Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes…

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This wide-ranging collection of essays contains unexplored themes and theoretical orientations centering on racism and…

Cohen utilizes the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary literary and cultural studies to shed new light on the…

Key practitioners and researchers explore how people routinely and at particular sites are discursively constructed as…

Reading as Belief advances the provocative idea that the disruptive techniques of recent innovative poetry require readers…

It is now over 20 years since 'open adoption' was first introduced, but it remains a controversial and contested part of…

This book develops a conceptual model of legitimacy as a value-judgement in international relations in contrast to Weberian…

This edited volume provides new empirical evidence of far-reaching changes to welfare states globally, which have changed…

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In the face of emerging new threats, the EU's capacity to build a distinctive role in crisis management remains problematic.…

This book provides a wealth of comparative information on social justice in higher education worldwide by examining how the…

Critically engaging, illustrative and with numerous examples, The Silent Revolution delivers a philosophically informed…

This book proposes the idea of a 'discourse trap' in which the discourses and associated terminology devised for political…

This book offers a comparative view of the world-views, values and institutions in Asia and the Middle East. The account…

A collection of content-based chapters and case studies examining the pedagogical potential and realities of digital…

How can the diffusion and development of women's cricket as a global sport be explained? Women 's Cricket and Global…

An insider's account of the negotiations which ended the Rhodesia conflict and of the British role in South Africa in the…

This edited volume puts forth a theoretically and empirically rigorous analysis of Japanese foreign policy. Nine case…

With a foreword by Slavoj Žižek, this book explores the Father Function in the East in the process of 'Modernisation',…

Culture, understood broadly, lay at the heart of contrasting right-wing strategies for government in France during the…

Alice de Rouclif was a child heiress made to marry the illegitimate son of the local abbot and then abducted by her feudal…

In this collection of refreshing and provocative essays, the contributors to Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World…

Instead of seeing the theory of just war as providing a stabilizing context within which international politics can be…

This book investigates recent public debates about the European Union (EU) in national parliaments, which have become the…

Bringing together high profile scholars in the fields of Deleuze and postcolonial studies, this book highlights the…

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This book examines the pattern of growth of the Spanish economy in the last few decades, and studies the causes of its…

This edited volume addresses the dynamic global contexts redefining Asia Pacific higher education, including cross-border…

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The contributors to this volume seek to explore the multi-dimensional (institutional, cultural, technological, and…

In most Caribbean countries homosexuality is still illegal and many outside of the region are unaware of how difficult life…

Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and…

This book shifts the common perception of specialised or 'LSP' translation as necessarily banal and straightforward towards…

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A study of US-Syria relations, this book analyzes the legacy of mistrust between the two states and continuities and…

This book looks at the Guatemalan peace process, which was successful in providing a development program to modernize the…

Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs are increasingly seen as a threat to communities around the world. They are a visible threat as a…

Tamara Chalabi highlights the development of a 'politics of demand' and the increased political activism of this community…

Since Argentina's transition to democracy, the expression of human fragility on the stage has taken diverse forms. This book…

Plunka argues that drama is the ideal art form to revitalize the collective memory of Holocaust resistance. This comparative…

Islamic Finance Alternatives for Emerging Economies analyzes the emergence of the Islamic financial institutions in Turkey,…

In this study of Bernard Mandeville's A Modest Defence of Publick Stews , Irwin Primer breaks new ground by arguing that in…

The behaviour and safety of children and young people in and around schools is a topic of world-wide concern. From school…

This comparative work examines the political and social context of interest groups in Malta and Ireland, two small island…

Research about children and young people's participation and involvement in research is an emerging area of academic…

Combining theoretical and empirical insights, this book provides an in-depth analysis of South Asia's transition in the…

Sebastián explores the experience of statebuilding and constitution making after violent conflict, using the failed reform…

The First World War cannot be sufficiently documented and understood without considering the analytical category of gender.…

It intersects also with the digital by addressing the problem with the help of a digital humanities method: computer…

This book explores the efforts of educational reformers who sought to link secondary and higher education in the decades…

This book analyzes the Group of Twenty (G20) since the 2008 financial crisis. G20 leaders sought a cooperative response to…