Interdisciplinary studies

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis and overview of China's foreign policy since 1949.

Les Sara arrivent, à partir du XVI^e siècle, du Nord-Est de l’Afrique par vagues successives dans le bassin du lac Tchad.

While the US-Japan alliance has strengthened since the end of the Cold War, Japan has, almost unnoticed, been building security ties with other partners, in the process reducing the centrality of the US in Japan's security.

This book examines the phenomenon of intelligentsia as political discourse, civic action, and embodied practice, focusing especially on the political agendas and personal choices confronting intellectuals in modern Russia.

Recent elections in Japan have been dramatic, and the 2021 general election was no exception.

Documents the recent developments in privatisation through 25 country case-studies.

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

The 21st century marks a watershed in the history of the human economic condition.

Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries.

In April 1945, when the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was surrendered and handed over to the British Army, Canadian forces arrived on scene to provide support, to bear witness, and to document the crimes.

This book provides a new perspective for examining the Native policies of the late nineteenth century.

'The Craft of Professional Writing' is the complete book ever written about the real-life work of writing for a living.

Environmental Conflict and Cooperation explores the evolution of environmental conflict as a field of research and the study of cooperation as an alternative to war.

An interdisciplinary approach to the theme of risk, from cutting edge scholars and understandable to all.

Based on a six-year project at INSEAD, top scholars put these developments into perspective.

This book, first published in 1979, is an analysis of the wartime Ministry of Information, responsible for the maintenance of public morale.

This is the first in-depth and analytical biography of an Asian woman scientist-Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki Ammal (1897-1984).

English Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade.

In 1923, William Lewis Judy purchased Dog World magazine for just over $1,000.

This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children.

The process of European integration and the transfer of political authority from the national to the European level have led to the emergence of a field of EU policy making in Brussels, which attracts professionals and experts from all EU member states.

This book explores the conditions under which non-state armed groups (NSAGs) participate in post-war security and political governance.

Historically, commerce has existed in Assam in different forms.

This book deals with the constantly evolving, vast, and diverse field of nontraditional security.

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide.

This book analyses corporate rescue laws, processes and policies prescribed incorporate insolvency or bankruptcy laws, and employment laws of the UK andthe US, with a particular focus on how extant employee rights are treated whena debtor employer initiates corporate insolvency proceedings.

Worldwide, men have more opportunities, privileges, and power, yet they also have shorter life expectancies than women.

Der Begleitband zu den Ausstellungen der Gedenkstätte Esterwegen präsentiert die Geschichte der Emslager in Bildern und Dokumenten.

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law.

In today's public policy arena the regional level is gaining increased attention as problems in policy and service delivery continue to spill over traditional urban government boundaries.

Packed full of invaluable and practical advice, tips, quizzes and self-assessment exercises for fifteen to eighteen year olds, this guide, written with the keenest and most ambitious students in mind, will help you to maximise your academic potenitial and achieve the results you need.

This is Volume V in a series of sixteen on Buddhism.

Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora.

In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines.

For centuries Iran hosted numerous travellers and visitors of diverse nationalities and backgrounds.

By examining the sometimes surprising and unexpected roles that culture and religion have played in mitigating or exacerbating conflicts, this book explores the cultural repertoires from which Southeast Asian political actors have drawn to negotiate the pluralism that has so long been characteristic of the region.

This title was first published in 2003.

Are we winning or losing the battle for safe environments?

Promoted as a prestigious economic opportunity and often aggressively sought by local leaders, hosting a modern Olympics can in fact be a "e;city-killer"e; that racks up billions of dollars in over-budget expenses, degrades the environment, and shreds civil liberties.

This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination.

This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digital technologies and the religious experiences of African Americans.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Scandinavia as a regional international society, including the Nordic Peace and the rise of the Scandinavian welfare state.

This book argues that global rule-of-law standards in post-conflict states are reshaped in interactive translation processes between external and domestic actors.

In October, 1985, discussions were held in Santiago in regard to the possibility of organizing a minerals industry conference in Chile in November, 1986, under the auspices of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy and in association with other bodies and organizations.

This book examines the evolution of airpower and specifically the growth and proliferation of Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPAs).