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"Gender, Identity, and the Security State" published on by Oxford University Press.

Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Info -- Contents -- Introduction How Could This Happen? -- Chapter One Entering The Criminal Justice System -- Chapter Two The Path To Exoneration -- Chapter Three Evidence Working For Change -- Chapter Four Can You Believe Your Eyes? -- Chapter Five Good Cop, Bad Cop -- Chapter Six Bad Science -- Chapter Seven Paying For Lies -- Chapter Eight Poor Lawyering And Unjust Justices -- Chapter Nine Where Do We Go From Here? -- Exoneration Profiles -- Source Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- For Further Information -- Index -- Photo Acknowledgments -- About The Author/Acknowledgments -- Back Flap -- Back Cover

Middelaar, Luuk van, De passage naar Europa. Geschiedenis van een begin (Dissertatie Universiteit van Amsterdam 2009; Groningen: Historische Uitgeverij, 2009, 531 blz., ISBN 978 90 6554 236 6).In his De passage naar Europa. Geschiedenis van een begin [The Passage to Europe: History of a Beginning], Luuk van Middelaar makes European integration intelligible by applying a distinction between three spheres – the states, the community and the intermediate sphere of the Member States – to various events that have proven crucial in 'the making of'. These events form passages that have made Europe what it is today; as well as what it is not. Van Middelaar's writing is sensitive and inspired; his perspective is open-minded; the cases are well-documented (but not always adequate); and his book is innovative, as he introduces political/theoretical terminology into history, combined with insights from political science. He could even have gone further in narrowing the disciplines gap, however, and he has not always avoided the traps of history writing. In any case, he succeeds brilliantly in his ambition 'to tell another story about the birth of political Europe' (9; author's own italics).

Abstract This paper aims at providing an explanation why the Islamic State made a strategic shift and started terrorist campaign against the West. The main thesis argues that an attack on Western countries is a retaliatory strike for international military intervention against the Islamic State. The Islamic State also believes it will play a key role in an impending apocalypse, and its terrorist activities against the West largely derive from that belief. The focus of the study is on the analysis of religious terrorism as a projection of violence aimed towards realization of political goals, ideological foundations of militant Islamism as a system of ideas and beliefs that foster violent activities, doctrine of the Islamic State as a codification of its beliefs and activity, and global terrorism as a type of asymmetric war against Western countries. The research has found that ISIS has created a proto-state based on Salafi-jihadi doctrine, managed to portray itself as a religiously legitimate actor among tens of thousands of extremists from all around the world. Deeply committed to the Prophetic methodology, ISIS's leaders and jihadists initiated total jihad against their opponents, regarding the atrocities as a divine commandment to destroy their enemies. It used international military intervention as a sign of foretold battle against the West and launched indiscriminate terrorist campaign in Europe and North America. With territorial loses in Iraq and Syria, ISIS will focus on terrorist plots in both domestic and foreign theaters. It will try to claim victory over the West by hitting it with lethal terrorist attacks, with the goal of gaining followers and assuming al-Qaeda's mantle.