Regional / International studies

This book argues that the international community must share responsibility for contributing to the conditions that resulted in violent conflict in Timor-Leste, four years after it declared independence from Indonesia.

How do young people make effective transitions into work?

This book rejects traditional, dominant-typically reductive and anti-realist-explanations of stress, PTSD, and resilience.

This book looks at migration in contemporary society and its interrelations with development.

This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of 'the old socialists', the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party.

As the first botanical history of World War II, Plants Go to War examines military history from the perspective of plant science.

This book focuses on the social voids that were the result of occupation, genocide, mass killings, and population movements in Europe during and after the Second World War.

EBES conferences have been intellectual hub for academic discussion in economics, finance, and business fields and provide network opportunities for participants to make long lasting academic cooperation.

In this 2005 study, leading international experts challenge many assumptions about Stalin from his early life to the Cold War years.

Winner of the Comparative and International Education Society's Globalization and Education SIG Book AwardCambodia for Sale: Everyday Privatization in Education and Beyond details a post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of private rather than public goods.

The political downfall of the Suharto administration in 1998 marked the end of the "e;New Order"e; in Indonesia, a period characterized by 32 years of authoritarian rule.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany.

This book explores the trajectories of social suffering, exclusion, and victimisation of homeless persons with mental illness in India.

Here is a comprehensive overview and analysis of issues concerning the maternal-fetal relationship, from abortion to surrogate motherhood.

This book presents a typological overview of the case system of Eastern Indo-Aryan (EIA) languages.

Following India's general election in May 2009, this book undertakes a critical evaluation of the performance of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA).

Germany's aristocratic Schulenburg family were irreconcilably divided over Hitler--some followed him devoutly while others joined the Resistance.

This book explores the social roots, character, and consequences of paramilitary violence in Europe in the 1940s.

Dieser Ort werde die Hölle auf Erden sein, erklärte im Juni 1940 ein SS-Angehöriger Häftlingen, die beim Bau des Lagerzauns eingesetzt waren.

This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism.

This book offers the first in-depth study of experimental and popular music scenes in Beirut, looking at musicians working towards a new understanding of musical creativity and music culture in a country that is dominated by mass-mediated pop music, and propaganda.

This study of political relations in the Middle East analyzes the reasons behind the instability of the region.

Race and the Unconscious engages the archetypal African consciousness that enriches our knowledge regarding the foundational mythopoetic of Africanist dreaming.

For over two decades, large infrastructure development projects have been the subject of major controversies the world over.

Danish sport has been associated with Europe and the World; not least through I.

Over the past ten to fifteen years there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality.

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.

This book examines the changing dynamics of stabilisation efforts in the Middle East and North Africa.

This book is a comparative analysis of the medieval Sunni historiography of the caliphate of Uthman b.

Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about Americas role in the world, and commentators with divergent political and religious positions look to his 1952 work, The Irony of American History, in support of their views.

With research based on focus group and individual interviews in the United States, as well as a thorough and integrative review of the current literature, LatinoGay Men and HIV discusses the six main sociocultural factors in Latino communities -- machismo, homophobia, family cohesion, sexual silence, poverty and racism--which undermine safe sex practices.

This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanislaw Lem.

This book explores the experiences of people affected by the Partition of British India and princely states in 1947 through first-person accounts, memoirs, archival material, literature, and cinema.

First Published in 1980, Financing Urban Government in the Welfare State shows how intergovernmental structures have now become the main policy device designed for an earlier age and often for quite different purposes, linking national and local policymaking.

This book looks at how Europeanisation affects the link between citizenship and governance in and across the new states of South East Europe.

This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality.

Bullying as a Social Experience presents data from both the US and New Zealand and draws on past research from around the world to show how social context and factors shape individuals' behaviors and experiences.

This volume investigates the historic and ethnographic accounts of the ongoing religious contestations over the status of the Mahabodhi Temple complex in Bodhgaya (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002) and its surrounding landscape to critically analyse the working and construction of sacredness.

While it has been some time since computer technologies were first introduced to social surveys, their methodological advantages, as well as potential limitations, are not yet fully appreciated by the relevant communities of scholars, mass media and governmental organizations.

Australia on the World Stage: History, Politics, and International Relations offers a fresh examination of Australia's past and present.

During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time.

This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots level in India in the early 1990s.

This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts.

This book gives readers advanced insights into macroeconomics with historical perspectives and proposes policies to resolve the problems the Japanese economy faces.

Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have faced significant political, economic, social, and technological transformations over the last four decades.

This book is the first to provide a cognitive analysis of the function of biological/medical metaphors in National Socialist racist ideology and their background in historical traditions of Western political theory.

African American Community Practice Models shows you what you can "e;see"e; and "e;learn"e; when people of African American descent are put in the center of community analysis and change.

This book investigates the performance of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) since its inception, focusing on four areas of central concern to African states: decolonization, conflict control, development, and human rights.

Based largely on Neville Chamberlain's own words and official government documents, this book describes how were it not for Chamberlain's powerful, dominating presence in the British government, World War II might have been avoided.