Interdisciplinary studies

This book addresses the relationship between International Refugee Law and International Human Rights Law.

In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitlers other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest.

Central Asian Survey has remained as the premier world-leading peer-reviewed journal for Central Asian studies for four decades.

A monarch is usually born, a member of parliament or a president is usually elected, but a regional leader in China is usually orchestrated to replace his or her predecessor through an opaque process and for reasons not normally made public.

China's economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries.

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations.

"e;Critical Ethnography is a rare and beautiful synthesis of deft theorizing and principled pragmatics.

This invaluable resource offers students a comprehensive overview of the German war machine that overran much of Europe during World War II, with close to 300 entries on a variety of topics and a number of key primary source documents.

This new edition of the casebook includes extensive excerpts from 25 major decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States in media law or related to media law.

The aim of this book is to persuade the reader that the Indian caste system is not the isolated phenomenon it is often thought to be.

This book investigates the lived experiences of Africa's youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing its impact on their mobilities, freedoms, and livelihoods.

"e;Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process offers a nuanced and stimulating analysis which goes beyond standard explanations by exploring the motives and means used by those who made peace in Northern Ireland.

This book examines responsibility in grave humanitarian crises, focusing on the international community's collective responsibility to take action in such cases as genocide or ethnic cleansing.

International Development is a comprehensive inquiry into the field of socio-economic development founded on an understanding that economic advancement involves transformation of society.

Bilder haben einen wesentlichen Anteil an der kommunikativen Konstruktion sozialer Wirklichkeit.

Engaging with a range of public health issues, this book charts important social and political transitions in Nepal through the lens of medicine and health development.

This book presents new studies on intellectual and cultural interactions in the context of Buddhist heritage and Indo-Japanese dialogue in the late 19th and early 20th centuries on art, religion, and cultural politics.

This book explores the emergence of Yugoslav globalism and how it was influenced by the early Cold War, the changes once Yugoslavia established itself as a nonaligned leader, and what the decline of Yugoslav globalism reveals about the waning Cold War and the history of internationalist diplomacy.

In 2014-15, the Ethiopian government, together with many academics and observers, was surprised by the outbreak of anti-government protests, as large-scale public contestation of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) had been largely absent in the regime's history.

The fate of the climate change regime hangs in the balance as the UN-led negotiations try to forge a new international strategy for the post-2020 period.

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

Jeannine Scher was born in Paris in February 1935.

Following the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qa'ida, President Bush declared war on terror.

This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV after the events of 9/11.

Liberal democracies are predicated on popular sovereignty - the ideal of government for and by the People.

Scene of one of the biggest genocides of the last century Rwanda has become a household word, yet bitter disagreements persist as to its causes and consequences.

Dieses Lehrbuch will, von Beobachtungen und physikalischen Meßergebnissen ausgehend, das Verständnis der physikalischen Grundgesetze anschaulich vermitteln.

Despite increasing public awareness of climate change, our behaviours relating to consumption and energy use remain largely unchanged.

This NATO Advanced Study Institute was the fourth in a series devoted to the subject of phase transitions and instabilities with particular attention to structural phase transforma~ions.

Fairness of wage distribution - or the perception of such - is a phenomenon crucial for the stability of new democracies.

Animus, Psyche and Culture takes Carl Jung's concept of contra-sexual psyche and locates it within the cultural expanse of India, using ethnographic narratives, history, religion, myth, films, biographical extracts to deliberate on the feminine in psychological, social and archetypal realms.

This study explains how, confronting ever-greater environmental pressures, we can plan for and achieve a sustainable environment.

Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.

This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach.

Das Buch bietet eine Einführung in die empirische Überprüfung mehrdimensionaler kausaler Erklärungen, ihre Abbildung als Kausalmodelle und die notwendigen Schritte zu ihrer Formalisierung.

La Universidad se encuentra en pleno progreso desde su tiempo cero; de hecho, halla su carta de naturaleza en la necesidad de mejorar el medio que la nutre y por y para el que existe: la sociedad.

This 2004 book explores myths of the underworld in Plato, Aristophanes, and the ''Orphic'' gold tablets.

The interaction of faith and the community is a fundamental of modern society.

Narrating Postcolonial Arab Nations significantly enhances the interface between postcolonial literary studies and the hitherto under-studied Arab world.

Introducing the New Sexuality Studies: Original Essays is an innovative, reader-friendly collection of essays that introduces the field of sexuality studies to undergraduate students.

Not since the 19th century has the future of the countryside been such a focus of political and public attention, nor of profound uncertainty and anguished debate.

Even up to the eve of the civil war, some observers saw the Lebanese system as essentially stable, and exhibiting some of the virtues of liberty and pluralism which had been commended by the French traveller de Volney a century before.

A familiar story holds that modernization radiates outward from metropolitan origins.

The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture reflects current approaches to Holocaust literature that open up future thinking on Holocaust representation.

Aimed firmly at the student reader, this handbook offers an overview of the full range of the history of France, from the origins of the concept of post-Roman "e;Francia,"e; through the emergence of a consolidated French monarchy and the development of both nation-state and global empire into the modern era, forward to the current complexities of a modern republic integrated into the European Union and struggling with the global legacies of its past.

This book examines the intertwined histories of television and migration in Australia, told from the perspectives of migrants who worked in the screen industry and the many more who watched television.