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This book examines Moving Target Defense (MTD) as a strategic and institutional response to the weaknesses of static cyber defence in democratic states.

Using Canada as the principal empirical case, and drawing comparisons with the United States, the UK and Australia, the book argues that adaptive denial is a governance problem before it is a technological one. It develops a framework for evaluating MTD against alliance interoperability, digital sovereignty, and democratic accountability, and examines real-world threats, including Chinese state-sponsored hacking groups such as Volt Typhoon, ransomware attacks on hospitals and pipelines, and foreign interference in democratic institutions. Bridging cybersecurity technology, national security policy, and democratic governance, this work provides practical insights for policymakers, security professionals, and scholars seeking to understand how liberal democracies can better protect themselves in an era of relentless digital competition.

This book will be of much interest to students of cyber-security, strategic studies, law and technology, and International Relations.

Taking a ground-breaking deep dive into the world of post-liberalism, The Opportunists immerses the reader in this simmering ideological stew. Historian Hannah Gurman combines intellectual biography and political history, offering incisive profiles of key thinkers including Patrick Deneen, Adrian Vermeule, Yoram Hazony, Erika Bachiochi, Mary Harrington, Oren Cass, and Sohrab Ahmari. These figures have played a crucial role in legitimizing Trumpism beyond the MAGA base, providing intellectual fuel for the next generation of right-wing leaders who embrace such varied-and poorly understood-intellectual strains as Catholic integralism, neoconservative Zionism, reactionary feminism, and "pro-worker" conservatism. These ideas, and their proponents, are poised to determine the course of America's future, driving the creation of new think tanks and media outlets, rebranding the agendas of existing conservative organizations, and dramatically reshaping reactionary politics in the United States and beyond.

We ignore the post-liberals, Gurman argues, at our own peril. The Opportunists is a major effort to expose the new ideas shaping our perilous world-and a first step in understanding how to combat them.

The Routledge Handbook on Digital India Case Studies: e-Governance Management Cases presents an accessible exploration of 19 groundbreaking digital initiatives reshaping public service delivery for over a billion people. From the Aadhaar biometric identity platform to the eNAM agricultural marketplace and Ayushman Bharat health scheme, this handbook brings to life the stories behind India's most ambitious digital projects.

The handbook unpacks the vision, technology, and real-world impact of these initiatives, revealing how they make government services more transparent, efficient, and inclusive. It examines implementation challenges, innovative solutions, and lessons learned along the way. What distinguishes this work is its practical approach: every case includes teaching notes, making it invaluable for educators, students, policymakers, and practitioners. Written in clear, accessible language, it bridges theory and practice, demonstrating how digital innovation drives social and economic progress.

Whether you are curious about how digital payments work in farm produce procurement in rural India, how SMEs access public procurement opportunities across the nation online, or how technology is used to deliver healthcare and welfare, this book provides a comprehensive, real-world perspective on the Digital India journey. It will be useful to students, researchers, policymakers, government officials, practitioners, consultants, international development agencies, and tech industry professionals working in or teaching management, public policy, information technology, governance, and development.

A groundbreaking history and critique of a little-explored aspect of American law enforcement: the often deadly 911 emergency response system

911 is largely promoted as a tool to save lives-yet too often, it puts people's safety in jeopardy, especially for those in communities of color. We all know the tragic case of George Floyd, but what many overlook is that this calamity was put in motion not just by a police officer, but by a single 911 call. In this important book full of original research, Rebecca Neusteter, one of the country's leading experts on emergency response, uncovers a shockingly unregulated system with deeply racist roots.

Although fire chiefs had called for a universal emergency hotline for years, it wasn't until Newark, Watts, and Detroit exploded in race riots in 1967 that federal authorities finally moved to create a system-one designed to summon the police quickly to quell civil unrest. Neusteter reveals that this legacy of racial social control continues today, with 911 calls defaulting to a response by armed police, whether or not they are well-matched to the need at hand. The book covers the all-too-frequent killings of unarmed mentally ill people as well as the "Karen" syndrome, in which primarily white women call 911 to report people of color engaged in harmless activities-endangering their lives in the process. In her final chapters, Neusteter highlights the difficult nature of the 911 profession and the dedicated public servants who show up every day to make the system run, details promising new models of emergency response, and outlines other changes needed to improve 911. Neusteter's research is an urgent call to action that challenges us to transform America's overburdened 911 system and make it safe, just, and equitable for all.

This book examines how democracies worldwide are being challenged by populism, polarization, and the erosion of minority belonging. Democracies around the world are under strain. Elections are contested, courts politicized, minorities scapegoated, and the social bonds that hold diverse societies together are fraying. Why is this happening, and what can be done?

Bringing together scholars from five continents, this book examines how social solidarity-the often-invisible glue of democratic life-is being made, unmade, and remade in the twenty-first century. Drawing on case studies from India, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Kyrgyzstan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and the United States, contributors trace two routes of democratic erosion: when institutions are designed in ways that concentrate power and exclude minorities, and when majority rule overrides the rights and belonging of those it should protect.

This is not a book of diagnoses alone. Each chapter pairs critical analysis with concrete remedies, ranging from electoral and constitutional reform to grassroots coalitions, interfaith alliances, and trauma-aware responses to political extremism. Together, the essays offer a toolkit for rebuilding democratic resilience in an age of polarization, populism, and contested belonging.

This book is essential reading for students, scholars, and practitioners in political science, sociology, comparative politics, democracy studies, and conflict resolution. It will also appeal to policymakers, civil society organizations, and anyone concerned with the future of democratic governance and social cohesion in diverse societies.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Peace Review.

This book examines how international military education shapes global security dynamics and foreign policy decisions. Unlike existing scholarship that typically studies military education programs from different sponsors in isolation of each other, this book employs a comprehensive network approach to capture the competitive nature of international military education.

It reveals how multiple sponsoring states simultaneously compete for influence, affecting everything from the establishment of education relationships to graduates' career trajectories and eventual foreign policy decisions. Drawing on original datasets, social network analysis, and case studies from Ghana, Tanzania, and Kenya, the book demonstrates that leaders' personal international military education experiences significantly shape their state's foreign policy decisions. By situating military education within hegemonic socialization theory, the book provides a nuanced understanding of how this understudied practice functions as a critical tool of statecraft in an increasingly competitive global environment.

The findings offer actionable insights for navigating today's complex geopolitical landscape, including U.S.-China-Russia competition and France's declining influence in West Africa. This book will appeal to scholars and students of international relations and security studies, professionals in military education institutions, and policymakers engaged in defense diplomacy and African foreign policy.

Forthcoming Fall 2026

This book examines how Pan-African digital peacebuilding methodologies, exemplified through the innovative Maskani home platform, address ethno-political polarization in Kenya's electoral landscape while demonstrating the critical role of social media in conflict mitigation and peacebuilding across Africa.

Rather than merely exploring conceptual approaches, this work presents a rare case study of practical digital peacebuilding implementation strategies grounded in Pan-African philosophical approaches to knowledge complexities in the digital age (digital ubuntu), filling a gap in the existing literature on technology and peace in African contexts. Through its exploration of Maskani, the book reveals how youth micro-influencers employ both online strategies and offline cultural approaches to counter polarization. The work is uniquely grounded in Pan-African digital peacebuilding epistemic approaches rather than conventional Global North frameworks, examining how technology is innovated and adapted to local contexts despite digital divides and data poverty challenges. By documenting how Maskani functions as a local infrastructure for digital peacebuilding, the book provides transferable insights for addressing similar challenges in diverse cultural settings.

This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners in security studies, peace and conflict studies, international relations and diplomacy, media studies, political science, digital humanities, philosophy and sociology of technology, technology studies and African studies, as well as policymakers, industry players, civil society organizations, and technology professionals engaged in peacebuilding initiatives.