John Etherington – författare

In the context of trauma, rehabilitation plays a critical yet often underestimated role. While life-saving measures have advanced significantly, the growing number of trauma survivors face profound health burdens and life-altering injuries.This concise guide highlights the importance of physical, mental and psychosocial recovery, emphasising the need for engagement with patients to achieve the best outcomes. The UK Defence Medical Services and their partners have demonstrated the positive effects of rehabilitation at the level not only of the individual patient, but at a national level. With such care, patients gain their best possible function, contribute to society to a greater extent and reduce the ever-increasing burdens on the UK National Health Service. The military experience reflected in this book describes a comprehensive rehabilitation framework that is applicable to all trauma patients in need of long-term rehabilitation.Trauma services worldwide are increasingly preventing loss of life, and the demand for effective rehabilitation has never been greater.

In the context of trauma, rehabilitation plays a critical yet often underestimated role. While life-saving measures have advanced significantly, the growing number of trauma survivors face profound health burdens and life-altering injuries.This concise guide highlights the importance of physical, mental and psychosocial recovery, emphasising the need for engagement with patients to achieve the best outcomes. The UK Defence Medical Services and their partners have demonstrated the positive effects of rehabilitation at the level not only of the individual patient, but at a national level. With such care, patients gain their best possible function, contribute to society to a greater extent and reduce the ever-increasing burdens on the UK National Health Service. The military experience reflected in this book describes a comprehensive rehabilitation framework that is applicable to all trauma patients in need of long-term rehabilitation.Trauma services worldwide are increasingly preventing loss of life, and the demand for effective rehabilitation has never been greater.

Elites and the People in Global Power Relations challenges the conventional boundaries of international relations by introducing the differential accumulation of power (DAP) approach. At a time of systemic crisis and eroding democratic legitimacy, this book transcends traditional state-centric and economic paradigms to reveal how the strategic interplay between elite competition and populace mobilisation defines the contemporary global order and its persistent hierarchical structures.Departing from “problem-solving” theory, the work uniquely integrates the sociology of power and political economy to overcome the artificial separation between domestic and international spheres. It examines the scalar tensions between global and domestic elites as they compete for critical resources, including the state, capital or the control of information, and reveals how governance often functions to safeguard elite accumulation rather than collective well-being. By analysing the institutional and ideological “trenches” that protect elite dominance, the book highlights the social function of theory as a catalyst for systemic transformation and a tool to reclaim democratic agency.This book is essential reading for scholars, researchers and advanced students in international relations, political science and sociology. It offers a radical, critical lens for those seeking to understand the rise of global authoritarianism and the persistent hierarchies that structure our world today.

This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years. The aftermath of the 2011 uprisings saw some groups access or even control political institutions through success at the ballot box, while there has also been a marked resurgence of armed Islamist groups that have had profound effects at both the national and regional level. This volume helps us to understand the nature and development of organised political Islam over recent decades in several key Arab and Mediterranean countries: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, and Turkey. The book identifies the central social and political Islamist actors, traces their ideological differences and similarities, and analyses power relations both within and between these organizations in the context of political instability and uncertainty. It will be of interest to students and scholars across a broad range ofdisciplines including political science, sociology, and international relations.