Thomas Leahy investigates whether British intelligence and their informers forced the IRA into peace by 1998. The book is ideal for those who want to know more about the IRA, explore why peace emerged in Northern Ireland, and understand British intelligence's role against the IRA.

Malesevic offers a novel sociological answer to the age-old question: 'Why do humans fight?'. Instead of focusing on the motivations of individuals, this book emphasises the centrality of the social contexts that make fighting possible. It will appeal to students and scholars of war, violent crime, and inter-personal violence.

Through a series of interdisciplinary case studies, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements' contexts. The book offers a critical understanding of current protest events and will help better understanding of new global forms of democracy in action.

In this volume international academics assess the contribution of the globalization thesis, in its various guises, to our understanding of social, political and economic change in contemporary societies.

Peace activists empathically engaging with one another and working from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are trying to disrupt the dominant conflict narratives that make this conflict seem so intractable. Can their activism bring about a tipping point that can break the cycle of violence?

The expansion of the European Union in May 2004 through the entry of ten countries from central and eastern Europe has generated considerable media interest. This book offers an analysis of the social and cultural processes bound up with migration flows between Britain and Bulgaria and places these flows in the wider European perspective.

This book combines documentary evidence with original interviews with politicians, mediators, civil servants, and Republicans to create a vivid of the secret negotiations and back-channels that were used in repeated efforts to end the Northern Ireland conflict.

The first full account of the operations of the British security forces on Cyprus in the second half of the 1950s, showing how these forces were trying to defeat the Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation, EOKA, which was fighting to bring about union between Cyprus and Greece.

This interdisciplinary book examines the impact of the commercialisation of space and the changing outlook of the space sector.

This title examines how federal systems can be designed to manage ethnic conflict in divided societies. Evaluating six distinct approaches, the author examines the underlying reasons why one may be more suitable than the other and how these apply to the current situation in Iraq.