Social science

Japan's Changing Role in Humanitarian Crises

by Yukiko Nishikawa

Extensive news coverage of humanitarian crises, especially on television, has led to a strong public awareness of the importance of humanitarian activities. This innovative book examines the evolution of...

Health Governance in Europe: Issues, Challenges, and Theories

by Monika Steffen

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship...

HUMAN RIGHTS AND EUROPEAN SECURITY

by Marlies Glasius & Mary Kaldor

A Human Security Doctrine for Europe explores the actual needs of individual people in conflict areas, rather than using a conventional institutional or geo-political perspectives.

This new volume proposes...

Globalisation and Citizenship: The Transnational Challenge

by Wayne Hudson & Steven Slaughter

This wide-ranging volume explores the impact of globalization upon citizenship, with a special focus on the transnational challenges that globalization poses.

While there is much debate over the concept, globalization...

Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East

by Owen L. Sirrs

Egyptian efforts to acquire long-range surface-to-surface missiles in the early 1960s carry important lessons for our time, when weapons of mass destruction and charges of politicizing intelligence are key...

Taiwan's Defense Reform

by Martin Edmonds & Michael M. Tsai

The stand-off across the Straits of Taiwan continues to be one of the most dangerous confrontations in Asia. The technical superiority of the Taiwanese forces has been a major factor in maintaining balance,...

Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan

by Cornelia Storz

This new book discusses the extent to which the Japanese economy encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Although Japan has a strong reputation as an innovator, some people argue that this reputation is...

Russian Constitutionalism: Historical and Contemporary Development

by Andrei Medushevsky

Medushevsky examines constitutionalism in Russia from Tsarist times to the present. He traces the different attitudes to constitutionalism in political thought, and in practice, at different periods, showing...

Liberalism against Liberalism: Theoretical Analysis of the Works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

by Javier Aranzadi

The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the...

Museum Basics

by Timothy Ambrose & Crispin Paine

Fully updated and extended to examine the many changes that have occurred in the last decade, this second edition of world-renowned text Museum Basics provides a basic guide to all aspects of museum work and...

Habermas: Rescuing the Public Sphere

by Pauline Johnson

If we are to believe what many sociologists are telling us, the public sphere is in a near terminal state. Our ability to build solidarities with strangers and to agree on the general significance of needs and...

Politics of Culture in Iran

by Nematollah Fazeli

This first full-length study of the history of Iranian anthropology charts the formation and development of anthropology in Iran in the twentieth century. The text examines how and why anthropology and culture...

Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended Boundaries

by David Carment & Martin Rudner

This is a new evaluation of the role, dynamics and challenges of intelligence in peacekeeping activities and its place in a much wider social, economic and political context.

It assesses the role of coalition...

Securing Southeast Asia: The Politics of Security Sector Reform

by Mark Beeson & Alex Bellamy

This book uniquely applies the security reform agenda to Southeast Asia. It investigates recent developments in civil-military relations in the region, looking in particular at the impact and utility of the...

Pakistan

by Mohammad Qadeer

This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan's socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial...

Policy Discourses, Gender, and Education: Constructing Women's Status

by Elizabeth J. Allan

Despite over thirty years of activism and legislation to eliminate discrimination, parity has yet to be achieved for women in academe. This book describes policy discourse analysis as a framework for considering...

European Integration and the Nationalities Question

by John McGarry & Michael Keating

A highly topical examination of the effect of European integration on relations between states and minority nations.

This new collection brings together the leading specialists in the field, and covers a wide...

Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons

by Bhumitra Chakma

Pakistan is a vitally important country in the contemporary global political system. It is a de facto nuclear state, and a pivotal country in the War on Terror. This book provides a comprehensive study of a...

Challenging Casanova: Beyond the Stereotype of the Promiscuous Young Male

by Andrew P. Smiler

Changing perceptions about male sexuality

In his groundbreaking new book, noted expert on teenage and adult masculine behavior Andrew Smiler debunks the myth that teenage boys and young men are barely able to...

Collecting Cultures: Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in the 1948 Arnhem Land Expedition

by Sally K. May

Collecting Cultures investigates colonial museum collecting practices in indigenous communities based upon the case of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land.