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  Securitising Decolonisation -...

  Julius Heise

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  With the right to petition the United Nations, the Ewe and Togoland unification movement enjoyed a privilege unmatched by other dependent peoples. Using language conveying insecurity, the movement seized the international spotlight, ensuring that the topic of unification dominated the UN Trusteeship System for over a decade. Yet, its vociferous securitisations fell silent due to colonial distortion, leaving unification unfulfilled, thus allowing the seeds of secessionist conflict to grow. At the intersection of postcolonial theory and security studies, Julius Heise presents a theory-driven history of Togoland's path to independence, offering a crucial lesson for international statebuilding efforts.

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  The India Way - Strategies for...

  S. Jaishankar

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  ""India's External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar is an unusual combination of diplomat, politician, and public intellectual. 'The India Way' articulates his vision of India's strategic choices."" 
  -Atlantic Council 
  'A timely message to the new India which is becoming stronger.' 
  -The Week 
  'Wide ranging...a meditation on the sources of India's conduct on the global stage.' 
  -Hindustan Times 
   
  The global order is always evolving, and in that sense, change could well be seen as a constant factor. But that ongoing evolution has now been given a sharper edge by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, developments in Afghanistan, the Ukraine conflict and greater friction among key powers. 'One Trend and Four Shocks' are thus creating a new landscape. 
  The 'Four Shocks' have, each in their own way, led to heightened global anxiety and insecurity. This era of upheaval entails greater expectations from India, putting it on the path to becoming a leading power. 
  In The India Way, S. Jaishankar, India's Minister of External Affairs, analyses these challenges and spells out possible policy responses. In doing so, he is very conscious of balancing India's national interest with international responsibilities. He places this thinking in the context of history and tradition, appropriate for a civilizational power that seeks to reclaim its place on the world stage.

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  The Crimes of England

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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  The Crimes of England by Gilbert Keith Chesterton is a provocative and sharply argued collection of essays in which Chesterton examines the moral, political, and cultural contradictions he perceives within modern English society.
  
  With his characteristic wit, paradox, and fearless reasoning, Chesterton challenges prevailing assumptions about progress, governance, and national identity. Rather than offering simple condemnation, he constructs layered arguments that question the foundations of contemporary social and political thinking, urging readers to reconsider what is often accepted as inevitable or unquestionable.
  
  Across these essays, Chesterton blends satire with serious reflection, addressing issues such as institutional responsibility, cultural change, and the ethical consequences of modern ideologies. His writing is both intellectually engaging and stylistically vivid, turning abstract debates into accessible and memorable commentary.
  
  The Crimes of England stands as a powerful example of Chesterton's social criticism, offering a distinctive perspective that combines moral philosophy with literary flair. It remains a compelling read for those interested in political thought, cultural analysis, and early twentieth-century intellectual debate.

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  Saints and Soldiers - Inside...

  Rita Katz

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  More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. The hateful rhetoric and constant threats of violence immediately reminded her of jihadist militants, but law enforcement and policy makers barely paid attention to the Far Right. Now, years of attacks committed by extremists radicalized online—including mass murders at a synagogue in Pittsburgh and mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, as well as the Capitol siege—have brought home the danger. How has the internet shaped today's threats, and what do the online origins of these movements reveal about how to stop them? 
   
   
   
  In Saints and Soldiers, Katz reveals a new generation of terrorist movements that don't just use the internet, but exist almost entirely on it. She provides a vivid view from the trenches, spanning edgy video game chat groups to mainstream social media platforms to what ISIS and Far-Right mass-shooters in El Paso, Orlando, and elsewhere unwittingly reveal between the lines of their manifestos. Katz shows how the online cultures of these movements create today's terrorists and shape how they commit "real world" violence. From ISIS to QAnon, Saints and Soldiers pinpoints the approaches needed for a new era in which arrests and military campaigns alone cannot stop these never-before-seen threats.

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  World Peace Attempt

  Ryan Norrish

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  World Peace Attempt is an attempt to establish stable and everlasting world peace, using totally nonviolent methods. We define establishing world peace as ending all large-scale military conflict, and we have a plan we believe can succeed.

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  Social Democracy 101: Jack...

  Shane Irvine, Alexander Irvine,...

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  In 1906, my great-grandfather Dr. Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine was the secretary of the Socialist Party of Connecticut and a fellow at Yale University where he taught studies in divinity. He sought to shed some light on the subject of social protection. He had first-hand experience as a reverend in the New Haven religious community. He became very aware of parishioner stealing and other forms of skulduggery used to acquire the most prosperous benefactors. He despised the practice of selectively seeking profitable parishioners while ignoring the plight of the downtrodden. He felt that this practice was in conflict with Jesus’ teachings. He thereafter invited Jack London to speak at Yale on the subject of socialism. This book is derivative of my great-grandfather's book, Jack London at Yale. 
  My great-grandfather further believed that, due to this hypocrisy involving the church’s duty to the poor, the government needed to take an active role in offering a hand up to those in need. He strongly advocated that it should not be assumed that the church and pity be the sole final resources for those in need, and the government needed to take an active role in providing social networks. 
  Health, education, and welfare are major barriers to entrepreneurial opportunity. Without forms of social democracy such as universal healthcare and education, the potential for mass enterprise is squandered. People are precluded by these basic economic barriers from reaching their potential. It is these issues that have continued to plague workers worldwide, and people of all persuasions and walks of life are affected by this ongoing class struggle. We need individualism and a free market society, and we also need it to be tamed with a fairness that, along with prosperity, provides protections for the vulnerable and opportunity for all. Health, education, and welfare are just as important as a strong military. All of them are forms of social democracy. 

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