This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers,…

Practice-based film education is a crucial element in the institutional landscape of film. This book fills the gap in…

Examining the interplay between distrust, trust and corruption, this book maps out the social mechanisms that make actors…

In Britain, the resistance to popular determination allowed by the financial construct of the public has been so successful…

Examining culturally significant works of children's culture through a posthumanist, or animality studies lens, Animality…

Counterinsurgency must be applied from the beginning, and ifdone properly can be highly effective, even when used by…

This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political…

This book examines the evolution of Cuba's foreign relations since the demise of the USSR. It is divided into three…

Betancourt examines women's writings in relation to language, power, sexuality and race in contemporary Cuba, analyzing the…

Reviews theories of competition and existing literature, and examines the attributes of market competition and strategies…

In this concise historical and conceptual analysis of China's evolving position in a world defined predominantly by global…

This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster…

A study of the international NGO advocacy for social and environmental justice, it looks at the fundamental issues of…

This book follows the transnational lives of children growing up as British Bangladeshi individuals in multicultural London.…

Public diplomacy has become one of the most discussed phrases in political science. Using Costa Rica, El Salvador, and…

This book provides a collection of original essays on cutting-edge topics in medical ethics research. Leading philosophers…

As gender training is applied increasingly as a development solution to gender inequality, this book examines gender…

This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year…

Leading scholars assess the transformations in energy security policy that flow from recognition of global climate change.…

The book poses and explores questions about the roles of antiretroviral treatment and human rights in the global AIDS…

Despite various decades of research and claim-making by feminist scholars and movements, gender remains an overlooked area…

This volume explores Western attitudes towards the phenomenon of Easternization, drawing upon Eastern perspectives and…

Development researchers face many challenges in producing robust and persuasive analyses, often within a short time-frame.…

Irish writing in the modernist era is often regarded as a largely rural affair, engaging with the city in fleeting, often…

Additionally it utilizes the work of Hannah Arendt to propose an alternative anti-mechanistic and anti-essentialist approach…

If game theory, the mathematical simulation of rational decision-making first axiomatically established by the…

The main argument of this book is that the revival of European integration in the mid-1980s and the emergence of a "New…

Citizens' participation, especially participatory budgeting, has spread out in both continents, even if the context is very…

This is a book of essays in honour of J.D.B.Miller and looks at the relationship between the West and the Third World. It…

Analyzes the nature of power in the USSR and its evolution since the Bolshevik Revolution. The main thrust of this work,…

Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This…

Through detailed analyses of major and newly available datasets, this study examines the utility of a public probity-focused…

A rumor of empathy in vicarious receptivity, understanding, interpretation, narrative, and empathic intersubjectivity…

Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by…

Geir Hnneland discusses some of the big questions in social science: What is identity? What is the role of identity and…

The end of the cold war has paved the way for a series of moral claims that force institutions such as States, International…

This study examines the history and politics of Turkey-EU relations since 1959, exploring the complex interaction of…

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The Occupy movement and the Arab Spring have brought global attention to the potential of social media for empowering…

This book focuses on issues concerning identity in terms of Balkan and non-Balkan cultures, and examines questions of…

This study offers an analysis of the UK's current economic policy options and a plan for improving life for ordinary…

Explores how British and Japanese firms have responded to globalization from a long-term perspective. Incorporates studies…

Resisting Ethics is a new contribution to an ongoing debate on how the world can be improved. Starting with the notion that…

This book investigates the relationships between political violence, social violence and economic violence using examples…

This book examines common familial trends and differences throughout Europe from the 1960s onwards and discusses the most…

The book advances the idea that American, Southern, white, planter class authors have appropriated models and modes of…

Scholarly interest in 'the Irish Gothic' has grown at a rapid pace in recent years, but the debate over exactly what…

Since Gorbachev came to power much has happened in the Soviet Union. This book provides a comprehensive and composite…