This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America's major wars from the Spanish-American…

This book examines the emergent conviction that UN robust peacekeeping works better than UN traditional peacekeeping in…

This study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing…

The discussion in this book provides an introduction to the concept of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial business…

This book seeks to understand the effects of the current information revolution on universities by examining the effects of…

Eighteenth-century philosophy owes much to the early novel. Using the figure of the romance reader this book tells a new…

This book updates and revalidates critical political economy of communication approaches. It is destined to become a work of…

This book challenges contemporary criminological thinking, providing a thorough critique of mainstream criminology,…

Politics and Political Culture in the Court Masque considers the interconnections of the masque and political culture. It…

Instead of thinking about education as the mastery of a body of knowledge where the subject matter becomes the focus of our…

This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and…

In response to these challenges the EU needs to develop a deeper sense of strategic awareness and confidence so that it may…

Few topics can be of greater importance to political scientists or practising politicians than international alliances.…

This book argues that there is an ongoing planetary crisis, in both the social and natural worlds, that is of urgent…

As a contrast, this study evinces how the foundations of Japan's foreign policy were laid in the early postwar period, and…

From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United…

This unique book explores the social processes which shape fictional representations of police and crime in television…

Since its inception, NASA has participated in over 4,000 international projects, yet historians have almost entirely…

This book explores how the communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon but an international one.…

This book asks that we consider the practices that facilitate audience participation on equal terms with other elements of…

This book analyzes ways how three fringe players of the modern diplomatic order - the Holy See, the Sovereign Military Order…

The 1990s promise to be a period of rapid political change, as old political boundaries dissolve and new political forces…

Countering the commonplace view of teaching as inclusive, this collection highlights the persistence of inequalities in the…

Fear is ingrained in the history of cities but our short-sightedness prevents us from grasping its evolution over time.…

• Čeština

This landmark book of essays examines the development of women's letter writing from the late fifteenth to the early…

Criticism of the work of David Foster Wallace has tended to be atomistic, focusing on a single aspect of individual works. A…

• Čeština

This volume investigates the appropriate position of Islam and opposing perceptions of Muslims in Southeast Asia. The…

Paul Wetherly provides a restatement and defence of the classical Marxist theory of the state, developing an analytical…

A fresh theory on how individuals respond to inequalities occurring within their own communities. This original and…

Public Credit Rating Agencies argues for the creation of national public credit rating agencies, offering the first in-depth…

Most people believe that criminal justice in Colombia is rife with impunity and corruption. Elvira MarĂ­a Restrepo delves…

Using texts ranging from the writings of Schlegel to the speeches of the fiftieth-anniversary commemoration of D-Day, these…

• Rok vydání 1994

This cohesive and challenging collection of academic essays represents a radical analysis, indeed re-interpretation, of the…

This book looks at the PPP persistence puzzle, and econometric aspects of exchange rate dynamics and their implications. It…

This book combines anthropological methods with political science to analyze changing power relationships, party…

This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing.…

This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence,…

This book provides an outstanding collection of interdisciplinary and international essays examining the food-place…

This book offers several perspectives on the contemporary position of North Korea. It investigates the tensions that could…

'At a time when peacekeepers are struggling to fulfil increasingly demanding mandates and UN peacekeeping is in danger of…

Hans Singer is undoubtedly one of, if not the, world's major scholars in the field of Development Economics.…

This volume brings to the fore the spatial dimension of specific places and sites, and assesses how they condition - and are…

By examining the issues of environmental policy formation and implementation linked to economic development, and reviewing…

In this volume the authors present an alternative approach to the history of gypsies and travelling groups in western Europe.…

By investigating the rise and fall of postwar Keynesianism and focusing on the experience of the United States, the author…

Ranging across genres including literary fiction, science fiction, post-apocalyptic fiction, graphic novels, children's and…

• Rok vydání 1999

In 1999 the Blair government introduced British devolution as part of a major programme of constitutional reform. However,…

Global justice is of every increasing importance in the contemporary political world. This volume brings a hitherto…