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There are more than 225 million rural-to-urban migrant workers, and some 20 million migrant children in Chinese cities. Because of policies related to the household registration (hukou) system, migra …

The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China, yet the angle of innovation has not been proper …

Presents the views of leading Arab intellectuals from countries from Morocco to the Gulf who discuss their own personal and professional perspectives on cosmopolitanism in the Middle East. …

Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors f …

Those of us who have watched the process have said that the Earth Summit has failed … Multinational corporations, the United States, Japan, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund have got …

Making the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party’s nuclear tests in 1998 its starting point, this book examines how opinion amongst India’s ‘attentive’ public shifted from supporting nuclear abstinence t …

Exploring the subjectivity of the Qurʾān’s meaning in the world, this book analyses Qurʾānic referencing in Muslim political rhetoric. Informed by classical Arabic-Islamic rhetorical theory, the auth …

Focusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society”s view of them and also considers how these girls view t …

The modern metropolis has been called ”the symbol of our times”, and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexi …

This book explores the West-Central African role in, and experience during, the expansion of international society. Building upon theoretical contributions from the English School of international re …