Catálogo de libros: Activismo político

2975 Catálogo de libros: Activismo político

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  • Drug Trafficking and International Security
    Paul Rexton Kan
    Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking. ...
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    48,88 €

  • Combating Criminalized Power Structures
    Michael Dziedzic
    Criminalized power structures are the predominant spoilers of peace settlements and stability operations. This volume focuses on the means available to practitioners to cope with the challenges posed by CPS along with recommendations for improving their efficacy and an enumeration of the conditions essential for their success. ...
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    53,10 €

  • Drug Trafficking and International Security
    Paul Rexton Kan
    Each chapter examines how drug trafficking affects a certain security issue, such as rogue nations, weak and failing states, protracted intrastate conflicts, terrorism, transnational crime, public health, and cyber security. This book provides an understanding of how an array of threats to international security are exacerbated by drug trafficking. ...
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    105,63 €

  • Criminalized Power Structures
    Michael Dziedzic
    Criminalized power structures (CPS) are illicit networks that profit from transactions in black markets and from criminalized state institutions while perpetuating a culture of impunity. The book articulates a typology for assessing the threats of CPS and for implementing appropriate strategies to achieve sustainable peace. ...
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    66,02 €

  • Expose, Oppose, Propose
    William K Carroll
    Neoliberal capitalism positions us all as consumers in a hypermarket where money talks. For the majority of people around the globe, this translates as precarity and immiseration. But how can we break from this dominant ideological framework?Expose, Oppose, Propose details how, since the mid 1970s, transnational alternative policy groups (TAPGs) have functioned as think tanks o...
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    147,94 €

  • Civil Society and Activism in Europe
    This book examines the role of civil society organizations in several advanced European democracies: Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Specifically the book focuses on how voluntary organizations contribute to civic and democratic health and assesses the impact of different organizational types on social capital. ...
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    78,48 €

  • HANDBOOK OF TERRORISM IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC
    ROHAN GUNARATNA & STEFANIE KAM
    "This handbook explains the rise of terrorist groups in the Asia-Pacific region, among them ethno-nationalist groups, jihadi groups, as well as Islamic-State provinces. Government responses to these threats vary, but a common thread is the lack of preparation for terrorists' use of cyber tools to recruit operatives and organize attacks. Co-edited by one of the world's m...
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    207,54 €

  • A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law
    Matt Clement
    This book examines how movements from below pose challenges to the status quo. The 2010s have seen an explosion of protest movements, sometimes characterised as riots by governments and the media. But these are not new phenomena, rather reflecting thousands of years of conflict between different social classes. Beginning with struggles for democracy and control of the state in ...
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    144,76 €

  • ISIS Defectors
    Ahmet S Yayla / Anne Speckhard
    The authors hadn't intended to put themselves in danger but that's what happened as they interviewed an unprecedented thirty-two battle-hardened defectors about the gritty details of life inside ISIS. With unparalleled breadth, depth and access, ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate offers a compelling view of ISIS from men, women and teens now in hiding, ha...
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    31,27 €

  • ISIS
    Brian Steed
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    89,14 €

  • Children and the Afterlife of State Violence
    Daniela Jara
    This book examines memories of political violence in Chile after the 1973 coup and a 17-years-long dictatorship. Based on individual and group interviews, it focuses on the second generation children, adults today, born to parents who were opponents of Pinochet´s regime. Focusing on their lived experience, the intersection between private and public realms during Pinochet’s pol...
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    65,11 €

  • Taking the Square
    Explores a rich variety of occupations of public space in order to explore new forms of public expression and modes of citizen participation. ...
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    181,65 €

  • The European Union’s fight against terrorism
    Christopher Baker-Beall
    This book presents a discourse analysis of the European Union’s counter-terrorism policy and explores the societal effects of the ’fight against terrorism’ ...
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    157,55 €

  • The Autobiography of J.J. War
    J.J. War / J.JWar
    This is the autobiography of J.J. War that stops shortly after September 11, 2001. Throughout his life, he had been given the power to play God-first, as a young boy about to lose his father; then, after seeing the World Trade Towers on TV, said to be the world’s tallest buildings at the time, which allows him to reveal a startling time capsule prediction. Finally, of course, t...
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    16,63 €

  • Taking the Square
    Explores a rich variety of occupations of public space in order to explore new forms of public expression and modes of citizen participation. ...
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    59,88 €

  • Bringing Religion Into International Relations
    This book has several main themes and arguments. International Relations has been westerncentric, which has contributed to its ignoring religion; while religion is not the main driving force behind IR, international politics cannot be understood without taking religion into account; the role of religion is related to the fact that IR has evolved to become more than just interst...
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    48,16 €

  • Security Issues in the Greater Middle East
    Karl Yambert
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    67,40 €

  • Security Issues in the Greater Middle East
    Karl Yambert
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    107,86 €

  • Islamic State and the Coming Global Confrontation
    Hussein Solomon
    Thisbook analyzes the origins and organizational structure of Islamic State (IS), examiningits military triumphs and success in securing new recruits via social media. Fromits base in Iraq and Syria, IS has spread globally with 17 regional affiliatesfrom Indonesia to Nigeria and sleeper cells in at least 60 countries, capableof atrocities like the Paris attack. To understand th...
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    71,45 €

  • The Origins and Dynamics of Genocide
    Roddy Brett
    This book rigorously documents and explains the genocide perpetrated by the Guatemalan state against indigenous Maya populations within the context of its counterinsurgency campaign against leftist guerrillas between 1981 and 1983. In doing so it brings to light a genocide that has remained largely invisible within both academic disciplines and the practitioner sphere. ...
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    146,87 €

  • Chechen Jihad
    Yossef Bodansky
    Yossef Bodansky, the author whose #1 New York Times bestseller Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America first introduced American readers to al Qaeda’s evil mastermind prior to 9/11, returns to sound an important alert. In this authoritative look at the roots of modern terrorism, Bodansky pinpoints the troubled region of Chechnya as a dangerous and little-understood cruci...
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    13,83 €

  • Activism in Jordan
    Penelope Larzilliere
    In Jordan, between censorship, repression and election rigging, political activism is limited – despite the democratic opening glimpsed in 1989. In this important new book, Pénélope Larzillière charts the path of longstanding activists in Jordan and shows how opposition movements there have shifted from the underground to a heavily controlled public sphere. Activists discuss th...
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    115,28 €

  • Pan Am 103 - The Lockerbie Cover-Up
    William C Chasey
    For the first time, the truth about who blew Pan Am 103 out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, is revealed by the man who risks all to tell it: Dr. William Chasey, Foreign Agent 4221.Dr. Chasey exposes the cruelest international cover-up in modern history, one that makes Watergate, Irangate and Whitewater pale by comparison.Find out how and why the United States, Great Brita...
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    23,33 €

  • POPULISMS POWER P
    LAURA GRATTAN
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    41,64 €

  • Violent Extremism Online
    This book explores the interface between terrorism and the Internet and presents contemporary approaches to understanding extremism online, and comprises contributions from some leading scholars in the field. ...
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    281,73 €

  • The Religious Right and the Talibanization of America
    Masood Ashraf Raja
    This highly original book suggests that the practices of Taliban and the American far right, two very significant and poorly understood groups, share common features. This commonality can be found in the philosophical basis of their ideological beliefs, in their comparative worldviews, and in their political practices.  As Raja argues, the Taliban are much less the product of a...
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    65,35 €

  • Radical Conflict
    This book examines instances of radical conflict in order to provide critical analyses of media and mediation implicated in such conflicts, often for ill but sometimes for good. Chapters offer ways of thinking intended to attenuate spirals of violence and move radical conflicts toward new means of discourse. ...
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    149,53 €

  • The World’s Most Threatening Terrorist Networks and Criminal Gangs
    Terrorist organizations and international criminal networks pose an increasing danger to the world. This book looks at diverse groups from Al Qaeda to Mexican drug cartels and includes a chapter on terrorist WMD threats. This look at sub-state rivals is recommended to all serious students of international security. ...
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    48,01 €

  • Counter-Terrorism
    Ajit Maan
    Counter-Terrorism makes a connection, unique to terrorism studies, between the mechanisms of colonizing narratives and psychological warfare aimed at recruitment. There is an urgent need to understand the narrative tactics of terrorist recruitment and an equal if not greater need to destabilize and exploit the weaknesses of those narratives. ...
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    44,84 €

  • The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone
    Francesca Lessa / Vincent Druliolle
    Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. ...
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    48,06 €


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