Police Stories: Building the French State, 1815-1851 by John Merriman

Warrior Dreams: Playing Scotsmen in Mainland Europe

Firstly of the twenty-first century, millions of grownup Europeans usually costume up as Scots. They march in kilted pipe and drum bands, toss tree trunks at Highland video games power competitions, crusade for monuments to commemorate long-gone Scottish infantrymen, even bodily re-enact the Scottish prior, in armour and belted plaid.

Antarctica: The Battle for the Seventh Continent

The thawing Antarctic continent deals residing house and marine and mineral assets that have been formerly inaccessible. This booklet discusses how revisiting the Antarctic Treaty process and dividing up the continent preemptively may spare the realm severe clash. • Argues that the Antarctic Treaty, which was once opened for signature in 1959, should be reconsidered in view that strain maintains to construct for the career of the continent and the exploitation of its dwelling and non-living assets • means that foreign clash over Antarctica is probably going within the coming a long time, fairly as the ban on mineral assets is up for revision in 2048• Argues that policymakers have to draw classes from the commercial festival the realm is now witnessing within the thawing Arctic Ocean

Security in Africa: A Critical Approach to Western Indicators of Threat

Defense in Africa: A severe method of Western symptoms of risk questions the dominant Western narrative of safeguard threats in Africa. in line with an research conventional defense experiences and Western protection coverage, it argues that widely used signs are in accordance with mainstream protection reports and supply basically circumscribed analyses of threats to foreign protection.

Interpersonal Violence: Differences and Connections (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

From early modernity to this present day, society has encountered numerous types of interpersonal violence. via exploration of specific parts inside of Europe and Russia to Africa, the US and Asia, this assortment provides either variations and connections between numerous types of interpersonal violence in numerous occasions, locations, institutional orders and relationships.