The field of genocide studies has experienced extraordinary growth during the past two decades. It stands today as one of the most diverse and interdisciplinary in the social sciences and humanities. Likewise, the field's anchoring case studies have proliferated, from an initial focus on the Jewish Holocaust, the Armenian genocide, and the genocide of Tutsi in Rwanda, to a genuinely global framework that incorporates cases of genocide and other mass atrocities on every populated continent.

This handbook provides a cutting-edge overview of the discipline, blending theoretically grounded analysis with empirically rich illustrations to provide a state-of-the-art overview of the contemporary debates in genocide studies. Split into seven sections, the book covers:

• Roots and Causation
• Disciplinary Perspectives
• Genocide Through History
• The 20th Century: Genocide Before the Convention
• Genocide Since 1948
• Interventions and Aftermaths
• Cultural Legacies

Bringing together a diverse set of both established and up-and-coming scholars, this volume will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students who are new to the field, to educators, and to scholars, researchers, and professionals in numerous fields who seek an encompassing understanding of genocide studies.

The first English translation of Emanuele Severino's radical critique of the notion of identity.

Starting from his central intuition that Western culture is essentially nihilism, Emanuele Severino reflects anew on the problem of identity, abandoning the ambiguous (and ultimately contradictory) fashion in which being and becoming are grasped in the Western tradition. In this foundational work in Severino's philosophy, the philosopher questions the dominant understanding of identity in Western culture, tracing it back to Aristotle's definition of identity as 'tautotes'. In his endeavour, Severino discusses - with his particular depth - the most renowned philosophical passages from Hegel, Aristotle, Plato and Kant, presenting a radical critique of identity.

This book constitutes part of Severino's monumental theoretical apparatus, comprising a critique of Western metaphysics that sets him alongside Heidegger in contemporary theory. This translation of Tautotes will appeal to those interested in the central problems of Ancient and contemporary philosophy, ontology and metaphysics.

From Alan Turing breaking the Enigma code to ChatGPT reshaping how we work and create, artificial intelligence has always been powered by a single unifying principle: learning from data under uncertainty. This book reveals the mathematical machinery behind modern AI, weaving together Bayesian probability, statistical learning, and deep neural networks into a coherent intellectual framework. Whether you seek to understand why large language models hallucinate, how recommendation systems predict your preferences, or what makes reinforcement learning agents master complex games, this book equips you with both the theoretical foundations and practical intuitions that define the modern AI playbook.

Key Features:

• Builds Bayesian reasoning from first principles through historical examples like submarine search and WWII code-breaking
• Bridges classical statistics and deep learning, connecting linear regression to transformers
• Covers the complete AI stack: probability, decision theory, Gaussian processes, neural networks, CNNs, NLP, and LLMs
• Emphasizes uncertainty quantification-building systems that know what they don't know
• Practical applications across finance, healthcare, operations, and autonomous systems
• Emerging topics: AI agents, RLHF, and retrieval-augmented generation

Written for graduate students, data scientists, and quantitatively-minded practitioners, this book assumes comfort with calculus and basic probability while building sophisticated intuitions progressively. Business analysts will appreciate the decision-theoretic framing; engineers will value the architectural insights; researchers will find rigorous foundations for further study. Whether used as a course textbook, professional reference, or intellectual companion for understanding the AI revolution transforming every industry, this book delivers the rare combination of mathematical depth and accessible exposition that makes complex ideas genuinely understandable.

The book introduces Media Anthropology as a distinct sub-discipline in India, presenting a sustained trajectory of research and media practice that have contributed to its growth over the years. Across five thematic sections and 18 chapters, the book presents wide ranging research on various strands of media anthropology as a field, including ethnographic and engaged studies of visual and digital forms of media. The chapters present anthropological research exploring vibrantly diverse spatial settings and subjectivities, allowing readers to grasp the ways in which media practices emerge and come alive.

This book will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and South Asian studies.

Designed to enable practitioners and students to evaluate a variety of real-life emergencies from every angle, this full-featured third edition of Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management provides clear, thorough, step-by-step descriptions of more than 100 major disasters or emergencies.

Arranged chronologically, the case studies explore incidents from around the globe, including natural disasters, industrial accidents, epidemics, and terrorist attacks. A series of questions offered alongside each case study encourages the reader to think critically about the problem at hand, to evaluate courses of action, and to understand both anticipated and unforeseen outcomes of decisions that are made. This hands-on approach invites practitioners and students to apply theoretical emergency management techniques in a safe test environment.

Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management, Third Edition provides readers with the most modern and current case studies in disaster response and emergency management. The book can be used in group project settings, as individual homework assignments in training courses for first responders, law enforcement, and government employees, or to complement existing emergency management textbooks in Public Administration, Public Management, and Public Affairs programs.

A powerful exploration of how emotions like rage, grief, and pride drive ethnic conflict and shape political life.

The Affective Forces of Ethnic Politics: But Look What They Did to Us! offers a bold intervention into the study of ethnic conflict, challenging the idea that fear, interests, or elite manipulation are the primary drivers of violence. Instead, it reveals how humiliation, grief, pride, and spite, or the affective forces of ethnic politics, sustain long-term antagonism and block the path to reconciliation.

Through emotionally charged case studies from Bosnia, Kosovo, Gaza, and Nagorno-Karabakh, the book shows how wounded identity, symbolic resistance, and accusatory discourse fuel post-conflict polarization. Rather than irrational outbursts, these emotions are deeply structured forces that shape how communities interpret the past, experience the present, and imagine the future. Against approaches that treatemotion as the opposite of reason, the book reframes it as a vital infrastructure of political life that must be understood to address the endurance of ethnic conflict.

Written in a clear, conceptually rich style, the book explains complex emotional dynamics without relying on jargon, making it accessible to students, researchers, and general readers with a basic grounding in conflict or political studies. It offers a powerful new lens for understanding identity conflict, and why reckoning with its emotional foundations is essential for any lasting resolution.

Cyberpower is a concept that has gained relevance with geopolitical dynamics reaching cyberspace and the increasing intertwining between the physical and digital. In this regard, this concept has been treated through three theoretical lenses: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. Still, constructivist approaches to the concept are sparse and deserve some attention.

Cyber Power in a Digital World is premised on a constructivist perspective, exploring the research problem: How do states' perceptions of cybersecurity shape the form of their power projection? Does that confer a new form of power relations, therefore, cyberpower as a phenomenon? To tackle these questions, the authors utilize a case study approach of three conventional European geopolitical powers-the United Kingdom, France, and Germany-and examine the intersectionality of cyberpower in industrial societies versus less industrial ones.

Offering a detailed examination of the intersection between cybersecurity and state power, Cyber Power in a Digital World delivers valuable insights for policymakers, scholars, and practitioners interested in the future of international relations and the role of cyberpower in shaping the global order.

Provides a thorough chronological review and analysis of neoliberal thought, from the 1920s through to the modern day.

With an in-depth look at the two main economic philosophies of our time, ordoliberalism and neoliberalism, Alfonso Zurita helps readers understand how economic crises, along with the political changes that followed, have emerged across the world over the last century. Following a detailed chronological account of these two economic theories, the book moves into analyzing how the ordoliberal and neoliberal economic movements have shaped today's economic thinking, including their role in shaping global markets and regulatory structures. Covering everything from the academic revolution in early 20th-century Europe to the current rise of cryptocurrency and decentralization's effect on governments worldwide, this book is a vital resource for anyone interested in the study of political economy.

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Through systematic analysis and examination of the structure and nature of legal obligations in armed conflict, the book demonstrates how and when proportionality operates in different forms and across multiple areas of international humanitarian law. Using analytical tables mapping proportionality across the treaty provisions of IHL, Maroonian develops a conceptual distinction between proportionality as a rule and as a principle. In doing so, she provides a clear methodological framework for understanding proportionality and highlights its importance for ensuring that humanitarian protections remain meaningful in contemporary armed conflicts.

The Principle of Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law is an essential resource for scholars and students of IHL and public international law. Legal practitioners and policy advisors working on armed conflict, humanitarian aid, and military law will also benefit from the systematic analysis of treaty provisions and contributions to broader debates on the general principles of legal interpretation and international law.

Contributors provide in-depth analysis of concerns related to the methods and procedures in private international law reflecting on their relevance in different legal situations. They illustrate the application and stress testing of traditional approaches and evaluate how specific categories are distinguished according to the vulnerability of the person to be protected, the legal position, and the values to be enhanced. The book considers the role of contractually weaker parties and the torts' victim, and concludes by addressing these values on a global scale.

Values in Private International Law is a vital reference for scholars and students of private international law, European law and comparative law. Its insights will also be pertinent for practitioners, judges, and international lawyers seeking legislation and case law for challenging issues in these evolving fields.

Contributors address critiques of decolonialism and anthropocentrism, reimagining cosmopolitanism to incorporate global knowledge traditions, including Indian thought, African feminism and Confucian political philosophy. They investigate pressing topics such as resurgent nationalism, populism, mass displacement and the climate crisis. Chapters respond to the so-called motivation problem facing the modern cosmopolitan movement, featuring groundbreaking research on sentimental, ambassadorial and solidarity approaches. This book is a cutting edge summary of contemporary cosmopolitan political theory and an insightful analysis of how it can meet the global challenges of our time.

A Modern Guide to Cosmopolitanism in the 21st Century is an essential resource for scholars and students of public policy and politics, geography, social policy and sociology. Political theorists and philosophers will also benefit from its reconceptualising approach.

Indian Transnationalism: Gender, Culture, and Identity delves into the challenges and creative transformations faced by Indians as they forge new lives abroad, offering a fresh and critical perspective on belonging in an interconnected world. The book brings together insights on ethnonational identity, gender roles, performing arts, and music, while examining the organizations that provide diasporic communities with political voice and social support. It explores how digital spaces-such as social media, streaming platforms, and online archives-shape cultural memory, particularly among younger generations. Additionally, it traces the journeys of cultural forms as they travel and adapt abroad, from the fusion music of the Indo-Caribbean diaspora to the simplified performances of rituals like Theyyam from Kerala.

What emerges is a nuanced portrait of diasporic life as a continuous negotiation between preservation and change, between belonging here and belonging there. The book reveals how gender influences who speaks for the community, how culture serves as both a resource for connection and a site of conflict, and how identity remains fluid and unsettled.

Written for students and scholars in migration studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, religious studies, and cultural studies, this volume offers a grounded and critical exploration of how globalization is lived, rather than merely theorized.

This volume examines the devastating impact of India's Partition on mental health services and individuals with mental illness. Occurring in mid-20th century, after the Holocaust and World War II, the Partition brought similar prejudice, trauma, and displacement in South Asia, yet its psychological consequences have remained largely unaddressed in medical education and practice.

Edited by psychiatrists, the book breaks this silence by tracking the breakdown of civic society, collapse of medical services, and violence against citizens during this cataclysmic event. Contributors draw from clinical experience, archival research, literature, media history, and political theory to investigate gendered violence, the division of mental hospitals, disrupted medical care, and the neglected inner lives of ordinary people. The book highlights how the failure to establish accountability or discuss the psychological impact of violence on victims has blighted post-Partition nations. With post-colonial partitions continuing worldwide, it emphasizes how care for the ill and disabled-civilization's defining feature-is forgotten amid political conflicts.

This interdisciplinary work will resonate with students and researchers in psychiatry, psychology, social welfare, mental health policy, and political history, offering valuable insights into medical history, social psychiatry, trauma studies, health planning, and gender awareness.

This book examines how the United Nations Secretariat built a coordinated regional peacekeeping architecture across the Israel-Arab conflict between 1967 and 1982, tracing its operational achievements and the structural limits that ultimately constrained them.

Drawing on previously classified UN archives, the book offers the first integrated institutional history of four UN operations - UNTSO, UNEF II, UNDOF, and UNIFIL - treated not as isolated deployments but as components of a deliberately managed regional system. It introduces the concept of Inter-Operation Collaboration (IOC), demonstrating that mission integration was practised decades before it was formalised in UN doctrine. Central to the narrative is General Ensio Siilasvuo, the Finnish officer who served successively as force commander, ceasefire negotiator at Kilometre 101, and Chief Coordinator of UN Peacekeeping in the Middle East, and whose career embodies the blend of military and diplomatic innovation that defined the era. The book also recovers the critical role of the Office of Special Political Affairs as the Secretariat's institutional engine.

The book will be of interest to scholars of UN peacekeeping, Middle Eastern history, and international organisations, as well as to practitioners and policymakers engaged with contemporary questions of multilateral conflict management.

From Walter Benjamin in Argentina to Theodor Adorno in Japan, this collection brings together leading scholars of Critical Theory to examine the impact of the Frankfurt School across global histories of the 20th century.

Featuring essays on Critical Theory's role in Brazil during dictatorship and redemocratization; the influence of Herbert Marcuse in Pinochet's Chile; the politics of Critical Theory in South Korea and intellectual relationships across Yugoslavia, Germany and the United States, the chapters in this volume consider how social, political, historical and intellectual conditions shaped local receptions of the Frankfurt School, and how the School's key thinkers in turn helped to transform these conditions.

Guided by Max Horkheimer's seminal distinction between critical and traditional theory, in which Critical Theory is distinguished by its self-reflexivity and awareness of its location within a larger social totality, The Internationalization of Critical Theory offers a groundbreaking reflection on Critical Theory at an international scale. Tracing the legacy of the Frankfurt School across Latin America, East Asia, Europe and North America, this volume offers new insights into the intellectual histories of both Critical Theory and global politics.

This essential resource provides introductions to fifteen classics of 19th and 20th-century Protestant theology, ranging from Schleiermacher's The Christian Faith to Dorothy Sayers's The Mind of the Maker to Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics.

Each chapter gives a sketch of the author's life, traces the main themes of their classic work, and indicates the impact of each theologian and their approach. By including known works and introducing new contributions into the story, Vander Lugt expands standard notions of the theological canon and provides a refreshing retelling of how Protestant theology has developed over the last two hundred years.

Students of theology and Christian leaders will find this an accessible introduction to a rich and dense theological world.

This volume offers a first comprehensive geography of peninsulas, in which 'almost islands' serve as windows onto how peninsularity shapes politics, identity, nation-building and engineering ambitions.

Like other geographies, peninsulas influence, but never dictate, human choices. Nineteen chapters, spanning multiple scales and disciplines, interrogate three interlocking themes: the internal divisions within peninsulas; the tensions across their isthmuses; and the engineering and political imagination that isthmuses provoke. The result is a theoretically grounded yet empirically diverse collection of works that will equip students and scholars with fresh tools for understanding how land, water and borders shape identity, territorial transformations, governance and power.

Written primarily for students and scholars of geography, geopolitics and international relations, it will also appeal to those working in political science, anthropology, history and island studies. Its global reach and accessible writing make it equally relevant to the intellectually curious general reader drawn to questions about place, identity and borders.

This book brings together the essential debates concerning the emergent area of Digital Humanities in India. Through the interviews, the book attempts to identify the differences and convergences between DH practice in and that of Global North. The book can be seen as a compendium for exploring multifarious layers of the 'digital' and its relationship with humanities, academia and beyond which have bestowed DH (in India) with many complications and contentions. Conversations on the Digital Humanities depicts the chequered and amorphous nature of DH practice in India - as an academic discipline, as a methodology, as community projects and as an appendage to existing discipline of literary studies, towards charting the features of DH as an emerging discourse. For example, for some scholars DH is understood as a 'method', while others consider it to be a discipline; similarly, while some scholars agree DH in India as a derivative of DH in the Global South, others consider DH as in India as different from DH in the Global North. This book brings together these different, yet diverse and distinct notions in form of conversations, not to provide a uniform understanding of DH, but a comprehensive view of the paradigm of what can be tentatively understood as 'Indian DH'. As editors, we ensure that this book captures the pluralities around the concerns of DH, that are determined not by us, but by scholars and practitioners who have been steering the area of DH.

This volume will be of interest to those making their initial entry into the area of DH; particularly, students of literary studies, cultural studies, media and communication studies. The volume brings together diverse voices concerning not only Digital Humanities practice but also practices concerning the broader discourse of the digital and digitality; alongside, the volume will allow readers to engage with the evolving landscape of Digital Humanities with respect to the Indian context.

Nondualism in International Relations: A Methodological Reconstruction Beyond Binaries examines how International Relations (IR) has long been structured by binary thinking-inside/outside, self/other, West/non-West, hierarchy/anarchy, and theory/practice. While recent approaches, including Global IR, have sought to pluralise the field, they often retain a methodological commitment to separability, treating analytical units as pre-given or historically constituted discrete entities.

The book uses Global IR as an entry point, arguing that overcoming binary thinking requires not the addition of new perspectives but a reorientation at the level of methodology. Advancing nondualism as a basis for the methodological reconstruction of IR, the volume brings together contributions that develop distinct nondualist methodological models across core domains of enquiry, including space, time, meaning, logic, order, ethics, gender, and identity. Each chapter follows a shared analytical sequence: identifying dualist limitations, developing a nondualist methodological model, and demonstrating its practical implications. These approaches are illustrated through engagements with issues such as territoriality, temporal ordering, cross-cultural interpretation, environmental governance, international order, conflict and reconciliation, gendered political processes, migration, and uneven global development. By shifting the focus from epistemic pluralism to methodological reconstruction, the book advances a Lakatosian nondualist IR research programme with implications beyond the discipline, extending to wider debates across the social sciences and humanities. It offers a systematic approach to analysing complex political formations without reducing them to fixed categories or either-or logics.

Nondualism in International Relations will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations and Global IR, as well as those working in political theory, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, and human geography.

Contributors investigate key topics such as legislation, accountability, psychological frameworks and the evolving role of technology. They assess ethical dilemmas in HUMINT, advocating for a code of ethics and presenting discussions on military intelligence which position readers at the cutting edge of intelligence evolution. The Handbook argues that future success depends on integrating technology while maintaining human elements, highlighting the importance of strengthening ethical standards and adapting to complex geopolitical environments.

Combining historical analysis with modern lessons, A Handbook on Human Intelligence for Practitioners is an essential resource for law enforcement professionals and government policymakers. Scholars and students of psychology, sociology, law and intelligence studies will also benefit from its actionable insights for understanding human behaviour.

This book examines the role of actors who support adjudicators at various stages of the dispute resolution process, comparing their functions across some 20 international dispute systems.

Referred to as 'Dispute Assistants', they include legal officers, referendaires, jurisconsults, and other registry or secretariat staff. Their functions are studied through doctrinal research, supplemented by discussions with relevant actors, so as to capture their actual influence on the adjudication process. The book highlights the widespread nature of their contribution. It also addresses legitimacy concerns about their potential undue influence on the mandate of adjudicators, drawing on case law, critiques from states, scholars, practitioners, and informal interviews with insiders. The last part of the book focuses on the WTO; inspired by various practices in other systems, it offers suggestions to address concerns over the quality and credibility of dispute actors, and to enhance the legitimacy of the WTO DSS and other systems.

Is philosophy a playful pursuit?

This book's central argument is that playfulness is an essential quality of philosophical practice, and that there is something essentially philosophical about play. Ways of doing philosophy well invariably require the same wonder, hope, co-operation and positive freedom that define healthy modes of play.

Matthew McLennan explores this intrinsic connection in the way that philosophy and play shed light upon one another through three core concepts: the realities of play define what it is and how it manifests; the rules of play determine how it functions; the 'what comes next' of play depends on what we want or hope to find in it. Together, these meditations explain how both play and philosophy are essentially oriented towards the indefinite, the infinite and the possible. Working across disciplinary boundaries and calling on an eclectic range of thinkers, this paradigm-shifting approach redefines how we understand the doing of philosophy and how we perceive the traditions that underpin it.