Regional Studies

This title was first published in 2001. When Ghana became independent in 1957, becoming the first country in Sub-Saharan Africa to banish coloniali...

This book is devoted to a comparison of the governmental and economic institutions of north and south zones of Viet-Nam; that each zone has its own...

This book explores one of the crucial themes in postwar Japanese fiction. Through an examination of the work of a number of prominent twentieth cen...

Despite its impressive economic growth, East Asia is facing daunting challenges in mitigating its social problems, including chronic poverty and wo...

This title was first published in 2001. The global legal landscape is littered with attempts to provide context and meaning for sexual harassment l...

Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwnid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious ...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

Maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia was first recognised as a global concern in 2008 after the hijackings of World Food Programme vessels. It ...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

This volume studies the outcomes of the two-way flow of investments and people between China and India, and Southeast Asia. These cross-border flow...

This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the archit...

This book challenges existing notions of what is American and/or Asian art, moving beyond the identity issues that have dominated art-world convers...

The idea for editing this book originated during an international conference titled Regional Development: The Challenge of the Frontier, held in De...

Most African economies range from moderately advanced capitalist systems with modern banks and stock markets to peasant and pastoral subsistent sys...

A North Caucasian ethnic group that has been largely obscured in world history as a result of their expulsion from their homeland by Tsarist Russia...

Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries ...

Strategic change and transformation are words used very commonly in business parlance but rarely defined. Besides, change and transformations are o...

The Hebrew Bible is the main legislative and literary influence on European Poor Law and on literature on poverty and the poor. No extant literatur...

A fundamental question about contemporary Africa is why does Africa remain so poor, long after the departure of the European Colonial domination an...

The architects of the Camp David process expected their efforts to become a broad and inclusive framework for peace in the Middle East. Dr. Friedla...

This book details on the important segment of Jewish society, focusing on the role of intellectuals in the formation and growth of the state of Isr...

This vivid portrayal of political and social behavior in the Arab states offers new perspectives to the student and scholar of the Middle East. It ...

Transnational learning has become a buzz phrase in European policy-making and in multi-national business. Learning from the experiences of others i...

Thailand is exceptional among modern states in Asia in that it has built and retained a national culture around a traditional monarchical instituti...