Interdisciplinary studies

Since the early 1990s, there has been a clear evolution in the military dimension of Japanese diplomacy.

This study examines two important questions regarding terrorism and political violence: which threats to human security constitute root causes for collective violence and which adequate responses for these root causes are available to the international community.

The Chinese government has recently adopted a radical welfare approach by contracting out social services to non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

This book examines and reviews some of the key figures in Taiwan Studies to plot the development of the field by revisiting their earlier influential books and bodies of work.

This book delves into the complex historical, cultural, and educational ties between Italy and Albania within the realm of media studies, examining various mediums such as press, radio, television, cinema, and the web.

The Final Volume of the Groundbreaking Trilogy on Agent-Based ModelingIn this pioneering synthesis, Joshua Epstein introduces a new theoretical entity: Agent_Zero.

First published in 1999, this volume examines antiquarianism which had its roots in Renaissance thought and was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This WWII memoir offers a vivid chronicle of combat in Egypt with the 107th Royal Horse Artillery and a daring escape from an Italian POW camp.

Regina Greck untersucht mittels einer quantitativen Befragung der journalistischen und politischen Elite in Deutschland deren Selbst- und Fremdwahrnehmung und belegt, dass sich die Elite-Journalisten teilweise im Gegensatz zu anderen Kommunikatorstudien eher als erklärende Kritiker sehen, während die Politiker der Elite sie als Meinungsmacher wahrnehmen.

This title was first published in 2002: Why are rates of suicidal behaviour in Chinese adolescents so high?

As one of the most rapid and earliest nations to achieve "e;Western modernisation"e;, much of Japan's success stems from its fruitful literacy history during the Tokugawa shogunate as well as later influences from Western educational ideals and consequent economic and democratic conflicts in Japan.

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller (October 2018)Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the next installment in the mega-bestselling Killing seriesAs the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run.

Intermediate Chinese is the ideal reference and practice book for students with some knowledge of the language.

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing-authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines-from the 1910s to the 1960s.

This is an exciting period for the book, a time of innovation, experimentation, and change.

The Police Manager provides a roadmap for the challenges that police administrators face in their day-to-day duties, including considerations for dealing with subordinate officers and for interacting with the public.

First published in 1989.

This book explores incentives capable of enhancing the effectiveness of urban planning systems in Sub-Saharan Africa using economic theory as a framework.

This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka.

This book explores the philosophical foundations of communication studies, suggesting that communication phenomena extend beyond the scope of traditional scientific methods.

It is impossible to understand human behavior without understanding the critical role that groups play in people's lives.

The complex and fascinating story of Romania's 'turning of arms' against Nazi Germany, and the battle for Romania - an important but overlooked and misunderstood episode of World War II.

Despite his important stature in the history of philosophy, Averroes is a thinker whose work has been left largely unexplored in this century.

Asia has the world's highest concentration of nuclear weapons and the most significant recent developments related to nuclear proliferation, as well as the world's most critical conflicts and considerable political instability.

This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China.

With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the practice of international business in the Asia-Pacific region.

First published in 1998, this insightful volume aims to explore how 90 Indian and African single mothers in 1993 London resolve the dual challenges of single parenthood and their ethnic origins, along with a comparison with their British counterparts.

This book provides a strong multidisciplinary examination of the links between migration, remittances and sustainable development in Africa.

First published in 2006.

The aim of this book is to provide the international readership a collection of articles authored by Chinese scholars on the subject of globalization and localization.

After the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan chose a path of economic and political liberalization.

The rise of cross-regional trade agreements is a defining trend of the current international trade system as shown by the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2015, the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the USA and the EU as well as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between countries in Asia and Oceania.

In recent years, media coverage of the European Union has faced its most serious test.

This writing textbook bridges factual, critical, and expressive modes of writing to help students develop a reflective sense of why and how to write for university, professional, and public audiences.

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation.

This volume, by graduate researchers working in urban agriculture, examines concrete strategies to integrate city farming into the urban landscape.

The US Army had a unique tactical doctrine during World War II, placing the emphasis for tank fighting on its Tank Destroyer Command whose main early-war vehicle was the M10 3-inch Gun Motor Carriage, based on the reliable M4A2 Sherman tank chassis.

This book examines the challenges and opportunities of administrative and territorial reconstruction in Africa from independence until the present time.

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The promotion of the rule of law has become an increasingly important element of peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations, particularly in Africa, where there have been numerous internal armed conflicts and missions over the last decade.

Church Slavonic, one of the world's historic sacred languages, has experienced a revival in post-Soviet Russia.

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.

Taking cognisance of the lack of studies on leadership in modern India, this book explores how leadership is practiced in the Indian context, examining this across varied domains - from rural settings and urban neighbourhoods to political parties and state governments.

Strengthening local humanitarian engagement demands not only rethinking dominant understandings of religion, but also revisiting the principles and practices of humanitarianism.