Politics

The role of board secretary in the voluntary sector is often one which is additional to other responsibilities - you may have inherited it as part of your current responsibilities or subsequently had it tacked on to your main role. Either way it can

Investigates the forces that drive armed conflict, shows what is already effective in building peace at both local and international levels, contains the first-ever costed Business Plan for Peace, showing that war can be prevented for $2bn.

This book presents a unique investigation into the meaning of the commons. Unlike academic literature on the subject, Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi-founder of Share The World's Resources-explores what the commons ultimately signifies beyond its material a

The Demilitarized Society diagnoses the economic and allied decay caused by militarism, and formulates a set of proposals - political and economic - for for demilitarizing societies.

Since the second edition of this popular Very Short Introduction published in 2007, the world has faced huge economic and political change.

An urgent collection of essays by first and second-generation immigrants, exploring what it's like to be othered in an increasingly divided America.

This short book meets such concerns head-on, analyzing the worsening insecurity trap we are in, and how to get out of it. In the troubled decade that lies ahead, we have the combination of a bitterly divided world facing limits to growth ...

The spectre of the Populist Right haunts our politics: Farage and Trump, Orban and Le Pen. Why and how has this reactionary movement managed to redraw the political map, from Warsaw via Workington to Wisconsin?

Now more than ever, public servants must consider and reassess how to keep moral courage in public life alive. With ethical expectations and needs changing and government policies under increasing moral scrutiny.

This book discusses multiple ways of voting in a democratic system and explains the basis of more consensual politics.