The Darkest Sides of Politics, II

The Darkest Sides of Politics, II
Author: Jeffrey M. Bale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 414
Release: 2017-10-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317659430

This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous, secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be, since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The second volume in this two-volume collection focuses primarily on assorted religious extremists, including apocalyptic millenarian cults, Islamists, and jihadist terrorist networks, as well as CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) terrorism and the supposedly new "nexus" between organized criminal and extremist groups employing terrorist operational techniques. A range of global case studies are included, most of which focus on the lesser known activities of certain religious extremist milieus. This collection should prove to be essential reading for students and researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and contemporary politics.

The Darkest Sides of Politics, I

The Darkest Sides of Politics, I
Author: Jeffrey M. Bale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2017-09-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317659465

This book examines a wide array of phenomena that arguably constitute the most noxious, extreme, terrifying, murderous, secretive, authoritarian, and/or anti-democratic aspects of national and international politics. Scholars should not ignore these "dark sides" of politics, however unpleasant they may be, since they influence the world in a multitude of harmful ways. The first volume in this two-volume collection focuses on the history of underground neo-fascist networks in the post-World War II era; neo-fascist paramilitary and terrorist groups operating in Europe and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s; and the manipulation of those and other terrorist organizations by the security forces of various states, both authoritarian and democratic. A range of global case studies are included, all of which focus on the lesser known activities of certain secular extremist milieus. This collection should prove to be essential reading for students and researchers interested in understanding seemingly arcane but nonetheless important dimensions of recent historical and contemporary politics.

The Darkest Sides of Politics: State terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, religious extremism, and organized crime

The Darkest Sides of Politics: State terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, religious extremism, and organized crime
Author: Jeffrey M. Bale
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Espionage
ISBN:

The first volume in this two-volume collection focuses on the history of underground neo-fascist networks in the post-World War II era; neo-fascist paramilitary and terrorist groups operating in Europe and Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s; and the manipulation of those and other terrorist organizations by the security forces of various states, both authoritarian and democratic. A range of global case studies are included, all of which focus on the lesser known activities of certain secular extremist milieus.

The Dark Side of Close Relationships II

The Dark Side of Close Relationships II
Author: William R. Cupach
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1135221154

Focuses on the paradoxical, dialectical, and mystifying facets of human interaction, not merely to elucidate dysfunctional relationship phenomena, but to help readers explore and understand it in relation to a broader understanding about relationships. This volume is of interest to relationship researchers in social psychology and sociology.

The Dark Side of Democracy

The Dark Side of Democracy
Author: Michael Mann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 596
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521538541

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The Dark Side of European Integration

The Dark Side of European Integration
Author: Alina Polyakova
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2015-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3838208161

Across Europe, radical right-wing parties are winning increasing electoral support. The Dark Side of European Integration argues that this rising nationalism and the mobilization of the radical right are the consequences of European economic integration. The European economic project has produced a cultural backlash in the form of nationalist radical right ideologies. This assessment relies on a detailed analysis of the electoral rise of radical right parties in Western and Eastern Europe. Contrary to popular belief, economic performance and immigration rates are not the only factors that determine the far right's success. There are other political and social factors that explain why in post-socialist Eastern European countries such parties had historically been weaker than their potential, which they have now started to fulfill increasingly. Using in-depth interviews with radical right activists in Ukraine, Alina Polyakova also explores how radical right mobilization works on the ground through social networks, allowing new insights into how social movements and political parties interact.

Dark Side of the Sun

Dark Side of the Sun
Author: Dina Anastasio
Publisher: Harper Trophy
Total Pages: 89
Release: 1996
Genre: Interplanetary voyages
ISBN: 9780064406444

Lieutenant Shane Vansen still has nightmares about her parents' deaths at the hands of aliens, but when the past comes back to haunt her in an alien trap, she must remain cool to save the squad.

The Dark Side of News Fixing

The Dark Side of News Fixing
Author: Syed Irfan Ashraf
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2021-11-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1839981385

This book provides a local journalist’s perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. It shows how the fixers’ risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror. The book analyzes the fixer as a role in its relationship with militarization. It is not a coincidence that fixers become valuable to commercial media only during the height of violence or crises. Emerging under conditions of scarcity or war, the value of this role, in turn, is intrinsically tied to the fear of extinction. It is this vulnerability or perceived expendability— imposed by the need to find work—that binds fixers in a symbiotic relationship with global market and global war. This book, then, serves as a vantage point from which one can clearly see the connection between the regional wars and commercial media, as well as local journalists’ transformation into daily wage earners in a global media shift toward neoliberalism.

The Dark Side of Humanity

The Dark Side of Humanity
Author: Robert Parkin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136646205

Robert Parkin's book gives a reading of each of these texts before going on to show their subsequent influence on anthropologists in particular. Hertz's activities as reviewer and phamphleteer are also covered. The introductory biographical chapter drawing on Hertz's surviving papers in the Collège de France, shows his own ambivalence towards his academic career and it also attempts to clarify the circumstances leading up to his apparently gratuitous death in the First World War. Two further chapters attempt to situate his work in the broader context of Durkheimian sociology.