This book assesses the effectiveness of free trade agreements (FTAs) in unlocking international business opportunities in…

An analysis of Russia's response to globalization. This book explores how Russian domestic politics shape this international…

An empirical assessment of whether participatory governance reforms within the EU enhance or endanger democracy. Many…

In Psychosocial aspects of niqab wearing Nina Bosankic explores the various motives which lead young women living in…

The is this the book-length work addressing the development of academic freedom and the procedures designed to protect it…

The first cross-cultural analysis of the differences in career trajectories and experiences between a senior group of women…

A collection of essays by leading philosophers on the work of John Cottingham, focussing on his work in moral philosophy,…

Which practices count as resistance? Why, where, and how does resistance emerge? When is resistance effective, and when is…

Offering a pluralist framework for understanding the nature, scope, and limits of self-knowledge from the first-person…

Why are there so few women vice chancellors in UK higher education? In this book, Paula Burkinshaw explores the contemporary…

In this unique collection, theologians born and formed during the Cold War offer their insights and perspectives on…

This book analyzes how the European environmental movement has influenced the problem definitions and solution strategies of…

In the first full length examination of the topic, Ethical Citizenship rediscovers a significant and distinctive…

As political leaders acknowledge the limits of their power they increasingly integrate constructive input from inside and…

This is a collection of papers providing an analysis of the Cyprus conflict and possible directions for its resolution. The…

University rankings have gained popularity around the world, and are now a significant factor shaping reputation. This book…

This book examines the relationship between development economics, social protection and democratization in the specific…

This book assesses the recent growth and future prospects of private transnational environmental certification and standards…

Focusing on Odin Teatret's latest work, this discussion is updated by drawing on fresh research. The group's productions…

Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal, part of the contemporary cultural and media…

This book examines the increasing role of development organizations in securitization processes and argues that the new…

Applying Hegelian dialectical method, Krombach attempts to demonstate how Hegelian thinking provides a method to traverse…

Shakespeare and Cognition challenges orthodox approaches to Shakespeare by using recent psychological findings about human…

Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, Puerto Rico Is in the Heart examines the emigration, labor,…

This book explores the role of television in the 1950s and early 1960s, with a focus on the relationship between Tories and…

This book compares the educational experiences of adolescents from a variety of 'visible' ethnic minority groups across…

A Critical Theory of Creativity argues that a Utopian drive is aesthetically encoded within the language of form. But…

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…

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…

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…