Themes covered include: International relations – technology – ethics – irregular war (including counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and hybrid warfare) – the resurgence of great power rivalries in the early 21st century – the rise of non-state actors Case studies include: Guerrilla warfare and strategy in regions from South East Asia to the Middle East – US nuclear strategy in the Cold War – Russian intervention in Ukraine – British strategy at the end of empire – the UN’s role in resolving conflict after the Cold War – US-led coalition strategy in Afghanistan – the challenge posed by Al Qaeda and Islamic State/Daesh

The authors incorporate a variety of case studies including Kosovo, Timor-Leste, Syria, Libya and Iraq, and examine the complexity of interventions across their different dimensions, including relevant doctrines such as R2P, ‘Use of Force’ and Human Security.

This book joins five key debates in the current theoretical literature that have been largely taking place in isolation and identifies common strands of argument and their shared problems. By illuminating these connections and cross-fertilising key debates in the current theoretical literature, it develops a unified way forward for practice-based political theory.

The result is a framework for understanding the emergence of postmodern nationhood in the era of globalisation and beyond. The goal is a broad, value-added society of diverse peoples and successful prevention of criminality, ghettoization, extremism and even radicalisation through reasonable immigrant integration.

Through its examination of cultural texts, including works by Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Laila Lalami, Mahi Binebine, Dubravka Ugrešić and others, this book traces EU neocolonial practices in relation to European history, borders and guiding ideals of community, which exclude various ‘others’ from their symbolic imaginary. The book deliberately moves the discussion away from social-scientific approaches to humanities and offers a fresh intellectual framework for understanding multicultural identity in Europe.

Key Features

• Goes beyond traditional frameworks of cultural analysis (national, ethnic, or language-based) by focusing on narratives which take the European Union as a point of reference
• Shifts focus from narratives depicting interactions between different cultures to those imagining communities of solidarity based on common economic or historical marginalisation in the European Union
• Revises postcolonial theory by arguing that the European Union exemplifies a new, ‘consensual’ regime of colonial governance
• Offers poststructuralist readings of migrant narratives to go beyond the more common, multicultural approaches to such narratives
• Develops original perspectives on individual writers (Jamal Mahjoub, Mike Phillips, Laila Lalami, Mahi Binebine, Dubravka Ugrešić, and others)
• Helps reorient European Union studies, dominated by social sciences, to the humanities side

Presidential legacy is a much used but little understand term. This excellent volume demonstrates that its meaning is primarily dependent on the historical context and purposes of those memorialising the president.

Prior to the Immigration Act of 1965, U.S. policy favored immigration from Europe, particularly Northern and Western Europe. Thus, American culture became similar to the cultures of European societies and of Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Changes in U.S. immigration policy during the past half century have resulted in American culture becoming more similar to the cultures of more recent arrivals? source countries (i.e., societies in Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa). Tests for structural breaks in the immigrant inflow series and descriptive analysis of the cultural differences between the U.S. and several cohorts of countries reveal fascinating details about this transformation. Population projections for the years 2015-2065 suggest continued cultural change. Corresponding policy implications are discussed.

This book is a key resource for faculty, researchers and students along with policymakers, non-academics interested in immigration policy and its history, and readers interested in migration studies, global studies, and cultural studies.

Migration-Related cultural disversity poses a number of highly pressing political and normative challenges for liberal democratic societies