Regional / International studies

The presence of international missions in weak and failing states across the globe confirms that multi-lateral involvement has become a strategic imperative to secure international peace and security.

Presenting a new approach towards the social history of working classes in the imperial context, this book looks at the formation of working classes in Scotland and Bengal.

The study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches.

This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history.

This book offers a regional, intersectional, and transnational perspective of psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean that illuminates psychoanalysis's role as social and political discourse through a collection of original interventions in the fields of psychoanalysis, cultural studies, psychology, anthropology, health sciences, history, and philosophy.

The book analyses the emerging centre-periphery divisions within the European Union which result from the unprecedented conditions created by the 2008-09 global financial crisis and the subsequent Eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

Drawing on a wide range of Chinese and western sources, this book offers in-depth analysis of the complete range of environmental problems facing China today, from the historical, political, economic and cultural root causes, through the successful and unsuccessful efforts which have been made to find solutions, to possible future scenarios and strategies.

The Thiri Rama - or the Great Rama - was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar.

This book provides an essential source for higher education teachers and student affair professionals in China and around the globe, who seek to deepen their understanding of Chinese undergraduate students they work with so as to promote their learning and development.

The First Print Era examines the rise of print culture during China's Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127).

This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers.

As China is poised to become a global economic force, its leadership is on the brink of imminent and potentially sweeping change.

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives.

China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is completing a decade.

This book investigates the trajectory and evolutionary mechanisms of China's urban-rural economic relationships, seeking to explore how a developing socialist country can attain sustainable development and common prosperity.

First published in 1985, Economy, Society & Culture in Contemporary Yemen was written to present a wealth of research and thinking that was new to the field at the time of original publication.

Providing fresh analysis of the history and politics of Chinese communism, this book utilizes previously inaccessible sources to reassess the epic Long March.

Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe.

Willi Langbein was just thirteen when the Nazis took him away from his parents under the pretense of protecting him.

Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire.

On 1 July 1940 the Germans occupied Jersey and remained until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945.

During Israel's military operation in Gaza in the summer of 2014 the commanding officer of the Givati infantry brigade, Colonel Ofer Vinter, called upon his troops to fight "e;the terrorists who defame the God of Israel.

The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed.

The volume brings together readings describing a range of less-traversed aspects and transferences of women's rights and struggles in India and develops a comprehensive understanding of the interface between women's activism and politics.

Alarming levels of fear and suspicion developed in Australia following the German victories in Europe of 1940.

The goal of the work is a heuristic reading strategy for a modern reader to engage with YHWH's threats against Israel in Deuteronomy.

This volume presents a critical analysis of transatlantic relations in the field of environmental governance and climate change.

This volume presents an integrated collection of essays around the theme of India's failure to grapple with the big questions of human rights protections affecting marginalized minority groups in the country's recent rush to modernization.

This volume provides an up to date and accessible examination of China's global search for resources, focusing primarily on oil.

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This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972.

Conflicts involving religion have returned to the forefront of international relations.

Jayasuriya looks at the changing global and domestic political economies shaping the new regionalism in Asia, and examines the relationship between regional domestic, political and economic structures and forms of regional governance.

This book discusses the issues underlying contemporary Holocaust fiction.

The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives, requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.

The inauguration of the National Assembly of Wales creates a new opportunity to consider the economic agenda for Wales.

This edited volume introduces the reader to the role of space in military and defense strategy, and outlines some of the major foreign and domestic actors in the space arena, as well as constraints of law and treaties on activities in space.

The built environment affects our physical, mental and social well-being.

Iran has undergone considerable social upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema.

This book explores how China, and especially China's Belt and Road Initiative, is viewed in European media and by European think tanks, thereby uncovering European elites' views of China.

This book rethinks Northeast India as a lived space, a centre of interconnections and unfolding histories, instead of an isolated periphery.

The investigation of the rise and fall of Gao Gang suggests broader implications on the nature of elite politics in the Maoist era.

This brilliant set of essays poses the paradigm question: are Jews in grave danger today or not?

This book offers readers a spatial understanding of happiness and subjective well-being.

This book provides an avenue for students to explore the Nile-the world's longest river-and better understand its larger role in society in the past, present, and future.

An illustrated examination of the role played by the Sunderland as an antisubmarine aircraft during the Battle of the Atlantic, focusing on the key battles of the Biscay campaign in 1943 44.

This study examines the social and psychological processes that led to the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947.