Political geography

This text explores the evolution of sustainable development and climate change within the framework of the United Nations.

This book provides a major new examination of the current dilemmas of liberal anti-racist policies in European societies, linking two discourses that are normally quite separate in social science: immigration and ethnic relations research on the one hand, and the political economy of the welfare state on the other.

It is difficult to speak about Europe today without reference to its constitutive regions supra-national geographical designations such as Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the Balkans.

Winner of the 2018 James M.

'Wry, readable and often astonishing.

Agreements between nations constitute the fundamental framework for the ordering of international affairs; and their successes and failures have led to some of the great turning points in modern history.

These are the stories that made Europe.

The war in Syria has put Russia at the centre of Middle Eastern politics.

People around the world are confused and concerned.

Shows how Joyce''s narrative styles and his protagonists'' perceptions are shaped by visual technologies, including dioramas, stereoscopes, mutoscopes and film.

African Independence highlights the important role Africa has played in recent history and the significant role it will continue to play in the future of America and the globe.

'Compelling and important' - Rana Mitter, The Observer'Few books qualify as essential reading but Ghost Nation is one of them' - Clive Hamilton, bestselling co-author of The Hidden HandThe gripping story of Taiwan's rich past and precarious present from one of the country's top foreign correspondents.

One Korea or two?

'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics.

Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023This book presents an encompassing, detailed and thorough overview and reconstruction of Lefebvre's theory of space and of the urban.

The idea that the American Great Plains and the Canadian Prairies are just "e;fly-over"e; country is a mistake.

Despite -- and perhaps because of -- increasing global mobility, there are more types of borders today than ever before in history.

Much of the world's economic activity takes place in between cities and nations - the geographical containers that we have taken for granted for hundreds of years now.

This book studies the misaligned priorities of donors and citizens in response to AIDS intervention in Africa.

Oxford Textual Perspectives is a series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures, and communities that produce, inform, and receive them.

What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China?

"e;An engrossing portrait"e; IndependentBased on a lifetime living in and reporting on Germany and Central Europe, award-winning journalist and author Peter Millar tackles the fascinating and complex story of the people at the heart of our continent.

The values of freedom and equality are at the heart of what it means for liberal states to do justice to their citizens.

'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse.

Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact.

A comprehensive new account of China''s entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.

'The Left Behind' is a defining motif of contemporary British political discourse.

This volume examines violence across Latin America and the Caribbean to demonstrate the importance of subnational analysis over national aggregates.

From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world.

Providing a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies.

The urban condition is today being radically transformed.

Tensions between the US and China have escalated as both powers seek to draw countries into their respective political and economic orbits by financing and constructing infrastructure.

What can political theory teach us about architecture, and what can it learn from paying closer attention to architecture?

For much of its history, human population growth increased at a glacial pace.

A timely, insightful look at the profound effects of social geography on how we relate to, think about, and politically interact across groups in the fabric of our daily lives.

A thorough analysis of how effectively international courts and tribunals adjudicate transboundary water disputes, using detailed case studies.

The foundings of constitutional democracies are commonly traced to singular moments.

Revisiting divisions of labour is a reflection on the making of a modern sociological classic text and its enduring influence on the discipline and beyond.

An attempt to redraw our mental maps of global politics through the prism of ''post-internationalism''.

Some ethnic communities receive generous material rewards for their political support, whilst others only receive very modest payoffs.

In Material Politics, author Andrew Barry reveals that as we are beginning to attend to the importance of materials in political life, materials has become increasingly bound up with the production of information about their performance, origins, and impact.

When are borders justified?

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists

Net zero emissions is only the beginning.

Using the way in which artists from the former Eastern bloc perceive the experience of EU integration and transition from a Soviet past as a conceptual launching pad, this book explores how artists critically inhabit a permanent state of 'in-between' to capture the simultaneous existence of multiple and overlapping temporalities.

This book is a manifesto for real urban change.