Andrew Scobell 
China’s Use of Military Force [PDF ebook] 
Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March

From the rise of Nordic noir to a taste for street food, from practices of natural gardening to the aesthetics of children »s TV, contemporary culture is saturated with racial meanings. By consuming …

The notion of capital has enjoyed a rich career in the social sciences, its use across a range of subjects and in diverse academic and professional contexts having served to establish its conceptual …

Diverging from reductionist studies of Northeast India and its multifarious conflicts, this book presents an exclusive and intricate, empirical and theoretical study of Assam as a conflict zone. It t …

This book examines and compares the political situations in North Korea and Iran, and the contemporary security challenges posed by their illicit nuclear aspirations. While government officials, incl …

India is growing into one of Asia’s most important military powers. Its defence budget has more than doubled in the past decade, and it imports more arms than anyone else in the world. But India is s …

With the ascendancy of the Coalition government in 1996 there was a marked shift of emphasis directed to deepening Australia »s relations with America. The Coalition government strategically linked s …

The recent Afghanistan and Iraq wars were very controversial. The conflicts’ casualties, intractability and the apparent failure of the US and its allies to achieve their objectives mean that many se …

Originally published in 1919, this 2 volume work chronicles the British missions in Mesopotamia which the author states the purpose as being  »the safeguarding of India and the destruction of the Tur …

When Mikhail Makarios became head of the Church of Cyprus in 1950, Greek Cypriots presumed that he would lead the struggle for union with Greece – partly because the Church was perceived to be the cu …

The assessment of cancer risk is a complex process that requires the examination of etiological agents, real-world environments, and individual rates of exposure. This reference offers practical appr …