Social science

Political Theory and Community Building in Post-Soviet Russia

by Oleg Kharkhordin & Risto Alapuro

This book revisits many aspects of current social science theories, such as actor-network theory and the French school of science and technology studies, to test how the theories apply in a specific situation,...

Economic Developments in Contemporary Russia

by Ian Jeffries

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Russia's difficult economic transition from a command economy since the early 1990s.  It covers the financial crisis of August 1998 and the global financial crisis...

The Risk of Social Policy?

by Nathalie Giger

The Risk of Social Policy? uses a comparative perspective to systematically analyse the effects of social policy reforms and welfare state retrenchment on voting choice for the government. It re-examines twenty...

Political Developments in Contemporary Russia

by Ian Jeffries

This book provides a comprehensive overview of political developments in Russia since late 2000, following on from where the author's previous publication, The New Russia, left off.? It covers all aspects of...

Contemporary Vietnam

by Ian Jeffries

This book provides full details of contemporary economic and political developments in Vietnam.  It continues the overview of developments up to late 2005 which were covered in the author's Vietnam: A Guide...

Changing Power Relations in Northeast Asia

by Marie Soderberg

This book analyses the Japanese-South Korean relationship from various angles including politics, security, economics, culture and immigration. In a sense the two countries are natural partners. Both are democratic...

Sports Media

by Andrew C. Billings

Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the...

Global Design History

by Glenn Adamson, Giorgio Riello & Sarah Teasley

Globalism is often discussed using abstract terms, such as 'networks' or 'flows' and usually in relation to recent history. Global Design History moves us past this limited view of globalism, broadening our...

Building Competences for Spatial Planners

by Anastassios Perdicoulis

Spatial planning is a process. The focus of this book is on the sequence of key tasks that constitute the process and on special techniques that are suitable to conduct these tasks. Spatial planners require...

The Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry

by Maki Umemura

This book explores why Japan, despite being a world leader in many high technology industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics, is only a minor player in the global pharmaceutical industry. Japan...

Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict

by Niaz A Shah

Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Conflict in Pakistan demonstrates how international law can be applied in Muslim states in a way that is compatible with Islamic law. Within this broader framework...

Women in Executive Power

by Gretchen Bauer & Manon Tremblay

Women in Executive Power studies the participation of women in the political executive around the world-notably in cabinet positions as ministers and sub-ministers and as heads of government and state.

Providing...

Explaining Pakistan's Foreign Policy

by Aparna Pande

Pakistan has over the decades become a hotbed for the terrorist ideology often referred to as Jihadism. This book investigates the underlying principles of Pakistan's foreign policy from 1947 until the present...

Women and Representation in Local Government

by Barbara Pini

Women and Representation in Local Government opens up an opportunity to critique and move beyond suppositions and labels in relation to women in local government.

Presenting a wealth of new empirical material,...

Higher Education in Southeast Asia

by Anthony Welch

This is the first book to systematically chart and comparatively assess the trend towards private higher education in South East Asia. Caught between conflicting imperatives of spiralling demand, and limited...

Folk Devils and Moral Panics

by Stanley Cohen

'Richly documented and convincingly presented' -- New Society

Mods and Rockers, skinheads, video nasties, designer drugs, bogus asylum seeks and hoodies. Every era has its own moral panics. It was Stanley Cohen's...

The European Union, Civil Society and Conflict

by Nathalie Tocci

Until recently, the European Union tended to view violent mass conflicts predominantly through the lens of negotiations between conflict leaders and powerful external actors. Today, the EU has begun to recognize...

Suicide Bombings

by Riaz Hassan

In an age when the Western world is preoccupied with worries about weapons of mass destruction in terrorist hands, terrorists across many parts of the globe are using a more basic device as a weapon - life...

The Human Right to Water and its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

by Amanda Cahill Ripley

The Human Right to Water and Its Application in the Occupied Palestinian Territories provides an overview and examination of the human right to water as determined under international human rights law. This...

Security Games

by Colin J. Bennett & Kevin Haggerty

Security Games: Surveillance and Control at Mega-Events addresses the impact of mega-events - such as the Olympic Games and the World Cup - on wider practices of security and surveillance. "Mega-Events" pose...