Interdisciplinary Studies

Biofuels are a renewable source of energy used mainly for transportation. They link together food, energy and natural resources sectors, and involv...

Despite its impressive economic growth, East Asia is facing daunting challenges in mitigating its social problems, including chronic poverty and wo...

The last two years have witnessed deterioration in the global security situation characterised by increasing tensions among major powers. The threa...

This book critically engages with the idea of decentralization as empowering cities and their residents to act innovatively and creatively. The con...

The Strategic Survey is a journal of records that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates. But it is also much more: the har...

This book explores the IndiaMyanmar relationship in terms of ethnicity, security and connectivity. With the process of democratic transition in Mya...

Soy in South America constitutes one of the most spectacular booms of agro-industrial commodity production in the world. It is the pinnacle of mode...

This title was first published in 2001. The global legal landscape is littered with attempts to provide context and meaning for sexual harassment l...

Inter- and intra-clan conflicts in Northern Israel pit hundreds against each other in revenge cycles that take years to resolve and impact the enti...

Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwnid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious ...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

This volume departs from conventional historiography concerned with colonialism in the Malay world, by turning to the use of knowledge generated by...

Sustainable Economy and Emerging Markets provides a snapshot of the different dimensions of sustainability and analyses how they interact and confi...

Sustainability is a topic of great interest today, particularly for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, which have witnessed very rapid e...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

This volume studies the outcomes of the two-way flow of investments and people between China and India, and Southeast Asia. These cross-border flow...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

Chinas extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living ...

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in...

Omniconomics shows how we can make human society intrinsically sustainable, harmonically embedded in nature, with the help of a completely new appr...

This book challenges existing notions of what is American and/or Asian art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world convers...

Nominated for the 2017 Dayton Literary Peace Prize in non-fiction This volume examines peace museums, a small and important (but often overlooked) ...

This book is a comprehensive examination of the society, polity and economy of South Asian countries and their future trajectories. The chapters in...

The idea for editing this book originated during an international conference titled Regional Development: The Challenge of the Frontier, held in De...

This volume brings together some of the most recent scholarship on government and civil society. It examines the axis of the relationship between n...

This book provides new insights into how the concept of bricolage is used to foster research on social entrepreneurship.The contributors assess the...

Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent sys...

A North Caucasian ethnic group that has been largely obscured in world history as a result of their expulsion from their homeland by Tsarist Russia...

When Nelson Mandela was sworn in as president on 10 May 1994, South Africa enjoyed an unprecedented global standing. Much of the international comm...

This volume offers new perspectives on the evolution of the tradedevelopment nexus in the European Union against dramatic changes in the internatio...

This book offers a detailed examination of the counter-insurgency operations undertaken by the Nigerian military against Boko Haram between 2011 an...

Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries ...

Alvarez drives home the point that for buildings and communities located in hurricane-prone regions, it is not a question of whether the area will ...

This new handbook provides a comprehensive and multidisciplinary overview of the theoretical and empirical aspects of state recognition in internat...

Strategic change and transformation are words used very commonly in business parlance but rarely defined. Besides, change and transformations are o...