Catálogo de libros: Activismo político

1279 Catálogo de libros: Activismo político

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  • Free Speech and Koch Money
    Isaac Kamola / Ralph Wilson
    In recent years hundreds of high-profile ’free speech’ incidents have rocked US college campuses. Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter and other right-wing speakers have faced considerable protest, with many being disinvited from speaking. These incidents are widely circulated as examples of the academy’s intolerance towards conservative views. But this response is not t...
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    126,99 €

  • Destructive Twin Visions of ISIS & Al-Qaeda
    Richard Miriti
    The accurate description of terrorism is a complex phenomenon to conceptualize primarily due to the ideological interpretations. The best approach to undertake is starting by the point that the main objective of terrorism is to terrorize. This is a role that is often assumed by various regimes, a state (especially for despotic regimes), organized force, or state. Terror has bee...
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    12,47 €

  • Anarchism and the Black Revolution
    Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
    ’A powerful - even startling - book that challenges the shibboleths of ’white’ anarchism’. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism are as important now as they were at the end of the 1970s. Perhaps more so’ - Peter James Hudson, Black Agenda Report Anarchism and the Black Revolution first connected Black radical thought to anarchist theory in 1979. Now amidst...
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    127,12 €

  • The Language of Violent Jihad
    Paul Baker / Rachelle Vessey / Tony McEnery
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    132,81 €

  • IRAN; Call for Justice
    National Council of Resistance of Iran / NCRI U.S. Representative Office / NCRI U.SRepresentative Office / NCRI- US
    Iran in 2021 is on the threshold of fundamental change. The clerics’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, finds his regime increasingly weak and in jeopardy following a series of uprisings since 2017, systemic corruption, a bankrupt economy, and an explosive society. Faced with these realities, Khamenei has opted to close ranks and consolidate power in the hands of those absolutely lo...
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    25,73 €

  • Dangerous Cargo (Book Three)
    Clark Selby
    CIA agent Tom Parker and Army Brigadier General Jack Hayes are set on a twisting and turning course throughout the world in an effort to capture or kill Dr. al-Sadr, al Qaeda’s number three man.Al-Sadr’s latest plan to bring deaths to Americans is by shipping biological or chemical weapons into America using containers from the Far East. He plans to introduce these deadly mater...
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    9,09 €

  • Memories of 9/11
    Mary Walsh
    About Memories of 9/11The baby boomer generation always asked, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' The question now is: 'Where were you when the towers fell on 9/11?' This book is an anthology of those answers from relatives, friends, colleagues, and friends of friends. Even 20 years later, the memories are vivid. Let’s hope that the next generation never has to endure some...
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    7,38 €

  • Counter-terrorism and civil society
    This book examines the intersection between national and international counter-terrorism policies and civil society in national and regional contexts in the post-9/11 era. It serves as a critical discussion accounting for the experiences of civil society in the enforcement of global security measures by governments in the Americas, Africa, Asia-Pacific, Central Asia, Europe and...
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    156,94 €

  • Proscribing peace
    Sophie Haspeslagh
    Proscribing peace shows how the listing of armed groups as terrorists has made pre-negotiations harder and more prolonged. Drawing on fieldwork in Colombia during the negotiation with the FARC, Sophie Haspeslagh introduces the concept of ’linguistic ceasefire’ which becomes a central pre-condition for the initiation of a peace process. ...
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    145,12 €

  • The Role of Law Enforcement in Emergency Management and Homeland Security
    This book examines the role and involvement of law enforcement agencies across the spectrum of homeland security and emergency management. Contributions from expert practitioners and academics are organized around the mission areas of mitigation/protection, prevention, preparedness, response and recovery. ...
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    178,36 €

  • The US and NATO Withdrawal from Afghanistan
    Musa Khan Jalalzai
    The unceremonious and gruff announcement of President Joe Biden to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan, once again authenticated reservations of Afghan politicians and military generals that the United States has embraced the culture of breaking faith with friends and allies. The US leadership has never been a true friend of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. It has com...
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    55,47 €

  • In and Against the State
    London Edinburgh Weekend Return Group
    Originally published as a pamphlet in 1979 and again by Pluto in 1980, In and Against the State brought together questions of working-class struggle and state power, exploring how revolutionary socialists might reconcile working in the public sector with their radical politics. Informed by autonomist political ideas and practices that were central to the protests of 1968, the b...
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    127,25 €

  • Counter-terror by proxy
    Emmanuel Pierre Guittet / Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet
    Counter-terror by proxy exposes the motives, form and rationale of extrajudicial military force that was violently deployed by the Spanish government against Basque separatists during the 1980s. It offers a comprehensive understanding of a dark side of recent Spanish history and analyses the wider consequences of the resort to illegal counterterrorist practices in liberal regim...
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    145,22 €

  • Shackled in Darkness
    Ilongo Fritz Ngale
    Shackled in Darkness presents through a poetic format some of the burning, contemporary, and existential issues facing humankind.This poetry collection is a clarion call not only for everyone to become aware of what is happening in the world, but to motivate people to make the necessary mind-set changes that can be the basis for veritable and sustainable sociocultural and eco...
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    13,56 €

  • Hate Groups
    David Newton
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    82,14 €

  • Violence in the Name of God
    Joel Hodge
    This book traces the trajectory of militant jihadism to show how violence is more intentionally embraced as the centre of worship, social order and ideology. Undertaking an in-depth analysis of militant jihadist groups and utilising the work of René Girard, Joel Hodge argues that the extreme violence of militant jihadists is a response to modernity in two ways that have not bee...
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    52,16 €

  • RELIGION AND IDENTITY POLITICS
    MATHEWS MATHEW & MELVIN TAY
    Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive. This edited volume seeks to spotlight the perspectives of academics and practitioners vis-à-vis global trends in religious fundamentalism and right-wing extremism over the past decade. It pre...
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    118,23 €

  • RELIGION AND IDENTITY POLITICS
    MATHEWS MATHEW & MELVIN TAY
    Discourse on fundamentalism has gained much attention in recent years, particularly in a post-9/11 context where extremist or terrorist threats are more prominent, perilous, and pervasive. This edited volume seeks to spotlight the perspectives of academics and practitioners vis-à-vis global trends in religious fundamentalism and right-wing extremism over the past decade. It pre...
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    58,10 €

  • POLITICAL STABILITY IN CHINA’S CHANGING SOCIAL LANDSCAPE
    WEI SHAN
    This book aims to contribute to the debate on 'authoritarian resilience' with empirical studies from a range of perspectives, including regime support, nationalism, environmental movement, ethnic conflicts and internet management. The chapters in this book centre around two separate but intertwined themes and are collated to discuss on the stability of China in Xi Jinping’s era...
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    81,63 €

  • Extremist Mindsets and Strategies
    S Clara Kim / S. Clara Kim
    Presenting an analysis of modern-day extremism, this book explores how any group of people or participants in a movement--political, ideological, racial, ethnonational, religious, or issue-driven--can adopt extremist mindsets if they believe their existence or interests are threatened. Looking beyond 'fringe' resistance groups already labeled as terrorists or subversives, ...
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    71,34 €

  • Billion Hours of Good
    Chris Field
    A billion hours is equivalent to 114,000 years. That’s how much good we’re going to do together. Just 14 minutes at a time.You don’t need more money, or time, or even another election cycle to bring transformational change to your community. What you need is to believe that daily microdoses of good over years and years can create a great return. Stop waiting for the big change ...
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    13,19 €

  • A People’s Green New Deal
    Max Ajl
    The idea of a Green New Deal was launched into popular consciousness by US Congressperson Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2018. It has become a watchword in the current era of global climate crisis. But what - and for whom - is the Green New Deal? In this concise and urgent book, Max Ajl provides an overview of the various mainstream Green New Deals. Critically engaging with their ...
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    127,13 €

  • Left Populism in Europe
    Marina Prentoulis
    This book evaluates the transformational process of left populism across grassroots, national and European levels and asks what we can do to harness the power of broad-based, popular left politics. While the right is using populist rhetoric to great effect, the left’s attempts have been much less successful. Syriza in Greece and Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party in Britain have both...
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    127,25 €

  • 9/11
    Stephen Atkins
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    141,01 €

  • Highlights of ADB’s Cooperation with Civil Society Organizations 2020
    Asian Development Bank
    This annual report provides insights on ADB’s cooperation with civil society organizations (CSOs) in 2020, featuring lessons and success stories in Asia and the Pacific.Partnerships with CSOs help promote community participation and social inclusion throughout the project cycle of ADB-financed operations. In 2020, ADB approved a new indicator for assessing civil society engagem...
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    26,67 €

  • 32 Counties
    Kieran Allen
    The 32 counties of Ireland were divided through imperial terror and gerrymandering. Partition was borne from a Tory strategy to defend the British Empire and has spawned a ’carnival of reaction’ in Irish politics ever since. Over the last 100 years, conservative forces have dominated both states offering religious identity as a diversion from economic failures and inequality. T...
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    127,20 €

  • Irregular Soldiers and Rebellious States
    Michael P. Noonan / Michael PNoonan
    Michael P. Noonan examines U.S. capabilities to conduct foreign internal defense and unconventional warfare. Using a newly developed typology and nine case studies, he places campaigns within broader contexts of military culture and history, offering 3 findings and 6 policy recommendations for considering when or not to use such capabilities. ...
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    122,36 €

  • Irregular Soldiers and Rebellious States
    Michael P. Noonan / Michael PNoonan
    Michael P. Noonan examines U.S. capabilities to conduct foreign internal defense and unconventional warfare. Using a newly developed typology and nine case studies, he places campaigns within broader contexts of military culture and history, offering 3 findings and 6 policy recommendations for considering when or not to use such capabilities. ...
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    54,55 €

  • Peaceful Resistance
    Paul Haedo
    This book is a guide for those who are frustrated with the direction that their government and state is heading towards, and who wish to do something about it while also remaining in the realm of legality and peace. Inspired by tried and proven methods that time and time again have historically demonstrated effectiveness, Peaceful Resistance is the book for those who want to ch...
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    16,54 €

  • Effective Advocacy
    Mary Alice Haddad
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    43,58 €


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