Regional / International studies

The liberal use of the sedition law in recent years, mainly by state governments intolerant of dissenting opinion, has provoked justified controversy.

This book analyses how sustainability affects internal decision-making within the European Union and its external relations in working towards achieving its long-term goal of a climate-neutral Europe by 2050.

This book engages with different aspects of India's practice of international law.

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

Neither women's studies nor lesbian and gay studies offers an adequate theoretical or political base for lesbian scholarship.

The Routledge Handbook of Irish Criminology is the first edited collection of its kind to bring together the work of leading Irish criminologists in a single volume.

This book celebrates the contributions of David B.

The BRICS countries are heralded for their double digit economic growth rates and while this has indeed been impressive, particularly in India and China, it is clear that significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions.

Kurt and Sonja Messerschmidt were among the last Jews deported from Nazi Berlin.

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society.

Lucy Terry was a devoted wife and mother, and the first known African-American poet.

This book offers a critical examination of contemporary higher education reforms in Thailand situated in the broader historical, socio-economic and political changes.

The subject of Christian-Muslim relations in the Middle East and indeed in the West attracts much academic and media attention.

Essays on Marxism and Asia begins with the largely forgotten prophet of ancient Iran Zarathushtra, remembered and immortalised by Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra.

The authors put issues relevant to Turkey today - such as consolidating democracy, dealing with economic development issues, improving its human rights record and its foreign policy - in an historical context, allowing comparisons with other late developers in the world and reflecting the complexity of Turkish political and socio-economic developments.

This book explains how access to and use of land, water and language helped shape Andhra politics in India from 1850 down to the present day.

Philosophical inquiry into pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering is a growing area of interest to academic philosophers.

This book explores the widespread problem of gender-based violence in the Anglophone Caribbean, exploring reasons for its perpetuation and proposing viable policy and programming solutions to prevent it.

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment.

Nearly eighty years have passed since the Holocaust.

This book aims to assess the roles of entrepreneurship and social innovation for socio-cultural changes.

WWII scholar John Kelly triumphs again (Vanity Fair) in this remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months in 1940 when Winston Churchill debated whether England should fight Nazi Germanyand then decided to never surrender.

'We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on.

The Holocaust is one of the most intensively studied phenomena in modern history.

This book explores the complicated dynamics of the global diaspora and its central role in times of crisis.

The story of the Bosnian Muslims in World War II is an epic frequently alluded to in discussions of the 1990s Balkan conflicts, but almost as frequently misunderstood or falsified.

Understanding culture as a whole way of life, this book touches on various aspects of Sino-foreign interactions, tracing cultural exchanges depicted in Chinese and foreign sources, with particular attention to events or anecdotes in the Tang and Qing periods.

This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949.

Heretic and impostor or reformer and statesman?

This book analyses some of the fundamental reasons for the triumph of National Socialism in 1933.

Strategic communication is a pre-requisite for the achievement of organisational goals, and an effective strategic communication plan is vital for organisational success.

Examining the effects of the Cold War and regional politics on the Iraqi Kurds between 1958 and 1975, this study demonstrates how regional and international powers sought to exploit the Iraqi Kurds in their quest for statehood.

Identity movements, based on ethnicity, caste, language, religion and regional identity, have become increasingly significant in Nepal, reshaping debates on the definition of the nation, nationalism and the structure of the state.

Analyses of the Sri Lankan civil war (1983-2009) overwhelmingly represent it as an ethnonationalist contest, prolonging postcolonial arguments on the creation and dissolution of the incipient nation-state since independence in 1948.

Dangerous Sexualities takes a look at how our ideas of health and disease are linked to moral and immoral notions of sex.

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China's economic reform.

Faith and Science in Russian Religious Thought provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between science and faith in Russian religious thought.

The crusades are often seen as epitomising a period when hostility between Christian West and the Muslim Near East reached an all time high.

Events in the Indian sub-continent during the 1970s, where, in the summer of 1975, the ruling party engineered a 'constitutional' coup by declaring a national emergency, re-emphasised the need for a fuller understanding of India's social system and people.

This book, first published in 1968, examines the I Ching, one of the oldest books in the world and certainly the most influential in Chinese thought.

This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence.

Over the past sixty years the regional human rights systems have surpassed the UN human rights bodies in affording protection to the victims of human rights violations.

An accessible and wide-ranging overview of literature in multiple languages from the period of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

In the past ten to twenty years the global political economy picture has dramatically changed with the emergence of the economies of Brazil, Russia, India and, notably, China (BRICs) as big players and competitors of the advanced economies in the West and Eastern Asia.

This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century.

A Japanese-American spy, captured by the Japanese in WWII, tells of his remarkable capture and survival.