Regional Studies

This book explores SovietNorth Korean relations during the Cold War (19451991). Based on many primary documents and sources (including Russian and ...

This book tackles the infodemicthe rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramificati...

This book examines Chinas fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first...

The book offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies.Centered arou...

This book presents the first large overview of late Soviet religiosity across several confessions and Soviet republics, from the 1960s to the 1980s...

Taking the case of Qazaq Pastoralists in Western Mongolia, this book looks at the universal human requirement to balance individual flexibility and...

This volume offers an insider perspective on language policy in the EU, bringing together two key figures well acquainted with its development to r...

This book examines Koreas foreign direct investment policy dynamics and points out the importance of mutual synergy between multinational corporati...

The competitiveness of companies plays an important role in developing their effectiveness. But technology provides a strong competitive advantage ...

This book investigates the historical economic and legal regimes that legitimated the resource extraction and exploitation of Africa between the 15...

This volume presents a collection of studies by international experts on various aspects of ancient Israels society, economy, religion, language, c...

As the fourth volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the lexical system of Old Chinese and the development of diff...

This book discusses a newly developed concept of adaptability capacity and development as an extension of Charles Darwins work on adaptability. It ...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of a range of concepts, methods, strategies and policies in agriculture and natural resource management...

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have ...

The Changing Dynamics of Civil Military Relations in Pakistan offers a unique insiders perspective on the political climate in the country, present...

The book presents various investigation into 20th-century European dictatorships, with its focus on Franco`s dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War...

This book focuses on centrifugal disasters that impact a group of seemingly unconnected people congregated temporarily often by chance, unlike cent...

As the seventh volume of a multi-volume set on the Chinese language, this book studies the Mongolian influence on neologisms in Modern Chinese and ...

This book opens up a dialogue between pre-modern women identified as mystics in diverse locations from South Asia to Europe. It considers how women...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled pe...

This edited volume explores the idea of Europe through a focus on its margins. The chapters in the volume inquire critically into the relations and...

Dystopia in Arabic Speculative Fiction: A Poetics of Distress unpacks the nuanced Arabic contribution to speculative fiction. Part of a larger proj...

Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinions a...