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The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean (2024)
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This book focuses on Anglo-American military cooperation since the end of the Cold War. It argues that military cooperation has been an important source of ballast underpinning the broader ‘Special Relationship’. This cooperation has been relatively... Read More about The Anglo-American military relationship: arms across the ocean.

Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals (2024)
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This open access book provides an accessible insight into how to tackle corruption in organisations and institutions. It explains how to recognise and analyse corruption issues, together with knowledge and advice on how they can be avoided, prevented... Read More about Sector-Based Action Against Corruption: A Guide for Organisations and Professionals.

Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security (2024)
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As Europe finds itself once again caught between two superpowers – the USA and a rising China – little has been written about a relationship that will have a profound influence on the international order: the relationship between the People's Republi... Read More about Germany and China: How Entanglement Undermines Freedom, Prosperity and Security.

Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda (2024)
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Through an analysis of the recent political history of Tanzania and Uganda, Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions offers a novel explanation of why authoritarian parties and legislatures vary in strength, and why this variation matters. Micha... Read More about Wealth, Power, and Authoritarian Institutions: Comparing Dominant Parties and Parliaments in Tanzania and Uganda.

Quotas as Game Changers for the Recruitment, Selection, and Performance of Elected Politicians (2024)
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Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone (2023)
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In post-war Sierra Leone, a range of transitional justice mechanisms were implemented to address experiences of conflict, violence, and human rights violations. Much of the research on local transitional justice processes has focused on the work of o... Read More about Navigating Local Transitional Justice: Agency at Work in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone.

Humour and Politics in Africa: Beyond Resistance (2023)
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Harriet Taylor Mill (2023)
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Harriet Taylor Mill is an overlooked figure in the history of political philosophy, ethics, economics and politics, over-shadowed by the fame of her writing partner, and eventual husband, John Stuart Mill. Given that they met at a very early age (whe... Read More about Harriet Taylor Mill.

The Long Shadow of Default: Britain's Unpaid War Debts to the United States, 1917-2020 (2023)
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Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement (2022)
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Since the 1990s, modern slavery has been recognized as a global problem, with campaigners around the world providing assessments of its nature and extent, its drivers, and possible solutions for ending it. However, largely absent from the global anti... Read More about Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement.

The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana (2021)
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For the first time, The Secret Royals uncovers the remarkable relationship between the Royal Family and the intelligence community, from the reign of Queen Victoria to the death of Princess Diana. In an enthralling narrative, Richard J. Aldrich an... Read More about The Secret Royals: Spying and the Crown, from Victoria to Diana.

Consequences of context : how the social, political, and economic environment affects voting (2021)
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This book presents the most extensive study to date of how context influences citizens’ electoral behaviour. Context consists of aspects of the political, economic and social domains, and citizens’ electoral behaviour involves their participation in... Read More about Consequences of context : how the social, political, and economic environment affects voting.

Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe (2021)
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In the wake of the global financial crisis, water services have come under renewed neoliberal assault across Europe. At the same time, the struggle against water privatization has continued to pick up pace; from the re-municipalization of water in Gr... Read More about Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe.

Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives and Democracy in Europe (2021)
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John Stuart Mill, socialist (2021)
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The West’s War Against Islamic State: Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq (2021)
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On the 29th of June 2014 ISIS declared the establishment of a caliphate stretching across territories in Iraq and Syria. In response, Operation Inherent Resolve, a US-led 77 nation coalition, was launched to respond to the threat of Islamic State. Th... Read More about The West’s War Against Islamic State: Operation Inherent Resolve in Syria and Iraq.

Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking (2021)
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This project aimed to establish and promote a clear case for the global development community to prioritize anti-slavery and anti-trafficking in development programming and policies. Sustainable Development Goal Target 8.7 commits states to fight mod... Read More about Developing Freedom: The Sustainable Development Case for Ending Modern Slavery, Forced Labour, Human Trafficking.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine (2020)
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Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine provides a detailed exegesis of the analogy between the self (as body and soul, always in relation to other such beings) and the city (or political society) in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo (354... Read More about Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine.

Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism (2020)
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Goethe’s 1832 poem Faust offers a vision of humanity realising freedom and prosperity through transcending natural adversity. Changing European Visions of Disaster and Development returns to Faust as a way of exploring the rise and fall of European h... Read More about Changing European visions of disaster and development : rekindling Faust's humanism.

De kern van de politiek (2020)
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