Reveals the extraordinary impact of the PR industry. This volume illuminates the various tactics used by PR companies to smother dissenting views, mask sponsors, attack the competition, and influence everyone from Joe Public to top politicians. It shows how these companies control our lives.
The goals of this book are to provide a comprehensive review of identity policies as they are being implemented in various countries around the world, to consider the key arenas where identity policies are developed and to provide intellectual coherence for making sense of these various activities.
The authors presence at key events pre and post 2001 and unique access to a family of tribal leaders is the basis for an investigation of the peace plan offered by famed Resistance leader, Abdul Haq and the strategic and intelligence failures of US and British agencies in relation to this. Essential to understanding the War and how to exit Afgh.
Uncovers the truth about sex in countries like Egypt, Syria, Morocco and Yemen. Richly detailed and nuanced, Behind the Veil of Vice sheds light on a taboo subject and unravels widely held myths about the region. In the process, Bradley also delivers an important message about our own society's contradictions.
Explores how individuals and institutions in Latin American democracies, from rural regions of Colombia and the Dominican Republic to urban centres of Brazil and Mexico, use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice.
Many see the meeting between literature and politics as fraught. In this engagement with novels and their authors, Christopher Hitchens seeks to show that while the encounter between writers and those in power is not always smooth, it generally embodies a dialectic that is worth pursuit.
As part of a common cultural heritage minority languages in Europe need protection. The contributions to this book reflect urgent, stimulating and productive debates among researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, politics and sociology, and among language activists and policy makers.
The emergence of the modern Middle East has been accompanied by a concentration of coercive power in the state. This title examines systematically the practices of policing and incarceration in the modern Middle East, the emergence of modern policing and prisons and their continued predominance.
Identifies the existence of a practice that lies at the core of the western security regime - the projection of the worst-case scenario. This title demonstrates that, unlike the openly 'totalitarian' states of the past, bureaucratic rule is favoured over charismatic leadership.
Provides an investigation into State-sponsored terrorism in the former Soviet Union. This book also provides an examination of the dark side of Soviet power, including how the Russian people viewed early Soviet assassinations that were performed with traditional crude methods, and responses from the outside world to these murders.
This book details the factors contributing to the degenerative trend of mass, warrantless government surveillance which imperils civil liberties, and specifies recommendations for constructive change. It also provides a platform for grassroots efforts to stop the decline before it is too late.
Provides an organizing structure for the history and current state of the field of victimology, and outlines the reasons compelling a separate focus on crime victims. This work explores the role of victimology in criminal justice system, examining the consequences of victimization and the various remedies now available for victims.
There have been countless tears and tales since the 9/11 mayhem. The attacks critically wounded life and freedom in America. The third tear running down the cheek of Lady Liberty seeks to alert our common sense, expose the travesty of global injustice, and ignite our American courage.
On July 18, 1947, American journalist Ruth Gruber stood on a wharf in Haifa as the Exodus 1947 limped into harbour. This book contains Gruber's images and text on the wretched camps in Europe where the refugees lived before boarding the Exodus 1947, as well as details of many passengers' eventual fates.
Riccardo Rebonato offers a critical analysis of the Libertarian Paternalist approach that has taken the political landscape by storm. This book explores the justifications used by states to influence behaviour, and the impact of such policies on individual freedoms and rights, opening up new avenues of criticism.
Presents an account that intends to solve the mysterious death of biochemist Frank Olson, revealing the identities of his murderers. This title offers a look into the backgrounds of many former CIA, FBI, and Federal Narcotics Bureau officials - including several who actually oversaw the CIA's mind-control programs from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the much neglected angle of political responsibility. This book develops an original communitarian approach to legitimacy based on Alasdair MacIntyre's ethics of virtues and practices, that can be contrasted with prevalent liberal-egalitarian and neo-republican approaches.
How can European societies more effectively promote the active engagement of immigrants and their children in the political and civic life of the countries where they live? This book examines the effect of migrants' individual attributes and resources, their social capital and the political opportunities on their political integration.
Michael Collins played a crucial role in rekindling Ireland's aspirations for freedom. A leading figure in the nation's bloody resistance to British Rule, he played a key part in reshaping Ireland's history as we know it today. This is an account of a major turning point in Ireland's history.
Examines the several layers of surveillance that control the Palestinian population in Israel and the occupied territories, showing how they operate, how well they work, how they are augmented, and how ultimately their chief purpose is population control.
Providing a description of the responses taken by the federal government to issues revolving around criminal justice, each chapter focuses on a different problem and shows what different presidents have said, what policies were proposed and/or passed by Congress, and any cases heard by the Supreme Court on the issue
This annotated reader is an introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on power within social and political theory. Its 15 chapters contain extracts from Giddens, Lukes, Bourdieu, Weber, Arendt and Foucault, each with its own comprehensive introduction.
Features"ations from newspaper sources in their original Arabic and English translations. This work looks at the: "message" period of Bashar Asad; detailed analysis of the domestic political message of the Syrian press, and the methods used to promote that message; and, a researched critique into the machinations of the Syrian state.
From salmonella in eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird 'flu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming, 'scares' have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book tells the inside story of each of the major scares, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern.
Collects the testimonies of an occupied people - ordinary citizens, activists, children - alongside those of international aid workers and foreign visitors for a revelatory look at a population on the margins. The author amplifies the voices of the Palestinian people and lends to them her own considerable strength.
A comprehensive guide to how terrorists operate, why you might become a target and how you can take simple, specific steps to reduce your risk and improve your security profile. It helps you examine various areas of your life - home, work, travel - and implement the Individual Protective Measures to safeguard yourself and your family.
Elites rely on fear to keep and expand their privileges and control the masses. In the current crisis of the capitalist world system, elites in the United States, along with other central countries, promote fear of crime and terrorism. This book offers an analysis of the crisis and strategies for rebellion.
India, part of a land-locked sub-continent, has no option but to emphasise its maritime perspective if it has to attain its destined role in the emerging regional and global order. This title evaluates India's maritime defence capability in the years to come.
Brings together the US Justice Department's secret memos describing the brutal CIA interrogation techniques used under the Bush administration, and on British prisoners.This book offers insight into the terrifying 'enhanced interrogation techniques' used in Guantanamo, and the incredible arguments advanced to justify them.
The emergence of the modern Middle East has been accompanied by a concentration of coercive power in the state. This title examines the practices of policing and incarceration in the modern Middle East, the emergence of modern policing and prisons and their continued predominance.
Nobody discounts the fact that the concept of security has been much contested today. At the heart of the debate over the evolving nature of security is a familiar, albeit mercurial, entity: 'The State'. This work intends to demonstrate how the ultimate security of the individual is the primary focus of the state.
Charts how the KGB rose from the Soviet ashes and recreated itself at the prompting and with the assistance of Vladimir Putin. In this book, two courageous Russian investigative journalists open up the closed and murky world of the Russian Federal Security Service.
Addresses three key questions that underpin EU responses to migration policy including: What role does the EU play in the regulation of migration? How and why have EU measures developed to promote the integration of migrants and their descendants? What impact do EU measures on migration and asylum have on new member states and non member states?