Regional / International studies

Featuring chapters by an international group of scholars and academics, Rural Youth at the Crossroads discusses the challenges and contexts facing youth from rural communities in countries with legacies of socialism undergoing social, political, and economic transition.

Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of Brazilian economic thought ranging from colonial times through to the early 21st century.

The Indigenous peoples of Australia have a proud history of participation and the achievement of excellence in Australian sports.

The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space.

The Routledge History of the Second World War sums up the latest trends in the scholarship of that conflict, covering a range of major themes and issues.

This book examines the dominant popular culture convention of the superhero, situated within the most significant global event of the last 20 years.

The third edition of Critical Issues in Contemporary China offers an in-depth and up-to-date analysis of Xi Jinping's strategies to address critical domestic and international challenges facing China in a 'new era'.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES SERIES papers are written for and published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Lebanon and Libya have undergone critical political events in recent years.

The contributors to this book investigate migration governance in Asia through a multilevel analysis, addressing its local, national and regional dimensions as well as placing it in the wider context of global migration governance.

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights.

Marco Polo's famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy.

This volume is a general survey of the history of Jordan from ancient times to the present.

Developed in close collaboration with Ian Nish, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of writings, thematically structured around essays in the special areas of Anglo-Japanese Alliance.

Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism.

Normalizing Japan seeks to answer the question of what future direction Japan's military policies are likely to take, by considering how policy has evolved since World War II, and what factors shaped this evolution.

First published in 2000.

A comprehensive perspective on multiculturalism in libraries!

As tensions remain on the Korean peninsula, this book looks back on the decade of improved inter-Korean relations and engagement between 1998 and 2008, now known as the 'Sunshine Policy' era.

This book delves into the history of subjective rights within the context of 19th-century Iran, specifically during the eventful Qajar era.

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Originally published in 1980, this book gives a concrete description of the development of Scottish companies and Scottish capital through the 20th Century, based on empirical study.

This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020.

Published in 1925, this introduction provides an accessible account of language families in Africa.

What drove the horizontal spread of authoritarianism and corporatism between Europe and Latin America in the 20th century?

This book provides the first ever intelligence history of Iraq from 1941 to 1945, and is the third and final volume of a trilogy on regional intelligence and counterintelligence operations that includes Nazi Secret Warfare in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2014), and Espionage and Counterintelligence in Occupied Persia (Iran) (2015).

One of the most unexpected outcomes of the Soviet bloc's transition out of communism has been the divergent but important paths followed by once ruling communist parties.

Economic development in the poorest countries often makes better progress when women become involved in, and take a lead in, development projects.

An enthralling history of an oft-forgotten battlefield of World War II brought to life by the recollections of the Allies, Axis and partisan forces who fought on the Gothic Line.

This book explores philosophical ethics in Arabo-Islamic thought.

First published in 1902, this volume emerged contemporaneously with the Anglo-Japanese Treaty and explored the nation of Britain's newest allies from an American perspective.

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins.

This book critically examines significant educational challenges in the broader Middle East, using insights from Iraq to explore historical, political, social, racial, religious, linguistic, and sectarian influences on education.

The South has long played a central role in America's national imagination-the site of the trauma of slavery and of a vast nostalgia industry, alternatively the nation's moral other and its moral center.

The first-ever comprehensive analysis of its kind in any western language, this unique volume provides a social art history of Yungang: a 5th-century rock-cut court cave complex, UNESCO World Heritage site, and one of the greatest Buddhist monuments of all time.

To address the issue of the lack of integration and common policy among Japan's cultural promotion actors and institutions, Gadjeva explores an integrated approach for Japanese public diplomacy through public-private partnerships.

Although China's economy has grown very rapidly in recent decades, there are still very large differences between the economy of mainland China and the economies of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

The much heralded growth and transformation of many economies in sub-Saharan Africa over the last decade continues to receive prominent attention in academic scholarship and among policy practitioners.

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This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution.

The present translation of Considerations sur la France is made from the critical French edition of R.

Global Finance in the 21st Century: Stability and Sustainability in a Fragmenting World explains finance and its regulation after the global financial crisis.

Contemplating Shostakovich marks an important new stage in the understanding of Shostakovich and his working environment.

With China's rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate.