Kurds and their Struggle for Autonomy: Enduring Identity and Clientelism is a comprehensive study of the roots of Kurdish identity, the processes of identity formation among the Kurds, and the Kurds' seemingly never-ending struggle for self-determination. By relying on a hybrid theoretical model of identity politics, this book offers a thorough ......
This book examines Joseph Stalin's increasing popularity in the post-Soviet space, and analyzes how his image, and the nostalgia it evokes, is manipulated and exploited for political gain. The author argues that, in addition to the evil dictator and the Georgian comrade, there is a third portrayal of Stalin--the one projected by the generation ......
A concise history that proves that dissent is patriotic The history of America is a history of dissent. Protests against the British Parliament's taxation policies led to the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. At the Constitutional Convention the founders put the right to protest in the First Amendment of the Bill of ......
This book explores the ecology of digital racism. It offers an innovative contemporary approach for understanding how people manifest racism and transform it through digital technologies. It starts by highlighting the proliferation of technologically mediated racisms, and the shortcomings of existing accounts. Digital racism takes many forms, ......
This book is all about understanding Russian thinking on security. Marcin Skladanowski argues that that Aleksandr G. Dugin, in a radicalized form, presents thinking about security typical of the Russian political tradition, which is nationalist, state-centric, and anti-Western.
This book provides an in-depth study of the life of the late Pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. The authors present a twenty-first-century reinterpretation of Nkrumah's Pan-Africanist views in the context of Black unity as well as Black liberation within the African continent and the United States and Caribbean diaspora.
A SWOT Analysis of a Family-Wahhabi Nationalism Case Study
This book analyzes the process of national development in Saudi Arabia through the use of the SWOT model, which examines the kingdom's strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats it faces in internal and external arenas. This book combines a historical and contemporary analysis of Saudi politics and society.
Many Americans wonder how our politics became dysfunctional-and what it will take to fix it. Historian Michael Santos takes readers on a journey to the heart of the American nation and the values that have allowed us to overcome previous challenges, sometimes in spite of ourselves.
In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them.
