Early in the 1950s my parents tired of summer holidays mostly spent on chilly wind-swept
beaches and embarked, with hire car, tents, and four young children, on what was, in the …

Can the internet fundamentally challenge non-free regimes? The role that social networking
has played in promoting political change in the Middle East and beyond raises important …

This book analyses contemporary war commemoration in Britain and Russia. Focusing on
the political aspects of remembrance, it explores the instrumentalisation of memory for …

Sarah Oates gives a detailed examination on a central theme in political science: the
relationship between democracy and the mass media. This significant book contains a …

The attitude of Russia towards climate change is extremely important for the success of
climate change control policies worldwide, as Russia, with its cold climate and vast …

During the 1990s, studies of Russian party politics were largely based on the expectation
that parties would provide the integrative and intermediary functions that political parties …

Reporting by major media outlets influences news coverage by other outlets, resulting in an
outsized impact on public opinion. Understanding this inter-outlet influence, known as …

In a little over twenty years, Chechnya has undergone two massive, bloody wars that have
caused tens of thousands of dead, wounded, and disabled, and the virtually total destruction …

Das in den vergangenen zehn Jahren entstandene politische System Russlands ist eine
Mischung aus Oligarchie und Autokratie. Wirtschaft und Politik sind eng verschmolzen. Wie …

Following the appearance of the first reports of Chechen involvement in the Syrian conflict in
2012 and the subsequent large-scale migration of foreign fighters to the Middle East …