Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
by R. Schleifer
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The first study to examine psychological warfare in the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, this book presents a rational analysis of the Arab and Israeli struggles to gain the world's sympathy and support, tracing these struggles from the British Mandate to the more recent HAMAS abduction of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of W. B. Yeats
Nation, Class, and State
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history.
by H. Blythe
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
This study treats the Victorian Antipodes as a compelling site of romance and satire for middle-class writers who went to New Zealand between 1840 and 1872. Blythe's research fits with the rising study of settler colonialism and highlights the intersection of late-Victorian ideas and post-colonial theories.
by R. Root
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Between 1980 and 2000, Peru suffered an armed conflict, massive human rights violations, and the destruction of its democracy. This book examines Peru's struggle to restore human rights accountability and the political factors that have shaped its fate.
Politics to the Extreme
American Political Institutions in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
To overcome the political deadlock that overshadows the pressing problems facing the United States, the academies top scholars address the causes and consequences of polarization in American politics, and suggest solutions for bridging the partisan divide.
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India
Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical method, and the ascendance of positivist historiography in nineteenth-century India.
by J. Sramek
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than the British State directly, focusing on the ideology of "The Empire of Opinion."
Reproductive Rights in the Age of Human Rights
Pro-life Politics from Roe to Hobby Lobby
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2016
This book traces the development of the discourse used by the pro-life movement since the 1970s, and its relationship to public policy efforts at the state and federal level. The pro-life movement’s successes, both in legislative efforts to limit access to abortion as well changing the public’s...
by Filippo Dionigi
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
How do the norms of the liberal international order affect the activity of Islamist movements? This book analyzes and assesses the extent to which Islamist groups, which have traditionally attempted to shield their communities from “alien” moral conceptions, have been affected by the rules and...
Institutional Change in Turkey
The Impact of European Union Reforms on Human Rights and Policing
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
How do state institutions reform themselves in the face of outside pressures? This study undertakes an in-depth analysis of the institutional and human rights reform process within the Turkish National Police, which faces pressure from the EU as part of Turkey's EU membership process, and examines the challenges and consequences of the process.
The Arab Spring
Will It Lead to Democratic Transitions?
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
This timely project on the Arab Spring was initiated to provide The Asan Institute's own assessment of the changes currently taking place in the region and their significant implications for South Korea.
Managing Muslim Mobilities
Between Spiritual Geographies and the Global Security Regime
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Fábos and Isotalo address the issue of forced migration and mobility in the Muslim world. Their work explores the tensions between Muslim religious conceptions of space and place and new policies of 'migration management' and secure borders.
Religion and the State in Turkish Universities
The Headscarf Ban
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
This book explores educational and cultural experiences of 'part-time' unveilers during their undergraduate degree programs in public institutions in Turkey. The term 'part-time unveiler' refers to undergraduate female students who cover their hair in their private lives but who remove the headscarf while at a Turkish university.
The Chechen Struggle
Independence Won and Lost
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2010
Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it continues. Features new insights, intimate portraits of key personalities and a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.