Introduction to geopolitics

This clear and concise introductory textbook guides students through their first engagement with geopolitics. It offers a clear framework for understanding contemporary conflicts by showing how geography provides opportunities and limits upon the actions of countries, national groups, and terrorist organizations. This second edition is ...

The chinese army today

tradition and trasnformation for the 21st Century

he Chinese Army Today is a comprehensive study of the Chinese military, examining its ground forces in a level of detail not found in any other contemporary works. This new, revised edition has been fully updated to take account of recent changes in the institution ...

Urban geography

This extensively revised and updated fourth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that ...

A history of management thought

For the past three thousand years people have been thinking about the problems of management. This book shows how thinking about management has evolved and changed. It shows how changing social, political and technological forces have challenged people to think about management in new ways ...

Herakles

Collating research over the past thirty years, Emma Stafford examines the various aspects of Herakles' myth, representations in literature and art, monographs and articles, and presents a hugely accessible account of this legendary figure. By highlighting areas of consensus and dissent in the theories and ...

Organization of American States (OAS)

The Organization of American States (OAS) is the world's oldest regional multifunctional organization and has been in continuous existence since 1948. All 35 sovereign states of the Americas are members of the OAS. It is a multifunctional institution, dealing with security, technical cooperation, and ...

Puzzles of government formation

coalition theory and deviant cases

Eds. Rudy B. Andeweg, Lieven De Winter, Patrick Dumont. This comparative volume brings together a rational choice theory perspective and the empirical testing of these theories to study government formation.

Terrorism versus democracy

the liberal state response

This book examines the terrorist networks that operate globally and analyses the long-term future of terrorism and terrorist-backed insurgencies. Terrorism remains a serious problem for the international community. The global picture does not indicate that the 'war on terror', which President George W. Bush declared ...

Humanitarianism contested

where angels fear to tread

Foreword by Jan Egeland. This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary ...

Understanding peace research

methods and challenges

Eds. Kristine Höglund, Magnus Öberg. This textbook provides a comprehensive overview of different methods and sources of information-gathering for peace and conflict students and researchers, as well as the challenges presented by such work.

Libya

continuity and change

This book examines the socioeconomic and political development of Libya since independence in 1951 with a focus on the four decades of revolutionary rule which began in 1969. Following a brief look at pre- independence Libya, it explores the way in which the fragility of ...

Islamic radicalism and multicultural politics

the british experience

The expression of an Islamic political radicalism in Britain has been one of the most dramatic developments in recent decades. Islamic Radicalism and Multicultural Politics explores the nature of this phenomenon by analysing the origins of Islam and its historical contact with Western Europe and ...

Confronting climate change

In this highly accessible introduction to the predicted global impacts of climate change, "Constance Lever-Tracy" provides an authoritative guide to one of the most controversial issues facing the future of our planet. Discussing how the social and natural sciences must work together more effectively in ...

The political economy of Latin America

reflections on neoliberalism and development

Neoliberalism has been at the centre of enormous controversy since its first appearance in Latin America in the early 1970s. Even neoliberalism's strongest supporters concede that it has not lived up to its promises and that growth, poverty, and inequality all have performed considerably ...

Commonwealth caribbean property Law

As a result of its immovable and indestructible nature, land law is subject to a wider variety of rights, obligations and interests than most other areas of law and can often prove daunting to those studying the subject for the first time. "Commonwealth Caribbean Property ...

Prisioners' rights

principles and practice

This book considers prisoners' rights from socio-legal and philosophical perspectives and assesses the advantages and problems of a rights-based approach to imprisonment. At a time of record levels of imprisonment and projected future expansion of the prison population, this work is timely. The question of ...

The Israel-Palestine conflict

parallel discourses

Ed. Elizabeth G. Mattehews. The conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians is considered intractable by many, and is frequently characterised by the violence between the two sides. In attempts at peace, the starting point for negotiations is a cessation of violence; beneath this, however ...

Ancient cities

the archaeology of urban life in the ancient near East and Egypt, Greece, and Rome

"Ancient Cities" brings to life the physical world of ancient city dwellers by concentrating on evidence recovered by archaeological excavations from the Mediterranean basin and south-west Asia. It provides surveys of the cities of the ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds ...

Macroeconomics

Research in macroeconomics in the last thirty years has featured, almost exclusively on two characteristics: an emphasis on the microfoundations of macroeconomics and secondly, intertemporal economics, that is, the behavior of economic actors over time. Curiously, textbooks in intermediate macroeconomics have been very slow to ...

Psychological criminology

an integrative approach

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of psychological theories of crime and criminality. Rather than present various psychological perspectives as a series of discrete and rival explanations, the aim of the book is to emphasise the connections among approaches, and to show how, taken together ...