Regional Studies

The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternativ...

Can twenty-first century global challenges be met through the limited adaptation of existing political institutions and prevailing systemic norms, ...

The election of President Obama in 2008 and the apparent decline of American power in the world has rekindled an old and important debate. Is the U...

Written by an experienced teacher and scholar, this book offers university students a handy "how to" guide for interpreting Japanese society and co...

This book presents an original and comprehensive overview of the transformation of Mauritian Hinduism against the backdrop of globalisation. It dis...

This book is written with an acute awareness of the need for new insight to ensure (1) universal protection in basic healthcare; (2) providing choi...

This Atlas provides the main outlines of Islamic history from the immediate pre-Islamic period until the end of 1920, that is, before most parts of...

Writings on post-war Japanese politics have tended to take for granted the dominance of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) as inevitable, without q...

In 2009 Beppe Grillo, a well-known Italian comedian, established the Five Star Movement with the aim of sending a handful of citizens to municipal ...

One of America’s most compelling First Ladies, Mary Lincoln possessed a unique vantage point on the events of her time, even as her experiences of ...

After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. Th...

The full text of The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires deva...

While the Arab uprisings have overturned the idea of Arab "exceptionalism," or the acceptance of authoritarianism, better analysis of authoritarian...

In the aftermath of the turmoil that shook North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, commentators and analysts have sought explanations to the fact...

While a decade ago much of the discussion of new media in Asia was couched in Occidental notions of Asia as a "default setting" for technology in t...

First published in 1916, this book comprises of a set of notes by G. Lowes Dickinson on his interpretation of the causes of the First World War. Wr...

First published in 1923, this book examines the causes and evils of War. Being published soon after the First World War, this becomes the basis for...

First published in 1892, this book describes the development of political thought and political parties in ‘modern’ France. It starts by discussing...

1956 was a year of transition in Poland, and an important year for Polish music. This year saw the beginning of a political thaw – sometimes called...

Each year, this annual gives readers an in-depth and up-to-date account of India’s external and internal threats in a deteriorating global security...

Despite operating in one of the most tightly controlled media environments in the world, Chinese journalists sometimes take extraordinary risks, br...

*Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016!* Discursive and non-discursive interventions in the political arena...

Women are gaining ground as presidents of Latin America. Women leaders in presidential systems (particularly women directly elected by the public) ...

This book examines the diplomatic activities and behind-the-scene negotiations which led to the Karun opening, including an 'Assurance' given by Br...

First published in 2001. In this book the author remarks that even though Japan as a whole has been closely studied, and while much and varied info...

The Routledge Handbook of Japanese Politics is an advanced levelreference guide which surveys the current state of Japanese politics,featuring both...

A West African Sufi and religious reformer (c.1794-1864), struggled to reconcile the temporal achievements of his jihad with his mystical calling. ...

This book is the first in-depth exploration of the relationship between Latin American and European modernisms during the long twentieth century. D...

Located in the center of Asia with one of the largest land frontiers in the world and 14 neighbors whose dispositions could not easily be predicted...

The Eloquence of Silence, first published in 1994, is considered a seminal text in the scholarship of women and North Africa. Marnia Lazreg makes a...

This volume provides a unique open inter-disciplinary dialogue across the Humanities and Social Sciences to further our understanding of the phenom...