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In a time of global crises, governments, international agencies and various experts claim to promote political participation that is inclusive of children and young people. This book details how these claims tend to be deceptive.

The Politics of Deception demonstrates how youth parliaments, councils and roundtables are governance exercises not just designed and tightly managed by adults but limited by them. Informed by adultist ways of seeing, young people are represented as vulnerable and citizens-in-waiting and cannot be taken seriously as political agents. Parallel to these formal initiatives, large numbers of young people are recognising the interconnected nature of contemporary crises, mobilising politically in diverse ways, from street marches to digital action, to strategic litigation and even 'lying flats' to push for equality, social justice and planetary survival. Animated by optimism and recognition that intergenerational solidarity is essential for creating a future in which humans and 'more-than-humans' can flourish, Judith Bessant and Rob Watts illustrate how youth participation, as it is commonly practised, is deeply political, deceptive, highly contested and too often informed by outdated and harmful representations of young people.

This volume is for young people, researchers, policymakers, parents and educators wanting to better understand what is happening in the world and who appreciate the value of recognising young people's political capacity and right to help shape the world.

This book is the first publication that comprehensively addresses the Mulheres da Paz Project, implemented throughout Brazil by the federal government, and examines the execution of the program in two different territories in Rio de Janeiro: one dominated by criminal drug trafficking organizations and the other by the presence of militias.

Through rich ethnographic study and interviews, Estivalet shows how women living in the urban peripheries of Rio de Janeiro organized to imagine and create better lives for themselves and their communities in ways far beyond the expectations of the program's founders. Bringing their strengths to the surface and taking advantage of the networks established through participation in the project, the women studied in this book occupied public space and representative positions in institutional politics, such as women's rights councils and women's groups in political parties. They developed activities to generate collective income, train and educate themselves and other citizens and young people, and promoted improvements in the living conditions of their communities.

Gender, Violence, and Public Policies: When Women Act for Peace highlights the transformative impact of women's participation in urban social policy for the achievement of women's rights and human rights.

This book investigates how different forms of extreme nationalism are sustained in contemporary Norway, offering critical insights into the social, relational, and interactional contexts that enable these movements to persist.

Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, including in-depth interviews with 25 extreme nationalist activists and participant observation at 13 protest events, the book explores how distinct articulations of extreme nationalist ideology, encompassing cultural, ethnic, and 'racial' variants, mobilize activists through the construction of fixed collective (in-group) identities and shared emotions. It illuminates internal and external group-level dynamics within and between movements, examining patterns of collective action, strategic approaches, recruitment methods, organizational structures, leadership styles, and resource mobilization.

This will be of interest to researchers of right-wing extremism, social movements, and Nordic politics.

Sir John Chipman KCMG served as Director-General and Chief Executive of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) from 1993 to 2023. Along with his tenure as Executive Chairman since 2023, and the research positions he held from 1983 before being appointed Director, this represents a professional lifetime spent at the IISS. The Institute enjoys its current reputation for excellence in research and convening, as well as its wide international reach and influence, thanks to Sir John's successes over many decades.

This Adelphi book is a tribute to Sir John's work at and contribution to the Institute. It highlights three areas of intellectual leadership through his writings, spanning broadly the decades he worked at the IISS: strategic studies after the end of the Cold War; regionalism and regional security; and corporate foreign policy. Selected writings by Sir John in these three areas are reprinted here in their original form. They are paired with commentaries by a number of notable friends of the IISS, written specially for this book.

This book examines the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War and its aftermath, analysing the conflict through the lenses of war, sovereignty, power politics, international law, and unpeace, demonstrating how coercive diplomacy, conflict-persistence, and institutional failure reshaped the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict and the regional order.

Combining international relations, security studies, legal analysis, and a wide range of empirically grounded analytical models, the book provides a rigorous framework for understanding the 2020 war, the geopolitical factors leading to it, the shifts in the region's structure and security architecture, the humanitarian crisis, forced displacement, and the collapse of Nagorno-Karabakh. It meticulously explores not only the events that transpired, but also the underlying reasons behind them, the responses of international actors, regional players, and institutions, and the insights these reveal about the limitations of structural dependence, weak deterrence, ineffective mediation, lack of recognition, and accountability gaps in contemporary conflict.
The book is intended for scholars, students, and practitioners in international relations, conflict and security studies, post-Soviet politics, international law, peace and conflict studies, human rights, and Eurasian studies. It is also relevant for journalists, policymakers, and those working on conflict prevention, mediation, and regional security.

This book explains how the phenomenon of citizenship has been constructed in three contested states in the former Soviet space.

Citizenship is a source of (legal) identity that provides access to resources, rights, and recognition. However, the disputed nature of contested states leads to their citizens being subject to multiple (conflicting) citizenship regimes. Drawing on legal analysis, interviews, and survey data, this book sheds light on the complex relationship between contested statehood, sovereignty, state recognition, citizenship regimes, and the politics of belonging. Using the lenses of multiplicity and human/state security, the book explores and explains how the phenomenon of citizenship has been constructed in three post-Soviet contested states: Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transnistria. The book finds that the contested nature of these states requires their citizens to navigate between the citizenship regimes of the contested, claimant, patron, and third states. Experiences of citizenship change depending on physical location, determinations by different states as to what legal status(es) an individual holds, and legislative and political changes. Meanwhile, at the state level, citizenship is used as a state- and nation-building tool to enhance ethnodemographic security by excluding undesired groups and including desired ones. Lastly, the book emphasises the normalisation discourse among (citizens of) contested states regarding their citizenship and security. This discourse evidences a broader pattern among contested states, highlighting that their state- and nation-building projects are not markedly different from those of recognised states.

This book will be of much interest to students of statehood, de facto states, citizenship, Eastern European politics, and international relations.

This book explores the origins, evolution, and limits of the "Euro-Russian entente" in the crucial transition period from perestroika to the consolidation of the Russian Federation, and from the European Single Market project to the emergence of the European Union.

Drawing on extensive archival research and a wide range of secondary sources from both Eastern and Western Europe, the volume reassesses the political-diplomatic, socio-economic, military, technological, and cultural dimensions of this pivotal moment in Euro-Russian relations. By foregrounding contingency, plurality of actors, and the interplay between ideas, institutions, and material constraints, it demonstrates that the failure of a deeper partnership was not preordained, but instead the outcome of a complex process in which ambitious projects of convergence coexisted with structural divergence. The volume thus provides a historically grounded framework for understanding not only the missed opportunities of the past, but also the deeper roots of the tensions that continue to shape relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation today.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of Cold War, contemporary European history, Russian and Soviet studies, European integration, and international relations, as well as policymakers and general readers.

Cyberpower is a concept that has gained relevance with geopolitical dynamics reaching cyberspace and the increasing intertwining between the physical and digital. In this regard, this concept has been treated through three theoretical lenses: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Still, constructivist approaches to the concept are sparse and deserve some attention.

Cyber Power in a Digital World is premised on a constructivist perspective, exploring the research problem: How do states' perceptions of cybersecurity shape the form of their power projection? Does that confer a new form of power relations, therefore, cyberpower as a phenomenon? To tackle these questions, the authors utilize a case study approach of three conventional European geopolitical powers-the United Kingdom, France, and Germany-and examine the intersectionality of cyberpower in industrial societies versus less industrial ones.

Offering a detailed examination of the intersection between cybersecurity and state power, Cyber Power in a Digital World delivers valuable insights for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners interested in the future of international relations and the role of cyberpower in shaping the global order.

Why Leaders and Nations Choose War: Emotions and Decision Making analyses the decisive role that emotions play in one of the most consequential arenas of human life-war. Challenging the assumption that leaders act purely on rational calculation, this demonstrates how fear, wishful thinking, and regret have repeatedly shaped fateful decisions in modern history. Drawing on psychological theory, international relations, and historical case studies, Gadi Heimann explains how emotions can both enhance and distort judgment, tipping the scales between peace and conflict.
Through vivid accounts of twentieth-century wars, Why Leaders and Nations Choose War reveals how fear drove Germany into World War I and Israel into preemptive strikes throughout its history; how wishful thinking fueled Germany's submarine offensive and Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor; and how regret shaped U.S. isolationism and later the Cold War. By weaving together theory and narrative, the book provides a new lens for understanding the complex interplay between emotion and statecraft.

This book examines how the United Nations Secretariat built a coordinated regional peacekeeping architecture across the Israel-Arab conflict between 1967 and 1982, tracing its operational achievements and the structural limits that ultimately constrained them.

Drawing on previously classified UN archives, the book offers the first integrated institutional history of four UN operations - UNTSO, UNEF II, UNDOF, and UNIFIL - treated not as isolated deployments but as components of a deliberately managed regional system. It introduces the concept of Inter-Operation Collaboration (IOC), demonstrating that mission integration was practised decades before it was formalised in UN doctrine. Central to the narrative is General Ensio Siilasvuo, the Finnish officer who served successively as force commander, ceasefire negotiator at Kilometre 101, and Chief Coordinator of UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East, and whose career embodies the blend of military and diplomatic innovation that defined the era. The book also recovers the critical role of the Office of Special Political Affairs as the Secretariat's institutional engine.

The book will be of interest to scholars of UN peacekeeping, Middle Eastern history, and international organisations, as well as to practitioners and policymakers engaged with contemporary questions of multilateral conflict management.

This textbook helps students analyse the causes of violent extremism using different disciplinary approaches, and suggests concrete solutions from those perspectives.

Why do individuals join violent extremist movements? This book approaches that question through seven disciplinary lenses: security, ideology, sociology, socio-economics, psychology, gender, and youth. Rather than privileging one explanation, it shows how these perspectives complement each other and why effective responses depend on combining them. The book is built on a simple premise: you cannot respond to violent extremism without first understanding what drives it. Each chapter maps the push and pull factors behind radicalisation and traces their implications for prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation. To show the frameworks at work on real lives, the book includes profiles of six individuals who became involved in extremist movements. Each chapter is structured to guide students through the material step by step, combining conceptual frameworks with case studies, real-world profiles, and discussion questions that push beyond comprehension into genuine debate. Written for students who want to think seriously about one of the most pressing security challenges of our time, this book offers both analytical depth and practical tools.

The book will be of great interest to students of political violence, sociology, psychology, criminology, International Relations and public policy, as well as to practitioners working in counter-terrorism, preventing violent extremism, and the security sector.

International trade is undergoing profound transformation. The liberalization paradigm that characterized much of the twentieth century has given way to renewed tariff conflicts, systemic disruptions caused by war and geopolitical rivalry, and mounting pressures to align trade with sustainability objectives. These shifts underscore the urgent need to re-examine the intellectual and policy foundations of global commerce in light of twenty-first century realities. This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of these emerging dynamics.

Drawing on contributions from legal scholars, economists, and political scientists across Europe, Asia, and North America, it traces the historical evolution of tariffs, evaluates the far-reaching consequences of the conflicts in MENA, Ukraine, and Russia, and examines the challenges posed by central bank digital currencies to established trade mechanisms. It further investigates the U.S.-China trade confrontation as a case of enduring techno-economic rivalry, the paradoxes of sustainability in mineral-based global value chains, and the regulatory tensions between market liberalisation and national sovereignty. The book examines critical mineral supply chains through a geoeconomic lens, focusing on how states and corporations leverage control over extraction, processing, and manufacturing stages to secure strategic advantage. It offers novel insights into European vulnerabilities in rare earth supply, insolvency harmonisation, and investment regulation. Together, these chapters provide an integrated perspective on the forces redefining trade law, policy, and practice. It explores the impact of digital currency regulation on international trade, with particular regard to the legal status of central banks.

This book will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, and graduate students in international economics, law, and political science, as well as to policymakers and institutional actors concerned with the future of global trade governance.

Advancing a new social science-based approach to the welfare state, this book puts forward a systematic understanding of public procurement that brings together perspectives from legal, public administration, sociological, and policy studies.

Public Procurement and the Welfare State offers fresh insight into an important, complex, and interconnected activity of the welfare state and proposes a framework for exploring, understanding, and analysing this important area of state activity. Detailing the multi-faceted nature of public procurement processes that are essential for safeguarding vital services, constructing and maintaining infrastructure, and supplying the public sector, E.K. Sarter examines public procurement as a technical tool for safeguarding the availability of goods, works, and services, a social and political act, a policy tool, and a space for negotiation. This volume showcases the multi-faceted nature of public procurement and highlights the importance of decision-making processes and power relations that underly and for shape public spending decisions and processes, and thereby outcomes.

Offering a timely and holistic framework for understanding public spending that can be put in the service of equality, this is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, political science, welfare state studies, public and social policy, public administration, economic justice, social innovation, and feminist economics.

The US Army faces an extraordinary people management challenge: managing more than one million service members worldwide who rotate through new roles every two to three years. For decades, the Army relied on a one-size-fits-all, Industrial Age personnel system that treated individuals as interchangeable parts. While effective in a previous era, this approach is increasingly misaligned with a strategic environment that demands adaptability, innovation, and speed. Recognizing that its legacy system was no longer sufficient, Army leaders undertook a rapid and far-reaching transformation to modernize how talent is identified, developed, and employed.

The Talent Imperative tells the inside story of this transformation. Written by leaders directly involved in designing and implementing these reforms, the book blends scholarly rigor with practical insight to explain the Army's approach to talent management as a strategic source of competitive advantage. It examines how the Army's "Triad of Talent"-a talent attribute framework, talent assessments, and talent markets-enhances the Army's ability to place the right person in the right position at the right time, over time, while giving service members clearer ownership of career opportunities the Army values.

While grounded in the military context, the book speaks to a broad audience of scholars, practitioners, and students of human resource management, public administration, and organizational change. In an era defined by competition for talent, the Army's experience offers transferable lessons for large organizations seeking to adapt their people systems in complex, high-stakes environments.

The Actual Lenin is a fresh and accessible reinterpretation of Lenin by placing his ideas alongside the political realities of the Global South. Ranabir Samaddar, a leading intellectual of the Global South, demonstrates how Lenin broke with conventional ways of thinking about social transformation, and why that break still helps us understand today's struggles with inequality, conflict, and collective power. Instead of treating Lenin as a fixed ideological figure, Samaddar presents him as a thinker responding to real moments of upheaval, constantly adjusting theory and practice to the demands of his time.

Drawing on clear readings of What Is to Be Done?, The State and Revolution, and key episodes in Southern political history, the book explores how Lenin understood crisis, organisation, and political timing. It demonstrates how his method (thinking and acting within conjuncture) offers practical tools for analysing contemporary conflicts across the South. By connecting long-standing debates in Marxism with current Global South scholarship, Samaddar provides an innovative alternative to traditional Lenin studies and expands a field still dominated by Eurocentric perspectives. He also traces Lenin's global legacy, showing why his analyses of imperialism and uneven development remain vital for understanding sovereignty, democracy, and development today.

Written for students and researchers across political theory, international relations, sociology, and postcolonial studies, The Actual Lenin offers an accessible, authoritative guide for anyone seeking to understand crisis, imperialism, and the possibilities of radical politics in the twenty-first century.

Care ethics has long been contrasted with moral theories like deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics. Yet, the characteristics that distinguish care ethics from deontology, utilitarianism, and virtue ethics are some of very characteristics that philosophers usually associate with moral theory per se. If care ethics departs from other moral theories on some of the very grounds that define moral theory itself, the question arises: Is care ethics a moral theory? If so, what kind of a moral theory is it?

Drawing together some of the world's leading care theorists, Care and Moral Theory addresses these questions. Early chapters situate care ethics in relation to other moral theories and highlight its unique methods and aims. Middle chapters offer analytical clarity to key concepts in the moral theory of care. A final set of chapters offer a whole new framework for thinking about care ethics. Despite the diversity of perspectives included in this book, the chapters as a whole are all oriented around the common project of elucidating the characteristics of a moral theory of care.

Care and Moral Theory offers an accessible entry point for anyone interested in the nature of care ethics. By clarifying its relation to other moral theories and highlighting its differences, it makes evident what is distinct and important about this increasingly popular moral theory.

Combining interdisciplinary perspectives from leading experts, entries cover historical, political and sociocultural aspects of the study of nationalism. They address debates such as the origins of nationalism, how ideas spread and questions of Eurocentrism within the field. The Encyclopedia also considers the main processes currently characterising modern nationalism.

Presenting a systematic overview of a complex field, this Elgar Encyclopedia is a key resource for scholars and students of political science, political theory, sociology and history, particularly those with an interest in nationalism and the nation state. It is also of value to practitioners and policymakers seeking topical insights on the field.

Key Features:

• Includes extensive cross-referencing of entries
• Provides thematic groupings of entries to aid navigation
• Spans diverse conceptual, methodological and theoretical approaches and research topics
• Features 151 contributing authors from a wide array of backgrounds, disciplines and countries

Explores the decades-long erosion of the American Dream from the author's perspective: a working-class kid who became a celebrated economist dedicated to advancing the interests of struggling workers, while also caught in the same currents of job insecurity and downward mobility as the people he aimed to defend.

Worker insecurity, increasing inequality, and downward mobility in our current era contrast sharply with expanding prosperity and opportunity in the first three decades after World War II. What happened? And what can we do to revitalize the American Dream, reduce worker precarity, and foster broadly shared prosperity?

In this historical account of a protracted and expanding national crisis, intertwined with a personal story about growing up in a work-obsessed family and pursuing a career devoted to addressing that crisis, Charles J. Whalen grapples with the social forces that sever the link between hard work and employment success. He exposes the obstacles that mar the path of many people seeking job opportunities and traces the fading of the American Dream, ultimately encouraging readers to take a fresh look at the current economic situation and championing a more constructive set of public policies to shape the future.

In the contexts of the madness of unreason that has gripped the world which has given rise to global diseases, environment disaster and unending wars situated in what this book calls the "Age of the Apocalypse", this book argues for a philosophical rethinking of our contemporary human condition. The leitmotiv of this book is that fundamentalists have taken hold of world governments placing their apocalyptic idea of the "end of the world" at the base of their political ideology, displacing thus peace for violence, democracy for authoritarianism and human reason for mytho-poetics. Scanning the terror of the corona pandemic along with the discontents of liberalism which have given rise to violent right-wing ethno-nationalist movements all over the world, coupled with the failure of 20th century socialism, in the form of Stalinism, which has given rise to Putinism and the old czarist idea of Great Russian Imperialism, the book talks of the necessity of going back to philosophical reasoning to understand this Age of the Apocalypse.

Drawing on popular culture, history and politics the book examines what it is to philosophize in our unhappy times. This accessible volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of politics and philosophy, as well as the general reader.

Examines a powerful yet overlooked form of Christian Nationalism-one that fuses faith, masculinity, capitalism, and political power under the guise of moral leadership. Beginning with Theodore Roosevelt's "Muscular Christianity" and tracing the conceit of faithful and fit male leadership through figures like Billy Graham and cultural institutions like National Prayer Breakfasts and modern mega-churches, and flourishing under the administration of Donald Trump, Erecting the Pulpit reveals how religious rhetoric has been wielded to sanctify power and divide communities.

Drawing on her firsthand experiences and years of conversations with participants-from Cowboy Churches to NASCAR chaplaincies and storefront churches with folding chairs to meetings with the parachurch group Young Life-theologian Amy Laura Hall examines the cultural and political forces that have made evangelicalism "ambient" while consolidating wealth and influence. At a time when politicians are expected to pray in public and religious themes shape public policy, Hall offers a vivid, incisive exploration of how religious expressions of faith in the United States have been strategically repackaged to sustain political and economic hierarchies and keep women subservient to men.

Bentzen and Johnsen offer key insight into how trust-based leadership plays out across multiple organizational levels - politicians, administrators and frontline leaders - and identify concrete pathways for a complementary interplay between trust and control. The book examines the paradoxes that emerge when trust and control are rebalanced and shows how organizational actors can cope constructively with these persistent tensions.

Trust and Control within Governance is an essential read for students and scholars in governance, public administration, and public management. It is also highly relevant for policy-makers and practitioners specializing in trust reforms, leadership and change management in the public sector.

In a far-reaching analysis, Headey shows that almost all Western governments pay at least lip service to the idea that enhancing well-being is a desirable goal for policy. They issue annual reports that include measures of life satisfaction and well-being, and they have all endorsed some policies and programs, such as working from home, subsidies for community groups and sports clubs, that are plainly intended to increase individual and family well-being. Analysing evidence from economists and psychologists on the causes of life satisfaction and drawing on longitudinal studies, Headey highlights policies and programs for positive intervention in family and social policy, health, mental health, working life and job satisfaction. The book also discusses the political feasibility of an array of national and international approaches, contextualising their impact on positive change and advocating for targeted, effective political strategies.

Public Policy for Well-Being is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of the welfare state, social policy, public policy, sociology, political theory and political economy. Social scientists and policy-makers will be interested in its timely suggestions for long-term public policy improvements.

Opening with a stocktake of the institutional and organizational architecture of healthcare systems across the EU member states, the Handbook provides a thorough analysis of the Europeanisation of healthcare - its instruments, governance structures and outcomes. The volume reaches well beyond European public policy to engage with the legal, economic, philosophical and societal dimensions of EU health policymaking. Contributors trace the historical development of EU health policy, including the ongoing debates around the 2028-2034 multi-annual financial framework, and offer a multidisciplinary and forward-looking perspective on topics such as pharmaceuticals, digital health and the transformative role of AI in healthcare.

Students and scholars of health policy and economics, European public policy, European integration, legal studies and medicine will find in this Handbook a uniquely comprehensive resource. It is equally essential reading for health policymakers and healthcare professionals seeking a deeper understanding of the regulatory forces shaping their work.

Challenges the dominant narratives that frame peace as a civilizational ideal. At a time when millions demand an end to war, occupation, and systemic oppression, this volume gathers diverse voices in a transnational and decolonial conversation. The contributors interrogate how "peace" is too often deployed as a mirage-reproducing systems of exclusion and violence under the guise of stability, order, and reform.

Exposing the coloniality embedded within hegemonic peace discourses, contributors reveal how imperial power configurations transform freedom into occupation, democracy into exclusion, and security into violence. Through critically self-reflective engagement with both religious and secular worldviews, contributors propose that peace is not an abstract ideal, but a deeply political construct shaped by empire, enforced through intervention, and justified by a faith in modernity's civilizing mission. Rejecting both reformist inclusion and idealized neutrality, these essays embody a political commitment to the tormented, the resisting, and the marginalized.

From "post-conflict" pacification to imperial "peace deals," contributors unmask peacebuilding as often war by other means-while advancing liberative spiritualities that reimagine peace as justice from below. This book is not merely critique-it is a call to transformation.

Taking the radical political philosophies of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-Luc Nancy as a starting point, Buonamano interrogates the commonly received meanings of foundational concepts such as rights, democracy, freedom, and the State. Within the ambit of genealogy, human rights are examined through Foucault's analyses of governmentality and the subject of truth, and through Agamben's political ontological theses. The book furthers this discussion by assessing Derrida's deconstruction of the concepts of humanity, sovereignty, and democracy, as well as Nancy's re-evaluation of the political in terms of non-subjective sovereignty and 'being-in-common'.

Providing a more nuanced understanding of the role and theoretical premises of international human rights, this book is an enlightening read for students and scholars of legal theory and international human rights law. Followers of continental European political philosophy and legal theory will greatly benefit from this timely investigation of the ability of human rights to address some of the most consequential socio-political problems affecting modern societies.