Regional Studies

Urban and regional development in the Baltic States and other Central and Eastern European countries has experienced rapid changes since their re-i...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

This book tests the model of civil-military dualism to explain People's Liberation Army's (PLA) political engagement and its loyalty to the party i...

This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the combinatory tradition that dominated premodern and early modern Japanese religion, known as ...

This book overviews the issue of population ageing in five countries in South Asia and projects the emerging scenarios. With a new field survey, it...

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

This title was first published in 2002.This book offers an intriguing examination of the law concerning liability for psychiatric injury suffered b...

The Course of Mexican Music provides students with a cohesive introductory understanding of the scope and influence of Mexican music. The textbook ...

Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically e...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most prominent issues in world politics today. Few other issues have dominated the worlds headlines ...

This book provides a detailed historical and design analysis of the development of parks and modern landscape architecture in late 20th century Chi...

This book brings together empirical evidences and theoretical perspectives to provide a comprehensive overview of the microfinance sector in India....

This book examines the agrarian labor genre paintings based on the Pictures of Tilling and Weaving that were commissioned by successive Chinese emp...

This title was first published in 2003.This book analyzes the policy initiatives used in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United...

Title first publishedin 2003. This comprehensive book focuses on the prevailing conditions in Asia and Africa under various macroeconomic and secto...

This title was first published in 2001: Despite considerable expansion, the scholarly literature on political corruption has remained fragmentary, ...

This title was first published in 2001: During the last twenty years government rhetoric in the UK has increasingly advocated that statutory health...

For centuries, democracy and development have steered the imagination of governments, citizens, intelligentsia and policymakers alike. Democracy wi...

Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 c...

The phenomenal growth and liberalisation of the Indian economy has been the subject of extensive scholarly documentation and competing interpretati...

Britain and France were surprised at having to convince the US of the need to intervene in Libya in 2011. The French intervention in Mali in 2013 c...

This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally.The edited volume builds on recen...

First published in 1995. The author presents this book as a tale of a small and distinct country and an account for its struggle for self-preservat...

This book provides a history of Nikkeiren (the Japanese Federation of Managers' Organisations) and an account of post-war capitalist development in...