Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century?…

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Nabih Barri is a key figure in the Lebanese and Shi'ite politics for the last three decades. As the leader of the Shi'ite…

In seeking to test the conventional wisdom that foreign ministries are 'in decline', the contributors to this book examine…

Read examines probability, risk, and uncertainty through the contributions of John von Neumann, Leonard Jimmie Savage,…

The case studies range from the impact of worker remittances on failed states to capacity building by global civil society…

Aristocratic women flourished in the Victorian literary world, their combination of class privilege and gendered exclusion…

The motivation for writing this book is the authors' deeply held conviction that good governance is an essential element for…

Taking insights from the philosophy of science and technology, theories of participatory democracy and Critical Theory, the…

A new and original analysis of the mission undertaken by FDR's Secretary of State during the Phoney War, Rofe's work…

In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens…

An expanded translation of the groundbreaking book on Colombian cinema, this work addresses not only the inadequate…

The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. At the zenith of the Japanese model of company system, a huge bubble…

This book is a historical and strategic analysis of the nuclear dimension of the US alliance with Australia, Australia's…

It is sometimes assumed that fantasizing stands in contrast to activism. This book, however, argues that fantasy plays a…

Utilizing a wide range of theoretical and creative texts, Phillips offers an examination of subjectivity as considered,…

This edited volume addresses the foreign policy approaches demonstrated by the European Union (EU), Russia and Turkey…

Leviathan invests the sovereign with nearly absolute power, and that vast sovereign has drawn the reader's eye for 350…

This volume offers a cultural, aesthetic, and critical reappraisal of German 'rubble films' produced in the immediate…

Political Communication and Cognition draws on a range of theories from communication psychology to explain how citizens…

Sub-regional projects covered include the Central European Free Trade Area, the Black Sea Economic Scheme, Ecowas in West…

Aims to inform students, scholars, and educators about the complex processes and factors that promote or impede education's…

Strawser examines several possible ethical justifications for the killing of Osama bin Laden and finds nearly all of them…

Pursues the hypothesis that fictional literature has been instrumental in the development and dissemination of European…

This book examines the effect of post-Soviet transitions on current problem solving trends with regards to world capitalism.…

This book presents an analytical framework for understanding how governments develop policies of corporate social…

This book seeks to understand the politics of deservingness for future Social Security reforms through an interpretive…

Michele Bachelet, Chile's first female president, was elected with an explicit gender agenda in 2006 and then reelected in…

This book examines neighbourhoods and networks between the diverse people of contemporary Europe who live in a globalized…

James Busumtwi-Sam and Laurent Dobuzinskis have assembled a leading team of experts in the field to examine how phenomena…

Holds critical information that is needed by anyone who wants to understand how to make money from 'green' technology and…

Oddey questions the role of the spectator and director, and the nature of art works and performance. She provocatively…

A text which describes the ways that European powers used science and scientific inquiry to enforce their supposed cultural…

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic…

This volume draws on disciplines as different as Psychology, Anthropology, History and Biology to explain when and why…

This book describes how Christian communities in South Africa have responded to HIV/AIDS and how these responses have…

How has popular film, television and fiction responded to the realities of an ageing Western population? This volume…

This groundbreaking book combines literary interpretation, gender analysis, and cultural, political, and diplomatic history…

Moving beyond the critical tendencies to identify gay and lesbian subcultures as either hopelessly immersed in consumer…

A study of the media coverage of the Yemenite Babies Affair - the story of the alleged kidnapping of hundreds of Yemenite…

Through comparative studies of aid-supported infrastructure projects in East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, the book examines…

This book positions script analysis as a useful and pragmatic tool, which can guide the selection and implementation of…

This book explores what becomes of faiths when seen as social capital. In the grip of the current debt crisis, where the…

An inter-disciplinary, international collection that examines the mutual influences between law and culture through a series…

Through focusing on the sexual politics that have emerged out of post-apartheid South Africa, Spurlin investigates textual…

This collection offers a new reflection on rape in war time through 15 case studies, ranging from Greece to Nigeria. It…

Research shows that, while people around the world consistently nominate television as their most important news source,…

Increasing numbers of people from Western nations are leaving home to work within the developing economies of Asia. Here,…

Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and…