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Culture is not an industry
Culture is not an industry argues that art and culture in the UK need to renew their social contract and re-align with the radical agenda for a more equitable future. Bold and uncompromising, the book offers a powerful vision for change.
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New labour, new britain?
New Labour, New Britain? reassesses Tony Blair’s governments, offering a balanced view of their policies and impact. Exploring New Labour’s successes in public services and social liberalism while acknowledging its shortcomings, the book provides a nuanced perspective on New Labour’s lasting infl...
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The royal and russian navies
A definitive history of cooperation between the Royal Navy and Russian Navy from 1988 to 2014. It provides lessons learned by both sides and recommends a pathway to military dialogue, as political circumstances dictate. The book enhances our understanding of both the Russians and the Russian Navy...
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Blitzkrieg and the russian art of war
Blitzkrieg and the Russian art of war moves beyond discussions of ‘hybrid’ warfare to offer a broad account of contemporary Russian thinking on war. Exploring key concepts in Russian military thinking, it contributes to the debate about Russia’s role in international affairs and the challenge the...
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Eclipsing the west
As the international order begins to crumble, this incisive book asks what the rise of the Asian superstates means for the future.The Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end. As America withdraws from its role as enforcer of the international ord...
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Revolution in china and russia
This book compares how Russia and China maneuvered nationalism through communist revolutions and explains why they followed different paths in reorganizing empires.
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The english constitution
This book centres constitutional reform in discussions of England and Englishness, and centres England in debates on constitutional reform. It includes the text of a constitution that builds on the heritage and tradition of Westminster Model democracy, combining long-overdue reforms with the rest...
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Conflict, peace and mental health
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the appropriate service responses? This book provides answers to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere.
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The gulf monarchies after the arab spring
This book applies an original theoretical framework to unpack the threat perceptions and strategic calculus driving the behaviour of the Gulf monarchies, which emerged after the Arab Spring as major geopolitical players in the Middle East and North Africa region and as middle powers destined to p...
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When nothing works
What caused the UK’s cost of living crisis, and how can we rebuild? Setting out the concept of liveability, this book argues that rather than focus on increasing wages, we need to make life more liveable through foundational services and social infrastructure.
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Downward spiral
This book draws on the author's expertise as a KC and original interviews with political insiders to tell the story of declining ethical standards during the government of Boris Johnson and propose concrete reforms.
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Faith, folk and the far right
This book offers the first extended examination of extremist Heathenry and occultism in the UK and explores how anti-racist Heathens act to counter this discourse, making an important contribution to the intersecting fields of new religious movements, nationalist history and racist politics.
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Deglobalization
Edward Ashbee guides the reader through the intricate web of processes and forces of globalization that have shaped the world’s politics and economics over the last 40 years. This is an invaluable overview of one of the most important phenomena of our age.
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The making of german democracy
This is the first English language source reader that deals with post-war (West) Germany. Over 160 commented sources describe the political, social and economic developments that changed Germany from the abyss of Nazism into a prosperous ally of the West and into one of the driving forces of Euro...
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The sea in russian strategy
This book brings together leading specialists from public policy and academia to reflect on historical and contemporary aspects of Russian maritime power.
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Coronations and defenestrations
How do Tory leadership elections work? Lee Evans takes a lively look at how the Conservatives appoint (and depose) their leader, from the early history of the party to the present day.
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Growth, democracy or climate action?
Governments face a conflicting choice between economic growth, democracy and tackling the climate crisis. They cannot achieve all three objectives simultaneously and the growing tensions between them are being played out in countries across the world. It is the new trilemma of advanced capitalist...
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Coal country
This is the first book-length account of deindustrialization in the Scottish coalfields. The flooding and subsequent closure of Scotland’s last deep coal mine in 2002 brought a centuries long saga to an end. Colliery closures and job losses were not just experienced in economic terms: they had pr...
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Visualising far-right environments
This book examines the far right’s visual politics of nature, offering original case studies from around the world.
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The spatial contract
This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter – the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home.
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Conservatism, christian democracy and the dynamics of transformation
Conservatism, Christian Democracy, and the Dynamics of Transformation compares the centre-right political traditions of Britain, the Nordic countries, France, West Germany, and Austria and looks for evidence of political cooperation and influence across borders during the period 1945-91.
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Settler/colonialism in kashmir
This book examines India’s settler/colonial rule in Kashmir through historical and contemporary settler/colonial geopolitics. Analysing Kashmir’s place in the geopolitical settler/colonial world order and ecological catastrophe, the book contributes to pressing debates regarding current planetary...
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Personal data collection risks in a post-vaccine world
The editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.
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Russian strategy in the middle east and north africa
The book analyses Russia’s political and economic interests in the Middle East and North Africa, its relations with the MENA countries and its diplomatic engagement with the Western powers. It examines Russia’s strategy in the region, including its role in the Syria conflict, in the context of it...
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Un-welcome to denmark
Un-welcome to Denmark, from Michelle Pace with Sarah El-Abd, critically assesses Denmark’s migration regime by directly engaging the voices of multiple stakeholders impacted by its harshness. It puts forward the theory of the 'unwelcome migrant' by undertaking an extensive analysis of the program...
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The new politics of poland
This book offers a multi-layered analysis of how and why Poland has changed over the past thirty years and how this is relevant for its recent political crisis.
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Local government and democracy in britain
This book examines the crisis in UK local government, looking at how the system has changed throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and asking what lies ahead.
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Pandemic culture
Based on the findings of a 15-month study led by the Centre for Cultural Value, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on the UK’s cultural sector. Based on a mixed-methods analysis, it highlights implications for the sector’s future direction and for research in the...
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Europeanisation as violence
The book explores the violence enacted on Europe’s many internal and external Souths and Easts through forms of political, cultural and security-development related “Europeanisation”. It proposes inter-referencing between South and East as a space of political possibilities emerging through and d...
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Settlers at the end of empire
Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study highlighting the connections between the racial politics of migration in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Rhodesia in the second half of the twentiet...
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The new politics of russia
This book offers a crash course in contemporary Russian politics. An updated version of the bestselling 2016 edition, it explores the decline in western relations since the early 2000s, from the disagreements over European security and the war in Syria right up to the invasion of Ukraine.
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The trouble with freedom
In The trouble with freedom, Melissa Butcher explores America's divide over the concept of freedom, interviewing people across political, racial and cultural lines. She reveals how political conflict stems from personal experiences with cultural change and uncovers opportunities for empathy amid ...
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Knowledge diplomacy
Knowledge Diplomacy addresses the fascinating field of study and practice in knowledge diplomacy. It captures this emerging field of Knowledge Diplomacy at a key juncture, asking questions of its meaning and application in twenty-first century global affairs.
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Voltairine de cleyre’s transnational anarchism
This study of Voltairine de Cleyre’s transnational anarchism focuses on her work as pedagogue and translator to reveal the originality of her thought. Close reading of her writing, including personal correspondence, provides new insight into a key, unjustly neglected and altogether contemporary f...
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The persistent poverty of african americans in the united states
This book sheds light on American politics and power that has disadvantaged African Americans through the implementation of public policies, causing them to remain poor and underprivileged in the United States.
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Climate uncertainty and risk
In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, Judith Curry shows how we can break the gridlock surrounding the climate debate. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are facing and how we can respond.
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Whose sovereignty?
In this carefully argued case for a federal Europe, Céline Spector proposes that national sovereignty has become increasingly untenable as mechanisms perpetuating fiscal, social and environmental inequities transcend borders. Indeed, in the face of Russian aggression and America’s apparent retrea...
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Globalising the nordic model
A critical examination of the Nordic model and its claims to exceptionalism, exploring how Nordic welfare states have both shaped and been shaped by global events since 1970—from Cold War tensions and globalization to the COVID-19 pandemic—through diverse case studies and perspectives.
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Organized labour and politics in mexico
Analyzing the changes, continuities, and contradictions characterizing labor politics in Mexico, this book provides an assessment of organized labor's role in contemporary Latin America.
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Devolution in greater manchester and liverpool city region
This is the first comprehensive account of the policies of the Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region combined authorities during the first terms of Mayors Burnham and Rotheram, from 2017–21.
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Youth and sustainable peacebuilding
A critical analysis of how peacebuilding can become sustainable through transforming thinking about what youth participation and leadership entails.
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Dancing through the dissonance
This book explores the relationship between peacebuilding and dance, including insights dance provides on key debates around peace and conflict.It investigates the application, practice, and analysis of a dance-focused peacebuilding programme and tells the important story of young people who enga...
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Passages
This book is a multi-genre and transdisciplinary text that invites inquiry into today’s apocalyptic narratives, humanitarian reason, and international criminal justice regimes, as well as the precarity generated by citizen time and 'consulate time'.
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Us consular representation in britain since 1790
'US consular representation in Britain since 1790' is a history of US consular activities in the UK, which began in 1790 and continue to the present with consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast. It also contains many previously unpublished illustrations.
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Capitalism, colonisation and the ecocide-genocide nexus
This timely publication examines the drivers of the ecologically induced genocide of Indigenous and place-based peoples in the former British colonies of Kenya and Australia. It synthesises radical political ecology with a political-economic approach to illuminate the nexus between the genocidal ...
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The politics of englishness
The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates
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Order and rebellion
This book, written by two authors with longstanding familiarity with the party, provides an in-depth and nuanced analysis of the different managerial strategies pursued by three Labour leaders, Ed Miliband, Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer, in the tumultuous years of opposition from 2010 to 2024.
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Power, politics and influence at work
Argues that the changing world of work cannot be divorced from several overlapping power dynamics that have resonance to wider societal debates: issues of labour market inclusion and exclusion or marginalisation, profit and wealth distribution, political influence and employment regulation, unio...
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Peace and the politics of memory
The book explores how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It finds that three elements of memory politics – inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity – play a key role for a just peace.
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Agents of european overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires examines networks of trade and communication on a global scale whose activities enabled early modern European overseas empires.
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Empire and mobility in the long nineteenth century
Mobility was central to the construction, maintenance and dissolution of empires. This book reflects on the social, cultural and political significance of mobile subjects, practices and infrastructures to the British empire from the 1750s through to the 1940s.
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The distribution and redistribution of income
Provides an up-to-date synthesis of the many strands of distributional analysis used in the fields of social policy, welfare theory and public finance. Develops a consistent mathematical approach into a self-contained and unified treatment of the distribution and redistribution of income. Thoroug...
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Global white nationalism
This book offers the first transnational history of white nationalism in Britain, the US and the formerly British colonies of Rhodesia, South Africa and Australia from the post-World War II period to the present.
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Regulating lobbying
An exhaustive update of the 2010 classic that analyzes more countries, revamping the theoretical classification of lobbying regulatory environments and the states found therein. Two key innovations in this edition include: new insights on measuring transparency and accountability of the laws and ...
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Civic engagement in australian democracy
This edited collection provides contemporary and interdisciplinary reflections on the changing patterns of civic participation in Australian democracy.
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Diaspora diplomacy
This book examines the reasons behind the Turkish state’s unprecedented recent interest in its diaspora, details new political activism in Europe among the Turkish diaspora and explores how Turkey’s growing sway over its overseas population has affected intra-diaspora politics and Turkey’s diplom...
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The breakup of india and palestine
These chapters provide deeply researched narratives of the links between partition in India and Palestine in 1947. It focuses on the shared dynamics that shaped both regions, such as violence, the role of religion in politics, majoritarian politics, and the persistence of imperial modes of power.
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A neoliberal revolution?
A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolu...
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England’s military heartland
This is the first book to portray what it is like to live next to a British Army base. Investigating the sprawling military presence on Salisbury Plain, it draws on voices from both sides of the divide.
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Writing security
A seminal text in the growing area of critical approaches to security.. The first edition, published in 1991, was well-received and widely reviewed. The book is a key text on many course reading lists.
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The pound and the fury
This book argues that misconceptions about the economy are rife in the general population and that this democractic deficit is caused by institutional bias and wilful misrepresentation at our most powerful institutions. This book exposes the structures of bias that distort public perceptions and ...
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International relations in a multipolar middle east
This edited volumes engages with the concept of multipolarity in the MENA region, and it does so by using a broad range of theories and approaches.
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Dance and politics
This book examines the political power of dance, particularly its transgressive potential. Focusing on readings of dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Martha Graham, Gumboots dancers in the gold mines of South Africa, the One Billion Rising movement, dabke in Palestine and dance as a protest agains...
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Going to the dogs
This book examines the rapid rise and slow decline of greyhound racing in Britain, focusing on the 1920s to the 1960s. It examines the way in which the middle classes sought to ban or control a sport and gambling opportunity which became a niche part of British working-class culture.
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Romantic narratives in international politics
Introducing insights from literary studies and narratology into international relations, this study examines the romantic narratives of pirates in Somalia, rebels in Libya and private military and security companies in Iraq.
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Imperialism and the development myth
China and Third World societies cannot 'catch up'. Much of the world’s work has moved to the poor countries, yet – through dominating critical aspects of labour process – a few rich, imperialist countries monopolise the benefits. China and the Third World will remain poor and the vast global soci...
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The absurdity of bureaucracy
The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them, short-cutting them...
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Friendship among nations
This is a study of friendship in international politics. It offers the history of friendship, and shows the role of friendship in building various legal and political orders on both equal and unequal terms. Told through an examination of sources ranging from diplomatic letters and bilateral treat...
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Sport and diplomacy
The book critically addresses the relationship between sport and diplomacy posing new questions of these two enduring features of global society.
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The free speech wars
This book is a timely intervention into the apparently growing culture wars around free speech as a political and social issue. These debates take form on university campuses, social media, mainstream press and elsewhere. The book will focus on the weaponisation of the concept in these areas, as ...
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Sport and the making of britain
The British love of sport is legendary. In this lively and stimulating book Derek Birley looks at the part it played in shaping British society.The book traces the development of sporting conventions from medieval chivalry to modern notions of sportsmanship and fair play. Particular sports from...
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How blair killed the co-ops
A detailed examination of social enterprise development under New Labour, which, though rarely reported elsewhere, represented a major and deliberate political rupture with the wider Cooperative Movement, of the same order of political magnitude as Blair’s earlier repudiation of Clause Four of it...
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Political ecologies of the far right
This book offers a unique perspective on one of today’s most disturbing convergences, the rise of the far right and the ongoing ecological crisis. Through case studies from around the world, the book interrogates the multifaceted ways these two trends intersect.
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The atlantic economy
Examines how the economic power of Britain and the US limits the opportunities for small states to develop. Follows the history of the Atlantic economy since the sixteenth century and shows how Ireland's repeated attempts to industrialise were transformed by British and American power. Explains t...
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Thorough surveillance
Traces the genesis of Israeli policies and tactics of population management, surveillance and political control towards the Palestinians
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Paramilitary loyalism
Takes a provocative second look at paramilitary loyalism. Based on extensive documentary and oral evidence from former combatants, politicians and key interlocutors.
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Ice humanities
This collection develops the field of ice humanities in order to reveal the centrality of ice and the need to understand better why, where, and how it matters to human and more than human life.
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Northern ireland a generation after good friday
This book captures the complex and often contradictory realities of the region’s peace process. Across nine original essays, the authors provide a critical and comprehensive reading of a society that seems to have left its violent past behind but at the same time remains subject to its gravitatio...
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Debt as power
Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The...
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The 1922 committee
The 1922 Committee is seen as the kingmaker in Conservative politics. This book provides a comprehensive account of its history, structure and influence.
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The ira 1956–69
An in depth study of the IRA in the years leading up to the conflict that broke out in 1969. This book explores the internal divisions that existed within the IRA and Sinn Fein in this period.
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What went wrong with britain?
This book provides an audit of fourteen years of Conservative government in Britain, from 2010 to 2024. It examines the rise of populism, the politics of Brexit, the UK’s response to the pandemic and the steady erosion of public trust.
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The break-up of greater britain
Turning the conventional Break-Up of Britain narrative inside-out, this book scans the horizon of overseas projections of British identities that unravelled during the decades of global decolonisation
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The british left and zionism
The changes and divisions on the British left over the Israel-Palestine conflict forms the central theme of this archive based study.
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A matter of intelligence
Details the surveillance by the British security service MI5 of anti-Nazi refugees who came to Britain fleeing political persecution in Germany and Austria
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Humanitarian handicraft
This book explores the neglected history of textile crafts in projects of social and moral reform and considers how historical processes have become materialised in contemporary humanitarian craft-work.
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A grand strategy of peace
This book tells the story of Britain’s role in the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War.
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Postcolonial urban studies
Drawing on ideas from postcolonial theory and literary and cultural studies, in particular the work of Martinican poet and thinker Édouard Glissant, Garth Myers develops a new framework for re-imagining global urban studies.
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The caucasus emirate
This book analyses the role of ideology and identity in the North Caucasus insurgency, exploring how rebel leaders balanced local, national, and global factors in their efforts to justify and promote armed struggle against the Russian state.
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Slipping loose
Westlake argues that Brexit should be seen as a series of longer-term trends that were inexorably leading, or pushing, the UK away from full membership of the European Union, rather than as a sudden, impulsive act of rejection.
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The european social question
This analysis of EU social policy-making asks whether the EU's efforts contribute to social cohesion or, on the contrary, undermine it, and whether its action in the social realm should be intensified, or curtailed.
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New world new rules
The world needs collective action, but existing arrangements are unravelling or outmoded. Two of Europe's most-experienced policymakers tackle global governance across climate, health, trade, banking and finance, big business, migration and the digital economy, to establish what works and what do...
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Paris
An authoritative analysis of Paris's position, both globally and nationally, and the challenges that face its governance.
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Lost in ideology
Lost in Ideology maps the ideological terrain of the past 200 years and asks whether the current disorientation engulfing the world’s liberal democracies is in no small part ideological in origin.
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Labour, mobility and learning to be local
Drawing upon ethnographic observations and interviews with over 90 workers in Jordan, this book reveals how aid-as-work constructs and produces concurrent, polarised understandings of ‘the local’ that workers literally learn on-the-job.
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Evidence for transformative policymaking
This textbook offers a unique, practical guide to using quantitative evidence for transformative policymaking in an era of crisis. Written by the Common Sense Policy Group at Northumbria University, it combines economic microsimulation, public opinion research and narrative persuasion to address ...
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