Paolo Diviacco & Peter Fox 
Collaborative Knowledge in Scientific Research Networks [EPUB ebook] 

Over the last ten years the Egyptian economy has undergone a major transformation which has led to greater decentralisation and international competition. This transformation, along with changing cir …

With new material and up-to-date information, this book examines the current state of Iran, exploring a wide range of areas including the economy, finance, politics, the media, and the position of wo …

This book clarifies some key ideas and practices underlying peacebuilding; understood broadly as formal and informal peace processes that occur during pre-conflict, conflict and post-conflict transfo …

This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear rivals. Drawing on nuclear rivalries betw …

The IRA is one of the oldest terrorist organizations in the world and conducted a ferociously violent campaign for almost thirty years. Now deeply enmeshed in the Northern Ireland peace process, Roge …

Shifting European identities, cultural loyalties and divisions are often expressed more directly through attitudes to ”the people”s game” game than in any other arena. This book examines European …

This volume brings together for the first time a significant body of Professor Barnes” scholarly writing on Japanese early state formation, brought together so that successive topics form a coherent …

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 …

This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chos …

Lesbian and gay citizens today enjoy a much broader array of rights and obligations and a greater ability to live their lives openly in both the U.S. and Canada. However, while human rights protectio …