International Relations

The Social Media Wars: Sunni and Shi'a Identity Conflicts in the Age of Web 2.0 and the Arab Spring

Author: 

Karolak, Magdalena

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of Silesia (see Description)

This soon to be released monograph evaluates the role of the social media in strengthening and transforming religious identities in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Focusing specifically on Bahrain, this study assesses how the sectarian interpretation of the protests exacerbated social divisions and reverberated around the Middle East intensifying sectarian loyalties. The social media contribute to negotiation and re-construction of the collective identities of the groups involved in the 2011 uprising, which is visible through their online manifestations.

Market: 
Bahrain, Social Media in Political Conflict, Sunni-Shi'a Relations, The Arab Spring, Saudi Foreign Policy, Religion in Gulf State entities, Sociology of Religion, Islam and Media, Religion and Violence, Bahrain 2011-2013, Gulf monarchy and the masses
Release Date: 
Oct 15, 2013
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-71-4
Price: 
$82.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
324
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Caribbean Liberators: Bold and Black Personalities and Organizations 1900-1989

Author: 

Teelucksingh, Jerome

Credentials: 

Ph.D, D/History University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad

This ambitious research monograph discusses key individuals (George Padmore, Eric Williams, C.L.R.James among others) and organizations (particularly Labor and liberation movements) in the Anglophone Caribbean world from the perspective of contemporary political and economic Caribbean realities. Particular attention is paid to the Pan-African Movement and its linking of Black Africa and the diasporic Black world of the British West Indies.

Market: 
Modern Caribbean History, Afro-Caribbean organizations, Independence movements in Anglophone Caribbean, George Padmore, C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Labor Movements, Liberation Movements 20th c, Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados
Release Date: 
03/15/2012
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-35-6
Price: 
$79.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

American Historians in War and Peace: Patriotism, Diplomacy and the Paris Peace Conference, 1918-1919

Author: 

Nielson, Jonathan M.

Credentials: 

Ph.D, University of California, Santa Barbara; D/History University of Alaska

In this study of the American historians who accompanied President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 Professor Nielson focuses on a development unique in its time (and now taken for granted): for the first time a president used the expertise of professional scholars as the basis for far reaching decisions on the immediate issues of war and peace and European reconstruction as well as reconciliation.

Market: 
Historiography, American foreign policy 1917-1919, Woodrow Wilson, American war aims 1918-1919, World War One, Intellectual History, the Department of State foreign policy implementation, League of Nations, Propaganda, American diplomacy/diplomats 1918-1919
Release Date: 
11/05/2011
ISBN: 
Cloth: 978-1-936320-14-1 / 193632014-2
Price: 
$86.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
464
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Beyond Jihad: Critical Voices From Inside Islam

Author: 

Shienbaum, Professor Kim and Jamal Hasan, Editors

Credentials: 

D/Politics, Rutgers University

This collection of non Western scholarly voices is a long awaited remedy to the lack of critical commentary by Muslim intellectuals on the nature of modern Jihadi terrorism and the political debate within Islam over the direction of resistance to modernization and secularization of traditional societies.

The work is divided into three parts:

1) Understanding the Islamist Mind
2) Understanding Islamism and Politics
3) Beyond Jihad: Expanding the Circle of Sanity

Market: 
Islamic Studies, Terrorism, Middle East Studies, Politics and Nationalism-20th c., International Relations
Release Date: 
3/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-93314619-2
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
338
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Framing Genocide: Retribilization and Conflict Management in the New World (Dis)order: The Media, Diplomacy and The Framing of Domestic Implosions

Author: 

Musa, Bala

Credentials: 

Ph.D; D/Political Science, Redlands University

For some time there has been a need for a monograph that looks at the role of mass communication and diplomacy in the coverage, framing and transformation of genocidal conflicts in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, East Timor, Chechen Republic and Darfur. This is such a study.

Market: 
Mass Communications in International Relations, Journalism, Communications Theory, Conflict Management, Peace Studies, International Studies
Release Date: 
07/2007
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-16-8
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
Yes - Statistical and informational armature: tables and graphs
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Espionage in Elizabethan England

Author: 

Mahoney, Harry Thayer and Mahoney, Marjorie L.

Credentials: 

Independent Scholars; monograph authors

The authors, who have served in the Intelligence services, have made a close and original study of Sir Francis Walsingham and his associates in the Elizabethan secret services. Walsingham is seen as a darkly effective (the Queen called him “my Moor”)master of a comprehensive intelligence gathering network with sophisticated centralized control and all-source processing.

Market: 
Tudor History; Age of Elizabeth, English Foreign Relations 1540-1605, Espionage in Europe, Puritanism
Release Date: 
8/2006
ISBN: 
978-1933146140 Cloth
Price: 
$75.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Edmund Burke on Irish Affairs

Author: 

Janes, Regina

Credentials: 

Ph.D. Harvard, Professor of English Skidmore College

Edmund Burke, the great British statesman, had a long and uncomfortable relationship with Ireland beginning with the circumstances of his birth: He was born an Irishman. As a conservative thinker, as a fierce critic of revolutionary movements and political terrorism, He hoped to knead a British nation from imperial fragments, disparate and fissiparous polities and marginal nonanglophone kingdoms and duchies. This monograph by a distinguished researcher in Burkean language and thought deals with Burke’s attempts to redefine Ireland an integral part of Britain.

Market: 
Irish Studies, 18th c Studies Britain, Burke Studies, British India 18th c
Release Date: 
Summer 2003
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-08-9
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
268
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

The Early Writings of Conor Cruise O’Brien

Author: 

Edwards, Owen Dudley

Credentials: 

Professor of History, Edinburgh University

C.C. O’Brien’s early writings contain the early on the mature, magisterial style and substance that have made him one of the finest political philosophers alive and active today. Edited with notes by Professor Edwards, this is the first collection of O’Brien’s precient discourses on Ireland, Ulster, diplomacy,the UNO , the UN and Africa and more.

Market: 
Irish studies, Foreign Affairs(Ireland),UN and Africa, political philosophy, diplomacy(Europe and Africa)
Release Date: 
Spring 2001
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-930901-06-2
Price: 
$69.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

An Idler: John Hay’s Social and Aesthetic Commentaries for the Press During the Civil War, 1861 - 1865

Author: 

Hill, Douglas Warren

Credentials: 

Ph.D; Professor of History, University of Maryland; Foreword: Professor Helmut Relsig

John Hay’s distinguished national service began when he was Lincohn’s private secretary and continued until up to his death as Secretary of State for two presidents. For a public man under scrutiny (including numerous biographies and Henry Adam’s insightful portrait in THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS) little is known about Hay and his anonymous commentaries, reviews and critiques written during the Civil War. Dr. Hill’s new monograph remedies that situation.

Market: 
American History; American Civil War, 1861-1865; Victorian Studies; Foreign Relations, U.S. 1860s, American Literary history, Journalism 19thc.
Release Date: 
9/2005
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-93314611-7; 978-1933146119
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
284
Illustrations: 
Yes
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

Citizen of Africa: Conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai

Author: 

Chan, Stephen

Credentials: 

Ph.D., LL.D., Dean of Law and Social Sciences, School of Oriental and African Studies (London)

The leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change as been demonized by President Robert Mugabe and his regime as a neo-colonial stooge and traitor. Mr. Tvangirai has been imprisoned by British; white Rhodesian and Zimbabwean authorities in the course of a career marked by non violent protest leadership and de facto recognition as the one person who can save his country from complete collapse and chaotic self destruction.

Market: 
AFRICAN STUDIES, Zimbabwe, Central Africa, International Relations, African Politics, 20th C, Mass Movements
Release Date: 
07/2006
ISBN: 
Cloth: 1-933146-22-2
Price: 
$74.95
Trim Size: 
6 x 9
Pages: 
264
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

ACADEMICA PRESS
1727 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 507
Washington, DC 20036

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