Interdisciplinary studies

India has become known in the US, the UK, Canada and Australia as 'the world's largest democracy', a 'natural ally', the 'democratic counterweight' to China and a trading partner of 'massive economic potential'.

Was versteht Paulus unter "Evangelium"?

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

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Prostitution is strongly embedded in local cultural practices in Cambodia.

Los Llanos-the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia-are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told.

This book analyses how certain types of social systems generate violent conflict and discusses how these systems can be transformed in order to create the conditions for positive peace.

The relationship between the United States and China is one of the most important issues in the twenty-first century, and is, ultimately, hostage to conditions across the Taiwan Strait.

The interaction between military and civilian courts, the political power that legal prerogatives can provide to the armed forces, and the difficult process civilian politicians face in reforming military justice remain glaringly under-examined, despite their implications for the quality and survival of democracy.

The aftermath of World War II was a period of massive Jewish migration.

For most Western audiences, Cuba is a touristic paradise stuck in time and virtually detached from world technology networks by the US embargo - anything but a hub of industrial innovation and high value-added biotechnology.

In the last decade, with the success of review sites and online commentaries and the increased accessibility of travel information online, the job of a traditional travel journalist is being challenged.

Die Theorie Pierre Bourdieus wird häufig als eine Synthese klassischer Ansätze bezeichnet, wobei typischerweise Weber, Durkheim und Marx als zentrale Referenzfiguren benannt werden.

This book provides theoretical and empirical discussion of migration, identity and Europeanisation.

This volume contains thirteen selected papers from the seventh international 'Beyond Camps and Forced Labour conference', held in London in January 2023.

In recent years, interest in the large group of skilled immigrants coming from India to the United States has soared.

Digitalization is inexorably conquering our lives - also with artificial intelligence (AI) methods.

Brings together Paul Williams' previously published papers on the Indian and Tibetan interpretations of selected verses from the eighth and ninth chapters of the Bodhicaryavatara.

The analysis of gender and political inequality, and the women's movements that have contested it, has concentrated on the West.

This book is a first attempt to map the broad context of performance studies from a multimodal perspective.

The increasingly vibrant political culture emerging in Lebanon and Syria in the 1930s and early 1940s is key to the understanding of local approaches towards the Nazi German regime.

In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period.

Raised in the rural Appalachian town of Erwin, Tennessee, John David Goodin was a tank commander in one of the most notorious and prestigious regiments in World War II, the 3rd Armored "e;Spearhead"e; Division, the 32nd Armored Regiment.

Originally published in 1984 this book focuses principally on the use of foreign aid by the members of OPEC in the 1970s and demonstrates how the divisive elements both within OPEC and between OPEC and the rest of the developing world prevented OPEC from using aid to advance developing world objectives.

This handbook, representing the collaboration of 40 scholars, provides a multi-faceted exploration of roughly 6,000 years of Chinese architecture, from ancient times to the present.

First Published in 1995.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict gravitates constantly around the question of territorial control due to the settler-colonial principle present at the core of the Zionist project.

Why do tribal genealogies matter in modern-day Saudi Arabia?

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor.

To improve their well-being, the poor in developing countries have used both collective action through formal and informal groups and property rights to natural resources.

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is widely regarded as one of the Kyoto Protocol's best creations and as an essential part of the international climate change regime.

This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination.

The Sesame Effect details the wide-ranging work of Sesame Workshop and its productions across the world.

This study, written in the context of its first publication in 1970, discusses and documents the invasion of privacy by the corporation and the social institution in the search for efficiency in information processing.

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan.

This book is the first of its kind, combining international perspectives on the current ethical considerations and challenges facing bioarchaeologists in the recovery, analysis, curation, and display of human remains.

This book explores the activities of the Nazi regime's vast leisure programme.

This book reflects one mathematician's view of certain areas of economics and finance.

This book explores the key economic issues facing Southeastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the context of the serious challenges that the global economy has faced in recent years.

Information systems science is rapidly advancing in many directions.

This book examines the social construction and representation of 'youth on the move' in the context of the migration process, using El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as a case study to reinterpret the immigration process under the frameworks of coloniality and epistemologies of the South.

First Published in 1987.