Regional Studies

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

The large scale, practical uses of natural gas were initially introduced by innovators Joseph Pew and George Westinghouse for the steel and glas...

This book presents current research findings in the study of globalization. Topics discussed include foreign investment in U.S. securities; dispute...

From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest. Si...

From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of revolution and the power of a single quest.Sidi...

In many ways, this book is very different from almost all other books on this topic, not because this book does not depend on any individual case, ...

China''''s Ruling executive body, the State Council, established the China Investment Corporation (CIC), a sovereign wealth fund, in September 2007...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

Profiles of America is the only source that pulls together, in one place, statistical, historical and descriptive information about almost every pl...

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensi...

The current horrific malaise in the state of Iraq has its roots in the US-led destruction of Iraq in 1991, followed by a decade of harsh US-led int...

Looting Greece examines how and why the Syriza party, which took power in January 2015 promising to end eliminate debt, end austerity, and return G...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the U.S. recognised the independence of all the former Central Asian republics, supported their adm...

Faith-based and secular approaches to politics and foreign policy have often been involved in a kind of uneasy and adversarial ''''contest.'''' How...

This book presents a rigorous inquiry into one of the most striking transformation which has occurred in Africa''''s education today -- the Univers...

This book contains a variety of research related to the future of the federal budget. Significant uncertainty surrounds long-term fiscal projection...