Regional Geography

Faced with significant security challenges, in recent years Japan and South Korea have both sought to raise their international profile through pea...

Despite global economic disparities, recent years have seen rapid technological changes in developing countries, as it is now common to see people ...

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that fo...

Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in peoples imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is ofte...

This book is a remarkable case study of an environmental policy initiative for a national environmental regulatory system in the information age. I...

The general elections held in 2014 in India the largest democracy in the world to elect the 16th Lok Sabha brought in dramatic results. This impo...

This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and Otherness....

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege....

Increases in the number and improvements in the quality of arms transferred to sub-Saharan African nations clearly will affect those nations' econo...

This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea...

This volume shows how and why legal empowerment is important for those exercising their religious rights under various jurisdictions, in conditions...

Ugandas 2016 elections, which returned thirty-year incumbent President Yoweri Museveni and his National Resistance Movement (NRM) in yet another la...

This book addresses political instability and the role of the military in unstable politics, as well as to class formation, class conflict, and pro...

This book examines the character and consequences of Egypt's economic reform and structural adjustment programme of 1991, along with the second sta...

The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 5...

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.It de...

Irans role as a regional power is more significant than many in the West may realise. The country lies between Central Asia/the Caucasus and the Gu...

This book focuses on the main challenges that cities, regions and other territories at sub-national level face when it comes to designing and imple...

Over the past decade, several initiatives have been launched to address the major health problems affecting the world's poorest countries, includin...

First published in 1999, this book is a contribution to the debate on tourism and Third World development. The general goal of the study is to asse...

All recent books on international social work mention Africa only briefly and few engage with the broader field of development studies. This book f...

Africa is well known for the production of national liberation movements (NLMs), stemming from a history of exploitation, colonisation and slavery....

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russias dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity...

This book is devoted to the phenomenon of removal of people declared public enemies from group photographs in Stalins Russia.The book is based on l...

Originally published in 1722-23, this edition in 1968. An account of the Government of that country, both civil and ecclesiastical; of the Czar's f...

Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed a...

In this book, the difficult problems of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa are examined by the farming systems approach, which aims to improve food ...

This book explores the nature of regions and how they function, particularly at the local and micro-level. Whilst recent years have seen a resurgen...

Peaceful legal and political changing of the guards is taken for granted in developed democracies, but is not evident everywhere. As a relatively n...

This book addresses whether Guinea-Bissau is a nation or a nation in formation; what the political and ideological foundations of the national libe...

This book presents an integrated analysis of the dynamics of the economics of households and farm production in the setting of a polygynous family ...

Uganda, like many African countries in the 1990s, adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political...

The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of di...

This title was first published in 2000: Although the apartheid regime has now been abolished there is still a great deal of work to be done in orde...

Since the end of civil war in 1970, Nigeria has struggled to build a stronger federal center and to reduce conflicts resulting from uneven developm...

This title was first published in 2002. Examining cluster development policy in Europe and outlining its distinctive features, this innovative text...