Macrocomparative researchers use a variety of methodological approaches. This book features analyses of a single substantive…

This book sheds light on the sources of environmental concerns in Africa. It shows that not all environmental issues command…

The most influential East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times…

Resulting from an interdisciplinary dialogue between philosophy, political science and International Relations about Europe…

Using examples from the US, Europe and Asia,this collection presentsempirical studies of print, recorded music, movies,…

It is the first study which comprehensively, systematically and critically examines the role and usefulness of the concept…

Contributors to this volume discuss different types of emergencies and conflicts and how challenging these multilingual…

This book shows how British authors used landscape description to shape the meaning of the First World War. Using a broad…

The book examines the validity of Hedley Bull's distinction between system and society and argues that the distinction is…

This collection brings together pedagogical memoirs on significant topics regarding teaching race in college, including…

This book challenges the widely held assumption that a nuclear-armed Iran would provoke a proliferation cascade in the…

Much concern has been expressed about the scandal of physical and sexual abuse by care workers of children living in…

Reveals the representational paradoxes of liberal multicultural subjecthood, in which the citizen-subject tends to become…

The author narrates the end of the European crisis from the June 2012 European Council summit through the bailout of Cyprus.…

The discipline of international relations deals with the problem of culture by defining world politics as a state of nature,…

In this book, the author undertakes a postcolonial analysis of identities the Chinese state uses to confront world politics…

By rethinking contemporary debates regarding the politics of aesthetic forms, Gender and Allegory in Transamerican Fiction…

This book brings together fascinating testimonies from thirty inhabitants of the 'Kommunalka,' the communal apartments that…

Today Blake scholarship is experiencing a period of unprecedented variety and mutuality. These essays reflect the…

This ground-breaking book takes an interdisciplinary approach to language, religion and media using an audience-response…

This collection attends to western women's struggles within Roman Catholicism by examining how women throughout the…

Food and the Literary Imagination explores ways in which the food chain and anxieties about its corruption and disruption…

Global politics is a crowded stage of players competing for power and authority. Who is in charge of what? How do they stay…

This historical biography examines Sarah Raymond Fitzwilliam's abolitionist roots growing up on a stop of the Underground…

This empirically and conceptually rich volume identifies the emerging dynamics in the broader areas of science, technology…

By looking at the three most recent economic crises, the S&L crisis, the dot-com bubble, and the recent subprime mortgage…

This book provides insight into the remarkable life and work of the Italian economist Antonio de Viti de Marco (1858-1943).…

This book analyses the role of local content (LC) policy in the economic development of five resource-rich countries:…

While there is an growing body of work on space and place in many disciplines, less attention has been paid to how a spatial…

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Tannam focuses on the role of bureaucracies when dealing with conflict in two international organisations, the European…

Decolonization changed the spatial order of the globe, the imagination of men and women around the world and established…

Continuing the inequality and development debate originally ushered in by Kuznets, this book extends to the possible…

Thinking of marginals as competing in the context of other organizations allows the reader the opportunity to explore new…

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The authors uncover the roots of the eurozone crisis, focusing on how this can be solved against the backdrop of a very deep…

This book examines periodical production in the context of post-revolutionary Ireland, employing the unique lens of genre…

Hsu illustrates Taiwan's path toward sustainable development and contrasts it to that of China, suggesting ways in which…

This book provides an overview of what has happened to NATO from the closing stages of the Cold War to the new era of…

This book contextualizes 21st century representations of disappearance, torture, and detention within a historical framework…

In this new explanationist account of epistemic justification, Poston argues that the explanatory virtues provide all the…

Science fairs, clubs, and talent searches are familiar fixtures in American education, yet little is known about why they…

A cross-disciplinary anthology on contemporary Kashmir by academics from Jammu and Kashmir, the first such volume to appear.…

Cosmopolitan Borders makes the case for processes of bordering being better understood through the lens of cosmopolitanism.…

Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an…

The events of 1968 are often seen purely as a student revolution, but impacted on every aspect of French society - theatre,…

A timely and critical investigation into the way media operates in a so-called global age, presenting new empirical data on…

In the 1980s South Africa's urban townships exploded into insurrection led by youth and residents' organisations that…

This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed…

A freshly provocative look at the nexus linking EU security, trans-Turkey energy supply routes to Europe and Turkey's EU…