Interdisciplinary Studies

This book analyzes energy security dynamics in Europe through the prism of security logics.Drawing on the literature on securitization, security lo...

This book interrogates the common perception that liberal peace is in crisis and explores the question: can the local turn save liberal peacebuildi...

This book analyzes the role that human forms play in visualizing practical information and in making that information understandable, accessible, i...

This book investigates the power of civil society in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in the context of the post-Arab Spring era, as well a...

The Arab world has engaged in public relations for thousands of years, and the public relations literature provides multiple examples extending fro...

At no time since the end of the Cold War has interest been higher in Russian security issues and the role played in this by the modernization of Ru...

Teaching the Historical Jesus in his Jewish context to students of varied religious backgrounds presents instructors with not only challenges, but ...

This book critically examines arguments about obligation and responsibility in relation to the responsibility to protect (R2P) and situates it with...

This edited collection explores the deeper contexts and consequences surrounding the murder of Matthew Shepard. This young gay man was brutally bea...

Intersectionality can be used to analyse whether migration leads to changes in gender relations. This book finds out how migrants from a peri-urban...

Security studies and international relations have conventionally relegated gendered analysis to the margins of academic concern, most commonly thro...

Out of My Great Sorrows is the story of Philadelphia artist Mary Zakarian, whose life and work were shaped by the experiences of her mother, a surv...

This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term manageme...

Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rit...

The Politics of Development: A Survey provides an overview of the intrinsically political relations of development. It brings together essays writt...

Postmodern global terrorist groups engage sovereign nations asymmetrically with prolonged, sustained campaigns driven by ideology. Increasingly, tr...

The Sourcebook for Political Communication Research will offer scholars, students, researchers, and other interested readers a comprehensive source...

This volume explores the distribution of the rural population in Palestine from the late Ottoman period (1870-1917) to the British Mandate period (...

Labour migration has been on the agenda of many countries around the globe at the same time as governments of both sending and receiving countries ...

Islamic Culture in Crisis examines efforts by intellectuals and leaders in the Islamic world to adapt to what Hichem Djait calls the incredible nov...

Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of researc...

This volume deals with the modern fate of the traditional conception of Jews as a covenanted people chosen to receive the Law, whose ultimate purpo...

The elections to the 18th Knesset (legislature of Israel) were held on February 10, 2009, almost three years after the elections to the 17th Knesse...

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebu...

jvikism was once ranked one of the most important religions in India between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE, after Buddhism, Brahmanism and before J...

This handbook brings together scholars from around the globe who here contribute to our understanding of how digital rhetoric is changing the lands...

The war in Afghanistan came to an end in 2014 after nearly thirteen years of conflict. Throughout that period, British officials have described UK ...

Over the last few decades international organisations, national governments, and governmental and private actors have all multiplied their efforts ...

An Introduction to European Intergovernmental Organizations provides an up-to-date and accessible reference to European intergovernmental organizat...

The Europeanisation of Contested Statehood: The EU in northern Cyprus acts as a case study of the impact of the EU on institutions, political parti...

In this volume, Terrence Paupp critically describes the various dimensions of today's global crisis. Among other things, this volume analyzes nucle...

Reflecting on a 50 year university career, Distinguished Professor Arthur Bochner, former President of the National Communication Association, disc...

Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of th...

During Israel's military operation in Gaza in the summer of 2014 the commanding officer of the Givati infantry brigade, Colonel Ofer Vinter, called...

How do former enemies reconcile after civil wars? Do they ever really reconcile in any complete sense? How is political reunification related to lo...

Outskirts of Empire: Studies in British Power Projection investigates the substructure of Britains interests in the Near East and beyond during the...