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Since the end of the Cold War, Japan”s security environment has changed significantly. While, on the global level, the United States is still Japan”s most important security partner, the nature of …

Security Council resolutions have undergone an important evolution over the last two decades. While continuing its traditional role of determining state-specific threats to peace and engaging accordi …

Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investi …

This is an accessible introduction to the philosophy of social research which relates philosophical ideas to actual research practice. The book makes effective use of illustrations from the UK, US an …

The work focuses on a subaltern local sovereignty movement called ‘Telangana’ in India. Over the last ten years, this movement has engaged in a massive political mobilization, including strikes, rall …

Animal products are vital components of the diets and livelihoods of people across sub-Saharan Africa. They are frequently traded in local, unregulated markets and this can pose significant health ri …

Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity expansions over time. Recognising the territorial expansions of Asian polities large and small through the last several millennia hel …

Increasing and intensified cross-border economic exchange such as trade and investment is an important feature of globalization. In the past, a distinction could be made between capital importing and …

Crises happen. When they do, organizations must learn to effectively communicate with their internal and external stakeholders, as well as the public, in order to salvage their reputation and achieve …

While evaluating competing theories of why countries become democratic, this study argues why China has not democratized. Also discusses are the Communist Party”s methods of social control and exami …