Conflict, security and peace

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines how Sweden’s consent-based rape laws challenge outdated legal frameworks and offers insights applicable globally. It reveals how emotional and contextual factors impact legal reasoning and advocates for training in emotional reflexivity and empathy.

This book analyses the impact of militarist discourses and counter-terrorism governance agendas on urban dwellers in Paris and Brussels, cities perceived as "non-war zones" for a considerable time. From lockdowns to states of emergency, the book considers questions of agency and resistance and how to re-think notions of urban peace.

After a meteoric rise, China's growth has come to a screeching halt. Salvatore Babones provides an up-to-date assessment of how China's economic problems are undermining its challenge to the Western-dominated world order. He tells how liberal individualism has become the leitmotif of American Tianxia.

This book examines how changes to social rules reshape how states explain their military actions, and changes to technology and society transform contemporary warfare. Analysing the role that war serves in global politics, it outlines the ways in which war affects the contemporary world, from international relations to our day-to-day lives.

Patricia Shamai traces the history of nuclear weapons from their first use in 1945 through the Cold War to the ominous nuclear landscape today. She shows how they have been a deterrent by raising the stakes of war and thereby reducing the chances of conflict, but this depends on the world’s reaction and ongoing vigilance.

Julia Buxton looks at how our current drug control regime came about and charts the evolution of the contemporary drugs market, looking at where drugs are now produced and consumed, and by whom. Ultimately she asks, if the current strategy is patently failing, how could it be done better?

Anthony Crosland’s The Future of Socialism (1956) provided a creed for governments of the centre left. Now Peter Hain revisits this classic text and presents a stimulating political prospectus for today. It should be read by everyone interested in the future of the left.

Sixteen for '16 offers a new agenda for the 2016 US election crafted around sixteen core principles from securing jobs to saving the Earth.

It is a manifesto which makes the argument for each of these positions, clearly, concisely, and supported by hard data. Its progressive agenda charts a realistic path toward a better tomorrow.

Reclaiming Social Democracy is the first major reappraisal of social democracy on the centre-left since the election of Jeremy Corbyn. With a foreword by Lord Hain, it examines its foundational principles and identifies the values needed to find a route back to political credibility for Labour.

Takes a long term view on the range of institutional and operational options available to the UK, EU and other international institutions seeking to influence Brexit negotiations and outcomes.

Winlow and Hall argue that the only way to resurrect leftist politics is to begin from the beginning again. They identify the root causes of its maladies, describe how new cultural obsessions displaced core unifying principles, and outline how a new reincarnation of the left can win in the 21st century.

This groundbreaking book develops a new periodization for understanding contemporary international history. It challenges West-centric approaches by setting up timelines appropriate for a global approach to International Relations.