Politics

The first book-length treatment of how loss and damage policy and politics works at the national level, this book appeals to a broad audience with its timely focus on a headline-dominating issue. A valuable primer for practitioners addressing loss and damage, including policymakers, experts, and civil society stakeholders.

This book discusses the practice of free speech and its limitations - defamation and hate speech - in the context of Indonesia.

The Routledge Handbook of Human Rights in Southeast Asia analyses some of the region's most pressing human rights issues, while also giving attention to those actors and institutions that work towards improvement.

This book examines the profound transformation that has occurred in Ukrainian society as a result of Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ¿ A BARACK OBAMA SUMMER PICKA rollicking, revelatory look at the tumult of the early 1990s and the rise of a new, more berserk America that birthed the Donald Trump Era'When the Clock Broke is leagues more insightful on the subject of Trump's ascent than most writing that purports to address the issue directly' Washington Post'Terrific . . . Vibrant . . . When the Clock Broke is one of those rarest of books: unflaggingly entertaining while never losing sight of its moral core' New York TimesWith the Soviet Union extinct, Saddam Hussein defeated and US power at its zenith, the early 1990s promised a 'kinder, gentler America.' Instead, it was a period of punishing economic hardship, rising anger and domestic strife, setting the tone for the polarization and resurgent extremism we know today.The early 1990s climate of despair was weaponized by con men, conspiracists and racists - notably the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke - both in the wider culture and at the ballot box. In other words, they sought to 'break the clock' of progress and 'repeal the twentieth century'. They gave Americans' resentment a shape and direction, and forged a new kind of paranoid, conspiratorial politics where harmless roguishness and vicious hate became mixed up, as well as declaring a culture war on liberal elites. It was in this moral confusion that the 'indigenous American berserk', as Philip Roth put it, took on new and ever-wilder forms.In this rollicking, original and often hilarious book, John Ganz narrates the fall of the Reagan order and the rise of the conspiratorial politics that birthed Donald Trump's America.One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2024One of the New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2024Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2024

A biography of the legendary American rapper Tupac Shakur, his personal politics and position as a symbol for revolution

This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots - human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features.

This book uses the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state's use of ideology, namely the political theodicy of development, as a governing tactic in the reform era.

Improvement of Desert Ranges in Soviet Central Asia (1985) examines the progress made in the Soviet Union's attempts to increase desert vegetation without using irrigation or fertilizers. Prominent Soviet scientists analyse the use of ecological resources in desert ranges to produce more productive grazing land.

The Soviet Union (1989) examines the state of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s. It claimed to offer a new social, economic and political order and this book looks at the extent of its success. It surveys the major components of Soviet society and examines the principal issues and debates that surround its assessment.

The Soviet Secret Police (1957) depicts the main aspects of the development, structure and functions of the secret police of the Soviet Union forms a full and objective study of the secret police and its role in the Soviet system.

Gorbachev at the Helm (1987) analyses the policy decisions taken at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in February-March 1986, declared at the time by the Soviet government as a major turning point in Soviet history.

The book brings together a range of socio-legal and law and humanities scholars to elaborate and explore the idea of the legal 'masterplot'.