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This collection of essays was conceived as part of the centenary celebrations of the first publication in 1896 of one of the most popular collections of poetry ever written -…
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Why has Russian democracy apparently survived and even strengthened under a presidential system, when so many other presidential regimes have decayed into authoritarian rule?
This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard…
This book provides a broad, analytical study of Bangladesh’s relationship with India and Pakistan between 1975 and 1990. The book reveals the complexity of the relationship between Bangladesh, India, and…
Five African specialists examine Africa’s five regions regarding changes in U.S.-Africa relations as a consequence of the demise of the global Cold War. The separate chapters review Africa’s five regions…
The assessment includes topics such as the enlargement of NATO, the EU’s Amsterdam Treaty, and the role of the revived Western European Union, as well as the role of the…
Marx is out of fashion in intellectual circles on the whole but he is increasingly seen as an astute and relevant guide to the spread of a new raw capitalism…
Recent events such as the massacres in Dunblane and Arkansas, the deaths of children in terrorist attacks, civil wars and famines, children born with AIDS, and the many abductions and…
This book challenges the claim that globalization is a clearly understood phenomenon whose effects are well known and easily accounted for.
This interdisciplinary and international collection explores the role of the arts in shaping contemporary religion and politics. The collection shows that the arts are central to struggles over the shape…
Sub-regional projects covered include the Central European Free Trade Area, the Black Sea Economic Scheme, Ecowas in West Africa, Mercosur, The Association of Caribbean States, Chilean strategies of subregional cooperation…
From the Elizabethan Bear Garden to the political upheavals of the 1640s this book reveals the beast at the heart of English culture. Engaging with the ideas of William Perkins…
Section 2 addresses law of the sea and governance issues, and includes studies on Greece and the law of the sea, maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean, the Imia Rocks crisis…
The idea of a ‘Springtime of European Peoples’, concepts of a universal republic and the awareness for the European dimension of the revolutionary events had an important impact on the…
Within the ever-changing global map of migrations, Southern Europe has come to occupy a pivotal place: formerly a region of mass emigration overseas and to Northern Europe; As Europe struggles…
In the last decade, regionalism appears to have emerged as a major new force in the world. This book puts it in its historical context. Regions have emerged before; few…
Travel writing has gained new appeal, and writers from the British Isles have been particularly productive and successful in this genre. Types of travel writing discussed include pilgrims’ itineraries, exploration…
This collection brings together essays by commentators on Larkin’s work and by younger critics: from England, Northern Ireland, the USA, Canada, Belgium and Hungary. Individual essays examine Larkin’s novels and…
A new series of easy-to-digest profiles on individual countries and regions, featuring everything you’ll ever need to know about the places, people and practices of each country. The series will…
At the Fourth United Nations Congress on Women in Beijing in 1995, Muslim and Catholic delegations from diverse countries united to oppose provisions on sexuality, reproductive rights, women s health…
With contributions from some world - renowned scholars on China, theoretical and empirical chapters based on major research projects and perspectives from leading business executives, this volume provides a forum…
Japan has consistently been pursuing the goal of a permanent UN Security Council seat for 30 years. It is therefore a study of the interior workings of the Japanese Foreign…
Hedley Bull was one of the most important figures in the academic study of international relations. The volume includes a comprehensive introduction which examines Bull’s conception of international society, its…
This book presents the first in-depth assessment of France’s policies towards NATO between 1981 and 1997. It argues that France’s arms-length relationship with NATO’s integrated military structure served its purpose…
Development has been elusive for Latin America in the 1990s. Notwithstanding tough neoliberal reforms, defeated hyperinflation, and large capital inflows, development of productive capacity and social equity shows a poor…
The text focuses first on the impact of the Marshall plan on the organization of political and economic life in post-war Europe and how the plan was perceived in European…
They range generously, taking a variety of theoretical approaches and including detective fiction in languages other than English, but particular attention is paid to the ‘Golden Age’ of English detective…
The ten essays in this book explore the intersection of race and class in the study of labor on three continents. Engaged with debates in current scholarship yet accessible to…
After an extended period of major political upheaval and remarkably low regime stability before the Second World War, Germany has become one of the most stable democracies in western Europe.
Classic Papers in Natural Resource Economics brings together a selection of some of the academic writing published in this field. The fourteen papers included in this book are grouped into…
Globalization has, within academic, political, and business circles alike, become the buzz-word of the 1990s, conjuring an ever growing diversity of associations, connotations, and attendant mythologies.
Policy-makers in Pittsburgh, Birmingham and Rotterdam are confronted with rapidly changing social and economic environments.
This book looks at the way advice, which is needed by all executives, is provided to the summit of government in twelve advanced industrialized countries (Australia, Belgium, Britain, China, Denmark…
These theoretical considerations are presented both in special theoretical essays and in the context of case studies pertaining to three types of states: industrialized, liberal states in Western Europe, settler…
A decade ago, playwright dissident Vaclav Havel led an almost bloodless revolution against Czechoslovakia’s hardline communist regime. This book examines the core issues at work in the last decade, focusing…
Science fiction has recently been identified as providing the narrative paradigm for postmodernity.
This is a lively study of the autobiographical instinct in a variety of 16th and 17th century modes of writing in English, from letters and memoirs to pastoral, polemic and…
The question of the Italian colonies played an important part in the breakdown of Allied cooperation after the Second World War. Based on extensive research in British and American archives…
The book examines the evolving nature of national and international security in the post-Cold War era, focusing on non-military threat potentials and how these may best be countered.
In mid-1997, a major crisis embraced the economies of Southeast Asia. Its effects were severe, particularly on the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, many of whose currencies…
This study of four great thinkers who lived between 1689 and 1995 - Montesquieu, Adam Smith, De Tocqueville, and Ernest Gellner - weaves their lives and works together and through…
This book examines the response of British policy-makers to the collapse of belief in racial superiority, and with it the ideological basis of empire, following the fall of Singapore in…
Kirk Beattie presents a fresh look at Egyptian politics during the Sadat presidency. Simultaneously, Beattie highlights the important obstacles presented by intra-regime, civilian, and foreign opponents to Sadat s various…
Antony Alcock recounts four stages in the history of regional cultural minority protection: protection of religious minorities and the rise of cultural nationalism before 1914;
This book examines the process by which Keynesianism, with its sympathetic view of the role of government in the economy and society, lost influence among economists and policy makers and…
The chapters in this volume analyse issues relating to political governance, national identity, economic development and regional security that have preoccupied the states of South Asia in the fifty years…
As a leader of the Kurdish national liberation movement for almost half a century, Mustafa Barzani witnessed many historical events that rocked the Middle East and had a strong impact…
A non-mathematical introduction to the macroeconomic analysis of both the open economy and the world economy. The text assumes a basic understanding of macroeconomics and is of interest to policy-makers…
