Understanding Knowledge as a Commons – From Theory to Practice [PDF ebook] 

The field of strategic management has developed significantly since its birth from 'business policy’ and 'business planning’ in the 1960s. Pioneering studies were essentially normative, prescriptive, …

Calculating Political Risk is rich and illuminating, and much more than a political science treatise. Althaus draws on diverse literature, extensive interviews and intriguing case studies to offer in …

This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 – the ”countdown of time”, and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibiti …

On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorists committed the largest and deadliest terrorist attack in the United States of America. The response from the inter-national community, and in particular the US, wa …

This second edition of Understanding Chinese Society provides a comprehensive, readable, and well-grounded introduction to the key issues affecting contemporary China. A thorough analysis is undertak …

This book investigates the characteristics of today”s built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport …

The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this analysis a step fu …

Despite calls for the decolonisation of knowledge, scholars who come from conflict-affected societies remained marginalised, excluded from the examination of the politics and impacts of liberal inter …

A striking feature of atrocities, as seen in genocides, civil wars, or violence against certain racial and ethnic groups, is the attempt to dehumanize — to deny and strip human beings of their humani …

This book analyses Russia-Europe/EU relations by exploring their practical essence and conceptualizing them in terms of the main categories of international relations research. It argues that the lib …