Regional Studies

This book explores the instability of the African postcolonial state and demonstrates that such a fundamental crisis can be solved only through dis...

Global communication can be difficult in the best of circumstances. The contributors in this book take seriously the premise that one can examine c...

This book is not a typical biography of Hasan al-Turabi. It is a project in the study of a Sudanese human experience at the heart of which Hasan al...

This book scrutinizes the media portrayals of (ethnic/religious) minorities in Germany, encompassing the fields of public affairs, media effects, p...

Imagining Pakistan argues that the creation of Pakistan is a result of Muslim modernism in the Subcontinent, as it defined the struggle for identit...

This book examines China’s relations with member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council. It highlights the depth of China’s ties with the region bi...

This volume addresses the domestic and international politics that have created conditions for contemporary religious cleansing in the Middle East....

Understanding International Relations: Russia and the World examines world politics through the lens of Russia and its effects on the international...

What is it that allowed countries as diverse as Brazil and India, Kuwait and Grenada, Nigeria and Fiji to be labelled as Third World? Generously il...

These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southea...

Through a literary lens, Neoliberalism and Cultural Transition in New Zealand Literature, 1984-2008: Market Fictions examines the ways in which the...

Spatial Anthropology draws together a number of interrelated strands of research focused on landscape, place and cultural memory in the north-west ...

For about one hundred years, Pan-Africanism—as a social, cultural, economic, political, and philosophical idea—thrived. Towards the tail-end of the...

Contemporary Conversations on Immigration in the United States: The View from Prince George’s County, Maryland contextualizes the narratives of int...

Old Stories Retold explores the ways modern Chinese narratives dramatize and embody the historical sense that links them to the past and to the Chi...

In the mountains of the Northern Pakistan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan School and schooling are both symbolic of wider ranging cultural and politica...

This book provides four strategic recommendations for cross-sector, cross-cultural collaborations to effectively and meaningfully address adverse s...

Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and t...

"Les écoles Catholiques? C'est une bonne chose. . . . Beaucoup de cadres de ce pays sont passés par la. . . . Nous voulons aussi que l'école des vo...

The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. T...