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This book provides a long-term perspective on the opinions of the British public on foreign and defence policy in the post-war era. Thematically wide-ranging, it looks at the broader role of foreign and defence policy in British politics and elections, public opinion towards Britain's key international relationships and alliances (the United States, NATO, the EU and the Commonwealth), and public opinion towards the projection of 'soft power' (overseas aid) and 'hard power' (defence spending, nuclear weapons and military intervention) Assessing the main areas of change and continuity in the public's views, it also pays close attention to the dividing lines in wider society over foreign and defence policy. Analysing an extensive range of surveys and opinion polls, the book situates the analysis in the wider context of Britain's changing foreign policy role and priorities in the post-war era, as well as linking public opinion with the politics of British external policy – the post-war consensus on Britain's overseas role, historical and contemporary areas of inter-party debate, and enduring intra-party divides. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of British politics, European politics, foreign policy analysis, public opinion, defence and security studies and more broadly to comparative politics and international relations.

After the multidimensional financial crisis of 2008, the member states of the Eurozone imposed a set of economic policies to save their economies. Socially unpopular cuts contributed to the occurrence of violent movements that both opposed austerity policies and created animosity towards the politicians who implemented them. Combining qualitative and quantitative comparative analyses from anti-austerity movements in 14 Eurozone states from 2007 to 2015, Joanna Rak develops an original typology of patterns of a culture of political violence to explain why some anti-austerity movements turned to violence and others did not, despite having shared goals and political values. She uncovers the very nature of the differences and similarities between cultures of political violence, identifies their sources, and determines their differing results. Simultaneously, she opens a discussion on the exploratory and explanatory utility of the category of a culture of political violence in the Social Sciences.Theorizing Cultures of Political Violence in Times of Austerity casts new light on the scholarly debate on cultures of political violence and anti-austerity violent behavior, making it a compelling read for scholars of political sociology, political behavior, comparative politics, European politics, and sociology.

chapter 1 The popular disciplines of delight -- chapter 2 The containing matrix of the social -- chapter 3 The therapeutic culture hypothesis -- chapter 4 Containment and compression: politics in the therapeutic age -- chapter 5 A new psychosocial theory of nationalism.

The year 2011 will go down in history as a turning point for the Arab world. The popular unrest that swept across the region and led to the toppling of the Ben Ali, Mubarak, and Qaddhafi regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya has fundamentally altered the social, economic, and political outlooks of these countries and the region as a whole.The book provides a comprehensive assessment of political and institutional transition processes in two key countries in North Africa and its conclusions shed light on similar processes that have taken place throughout the region since 2011. It will be a valuable resource for anyone studying Middle Eastern and North African politics, area studies, comparative institutional development and democratisation.This book assesses the transition processes unleashed by the uprisings that took place in Egypt and Tunisia in 2011. The wave of unrest and popular mobilisation that swept through these countries is treated as the point of departure of long and complex processes of change, manipulation, restructuring, and entrenchment of the institutional structures and logics that defined politics. The book explores the constitutive elements of institutional development, namely processes of constitution making, electoral politics, the changing status and power of the judiciary, and the interplay between the civilian and the military apparatuses in Egypt and Tunisia. It also considers the extent to which these two countries have become more democratic, as a result of their institutions being more legitimate, accountable, and responsive, at the beginning of 2014 and from a comparative perspective. The impact of temporal factors in shaping transition paths is highlighted throughout the book.

Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Appendix tables; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; I; II; III; Bibliography; 2 Economic slowdown in the early modern age: Alternative explanations under the 'great divergence' hypothesis; I; II; III; IV; V; Notes; Bibliography; 3 Coal mining: Dissemination of mineralogical knowledge and railway networking; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Notes; Bibliography; 4 Iron smelting and its downstreams: Conflicts in the core-periphery relationship; I; II; III; IV.

Deportation has again taken a prominent place within the immigration policies of nation-states. Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation addresses the social responses to deportation, in particular the growing movements against deportation and detention, and for freedom of movement and the regularization of status. The book brings deportation and anti-deportation together with the aim of understanding the political subjects that emerge in this contested field of governance and control, freedom and struggle. However, rather than focusing on the typical subjects of removal – refugees, the undocumented, and irregular migrants – Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation looks at the ways that citizens get caught up in the deportation apparatus and must struggle to remain in or return to their country of citizenship. The transformation of 'regular' citizens into deportable 'irregular' citizens involves the removal of the rights, duties, and obligations of citizenship. This includes unmaking citizenship through official revocation or denationalization, as well as through informal, extra-legal, and unofficial means. The book features stories about struggles over removal and return, deportation and repatriation, rescue and abandonment. The book features eleven 'acts of citizenship' that occur in the context of deportation and anti-deportation, arguing that these struggles for rights, recognition, and return are fundamentally struggles over political subjectivity – of citizenship. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of citizenship, migration and security studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence provides both a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art overview of the latest research in the field of gender and violence. Each of the 23 specially commissioned chapters develops and summarises their key issue or debate including rape, stalking, online harassment, domestic abuse, FGM, trafficking and prostitution in relation to gender and violence. They study violence against women, but also look at male victims and perpetrators as well as gay, lesbian and transgender violence

chapter 1 Multiculturalism -- chapter 2 Diversity in the Workforce: Facts and Figures -- chapter 3 Strategic Management of Diversity: Benefits and Challenges -- chapter 4 Diversity Management in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia: Legal and Political Analysis Diversity Management in the US: Political -- chapter 5 Diversity Management in Practice The Practice of Strategic Management of Diversity.

Romania's Dependent Market Economy: The Role of Higher Education in Setting Up a Low-Skills Equilibrium Trap -- Multinational Corporations and Higher Education: Some Hidden Dynamics -- Higher Education Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: A Perspective on Hungary and Poland -- Low- and High-skills Equilibria: What Role for the Government?

Britain and Abyssinia : the forward view -- Mesopotamia in the official mind, before, during and after the First World War -- The politics of relief : British humanitarian aid to the Turk, 1876-7 -- Casting out devils : British military consuls in Turkey -- A spearhead of influence in the Near East : the New Levant Company and British commerce in the aftermath of war -- The Foreign Office and the issue of sacred space in Morocco, c1860 to 1970.

Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The quest for communicative complexity within social movements; PART I: Ecologies; 1 Media ecologies and the media/movement dynamic; 2 An ecological exploration of the 'Anomalous Wave' movement; 3 An ecological exploration of the #YoSoy132 movement; PART II: Imaginaries; 4 Media imaginaries and the media/movement dynamic; 5 The authoritarian sublime of the Five Star Movement; 6 The technopolitical sublime of the Spanish Indignados; PART III: Algorithms