Science

This book explains the dynamics behind Southeast Asia »s foreign investment activity, and looks at the region »s options for reviving its reputation as an attractive host for foreign investors. Each …

This book analyzes the European Great Recession of 2008-12, its economic and social causes, its historical roots, and the policies adopted by the European Union to find a way out of it. It contains e …

From ancient Mesopotamia into the 20th century, ‘the Circle of Justice’ as a concept has pervaded Middle Eastern political thought and underpinned the exercise of power in the Middle East. The Circle …

Focuses on three interrelated aspects: the impact of evolving international and regional dynamics on national development strategies; the rethinking of national and regional development models after …

LGBT persons face multiple challenges when entering the coming out process, regardless of their age or place in society. Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span is a comprehensi …

South Asia today is among the most unstable regions in the world, riddled by both intra- and inter-state conflict. This book presents a comprehensive technical analysis of the trade–conflict relation …

This book aims to enhance our understanding of how American presence came to become consolidated – through NATO – in the eastern Mediterranean in the early cold war period by examining how American a …

This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that  »double belief », dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth. Scholars, citing …

This book aims to engage with contemporary security discourses from a critical perspective. It argues that rather than being a radical, analytical outlook, much critical security theory fails to fulf …

China »s economy continues to grow at a great rate, with important consequences for China »s society and environment, as well as for the wider world economy. Reforms are being undertaken in many area …