This new edition of the Handbook of Security Studies offers a wide-ranging collection of cutting-edge essays from leading scholars in the field of Security Studies. The 2nd edition has been substantially updated throughout and features 23 completely new chapters.

This revised and updated second edition introduces students of violent conflict to a variety of prominent theoretical approaches, and examines the ontological stances and epistemological traditions underlying these approaches. Theories of Violent Conflict takes the centrality of the group as an actor in contemporary conflict as a point of departure, leaving us with three main questions. What makes a group? Why and how does a group resort to violence? Why and how do or dont they stop? The book...

This new Routledge Handbook offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the meanings and uses of the term peacebuilding, and presents cutting-edge debates on the practices conducted in the name of peacebuilding. The term peacebuilding has had remarkable staying power. Other terms, such as conflict resolution have waned in popularity, while the acceptance and use of the term peacebuilding has grown to the extent that it is the hegemonic and over-arching term for many forms of mediatio...

Nina E. Cerfolio masterfully explores the deeper spiritual and psychoanalytic understanding of the origins of human aggressive and destructive instincts which underlie mass shootings and terrorism.

Bridging Our Political Divide: How Liberals and Conservatives Can Understand Each Other and Find Common Ground is an essential contribution to a better national conversation.

In this book, authors Kant Patel and Mark Rushefsky analyze how political polarization at the state level has impacted state health policymaking, policy outputs, and policy outcomes and led red and blue states to create vastly different healthcare and health policies.

Virginia Government offers an excellent introduction to the political institutions, actors, and policy processes of the Old Dominion state.

Now available in paperback: With a particular focus on the utility of scholarly theory and the extent to which government practices inform the development of this theory, this second edition provides a complete review and guide to past and present knowledge in the field

Part of the Transforming Social Work Practice series, this title is written specifically to support students on the social work degree. It is full of practical activities, case studies and opportunities for students to critically reflect and explore theory and practice.

Taking a global, comparative look at voting and elections, this Fourth Edition has new chapters on authoritarian elections and regime change, electoral integrity, and voting behaviour