This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of postqueer politics within the Indian context, reimagining queer theory and activism through an intersectional lens. Moving beyond the binary of queer and straight, it examines how queer epistemologies can address broader sociopolitical challenges, including majoritarian nationalism, caste and class stratification, Islamophobia, environmental crises, and mental health.

By interrogating colonial disruptions of indigenous sexual cultures and envisioning a postcolonial future of egalitarian coexistence, the book advocates for collaborative engagements between queer and non-queer actors to reshape India's social and political fabric. A key highlight is its innovative approach to queer theory, positioning queer perspectives as tools for disrupting mainstream norms and fostering inclusivity. The book introduces postqueer politics as a non-queer-inclusive worldview, emphasizing collaboration and intersectionality to liberate the most marginalized. It critiques exploitative hierarchies and advocates for queer futurism aligned with broader social justice commitments. Through nuanced analysis, it demonstrates how queer knowledge can empower individuals to challenge socio-cultural unfreedom and create a more equitable society.

Essential for those interested in sexuality, gender, and Indian politics, this book is a valuable resource for students in Gender and Sexuality Studies, Sociology, Political Science, Minority Studies, and Cultural Studies, particularly in courses on identity politics and intersectionality.

Western views of southern Somalia are dominated by perceived gaps in the overall liberal order. Classical Western liberalism emphasizes individualism, civil and political liberties, the rule of law, and state structures.

Counter-insurgency warfare in former European colonial possessions since the 1960s has been a continuing challenge. Neither in Vietnam, nor in Afghanistan, nor in Iraq did Western armies "win" counter-insurgency wars in a way that left them stable, moderate, peaceful, states. They were left wartorn or under great oppression. Local elites did not share Western aims and did not unify to work together. Liberalism's aims of peace and progress were not achieved.

Every time a large liberal expeditionary force has been dispatched to stabilize a developing state since 1990, the results have been mixed or poor, even after deployments sometimes measured in decades (for example, the United Nations in the Congo since 1999).

A detailed examination of the civilian government, international and indigenous military forces, and the police in southern Somalia shows that they are not capable of defeating the Al-Shabaab insurgents.

Both the "Sunni Awakening" in Iraq in 2006 and the local clan offensives against Al-Shabaab from 2022 in Somalia offered the hope that a locally empowered approach, however, might make counter-insurgency success more attainable.

However, from the situation in southern Somalia, it appears extremely unlikely that liberal counter-insurgency aims can be achieved through a locally empowered approach. Local elites do not share wider Western aims and are intensely divided.

More generally, large, transformative, liberal-democratic expeditions into the developing world appear to have virtually no chance of success. First and foremost this is because local elites share neither their values nor aims. These elites are also, generally, bitterly divided and willing to fight for victory over each other's factions into the indefinite future.

The toll of climate destruction is growing, meaning Western resources will be increasingly needed closer to home. Between the very poor prospects of success, and the growing calls on limited deployable expeditionary resources, large, transformative Western liberal expeditions should end.

Adopting a spiritual history approach, this book traces the evolution of the concept of "New Women," which first emerged in China during the 1920s and 1930s. It reveals the profound significance of this concept, as well as the inherent tensions and losses involved in the creation of a modern Chinese identity.

Taking "leaving home" as its analytical starting point, the study examines the life histories and spiritual trajectories of "New Women" in Republican China. Although leaving home initiated their quest for independence, the question of "belonging" remained an ever-present shadow. Through a rigorous analysis of notable figures such as Ding Ling, Xie Bingying, and Xu Guangping, the book explores how this tension unfolded during significant historical events, including student movements, romantic relationships, revolutions, and material culture. The book argues that when "New Women" left home to resist arranged marriages, they sought alternative emotional support in new social relationships yet confronted new challenges. Ultimately, their spiritual history often led to two typical trajectories: Sublimation of the self through dedication to a "greater self" or a collective, or a descent into material consumption and the "bodily utopia" of self-decoration.

This volume will serve as an invaluable reference for scholars and students of modern Chinese history, Chinese feminism, and Chinese social history.

This volume examines Greenland's challenging paths toward independence and explores the fundamental tension between Greenland's aspirations for sovereignty and the geopolitical realities of Arctic strategic competition. The book provides a comprehensive framework for understanding Greenland's strategic options through detailed examination of its socio-economic, foreign, security, and defence policy, the Kingdom-Greenland relationship, and external pressures and offers from major powers. It analyzes how Greenland can maintain external resilience while pursuing greater autonomy in foreign policy, addressing the conflicting goals that arise when domestic independence processes intersect with international security concerns. Drawing on recent geopolitical developments-including renewed US interest in acquiring the territory and remilitarization of the Arctic-the analysis demonstrates how gradual economic diversification and strategic partnerships offer more sustainable paths than hasty independence or resource extraction dependency. The book reveals the mutual interdependence between Denmark and Greenland in protecting sovereignty against great power influence, while critically examining whether Greenland's inclusive foreign policy vision ('nothing about us without us') can be implemented without adequate resources.

Essential reading for scholars and policymakers working on Arctic governance, sovereignty studies, and small state diplomacy, this book will appeal to researchers in international relations, political science, Indigenous governance, and Arctic studies. It provides crucial insights for understanding how sub-state territories navigate independence aspirations within complex geopolitical environments.

Interrogating the divide between violent and nonviolent protest, including Aragalaya, this volume highlights the importance of strategically connecting seemingly unrelated historical events and political movements across Sri Lanka's North and South, spanning the period from 1948 to 2022, to offer fresh insights into intranational conflict.

By bringing the different protest movements of insurgency and civil disobedience (as well as the ethno-religious communities aligned with them), under one umbrella, this book represents a call for political action to address long-standing socio-political conflicts plaguing Sri Lanka. Divided into three sections (revolution and militant violence (1971-2009); postwar politics (2009 to present); and civil disobedience and the Aragalaya (2022)), the book offers case study chapters that draw on a range of sources such as literature, film, and performance studies, citing aesthetic expressions as acts of political resistance. Providing a conceptual framework for how we define protest, and how protest intersects with war and revolution, the book deliberately reframes the act as a continuum that includes insurgency, civil disobedience, and artistic resistance.

Ultimately challenging established regional and ethno-linguistic divisions that have been understudied by scholars of Sri Lanka since the 1970s, this book will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in the field of South Asian studies in particular, as well scholars researching protest movements and peace studies more generally.

This book challenges the dominant top-down view of peacekeeping by focusing on the individual peacekeeper's embodied, everyday experiences and interactions in the field, and the soft skills needed to navigate those interactions.

Macro-level goals (such as security and stability) often hinge on micro-level dynamics: how peacekeepers perceive, interpret, and navigate interpersonal and inter-organizational encounters. These encounters are shaped by the varied set of meanings brought to every interaction by the embodied individual soldier and police officer. Meanings around gender, culture, and their own roles are drawn from the individual peacekeeper's organisation and their own society. The other peacekeepers and the members of the local populations bring their own sets of meanings. Interactions can produce common understanding and cooperation, or they can lead to an impasse, damaged relationships and poor cooperation. The book draws on 177 in-depth interviews with experienced male and female military and police peacekeepers from six nations to provide significant insight into how interactions at the micro-level are crucial for effective cooperation and achievement of the mission goals. It delineates and demonstrates through vivid scenarios the soft skills each peacekeeper needs to improve these interactions: awareness of organisational culture, awareness of local culture, awareness of gender, awareness of the role of empathy; and crucially, the willingness and capability to act upon these.

This book will be of much interest to students of peacekeeping, conflict studies, security studies, gender studies, sociology, and International Relations in general.

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.

Drawing on regional case studies and spatially differentiated impacts, this book counters one-size-fits-all solutions, capturing the diversity of transition pathways, risks and opportunities across the EU. Expert authors evaluate the effectiveness of EU policies, emphasizing practical governance strategies, monitoring approaches and deliberative democracy as key factors in achieving sustainable and resilient regional development outcomes. Engaging with case studies from across Western and Eastern Europe and key governance challenges, this book proposes pathways for advancing transitions in future EU programming cycles.

Academics and students of human geography, public policy, environmental governance, EU studies and sustainability will appreciate the conceptual debates and empirical case studies this book offers. With its practical insights and evidence-based recommendations, policymakers and practitioners will also find it a useful tool for policy implementation.

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.

Why do democracies continue to elect 'orphaned' outsiders versus 'patrician' elites?

In The Orphan Paradox, Sharma offers an original meditation on the hidden wounds that shape political leadership. Building on his earlier works, including Barack Obama in Hawai'i and Indonesia (2012), Sharma fuses psychology, history, and political science to illuminate how leaders transform vulnerability into vision. Through vivid portraits that traverse continents and centuries, he traces how the United States and India - twin experiments in democracy born of colonial rupture - produced leaders who embodied both loss and renewal: Washington, Jefferson, and Madison in America; Gandhi, Nehru, and Ambedkar in India. From these founders emerged patrician families -the Adamses, Kennedys, Bushes, and the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty - whose inheritance of power eventually met the populist insurgencies of figures like Trump and Modi. For psychologists, historians and political scientists alike, The Orphan Paradox provides a new framework on the foundations of democracy, showing how personal loss shapes institutional design and how nations, like individuals, oscillate between trauma and transcendence. The result is a work of scholarship with a moral urgency - a study of how the orphaned souls continue to haunt, and perhaps redeem the democratic experiment.

Written in an accessible style that breaks down complex legal principles, this timely book highlights landmark case studies to illustrate the application of IHL and IHRL in practice. Using these as a foundation, Caceres-Solari dissects the interplay between armed conflicts and their effects. Chapters provide a comprehensive global perspective, examining how legislation operates across borders: covering treaties, international organizations, and state interactions. They analyze cities as centres of control and the importance of dual-use objects, considering recent adaptations from open-field combat.

This book, written by a combat veteran turned scholar, is a valuable resource for students and scholars of public international and humanitarian law owing to its interdisciplinary approach. Law makers and practitioners of military law will also benefit from the clear insights into legal principles.

Sports Diplomacy examines how nations and sporting actors-large and small-use medals, mega-events, elite athletes, global leagues, corporations, and even fans to influence international perceptions and advance strategic interests.

Introducing core concepts, issues and debates in the emerging discipline of sports diplomacy, the book moves beyond state-centric models of soft power to define sports diplomacy as a multi-actor and multi-level phenomenon, shaped by governments, international organisations, athletes, corporations, civil society, and grassroots communities. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary and historical case studies, the book explores sports diplomacy among major global powers such as the United States, China, and Russia; leading European states including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain; resource-rich Gulf states; and small states seeking global visibility. It also examines distinctive regional modalities, including South America's football-driven diplomacy, Africa's accelerating global repositioning through sport, and emerging arenas such as digital diplomacy, eSports, sustainability, and grassroots fan engagement.

Conceptually rigorous, empirically grounded, and with useful features in every chapter to assist teaching and learning, Sports Diplomacy is an essential textbook for any course on sports diplomacy or international relations and sport, as well as a useful reference for diplomats, policymakers, sport executives, and practitioners seeking to understand the power of sport in global affairs.

Investigates the strategy and intent of the American president in pursuit of national security, using a case study approach spanning the last century.

Strategic Direction takes inspiration from the following sentence in Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy: "In the American system of government, in which the president is the only nationally elected official, coherence in foreign policy emerges-if at all-from presidential pronouncements." The conditional phrase-if at all-suggests coherence doesn't happen by itself, doesn't happen very often, and doesn't last very long. Why not?

To answer this question, Strategic Direction uses a case study approach spanning 1915-2015. The first case study begins in 1915 when Woodrow Wilson justifies his decision to remain neutral in the first world war. The last case study ends in 2015 with a warning from Barack Obama about the risks of perpetual war. Through an exploration of verbal and written communication, including documents, executive orders, memorandums, and other materials, this book examines how presidents determine and pursue their foreign policy priorities.

This collection of over fifty essays provides a comprehensive overview of the Pacific theater of World War II. Scholars and practitioners from around the globe unite their expertise to explore the interaction of the belligerents, with multiple chapters co-written by Japanese and American authors.

Part I provides the political, economic, military, strategic, and legal backdrop. Part II highlights operational and strategic concepts and approaches: assessment, deterrence, strategic culture, war gaming and planning, access and anti-access campaigns, cumulative and sequential operations, strategic and operational intelligence, and logistics. Part III focuses on turning points: the Axis alliance, wartime mobilization, naval buildups, the key campaigns of Malaya, Midway, Guadalcanal, and Leyte Gulf, unrestricted submarine warfare, and aerial bombing. Part IV turns to the warzone societies with chapters on Australia, China, Indonesia, India, Indochina, Japan, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Part V concludes with the war's diverse legacies: the Communist victory in China, suspicions of a Pearl Harbor coverup, the transformation of international law, the fate of veterans, the teaching of the war, its operational and doctrinal lessons, and the many movies and museums about it.

The handbook offers original and enduring analyses that will interest scholars, students, policymakers, and history buffs alike.

Challenging the traditional view that trade only has a negative impact on the environment, Leal-Arcas conducts legal analyses of international trade agreements as instruments for climate change mitigation. Evaluating examples from multilateral, regional and bilateral frameworks, he explains how trade can facilitate access to clean energy technologies, promote renewable energy deployment and contribute to long-term economic and social development. The book emphasizes that well-designed global trade governance is essential for meeting climate goals.

Presenting sustained legal and policy analysis, this book is a valuable resource for scholars and students of international trade law and environmental law. Policy analysts and practitioners in international organizations will also benefit from its practical insights into how trade agreements can be designed to support climate objectives.

In this ground-breaking study, Lyn Ossome offers an authoritative, interdisciplinary theory of how postcolonial capitalist democracies reproduce the gendered forms of violence essential to colonial rule.

Focussing on postcolonial African states, and using an interdisciplinary methodology that combines insights from political studies, feminist political economy, historical studies, and literary studies, Ossome shows how postcolonial, capitalist democracies in Africa, like their colonial antecedents, use various identity-markers to determine whose rights and bodies are violable, to what extent, and whether and how the violated have a right to resist. Ossome buttresses her critique through evidence gathered from colonial archives in Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, as well as through critical comparisons of three artistic responses to gender-based violence and rape in South Africa and India, all of which shows how her insights might apply across the postcolonial Global South.

Elites and the People in Global Power Relations challenges the conventional boundaries of International Relations by introducing the Differential Accumulation of Power (DAP) approach. At a time of systemic crisis and eroding democratic legitimacy, this book transcends traditional state-centric and economic paradigms to reveal how the strategic interplay between elite competition and populace mobilisation defines the contemporary global order and its persistent hierarchical structures.

Departing from 'problem-solving' theory, the work uniquely integrates the sociology of power and political economy to overcome the artificial separation between domestic and international spheres. It examines the scalar tensions between global and domestic elites as they compete for critical resources, including the state, capital, or the control of information, and reveals how governance often functions to safeguard elite accumulation rather than collective well-being. By analyzing the institutional and ideological 'trenches' that protect elite dominance, the book highlights the social function of theory as a catalyst for systemic transformation and a tool to reclaim democratic agency.

This book is essential reading for scholars, researchers, and advanced students in International Relations, Political Science, and Sociology. It offers a radical, critical lens for those seeking to understand the rise of global authoritarianism and the persistent hierarchies that structure our world today.

Examines the role of identity in fostering deep perceptual divides in both American and British politics, ultimately addressing the question: how do we make sense of the divisive political landscape we find ourselves in?

We dwell in parallel universes. An identity-based gulf in perception has emerged in recent years in both the U.K and the U.S. Elements of identity involving a sense of one's place in society, of who belongs and who does not, of the role of government, and of the meaning of "freedom" all shape what individuals are willing and unwilling to believe. As these elements of identity have become more tightly bundled together, identity-based divisions have deepened, yielding the Great Perceptual Divide. In the U.S., this divide has tended to fold neatly into the gulf between the two main political parties, while in Britain Brexit has shaped the fault line between "Leavers" and "Remainers," competing identities that have endured beyond the process of exiting the European Union.

What are the consequences of this identity-driven perceptual divide? By focusing on the role of identity as a source of the political divide, this book analyzes specific dynamics such as the systematic undermining of authoritative institutions and information sources, the demand for misinformation, a perversion of political accountability, and the displacement of substantive policy debate by culture wars. The book concludes with actionable paths forward in an effort to lead society back to good-willed partisanship.

This handbook examines the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda in the context of a rapidly evolving global security landscape.

Shifting away from 'hard security' models, this book demonstrates how gender-inclusive governance predicts state stability. Providing a truly global scope, with insights from nearly fifty countries, the work bridges theory and practice, showing that gender-responsive approaches are fundamental to security sector development, democratic institution-building, and navigating state fragility. Beyond traditional frameworks, the handbook addresses emerging challenges such as tech-facilitated online violence, AI, and climate change. It also offers critical analysis of the erosion of international human rights, highlighting the implications for national security and the protection of civilians. A core focus remains the integration of gender perspectives within military operations and security sector reform. The volume evaluates both international peacebuilding and military interventions, examining the practical complexities of operationalizing WPS in active conflict. Notably, the volume rejects gendered tropes to examine the full spectrum of women's agency-from institutional leaders and grassroots organizers to participants in political violence as insurgents and terrorists. By exploring these multifaceted realities, the volume reflects the true complexity of women's influence in global peace and conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, security studies, defence studies. gender studies and International Relations, as well as to defense and security practitioners.

This book explores the evolution and impact of deliberative democracy in East Asia, focusing on Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan through a deliberative systems framework.

Democratization and democratic development in the region are intertwined with social movements, public participation, institutional reform, and deliberative innovation. The book highlights how deliberative democracy can transform politics, inform policymaking, and strengthen democratic governance, while also exploring the integration of deliberation with digital technologies and artificial intelligence to advance democratic innovations. Drawing on practical experiences, it demonstrates how democratic deliberation can shift public attitudes, shape policy, and address complex challenges.

Essential reading for students and scholars of East Asian politics and deliberative democracy, The Transformative Power of Deliberative Democracy in East Asia is also invaluable for political and social scientists interested in comparative democracy, public governance, and public participation in science and technology.

This book explores the possible routes to transform the current hostile dynamic between North Korea and South Korea into a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Through critical assessments of the current political and security conditions in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia the book presents innovative ideas for peacebuilding, with a particular focus on denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula. Focusing on issues such as North Korea's nuclear proliferation, strategies for peaceful coexistence and a peace regime between the two Korean states, and the quest for peace and stability in Northeast Asia, the chapters examine the interests of the four surrounding powers concerning the Korean issue and their roles in establishing a peaceful regime in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia. Providing expert scholarship from the United States, Korea, and Japan it provides novel information, diverse viewpoints, thoughtful analysis, and valuable insights on the issues surrounding the Korean Peninsula and security in Northeast Asia.

Highlighting the plausible pathways to establish a peace regime in both Korea and Northeast Asia, whilst considering the roles of neighbouring powers in this process this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Korean Politics, Security Studies, Peace Studies.

The book provides a fresh conceptual lens for rethinking international investment contracts as dynamic instruments of governance. Chapters challenge conventional boundaries by questioning established assumptions about the limits of contract law, the role of contracts in global governance, and the relationships between private and public ordering. Contributing authors explore the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, covering issues from historical development, methods of harmonisation, and model contracts to corruption and tensions between investments and the commercial nature of sovereign debt contracts. The book examines both the need for, and the potential to, redesign of international investment contracts for a more resilient and accountable global economy.

Bridging theory and practice, The Redesign of International Investment Contracts is an essential resource for students and scholars of international investment and arbitration law. Practitioners and policymakers in contract, sustainability, and private international law will also benefit from the book's forward-looking and pragmatic approach.

Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War, the first edition of which was published before Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, was the first book to integrate the roots of Russian military aggression against Ukraine and genocidal policies towards Ukraine with a study of Russian imperial nationalism. The text of this second, revised, updated and extended edition, provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia's obsession with Ukraine and the roots of Russia's invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022.

The book investigates the inability of Russian imperial nationalism, from the time of the Tsarist Empire, throughout the era of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and since the dissolution of the latter in 1991, to accept Ukraine as an independent country and Ukrainians as a people distinct and separate from Russians. The book highlights the sources of this lack of acceptance in a mythical pan-Russian nation composed of Great, Little, and White Russians (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians respectively). The book analyses why these Russian imperial nationalist myths led to the Kremlin's mistaken belief in a quick three-day victory of its so-called special military operation, which rather led to years of full-scale war.

Recent crises and emergencies - together with the idea that international law may benefit from automating parts of the fact-assessment process involved in legal decision-making - have accentuated the importance of these questions. In an attempt to come to grips with them, this book brings together contributing authors from different academic affiliations, backgrounds and research expertise. Their chapters explain the importance of more fully understanding discretion in international law but also highlight the complexity of the task. They point out the way forward for further research.

The Exercise of Discretion in International Law is an essential resource for students and scholars of public international law. Policymakers, practitioners and judiciaries who engage with international legal decision-making will also benefit from the detailed insights into the constraints on the exercise of discretion.

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.

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.

Brexit, international conflicts, and the migrant crisis are among recent events that have tested the UK's relationship with international law. These, alongside the UK's structural approach to international law at the national and devolved levels, have revealed a complex and evolving relationship with international law that has manifested itself in many forms, ranging from the rhetoric of 'global Britain' to withdrawal from international treaties. Against this backdrop, this collection brings together experts in academia, legal practice, and policymaking to interrogate the UK's multi-dimensional relationship with international law. Its aim is to generate reflection on this relationship by placing these dimensions in dialogue with each other. More precisely, it distils this relationship into two lenses and three themes that define the ways in which the United Kingdom interacts with international law. The two lenses capture the UK's bi-directional, or internal and external, relationship with international law, while the three themes focus on specific aspects of the UK's role in relation to international law, namely, the UK's role as a receiver, shaper, and actor obliged to comply with international law. This collection is a must-read for academics, lawyers, students, and policymakers alike.

Interrogating the complexities of mass violence in contemporary society, this handbook reconceptualizes the accumulation, intensity, and temporality of mass violence - rather than depending on numbers alone - to develop a critique of mass violence adequate for our times.

The Routledge International Handbook of Mass Violence critically engages with classic political, sociological, psychological, and strategic paradigms to ask how violence operates when it is temporally diffuse, socially obscured, and institutionally normalized. This volume is thematically organised to explore the theories, strategies, legacies, memories, perpetrators of mass violence, and investigates topics that were previously considered to lie beyond the scope of studies of mass violence such as the carceral system and environmental damage. Contending with questions of justice and reconciliation, and issues surrounding burials and exhumations after mass violence, this book explores an extensive range of international case studies to determine the boundaries of the concept of mass violence and how instances of mass violence are categorized.

This volume promotes an intellectual interchange that broadens our understanding of mass violence beyond the instrumental and orchestrated violence perpetrated by political and state actors, and will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, anthropology, law and politics with interests in mass violence.

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.