The crises of the European Union extend beyond the challenges of Covid-19, Brexit, the Eurozone, and mass migration, cutting to the core of the EU itself. Taking a structural rather than event-based approach, this text unpacks all aspects of the EU in crisis and analyses the implications of these crises for the EU and its member states.This edition argues that crises and challenges are no longer unique and discreet events facing the EU, but rather, they are better understood as sust...

The European Union is increasingly being asked to manage crises inside and outside the Union. From terrorist attacks to financial crises, and natural disasters to international conflicts, many crises today generate pressures to collaborate across geographical and functional boundaries. What capacities does the EU have to manage such crises? Why and how have these capacities evolved? How do they work and are they effective? This book offers an holistic perspective on EU crisis management. I...

This edited volume offers different theories useful for understanding and explaining European Union cooperation on internal security matters. Cooperation on such matters has not only flourished over the past two decades, but - more recently - has also become one of the most politicised or contested areas of European integration. Yet academic studies in the field remain predominantly empirical or not readily accessible to new scholars. The book addresses this major gap by providing a theore...

Internal security is often hailed as a rapidly expanding area of European integration, with a growing number of strategies, policies and framework agreements in recent years. Yet actual cooperation, when viewed closely, proceeds at a halting pace – raising questions as to why cooperation appears so problematic. This book presents a novel, theoretically-informed way to understand internal security cooperation in Europe. The approach treats internal security as a "public good" requiring coll...

This open access book explores a special species of trouble afflicting modern societies: creeping crises. These crises evolve over time, reveal themselves in different ways, and resist comprehensive responses despite periodic public attention. As a result, these crises continue to creep in front of our eyes. This book begins by defining the concept of a creeping crisis, showing how existing literature fails to properly define and explore this phenomenon and outlining the challenges such cr...

This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take similar approaches to the security and safety of their citizens. This book challenges that assumption and traces the evolution of ‘societal security’, and its broadly equivalent concepts, in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. The notion of societal security is deconstructed and analysed in...

The corona-virus global pandemic is here. Back to normal could be a matter of years. Giving to churches is plummeting. So is the economy, leaving church members with less to give. Many congregations are forecast to go out of business. The survival of our churches is at stake. As church leaders scratch their heads to figure out how to triage the church's declining income, this book provides guidance for how to fund the church's mission and ministry during a global pandemic of unknown length...

The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain (Vols. 1 & 2) is a richly illustrated survey of Britain's maritime and coastal identity, moving from busy commercial docks to fashionable resorts, fishing towns, ruined castles, cliffs, bays, and estuaries. Its prose combines topographical description, antiquarian notice, and picturesque sentiment, while the engraved views place it within the early nineteenth-century culture of illustrated travel books, where lan...

The Trial and Execution, for Petit Treason, of Mark and Phillis, Slaves of Capt. John Codman is a compact but revealing documentary study of an eighteenth-century Massachusetts criminal case: the poisoning of Captain Codman and the prosecution of enslaved people under the archaic doctrine of "petit treason." Written in an antiquarian-legal style, the work reconstructs indictments, proceedings, punishments, and public memory, placing colonial slavery within English common-law categories and...

Vladimir Putin: Authoritarianism and Anti-Americanism gathers analytical perspectives on the ideological, strategic, and rhetorical foundations of contemporary Russian power. Framed by questions of authoritarian governance, nationalist legitimacy, and opposition to American influence, the volume examines how Putin-era politics have reshaped domestic institutions and international alignments. Its style is policy-oriented yet scholarly, combining historical interpretation, strategic assessme...

Simon Dubnow's History of the Jews in Russia and Poland (Vol. 1–3) is a monumental account of Jewish life from early settlement and medieval communal organization through the partitions of Poland, tsarist domination, pogroms, emancipation debates, and modern political awakening. Written in a lucid, documentary style, it combines archival narrative with moral interpretation, placing Jewish communal autonomy, suffering, and resilience within the broader currents of Eastern European history. ...

The Witchcraft Delusion in New England (Vol. 1–3) gathers foundational writings on the Salem witch trials and the broader crisis of belief, law, and providential interpretation in late seventeenth-century New England. Moving between sermons, documentary narration, polemic, legal testimony, and retrospective controversy, the collection reveals how supernatural fear was translated into public authority. Its most arresting materials juxtapose defenses of spectral evidence and clerical interpr...