Interdisciplinary Studies

Drawing upon research carried out in several different languages and across a variety of disciplines, The Mongol World documents how Mongol rule sh...

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, ch...

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovati...

Conveniently structured into five sections, The Routledge Research Companion to Outsourcing Security offers an overview of the different ways in wh...

The Formation of Kurdishness in Turkey examines political violence, the politics of fear and the Kurdish experience of pain through an analysis of ...

There can be few countries in the world today, begins Dr. Dann, whose modern history is as political as that of Jordanthe immediate heir to Transjo...

This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly, young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So, wh...

Conservation and development share an intertwined history dating back to at least the 1700s. But what are the prospects for reconciling the two, an...

This new book brings together some of the leading criminologists across Europe, to showcase the best of European criminology. This Handbook aims to...

This edited book is about the rationale, practice and classroom implementation of English-medium instruction courses in Chinese universities. It sp...

The 2008 presidential election, perhaps more so than the typical quadrennial race, will undoubtedly spawn an abundance of scholarly inquiry. The co...

Within the larger context of bitter ethnic strife in Sri Lanka, this timely volume assembles a multidisciplinary group of scholars to explore the c...

Southeast Asia: A Region in Transition, first published in 1991, is a contemporary human geography of the market economies of the region usually de...

Celebrating twenty years of transition from socialism to capitalism, this book is designed to be the core textbook for undergraduate courses in tra...

Peace and Conflict is a biennial publication that provides cutting-edge data and analysis concerning domestic and international conflicts and corre...

This book discusses the European Unions approach to governance reform in its development assistance relationships with various groups of developing...

Biofuels and Rural Poverty makes an original contribution to the current controversial global debate on biofuels, in particular the consequences th...

This book provides a systematic analysis of the current state and future trajectory of security cooperation in the worlds most economically dynamic...

The fisheries sector is in crisis. Inappropriate subsidies to the fishing industry are a key factor responsible for worldwide fisheries depletion, ...

This book analyses the growth of sectarian-based terrorist violence in Pakistan, one of the Muslim majority states most affected by sectarian viole...

In the context of the end of the Cold War and the spread of globalism, sub-regions are attracting attention as new social units of international so...

Translingual Words is a detailed case study on lexical integration, or mediation, occurring between East Asian languages and English(es). In Part I...

Using qualitative data collected from more than twenty universities across the US, Writing Support for International Graduate Students describes an...

A study of the development of modern medical health services in Palestine until 1948 and in Israel, this book focuses on the interaction of state p...

1956 was a year of transition in Poland, and an important year for Polish music. This year saw the beginning of a political thaw sometimes called ...

Transitional justice processes are now considered to be crucial steps in facilitating the move from conflict or repression to a secure democratic f...

Given the increase in the ageing population and the evolvement of the Human-Computer Interaction field to a much more humanistic approach, debate i...

This book identifies the root causes of income inequality in underdeveloped economies and proposes new solutions for structural reform in economies...

Is violent conflict inevitable? What is it in our social nature that makes us conduct wars, genocides and persecutions? The answer lies in how we a...

While many have argued in the past decade that peace and conflict studies must engage more with local actors and communities, and scholars regularl...

This book builds a bridge between current research in space policy and contemporary European political studies by addressing developments in Europe...

This book is a revision of the authors original doctoral thesis on emergency preparedness through community radio in North Indian villages into a w...

Looking beyond and beneath the macro level, this book examines the processes and outcomes of the interaction of economic reforms and socio-economic...

This book shows how one of the most powerful tools of security studiesstrategic cultureilluminates the origins and implications of the Asia-Pacific...

Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised, excluded from the exam...