Social Sciences and Education

Using theoretical frameworks to explore the political, organizational, and cultural dynamics of performance budgeting, this book examines the adopt...

As peace operations become the primary mechanism of conflict management used by the UN and regional organizations, understanding their problems and...

Preface , Introduction , Part I: Pakistan-US Relations, 1: Changing dynamics: Islamic Orientation of the Pakistani State & the Islamic Reaction...

This book examines the relevance of nonviolent tactics to current debates about political action and political thought. Nonviolent political action...

Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade ...

The term 'nation-building' has experienced a remarkable renaissance since the early 1990s. It has been used to describe and to justify the military...

Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, ...

This classic book explores the intellectual, political and social foundations of Islamism, and current Islamist groups across the Arab and Muslim w...

Modern Iran since 1797offers a comprehensive analysis of political, social and economic developments in Iran since the end of the eighteenth centur...

Aimed at undergraduate-level courses, this brand-new textbook provides an overview of Middle Eastern politics, offering in-depth examination of the...

Karl Marx's classic definitions of class and society under capitalism are still widely used today. Ideas such as class, revolution, production and ...

Managing Educational Technology examines the ways in which stakeholders from businesses, K-12 schools, and universities can influence the quality a...

Introduction to Global Military History provides a lucid and comprehensive account of military developments around the modern world from the eighte...

The fifth edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the main theories in International Relations. It explains and analyzes each th...

The new edition of this classic history of International Relations has been completely revised and updated throughout and remains a major guide to ...

Information Science is concerned with the theoretical and practical aspects of effective information provision and consumption. In particular, info...

Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...

This volume discusses the presidential foreign policies of the post–Cold War era, beginning with George H. W. Bush and ending with the first 17 mon...

A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East T...

Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy provides a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of the complex and often vexing problem of understan...

What are the origins of human rights? This question, rarely asked before the end of the Cold War, has in recent years become a major focus of histo...

This book addresses one of the most important issues in international relations - how wars are ended.

Parliament is constantly in the news and televised daily, but much of its work remains a mystery to outsiders and is sometimes perplexing even to i...

Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of e...

Low confidence in the police and the increasing crime rates during the 1990s led to a series of government initiatives directed at changing both th...

‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only t...

Globalization has brought with it many difficult and contradictory phenomena: violence, deep national insecurities, religious divisions and individ...

List of Plates, List of Figures, Maps, and Tables, Foreword, Notes, Introduction: The Creation of Global Issues, 1. Population, The Changing Popula...

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the links between areas of global governance, human rights global economy and international law. By ...

"TI has once again shown its ability to combine research and policy analysis not just to shine a light on the deeply embedded problems of corruptio...

Worldwide, the construction sector is regularly rated as the most corrupt industry. Even so, the scale and effects of this corruption are frequentl...

Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.” This book criti...

This is a clear and critical account of Foucault's political thought: what he said, how it's been used and its influence today. Michel Foucault (19...

In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to enhance the working a...

Learn how information professionals are addressing the electronic resource issues being faced in their own libraries and around the world! This in...

East Asia has re-emerged after a long eclipse as a centre of world wealth creation and growth. Over the past four decades the region’s share of wor...

Dream Zones explores the dreamed of and desired futures that constitute, sustain and disrupt capitalism in contemporary India. Drawing on five year...

This book offers clear and detailed strategies for tackling every stage of the documentary editing process, from organizing raw footage and buildin...

Of vital interest to all librarians and information specialists, this book presents all aspects of the effects of digitization of today's and tomor...

A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two ...

Data has become a social and political issue because of its capacity to reconfigure relationships between states, subjects, and citizens. This book...

Now in its second edition, Cybercrime: Key Issues and Debates provides a valuable overview of this fast-paced and growing area of law. As technolog...

During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of East...

Corrections in the Community, Seventh Edition, examines the current state of community corrections and proposes an evidence-based approach to makin...

Contesting the Indian City features a collection of cutting-edge empirical studies that offer insights into issues of politics, equity, and space r...

Written by a former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (2003–4), this book has been fully updated for a second edition and continues to provide ...

Revised throughout, the second edition of this comprehensive and highly respected textbook continues to provide a thorough introduction to European...

Using new research and considering a multidisciplinary set of factors, Contemporary China offers a comprehensive exploration of the making of conte...