US Presidents and Other Notable Leaders Parting Words Before the Political Afterlife
John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, USA This collection prints and analyzes the 12 formal presidential farewell addresses in U.S. history, situating them within the context of biblical, classical, and other literary antecedents. Presidential farewell addresses are an invaluable glimpse into not only the figure who gave it but also the larger political landscape. Chapters detail the evolution of the presidential farewell address, documenting how the genre has shifted and ultimately become more institutionalized over time.
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On Common Interests A Political Philosophy John Ryder This book develops an original theory that grounds political principles and practices in common interests among citizens and residents of a country. This theory differs from most prevalent political philosophies in that they focus on common ideas which emphasize how we might think rather than how we actually live, or on competing or conflicting interests for the purpose of balancing or advancing one set of interests over another. On Common Interests offers principles, possible structures, and practices that enable government to help us advance the interests we share. As a political philosophy, it values cooperation and collaboration over conflict and competition.
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Politics of Liberty
Essays on Montesquieu Sharon R. Krause Politics of Liberty: Essays on Montesquieu brings together a series of essays that shine new light on the meaning, conditions, and effects of freedom. Montesquieu’s work embodies in a wholehearted way the liberal commitment to protection of all people from arbitrary power, and it offers specific recommendations for how to establish this protection. Yet his politics of liberty is a highly variegated phenomenon, meaning politics in the plural – not one form of political order or singular system, but many. And while freedom is the end or purpose of the politics of liberty, Montesquieu’s understanding of freedom is more nuanced than that of many other liberals, allowing for a richer moral psychology, a deeper sociality, and deeper respect for cultural diversity than one might expect. In all these ways, Montesquieu’s work challenges the conviction, present in much of democratic theory today, that liberalism is a thing of the past, and should be left there. Politics of Liberty returns us to Montesquieu’s mindful liberalism for the purpose of showing liberalism’s past in a new light, illuminating its value in the present, and making a case for its future. UK October 2025 • US October 2025 288 Pages • 0 tables HB 9781666945775 • £85.00 / $115.00 PB 9781666945799 • £27.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798765154717 • £25.19 / $35.95 ePub 9781666945782 • £25.19 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires Edited by Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Laura Lo Presti & Filipe dos Reis This volume seeks to collectively explore how maps can be used to understand the making of European empires, how the epistemological practices embedded in them can be approached to understand European imperial space-making, and how maps can be seen as representations of imaginaries of connectivity. Rehearsing mapping’s past and its multifarious relations with European imperial orders is not merely an historical exercise to contribute to a global history of cartography. What binds the several interventions is rather an awareness that looking at a particular moment of the past with composite methodologies and interdisciplinary gazes may harbour potential discoveries on the context-embedded relations between mapping, connectivity, and European empire to which we are not yet attuned. Global Epistemics UK September 2025 • US September 2025 236 Pages • 24 b/w illustrations; 5 b/w photos; HB 9781538146392 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781538199169 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9798881856731 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9781538146415 • £26.09 / $35.95 Rowman & Littlefield
By exploring the imaginaries of the world in the mapping of Western modern empires, the book also links to the burgeoning literature on the history of international relations and empire. The emphasis on empires serves here as an important corrigendum for IR’s state centrism and Eurocentrism and contributes to further erode the myth of Westphalia.
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Commons and Public Partnership
Legitimizing a Commons Political Sphere Torange Khonsari Commons and Public Partnership reimagines the commons as a dynamic third political sphere, one that bridges the gap between the household and the state. Torange Khonsari shows how cultural practices can activate communities, creating neighbourhood-based commons systems that challenge conventional governance. Drawing on local experiences, Khonsari addresses pressing societal issues, from citizen apathy and institutional distrust, to the lack of awareness around creative practices that can transform political engagement. By repositioning the neighbourhood as a decentralized arena for decision-making, this book advocates for a commons/public partnership model in place of the dominant private/public paradigm. In Common UK May 2026 • US May 2026 272 Pages • 40 b/w images PB 9781350446359 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781350446311 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePDF 9781350446335 • £76.50 / $103.50 ePub 9781350446328 • £76.50 / $103.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Rich in theory and grounded in practice, Commons and Public Partnership blends insights from urbanism, public art, architecture, psychology, politics, anthropology, and sociology with practical design methodologies—offering a bold, interdisciplinary framework for rethinking civic life.
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An Accidental Pope
Essays on Frederick Rolfe’s Hadrian the Seventh Edited by Miroslaw Aleksander Miernik, University of Warsaw The novel Hadrian the Seventh has received critical attention in the past, there remain significant gaps in the scholarship regarding Frederick Rolfe’s novel which this collection of essays aims to fill, particularly in terms of its political, religious, philosophical, and literary aspects. The topics discussed include the novel’s place in literary history, both in terms of bridging Decadence with modernism as well as drawing on the Victorian literary tradition inspiring later authors, as well as its genre, offering new perspectives, casting Frederick Rolfe’s novel as a humorous book in the Decadent tradition, and engaging in camp aesthetics. Political issues, frequently connected with religious matters owing to the book’s subject matter, are represented by contributions discussing the role of the Catholic Church in the 20th century, engaging in discussion with Leo XIII’s conciliatory, modernist approach. The issues addressed include the tension between temporal and spiritual power, and Politics, Literature, & Film
the Vatican’s role in international policymaking. Some chapters focus on specific scenes, such as the conclave and the
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Pope’s visit to St. Andrew’s College provide insight into the protagonist’s dislike of established Vatican politics.
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Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism The Rise and Fall of the Concept of “Socialist Market” Edited by János Mátyás Kovács Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of the Concept of "Socialist Market" focuses on the concept of “socialist market,: a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward. Encouraged by the success of non-capitalist mixed economies, market reformers (also called ’market socialists’) offered the communist ruling elites a remedy for the persistent crises of the planned economy. Besides optimal planning and pluralization of social ownership, this was the third major attempt under existing socialism to revise the communist utopia of a centrally planned economy free from private property and the market. The authors trace the rise and fall of marketization theories in the communist era in eight countries of Eastern Europe (including the Soviet Union) and China, describing why the mission of mixing the planned economy and the market, while Revisiting Communism: Collectivist refusing large-scale private ownership and accepting one-party rule, was doomed to fail. The protagonists of the socialist Economic and Political Thought in market contributed to the rehabilitation of certain liberal doctrines in economic research and policy in the Soviet empire and Historical Perspective UK June 2026 • US June 2026 472 Pages • 4 b/w tables PB 9798216391548 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781793631800 • £90.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798216260417 • £81.00 / $117.00 ePub 9781978763425 • £81.00 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
beyond, which did not develop into a coherent liberal (let alone, neoliberal) program.
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Islamic Liberalism
A Theory of Impossibility Based on the Lockean Tradition Halil Ibrahim Canbegi In Islamic Liberalism: A Theory of Impossibility based on the Lockean Tradition, Halil Ibrahim Canbegi investigates the inherent inconsistencies of Islamic liberalism by examining the philosophical and theological foundations of both liberalism and Islam. Canbegi draws on Lockean liberalism, asserting that John Locke's emerging liberalism is deeply rooted in theological concepts such as covenant theology, natural law, and the distinctive nature of Christianity itself. In contrast, the author argues that Islam lacks the necessary theological and intellectual framework to develop a coherent version of liberalism, often termed Islamic liberalism. Canbegi maintains that this concept merely represents a superficial juxtaposition of Islam and liberalism, rather than a genuine synthesis. Ultimately, the author concludes that Islamic liberalism is merely a heterogeneous amalgamation of Islamic and liberal ideas, which do not combine into a unified whole. This critical analysis UK July 2025 • US July 2025 230 Pages • 0 tables PB 9781666967005 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666966985 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePDF 9798765154496 • £72.00 / $99.00 ePub 9781666966992 • £72.00 / $99.00 Bloomsbury Academic
challenges prevailing notions and invites readers to reconsider the complex relationship between these two influential systems of thought.
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Eurasian Authoritarianism Origins, Structure, and Legacy Kuanysh S. Sazan Eurasian Authoritarianism: Origins, Structure, and Legacy presents a bold analysis of the enduring patterns of authoritarian rule across Eurasia. Kuanysh S. Sazan argues that the modern autocratic regimes in Russia, China, and Central Asia are not deviations from global norms , but continuations of deeply entrenched governance models shaped by centuries of militarized statehood. Tracing a derivation from the Mongol Empire through the Tsardom of Russia and Imperial China, the book reveals how centralized control, strategic coercion, and elite-managed power transitions have remained defining features of governance in the region. Rather than viewing these regimes as reactive or purely ideological, Eurasian Authoritarianism demonstrates how these structures reflect an inherited logic of rule, where state power is inseparable from military and bureaucratic dominance. The UK February 2026 • US February 2026 272 Pages • PB 9798216390336 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666977783 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216251514 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978766570 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
study challenges Western frameworks that assume a natural trajectory toward democratization, arguing instead that Eurasian autocracies evolve within their own historical and geopolitical imperatives. Sazan provides a compelling perspective on why these regimes survive and remain an enduring threat striving for dominance in global politics by unveiling the evolution mechanisms of these regimes. Essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and anyone seeking to understand the resilience of Autocracy in the modern world.
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The Political Thought of Fidel Castro Renzo Llorente Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was, without question, a major figure in international politics during the second half of the twentieth century and early years of the twenty-first. Undisputed leader of the Cuban Revolution, influential statesman within the international Communist movement, inspiration for generations of Latin American revolutionaries and tribune for developing countries, Castro played a key role in many historic political events from the late 1950s to the early 2000s, from the Cuban Revolution itself to the peace process in Colombia. Yet, while much has been written about Fidel Castro’s role in these and countless other events, Castro’s political thought—as expressed in articles, essays, books, interviews and well over a thousand speeches—has received relatively little attention. This book provides thorough, reliable accounts of Castro’s distinctive views on a variety of topics, including revolution and counterrevolution; socialism and communism; anti-imperialism; human rights; the collapse of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe; the viability of Cuban socialism in a post-Soviet world; and the major challenges (e.g., the UK April 2026 • US March 2026 224 Pages PB 9798216446873 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781786616364 • £90.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798881866969 • £81.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781786616388 • £81.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
environmental crisis) facing humanity today. It also situate Castro’s ideas within the context of, on the one hand, the Marxist theoretical tradition and, on the other, Latin American revolutionary thought in general, and Cuban revolutionary thought. In doing so it explore both the affinities and dissimilarities between Castro’s views on certain fundamental questions and the views represented by such figures as Marx, Lenin, José Martí, Julio Antonio Mella and Ernesto Che Guevara. The Political Thought of Fidel Castro takes Castro’s thought as seriously as his deeds. Offering a comprehensive exposition and assessment of the fundamental elements of Fidel Castro’s political outlook, it will be essential reading for those who seek to understand the ideas that shaped the Cuban Revolution and influenced revolutionaries around the world.
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Random Dictatorships
Unpredictability of Authoritarian Politics in Eurasia Alexander Libman, Freie Universität Berlin Post-Soviet Eurasia continues to puzzle observers, defying expectations of experts. Most Russia watchers failed to predict the full-scale invasion against Ukraine in 2022, and this failure triggered intensive debates and multiple rounds of selfreflection. Random Dictatorships: Unpredictability of Authoritarian Politics in Eurasia argues that the supposedly unexpected turns of Eurasian politics are a manifestation of a deeper phenomenon – researchers’ limited ability to predict the policymaking in authoritarian regimes in general. Alexander Libman identifies three main factors making authoritarian politics difficult to predict: mistakes of authoritarian leaders, untransparent competition of elite factions, and omnipresent secrecy cultivated by autocrats. While scholars oscillate between two visions of authoritarian regimes – their presentation as highly rational and capable to adapt and as highly inefficient and doomed to poor performance – Libman suggests that many autocracies alternate between these two extremes in a difficult-to-predict fashion. The book explores three important cases from the post-Soviet Eurasia, when autocracies of this region defied expectations of external observers – Russia’s UK February 2026 • US February 2026 224 Pages • 2 figures and 5 tables PB 9798216391791 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666960556 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216260219 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781978764729 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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annexation of Crimea in 2014, the Bloody January in Kazakhstan in 2022 and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It discusses the reasons for the apparent unpredictability of autocracies in each of these cases, and identifies implications for how authoritarian regimes should be studied.
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The Triumph of Economic Freedom
Debunking the Seven Great Myths of American Capitalism Phil Gramm & Donald J. Boudreaux Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism has unleashed unimaginable growth in opportunity and prosperity. And yet, at key points in American history, economic disruption has led to a greater role for government, ostensibly to protect against capitalism’s excesses. Today, government regulates, mandates, subsidizes and controls a growing share of the American economy. In this book, Phil Gramm, one of America’s premier public policy advocates, and noted economist Donald J. Boudreaux look at the seven events and issues in American history that define, for most Americans, the role of government and how the 21st century world works. To many Americans, these 5 periods of American history—the Industrial Revolution, Progressive Era, UK May 2025 • US May 2025 280 Pages • 14 b/w illustrations HB 9798881808365 • £25.00 / $30.00 ePDF 9798881858643 • £22.50 / $27.00 ePub 9798881808372 • £22.50 / $27.00 Rowman & Littlefield
Great Depression, decline of America’s postwar preeminence in world trade, and the Great Recession--along with the existing levels of income inequality and poverty, represent strong evidence for expanding government in American life. Gramm and Boudreaux argue that the evidence points to a contrary verdict: government interference and failed policies pose the most significant threat to economic freedom. Setting up each topic with a “just the facts” approach that defies partisanship, Gramm and Boudreaux provide a compelling and highly readable powerful reassessment that will challenge open-minded readers to rethink the conventional wisdom and the policies that spring from them.
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Public Management and Administration An Introduction
Owen E. Hughes, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia and Deputy Dean, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, Australia Why do we need a public sector? What are the drivers of public sector change? What threat does authoritarianism pose to the public sector? This overview of the scope and scale of government covers competing approaches to public sector management and the key topics in the area, including strategic management, leadership and performance management. Setting out the key theoretical perspectives on public management, this book equips you with the key concepts and tools that you need to make sense of contemporary public management from different perspectives. With case studies and examples from Europe, Asia and Latin America, it reflects the latest changes to how public sectors are operated right across UK May 2026 • US May 2026 336 Pages HB 9781350373433 • £120.00 / $160.00 PB 9781350373426 • £37.99 / $51.95 ePDF 9781350373440 • £34.19 / $46.75 ePub 9781350373457 • £34.19 / $46.75 Bloomsbury Academic
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the world. Visuals, data and summaries allow you to see the practical application of ideas discussed.
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Understanding Urban Politics
Institutions, Representation, and Policies Timothy B. Krebs & Arnold Fleischmann In Understanding Urban Politics: Institutions, Representation, and Policies, Timothy B. Krebs and Arnold Fleischmann introduce a framework that focuses on the role of institutions in establishing the political “rules of the game,” the representativeness of city government, the influence of participation in local democracy, and how each of these features influences the adoption and implementation of public policies. Part 1 lays the groundwork by exploring the many meanings of “urban,” analyzing what local governments do, and providing a concise history of American urban development. Part 2 examines the organizations and procedures that are central to urban politics and policy making: intergovernmental relations, local legislatures, and the local executive branch. Part 3 looks UK May 2026 • US March 2026 368 Pages • 30 bw illus; 25 bw photos; 30 tables; 30 textboxes HB 9781538197318 • £100.00 / $135.00 PB 9781538197325 • £32.99 / $68.00 ePDF 9798765160596 • £29.69 / $61.20 ePub 9781538197332 • £29.69 / $61.20 Bloomsbury Academic
at elections and voting, local campaigns, and non-electoral forms of participation. The four chapters in Part 4 focus on the policy process and the delivery of local services, local government finances, “Building the City,” and policies affecting the quality of life.
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The Basics of Public Budgeting and Financial Management A Handbook for Academics and Practitioners Charles E. Menifield Connecting budgetary theory with practical tools, Charles E. Menifield carefully examines the key areas that every budgeting and financial management student needs to know in order to be a successful budgeteer in a local government, nonprofit, or state-level budget office. From the perspective of a bureaucrat, students examine various concepts and then work through in-class and out-of-class exercises and problems to reinforce those concepts and ideas through practical applications. Menifield provides an overview of the basic budgeting concepts, types, and techniques to orient students, along with discussion of budget cycles and the actors involved in the process. Chapters unfold to present personal services, operating, and capital budgets, as well as the various ways to fund public budgets. Students will gain an understanding of budgeting UK April 2025 • US April 2025 250 Pages • 13 BW Illustrations, 57 Tables, 39 Textboxes HB 9781538184028 • £123.00 / $160.00 PB 9781538184035 • £53.00 / $69.00 ePDF 9798881859312 • £47.70 / $62.10 ePub 9781538184042 • £47.70 / $62.10 Rowman & Littlefield
techniques and analytical models, but also how these methods are useful in answering important policy questions. Other topics include cash management, risk management, procurement, debt management, incentivizing economic development, and cutback management strategies. Menifield concludes with an examination of different data sources, data quality and appropriateness, and the different ways to communicate budget data effectively using charts, graphs, and slides.
Governing With AI
How the Public Sector Can Use Artificial Intelligence to Improve Performance Mark Fagan & Ben Gillies A practitioner guide for national, state, and local government managers who are looking for help in understand how they can adopt AI to generate public benefits while minimizing risks. AI is constantly in the news. How can it help your agency deliver more public value? With the current focus on efficiency in government, AI is ever more important. This book provides the foundational knowledge to be comfortable discussing AI, and then explains a step-by-step process for identifying use cases that are appropriate for organizations at the national, state, and local level. Using best practices for AI adoption and illustrative case studies, this book is an invaluable tool for anyone seeking to integrate AI into their workflow while mitigating risk. UK February 2026 • US February 2026 208 Pages • 23 b&w images HB 9798216369325 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9798216369318 • £22.99 / $29.95 ePDF 9798216369349 • £20.69 / $26.95 ePub 9798216369332 • £20.69 / $26.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Advancing Health Equity and Psychological Wellness in the Shadows of Colonialism Reflections from Indigenous Psychology
Arthur W. Blume, Washington State University, USA Examining the inequities that continue to impede health equity and those who champion it, this book advocates a new framework for global health and wellness based on Indigenous American psychology and culture. Throughout history, intergenerational detriments to health, including colonialism, environmental degradation, poverty, racism, unrestrained materialism, and violence, have impeded efforts to advance global health equity. The COVID-19 pandemic has only capitalized on these inequities and exposed considerable weaknesses in addressing collective, global health concerns. Using an Indigenous American framework, this book promotes a new understanding of how to reclaim and sustain health UK March 2026 • US March 2026 294 Pages PB 9798765129425 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9798765129388 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePDF 9798765129395 • £85.50 / $117.00 ePub 9798765129401 • £85.50 / $117.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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equity. An Indigenous paradigm views the natural world as inextricably connected and envisions a holistic model of health linked to egalitarian relationships with others and the environment. This book presents students and practitioners with a new method of addressing health equity—one which does not operate under the same cultural assumptions that created widespread inequities in the first place.
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Subversive Mothers, Disturbing Domesticity Making Visible the Politics of Home Clare Gallagher Home is a word brimming with emotion, expectation and contradiction. It is where love and comfort are sought, yet it can also feel oppressive or unreachable. Subversive Mothers, Disturbing Domesticity unpacks the many dimensions of what it means to inhabit this space – physically, emotionally, and socially. Is home a sanctuary, a workplace, or a battleground for equality? Far from a simple haven, home carries the weight of invisible labor, tension, and even danger. It is shaped by routines and rhythms, often dismissed as mundane or unproductive, yet requiring vast effort. Through engaging with these complexities, this book challenges the simplistic binaries that reduce home to a private, insignificant space. By turning towards the discomfort produced by our encounters there with dirt, disorder, and ambiguity – aspects most Experiments/On the Political
associated with mothers and domestic work – we uncover how home embodies power dynamics and acts of resistance.
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Subversive Mothers, Disturbing Domesticity invites readers to rethink this deeply familiar yet elusive space, recognizing the hidden histories, emotions, and struggles that exist within its walls. Thoughtful and compelling, it sheds light on why home is never just a place, but a profound experience that both shapes us and is shaped by us.
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Economic Report of the President, January 2025
Together with the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers Edited by Executive Office of the President The Economic Report of the President provides valuable information about the present state of the U.S. economy and its future course. The Economic Report is issued by the Executive Office of the President and the Council of Economic Advisers and transmitted to Congress no later than 10 days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. For more than 70 years, the Economic Report has provided a nearly contemporaneous record of how administrations have interpreted economic developments, the motivation for policy actions, and the results of those interventions. Included in the Economic Report of the President is the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. Each year, the Economic Report of the President UK December 2025 • US December 2025 464 Pages PB 9798892050722 • £49.99 / $74.95 Bloomsbury Academic
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Integrating Intelligence
Strengthening Sub-Federal National Security Darren E. Tromblay This book will explore how the present, ad hoc U.S. federal, state, and local intelligence enterprise developed and its prospects for continued evolution. It will examine the types of threats that have warranted information sharing, the structures through which this information is shared, and areas where the current enterprise can be strengthened to make all levels of government more effective against threats to national security. This book will provide a baseline knowledge of how the federal, state, and local domestically-oriented intelligence enterprise has reached its current organization and provide a common point of reference for stakeholders and students (i.e. future stakeholders) to assess the enterprise’s effectiveness and shortcomings. This book will be a valuable resource for both academic and practitioner audiences. Intelligence, criminal justice, and public policy programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels grapple with aspects of ensuring that the right UK June 2026 • US April 2026 368 Pages • 20 b/w illustrations HB 9781538189511 • £90.00 / $120.00 PB 9781538189528 • £39.99 / $54.95 ePDF 9798881860677 • £35.99 / $49.45 ePub 9781538189535 • £35.99 / $49.45 Bloomsbury Academic
information is shared and acted on in furtherance of national security. Additionally, practitioners – especially those responsible for developing the architecture for information sharing as well as those seeking a better understanding of the architecture they are using daily – will benefit from a resource that explains how and why the current system has developed and what course corrections are necessary to ensure that information can be exploited by federal, state, and local authorities to achieve a unified approach to national security.
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Counterintelligence Theory and Practice Hank Prunckun A comprehensive revision with the latest insights into counterintelligence practices. Counterintelligence Theory and Practice, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of this area of intelligence studies. More than just an update, the third edition is a comprehensive reconsideration of counterintelligence in the face of twenty-first century challenges—with revisions for currency, expanded content, new case studies, and a new chapter on cybersecurity, this text provides readers with the latest insights into counterintelligence practices. From cyber-espionage threats to the intricacies of human intelligence gathering, Hank Prunckun covers not just the “how” but also the “why” behind counterintelligence operations and frames the subject in broader historical, social, and ethical contexts.
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Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis Hank Prunckun In the dynamic and rapidly evolving field of intelligence, staying abreast of the latest methodologies and practices is crucial. Methods of Inquiry for Intelligence Analysis, Fourth Edition is an essential guide for seasoned practitioners and aspiring analysts. This edition not only continues the legacy of its predecessors but also addresses the new challenges in intelligence analysis using the scientific approach to research.
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The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Peace and Conflict Studies Perspectives from the Global South
Edited by Siddharth Tripathi & Solveig Richter Peace and Conflict Studies were broadly founded in the Northern Hemisphere, which strongly influenced how scholars understand patterns of peace or violence in Africa, Latin America and South-East Asia. This has proven to provide practitioners not only with false promises about external intervention, but even strengthened asymmetric colonial power structures in the way knowledge was and is produced. This handbook is the first of its kind with a comprehensive and inclusive agenda for the field of peace and conflict studies: It engages in a thorough academic discussion not only about the Global South(s) but includes perspectives from the Global South(s). It reflects productive discussions with scholars from the Global South(s) that constitute the majority of authors Bloomsbury Handbooks UK December 2025 • US December 2025 632 Pages • 4 bw illus, 5 tables HB 9781538147344 • £123.00 / $160.00 ePDF 9798765149744 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePub 9781538147351 • £0.00 / $0.00 Bloomsbury Academic
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in this handbook. In addition, while the handbook is a scholarly knowledge product, it is also an ongoing process for scholars, students and practitioners from both South(s) and North(s) with diverse backgrounds and positionalities. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Leipzig University.
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Critical Minerals and the Future of the U.S. Economy Edited by Gracelin Baskaran & Duncan Wood Safeguarding the minerals supply chains for advanced technologies in strategic industries is an economic and national security imperative. Yet significant vulnerabilities continue to exist in the supply chain, despite the ongoing efforts by government and businesses to address them. Policymakers now face the immense task of fortifying supplies of everything from lithium and graphite for advanced battery chemistries to tungsten and rare earth elements for the next generation of warfighting technologies. The United States will need to strengthen both its mission clarity and its execution with a comprehensive strategy focused on domestic resource development, advanced processing and recycling technologies, international partnerships, and sustainable practices.
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This edited volume brings together the analysis and policy recommendations of 15 experts, led by editors Dr. Gracelin Baskaran and Dr. Duncan Wood, to bolster U.S. competitiveness and leadership in these areas. It is intended to be a resource for policymakers in the new U.S. administration and Congress. The volume shows that resilient mineral chains have never been more important for U.S. security than at this critical juncture.
North Korea's Sea-Based WMD Capability The Second Leg of the Nuclear Triad
Joseph S. Bermudez, Ellen Kim & Victor D. Cha Utilizing the first-ever linguistic analysis of North Korean nuclear doctrine, this definitive study of North Korea’s nuclear ballistic submarine and missile programs fills in important information and intelligence gaps regarding the nation's nuclear capabilities. North Korea’s ongoing development of submarine forces and sea-based ballistic missile capabilities indicates that the country is striving to achieve the second leg of the nuclear triad. If successful, this will present a new national security challenge to the United States by enabling North Korea to boast a survivable nuclear weapons force. This book offers the most definitive study of North Korea’s ballistic missile submarine (SSB), submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), and CSIS Reports
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Global Terrorism Threat Assessment 2025 Alexander Palmer, Riley McCabe, Daniel Byman & Skyeler Jackson Terrorism remains a threat to U.S. citizens, assets, and interests despite the national security community's decreasing focus on counterterrorism. In 2025, domestic terrorism represents a greater threat to the United States than do international terrorist organizations. Most domestic terrorist attacks in the United States are carried out by lone actors or small groups who believe in a wide range of ideologies, such as white supremacy, partisan extremism, and Salafi-jihadism. In the Middle East, the Al Qaeda core, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, and the Islamic State remain committed to conducting attacks against the U.S. homeland as well as U.S. interests, although all three are weaker than they were during their heydays. Israel has degraded CSIS Reports UK July 2025 • US July 2025 72 Pages PB 9798765198421 • £25.99 / $35.00 ePDF 9798765198445 • £23.39 / $31.50 ePub 9798765198438 • £23.39 / $31.50 Bloomsbury Academic
Hezbollah’s and Hamas’s capabilities, while the Houthis have become a more active regional threat. Africa remains the most active theater for Salafi-jihadist organizations, but the continent’s groups are mostly tertiary priorities for the United States, with the exception of East Africa’s Al Shabaab. This report consists of three regional assessments of the threat from terrorist groups and movements in the United States, the Middle East (including Afghanistan), and Africa. The purpose of this assessment is to help U.S. national security policymakers, intelligence and law enforcement professionals, and military decision-makers prioritize among different terrorist threats.
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Land Warfare in the Twenty-First Century Amos C. Fox Considering the failure of Western states, coalitions, and alliances to succeed in their post-9/11 wars, Maneuver is Dead goes beyond the accepted norms and practices of strategic and military thought to examine what warfare looks like today with battlegrounds transformed by technology and old methods of warfare quickly becoming extinct. In doing so, Amos Fox seeks to overturn many of the long-standing shibboleths of strategic and military thought, including concepts such as the primacy of maneuver warfare, centers of gravity, and decisive battle, replacing those concepts with modern ideas that account for the realities of the international system, industrialized states, networked militaries, and new technology. Providing an alternative vision of the future of land warfare, Fox uses his on-the-ground experience, as well as a dynamic selection of case studies from contemporary wars including the Russo-Ukrainian War, Israel-Hamas and the Syrian Civil War, to Studies in Contemporary Warfare
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US Defense Policy in an Era of Great Power Competition Edited by James H. Anderson, Marine Corps University, USA & Daniel R. Green, U.S. Navy Reserves, USA Informed by senior policymakers with extensive expertise in defense policy, this book provides a comprehensive regional and functional perspective on US policy toward the People’s Republic of China. Confronting China addresses the central security questions of our generation: How best can the United States deter Chinese aggression and win the peace? China’s pursuit of global hegemony reflects a patient yet determined effort to reshape the international order in its favor. Deterring Chinese aggression and winning the peace necessitates an integrated approach that draws upon all instruments of US national power. Praeger Security International
Drawing on the insightful analysis of eleven senior national security practitioners, chapters discuss the China challenge from
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Debating Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Conflicting Perspectives on Causes, Contexts, and Responses Edited by Stuart Gottlieb This innovative text, now in its third edition, focuses students on engaging and informative debates on the most crucial issues in the field of terrorism and counterterrorism. Leading scholars, practitioners, and think-tank experts provide original essays that juxtapose pro and con arguments on hotly contested topics of clear importance to the understanding of the past, present, and future of terrorism and counterterrorism. These include: disagreements over the evolving nature of terrorist organizations, whether terrorism is ever justified, the role of poverty as a root cause of terrorism, whether militant jihadism or far-right extremism poses the greater terror threat, the likelihood of nuclear terrorism, whether military or non-military solutions should lead counterterrorism efforts, the utility of international organizations in helping to combat terrorism, and whether trade-offs with civil liberties are necessary to protect national security in an age of mass-casualty terrorism. UK April 2025 • US April 2025 450 Pages • 11 b/w illustrations; 4 tables HB 9781538189481 • £96.00 / $125.00 PB 9781538189498 • £38.00 / $49.00 ePDF 9798881862473 • £34.20 / $44.10 ePub 9781538189504 • £34.20 / $44.10 Rowman & Littlefield
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Akali Omeni, University of St Andrews, UK An essential and timely exploration of Boko Haram, a terror group whose violence has surpassed every other modern terror group including that of Daesh, al Qaeda and Al-Shabaab. This key volume constitutes a vital resource on Boko Haram’s ideology, history, leadership, and pivot towards violence. With particular emphasis on the events, personalities, radical histories and Islamic discourses that shaped Boko Haram’s rise, the volume examines the movement’s formative years under Muhammad Yusuf and its evolution into one of the world’s most violent terror groups. Delving into the traditions, institutional structures and politicisation of shari‘a (Islamic law) in Northern Nigeria, this ground-breaking volume offers crucial insights into Boko Haram as a social movement that exploits political UK January 2026 • US January 2026 296 Pages HB 9781350541061 • £95.00 / $130.00 PB 9781350541078 • £29.99 / $40.95 ePDF 9781350541092 • £26.99 / $36.85 ePub 9781350541085 • £26.99 / $36.85 Bloomsbury Academic
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Havana Syndrome
A Threat to National Security Armin Krishnan, East Carolina University Havana Syndrome is most likely caused by unknown types of directed energy weapons, either of the acoustic or electromagnetic variety. The technology for such weapons has been under development since at least the 1960s. The first covert attacks on U.S. diplomats may go back to that time when the phenomenon was called the “Moscow Signal.” Havana Syndrome: A Threat to National Security covers the history of anti-personnel directed-energy weapons (DEW) from the Soviet psychotronic weapons that were rumored to exist since the 1970s to the nonlethal weapons developed in the West in the 1980s onward. The book examines the publicly known details of Havana Syndrome and provides some analysis of the U.S. government investigations into Havana Syndrome with respect to what has been declassified. The most likely perpetrators are the Russian or Chinese governments, as some incidents seem to be related to their strategic interests, and UK September 2025 • US September 2025 288 Pages • 3 tables PB 9781666950861 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781666950847 • £80.00 / $120.00 ePDF 9798216277026 • £72.00 / $108.00 ePub 9781666950854 • £72.00 / $108.00 Bloomsbury Academic
as both would have the technology to carry out such sophisticated attacks. Havana Syndrome establishes a connection between the Anomalous Health Incidents and what NATO analysts have termed cognitive warfare to speculate about the true purpose of these mysterious attacks.
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9/11
The Essential Reference Guide Edited by Stephen E. Atkins, Texas A&M This important reference work is essential reading for students attempting to understand the horrific events of September 11, 2001, and the impact the devastating terrorist attack had on the United States. The World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of September 11, 2001, continue to have a major impact on the United States. The deadliest day in modern U.S. history reverberates in numerous ways, as its influence is felt in such areas as civil liberties, foreign policy, immigration, and presidential powers. This essential guide features illuminating essays written by top scholars that discuss in detail the impact of 9/11 in these critical areas, as well as how it has changed the lives of Muslim Americans in the 21st century. UK August 2025 • US August 2025 368 Pages • 20 bw illus HB 9781440873027 • £85.00 / $110.00 PB 9798216277521 • £28.99 / $39.95 ePDF 9781440873034 • £26.09 / $35.95 ePub 9798216041290 • £26.09 / $35.95 Bloomsbury Academic
The core of this reference work are the 74 A–Z entries on all of the key groups, individuals, and events surrounding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including the first responders, the heroes of United Airlines Flight 93, the Osama bin Laden raid, and the 9/11 Commission Report. In addition, the book offers a carefully curated group of primary source documents essential to understanding the 9/11 attacks. This resource concludes with a detailed chronology and an annotated bibliography.
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