International relations

This book chronicles Japan's rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese.

The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality.

Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika nehmen in den internationalen Beziehungen schon seit Jahrzehnten eine herausragende Stellung ein.

The EU as a democratic polity has been invented: it is a product of creative and innovative actors and thinkers that conceptualized and by and by helped to realise it, from the beginning up to the present.

Hierarchical relationships-rules that structure both international and domestic politics-are pervasive.

This edited collection details and analyses the dramatic changes that the international political economy of energy has undergone in the past decade.

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This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context.

This book argues that political Islam (represented by its moderate and militant forms) has failed to govern effectively or successfully due to its inability to reconcile its discursive understanding of Islam, centered on literal justice, with the dominant neo-liberal value of freedom.

This book takes up a wide variety of human security challenges beyond the dimension of human conflict, and looks at both natural and human disasters that the East Asian region faces or is attempting to resolve.

This book offers an assessment of the ongoing transformation of hegemonic order and its domestic and international politics.

This book depicts the role of both formal and informal institutions in achieving long-term economic efficiency and development.

This volume casts a fresh look on how the political spaces of the Western Balkan states (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia and Albania) are shaped, governed and transformed during the EU accession process.

The economic policies of reactive states such as Turkey and Greece, both of which have shown limited ability to implement institutional reforms in recent years, have paved the way for deep crises.

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century.

This book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research.

This book uses electricity-sector reforms to question some of the preconceived ideas concerning the MENA region and to provide a broader analysis of related political economy issues.

Human trafficking has come to be seen as a growing threat, and transnational advocacy networks opposed to human trafficking have succeeded in establishing trafficking as a pressing political problem.

Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) befasste sich zeitlebens mit Fragen der Religion.

This new work examines how the European states, the United Kingdom and the United States will approach the defence and Security of Europe in the medium and long-term.

This book assesses the impact of the work of Chris Brown in the field of International Political Theory.

This book traces regional income inequality in Spain during the transition from a pre-industrial society to a modern economy, using the Spanish case to shed further light on the challenges that emerging economies are facing today.

Though many of the longest and most devastating internal armed conflicts have been fought within the boundaries of democratic states, these countries employ some of the highest numbers of human rights prosecutions.

This book explores the political economy of subnational development in Mexico.

This book offers an analysis of Putin's approval ratings from the fall of the USSR to the present day.

This book critically examines the practice and meanings of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and how the movement has facilitated a positive and somewhat unquestioned image of the global corporation.

This book addresses one main question: whether the United States has a cohesive foreign policy for Africa.

The 'Troika' is a word that is scorched into the narrative of the EU's banking and economic crisis - a triumvirate constituted by the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund.

This book offers distinct insights into the sources of state legitimacy in Africa by incorporating an analysis of non-state actors' role in service delivery.

Structural change is an evolutionary process that is often cumulative within territories, improving the quality of life and achieving higher development levels.

We are told again and again that the world has become increasingly complex and indecipherable.

This edited volume addresses the issues of Iraqi Kurdistan's political economy with historically grounded, theoretically informed, and conceptually relevant scholarship that prioritizes comparative politics over international relations.

This book responds to the need for a retrieval and renewal of the work of Karl Marx through close philosophical analysis of his publications, manuscripts, and letters - especially those relevant to politics, morality, and the future.

This book discusses the influence of Friedrich Ratzel's ideas in more contemporary geopolitical analytical systems and the geodeterminism commonly attributed to him.

This book offers important new insights into recent advances and perspectives in the field of political economy of development in Southeastern European countries.

This book investigates how British diplomats in Tehran and London reacted to the overthrow of the Shah and the creation of an Islamic Republic in Iran, which had previously been a major political and commercial partner for London in the Middle East.

This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America.

This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments.

This book offers new ways of thinking about corruption by examining the two distinct ways in which policy approaches and discourse on corruption developed in the UN and the OECD.

This book examines how opposition groups respond to the dilemma posed by authoritarian elections in the Arab World, with specific focus on Jordan and Algeria.

This book examines how local agencies in Cambodia and Mindanao (the Philippines) have developed their own models of peacebuilding under the strong influence and advocacy of external intervention.

This book is not a historical or archaeological treatise, but rather a study in which the author looks at the past, not as a historian, but as a planner who has the ambition to unravel the early manifestations of his discipline; a discipline which did not exist as such in remote periods, but the ingredients of which were nevertheless present.

Russia's intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump's presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative and institutional architecture that diminished the importance of material power.

This book examines why the U.

New forms of solidarity are being shaped as a response to the European "e;refugee crisis.

Dem Sport werden zahlreiche Gemeinwohlfunktionen zugeschrieben.

Dieses Handbuch ist eine systematische und methodische Einführung in das Thema Transitional Justice, das bislang vor allem durch Länderstudien zur strafrechtlichen Aufarbeitung, Entschuldigungen, Kompensationen, Erinnerungsarbeiten oder Wahrheitskommissionen wie etwa zu Südafrika, Ruanda, Chile oder dem ehemaligen Jugoslawien, bekannt geworden ist.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt in die ökonomischen Theorien der Politik ein.

"e;This is a must-read book for anyone searching for insight into the peace process of the divided Korean peninsula.

This book brings together a collection of writings over the past half century from Professor Paul Rogers.