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Examining how Singapore has responded to one of the most pressing social challenges of our time, this book analyses one of the world's fastest-ageing societies. The book provides an evidence-based account of how a small but highly developed state has built and adapted its policies for older adults over seven decades.

Covering key policy areas, the author traces how government approaches have evolved across six distinct historical periods, from a foundational self-reliance model to an increasingly distributed whole-of-society framework. A growing reliance on indirect policy tools such as employer incentives, tax relief, and public-private partnerships is contrasted with economies around the world. Based on a series of interviews across multiple generations, the book presents evidence of policy effectiveness for a national approach to ageing.

Concluding with a new framework for evaluating whether ageing policies genuinely meet older adults' needs, this book provides a valuable reference for scholars, policymakers, and practitioners seeking evidence-informed frameworks for designing and reforming ageing governance systems across diverse national contexts.

This book examines how - in the 21st century world of big data and social media - artificial intelligence and algorithms are being used to predict our economic, political, and cultural activity.

Drawing inspiration from the concept of a 'minority report', as introduced in Philip K. Dick's 1956 short story, the book explores how the byproduct of digital content on social media often generates a collective perception of reality. This book breaks down how this collective perception is ultimately manufactured - by cultural, political, and economic interests - and, in reality - through additional issues such as data errors, misinformation, and bias - can often be false. Applying critical political economic analysis and cultural legal studies to these problems, Blevins emphasizes how we can do more to challenge the perceptions that pervade popular online discourse. Throughout the book, he demystifies the systems and processes that generate these information flows, enabling readers to better fight for remedies to the problem - legal and otherwise - and create a more just digital future.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of media and communication studies, political science, sociology, and beyond who have an interest in understanding and addressing the impact AI, algorithms, and misinformation have on social media and society.

This book presents a selection of articles published over the past 20 years by the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism. As the journal marks its 20th anniversary, this collection reflects on its contributions to scholarship and practice in policing, intelligence and counter terrorism studies. Over the past 20 years, the journal has provided a critical platform for interdisciplinary research, bringing together academics and practitioners to address some of the most pressing challenges in security studies.

The selected articles demonstrate the journal's dedication to advancing knowledge through empirical research, theoretical innovation and policy-relevant analysis. Together, they reflect the journal as a platform for pioneering research that asks new questions, advocates new solutions for old problems, promotes collaboration, and looks to the future of the field. The journal's focus has been not only to advance academic knowledge but to provide evidence-based solutions for policing, intelligence and counter terrorism practitioners and policymakers. This book highlights the journal's role in shaping debates and cementing a legacy of scholarship and impact.

This book is invaluable for graduate students, academics, and researchers in counter terrorism research, criminology, security studies, and public policy. It intersects with fields such as international relations, public administration, the sociology of crime, risk management, and homeland security studies, offering interdisciplinary perspectives on modern security governance and practice.

The chapters in this book were originally published in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism and are presented with a new Introduction.

Forthcoming Fall 2026

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.

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 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.

The Nigerian government has increasingly relied on the military for maintaining law and order and countering the proliferation of armed groups, many of which pose multidimensional threats to state authority, life, and property of the citizens, as well as national stability and prosperity. This book investigates the Nigerian military's evolution, justifications, considerations, capabilities, engagements, contributions, challenges, and possible ways forward.

The book considers the contexts, rationales, and merits of military deployment for internal security and law enforcement operations, as well as the tactical, strategic and policy dynamics, contributions, challenges, and recommendations. In addition to the Biafra, Niger Delta and Boko Haram wars, the book considers less publicised cases of military campaigns against armed bandits, neo-Biafra and Yoruba secessionists, ethno-religious and communal militias, illegal or informal miners and refiners, and smugglers. It also reflects on military partnerships with intelligence agencies and transcends army-ground-forces reductionism in providing airpower perspectives on Nigerian military operations.

This book will be an interesting read for policymakers, practitioners and researchers across the fields of political science, sociology, African studies, and military and security studies, as well as members of the public with an interest in Nigerian/African peace, conflict, and development.

This edited volume examines how states, NGOs, international and local actors in Africa compete for influence on the continent by engaging in what is known as grey zone, conflicts using methods and tactics that fall short of open war.

Drawing on examples of grey zone conflicts from across the continent, the book shows how tactics such as disinformation, cognitive warfare, cyber operations, the strategic use of private military companies, sanctions, food and infrastructure deals, and election interference are used to generate political, strategic and economic outcomes without resorting to the open use of military force. It explains these examples in clear language, linking them to Africa's history of colonialism, liberation struggles, often fragile governance and its nature as a place of contestation for foreign powers, and to today's wider struggle over global order and power competition. Organised in six thematic parts, the volume moves from core concepts and historical roots to detailed case studies of Russian and Chinese engagement, Western policies, regional alliances, and the battle for hearts and minds. Covering cases from the Sahel to Central Africa and beyond, this collection not only advances the global conversation on grey zone conflict but also reinforces Africa's role in shaping the future of strategic competition and contestation.

This volume will be of much interest to students of hybrid warfare, military and strategic studies, African politics, and Security Studies.

Governing Islam and Violent Radicalization explores the links between the governance of religious diversity and violent radicalization.

Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship and case studies from both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority settings, as well as case-studies centering transnational and non-state actors, this volume problematizes the often-simplistic portrayal of Islam as a unitary concept and explores the religious market of ideas where different religious groups, including governmental religious institutions, are seeking to preach their ideas. By bridging previously disconnected strands of research on religion governance and counter-radicalization, this book offers a nuanced analysis of the complex entanglements between Islam, state power, and violence.

The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, religious studies, security studies, Middle Eastern studies, South-East Asian studies and European studies, as well as policymakers working in counter-terrorism, counter-radicalization, and religious governance. It will also appeal to general readers interested in the intersection of Islam, state power, and radicalization.