Counterinsurgency has staked its claim in the new century as the new American way of war.
Yet, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived a historical debate about the costs …

In the early 20th century, police departments across America's cities enhanced their
infrastructural power by adopting various tactical, operational, and organizational …

No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action
than'resistance'. In its various manifestations-from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass …

Invaded in 1830, populated by one million settlers who co-existed uneasily with nine million
Arabs and Berbers, Algeria was different from other French colonies because it was …

This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It
is the first introduction in any language to cover all of his major work and offers an …

A major new history of how democracy became the dominant political force in Europe in the
second half of the twentieth century What happened in the years following World War II to …

How did Great Britain and France, the largest imperial powers of the early twentieth century,
cope with mounting anticolonial nationalism in the Arab world? What linked domestic …

An innovative account of how the concept of the'Third World'emerged in France from the mid-
1950s through to the mid-1970s alongside a new leftist movement. The book reveals how, in …

This article develops the concept of 'entangled migration states' as a means of highlighting
the centrality of migration governance to state-building processes, the constitution of state …

This book is an original and sophisticated historical interpretation of contemporary French
political culture. Until now, there have been few attempts to understand the political …