A state of the discipline approach to teaching and learning in Politics and IR including contributions which discuss the…

With frequent discoveries of energy resources in remote and undeveloped areas, the importance of transnational oil and gas…

This book analyses the Russian opposition to the 2010 Barents Sea delimitation agreement in light of both the Law of the Sea…

Two aspects link together the notions of corruption and integrity from an epistemological perspective: the complexity of…

This interdisciplinary project draws on a wealth of sources (visual, material, literary and theatrical) to examine Austen's…

Patricia Holland offers a fascinating study of the ways in which changes to public services, and shifts in the concept of…

This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.…

Explores how the framing of issues on the EU agenda affects policy-making. In a study that traces the highly contested…

This concise volume presents for the first time a coherent and detailed account of why we experience feelings of being…

This book compares understandings and experiences of love and intimacy of one distinct cultural group - Gujarati Indians -…

This collection examines the transformation of the modern Western state in an age of accelerated globalization. Arguing that…

With traditional growth engines failing, the world is looking to Asia for economic salvation. This book charts the rise of…

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Cold War world, this monograph draws on entirely new documentary evidence to…

Ionescu examines the process of economic Romanianization of Bucharest during the Antonescu regime that targeted the…

Yar examines the autobiographies of fallen sports stars, exploring their fall from grace and the stigma it entails. Drawing…

Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of Spanish political history to…

Examining a wide range of works, from Gulliver's Travels to The Hunger Games, Representing the Modern Animal in Culture…

The distinctive point of the book is its innovative interdisciplinary approach to business communication, with…

The highly performative categories of 'Irish culture' and 'Irishness' are in need of critical address, prompted by recent…

Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and…

However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers'…

This book examines how parties negotiate coalition deals at the subnational level using the examples of Germany and Spain.…

The strife for social improvement that arose in the decades around the turn of the 20th century raised the issue of social…

This study analyses enterprise development and entrepreneurship and their relationship with the state and market building in…

Focusing on the development of justificatory discourse on global governance, Steffek examines how differing conceptions of…

The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. Foster…

This systematic and historical treatment of Russell's contributions to analytic philosophy, from his embrace of analysis in…

This book develops a discourse theory of crisis and change in global politics. The incompleteness and contingent character…

This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front.…

In this innovative treatment of the ethics of war, Ryan P. Cumming brings classical sources of just war theory into…

Whereas the Spanish-American War has long been studied as a turning point in American history, Grover Cleveland's foreign…

Researchers in the new field of literary-and-cultural studies look at social issues - especially issues of change and…

Although freedom is America's core value, few Americans have a clear idea of what it means or - worse - enjoy much freedom…

Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese…

Considering both making political performance and making performance politically, this collection explores engagements of…

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and…

The book investigates the substance of the European Union's (EU) democracy promotion policy. It focuses on elections, civil…

In addressing the politics of the international regulation of public procurement, this book fills a major gap in the…

Federal and state funding agencies have invested billions of dollars into secondary STEM (Science, Technology, Education,…

In a major new theory of criminal behavior, Mark Colvin argues that chronic criminals emerge from a developmental process…

This collection of essays looks at the impact on women of the political changes which have taken place in East-Central…

The Bologna Process has significantly shaped recent higher education policies across Europe but the impact of the social…

Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of…

This book examines the role governments play in managing policy challenges such as religion, romance, gender relations,…

This volume undertakes a fundamental reassessment of utopianism during the modernist period. It charts the rich spectrum of…

This book is concerned with home affairs or social policy in the British system - in particular in education, health,…

An analysis of think-tanks in Britain and Germany and their role in the re-making of the British Labour party and Germany's…

Media Literacy and Semiotics provides helpful tools to help readers think critically about the meaning of the media images…