Politics

Examines the flourishing relationship between North Korea, Cuba, and the Latin American Left through the 1960s, offering a new understanding of North Korean foreign policy and the rise of Tricontinentalism. An important addition to studies on the international Left and the Cold War.

Die Verleihung des Friedensnobelpreises von 1971 an Willy Brandt überraschte damals viele Deutsche. Doch das norwegische Nobelkomitee einte die Überzeugung, dass niemand im Jahr zuvor mehr für den Frieden in der Welt geleistet hatte als der deutsche Bundeskanzler. Über diesen Erfolg sollten jedoch die übrigen deutschen Friedensnobelpreiskandidaten der Jahre von 1962 bis 1971 nicht vergessen werden. Auch Ernst Bloch, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Heinrich Grüber, Kurt Hahn, Martin Niemöller, Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze, Fritz v. Unruh und das von Herbert Barth ins Leben gerufene Internationale Jugend-Festspieltreffen Bayreuth haben sich um das Ansehen Deutschlands in der Welt verdient gemacht.

Discover how animal agriculture threatens our planet and explore solutions, from high-tech food innovations to activism, to create a sustainable and ethical future.

In this fully revised and updated edition of his 2021 biography of Starmer, Michael Ashcroft traces how he went from schoolboy socialist to radical lawyer and Director of Public Prosecutions before - aged 52 - becoming an MP, then Labour leader and now the occupant of Number 10.

The Afterlife of Malcolm X is the first major study of the remarkable influence that the iconic black leader has had not in life but in death, in the sixty years since his bloody assassination in the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965.

This book addresses key challenges and issues faced by South Asians in the diaspora, focusing on irregular migration, remittances, gender, identity, and citizenship, and how they are intertwined, particularly in the context of globalization.

This book provides up-to-date information on the causes, effects, and remedies of damp on residential properties and their occupiers.

Public policy and public administration are fundamental to a functioning society. These fields are embedded into our institutions, everyday lives, and the greater culture. This book will explore public interest roles in 2025 from the student, scholar, and practitioner perspective, as well as from their impacts on people and the planet.

National Socilaist Cultural Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive account of the German-Nordic Writers' House.

This book examines the international causes of hunger and malnutrition and reveals how critical elements of the global economy heighten food insecurity in the developing world. It will be of interest to students, scholars, and practitioners in the fields of global food security, international development, and global political economy.

This book brings together historians, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers to reconstruct how the Paris Commune of 1871 has continued to serve as a source of inspiration to different movements throughout the past 150 years, and how communalist thought and practices help us reimagine what radical democracy may look like today.

This book provides a neorealist explanation of transatlantic relations and explores key issues at the forefront of the relationship between the US and its European allies in the context of the Russia-Ukraine war.

This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focusing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capital's financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth century.

This book explores the unique challenges faced by rapidly growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, including urban crime, informality, land governance, development control, and the degradation of green spaces, as well as how these issues are addressed in planning education and emerging innovations.

This book explores the unique challenges faced by rapidly growing cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, including urban crime, informality, land governance, development control, and the degradation of green spaces, as well as how these issues are addressed in planning education and emerging innovations.

This book investigates the framing of the terrorist threat in France from 2015 to 2020 as an 'exceptional' challenge which requires a 'special' public security response.

This volume places scarcity as a defining aspect of minorities' collective experience and as a tool to comprehend ongoing and unresolved societal friction and global environmental challenges, strategies for survival and reproduction of the status quo, as well as aspirational desires for social mobility.