Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
In recent decades the concept of kinship has been challenged and reinvigorated by the so-called “repatriation of anthropology” and by the influence of feminist studies, queer studies, adoption studies, and science and technology studies. These interdisciplinary approaches have been further developed...
Understanding Cybersecurity
Emerging Governance and Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Over the last decade, the internet and cyber space has had a phenomenal impact on all parts of society, from media and politics to defense and war. Governments around the globe have started to develop cyber security strategies, governance and operations to consider cyberspace as an increasingly important...
Islam and International Relations
Exploring Community and the Limits of Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
International Relations tends to rely on concepts that developed on the European continent, obscuring the fact that its history is far less ‘international’ than one might expect. But in today’s global world, who does this ignore and marginalize? And what impact does that have on the discipline’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
China and India have huge potential to exert global influence due to their geography, population size and material resources. Now their spectacular economic growth has led many commentators to predict a shift in power from West to East and the dawn of an “Asian century” based on Asian values....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
In an ever more globalized world, sustainable global development requires effective intercultural co-operations. This dialogue between non-western and western cultures is essential to identifying global solutions for global socio-political challenges.
Modern Japanese Political Thought and International...
Decolonising Intervention
International Statebuilding in Mozambique
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? Sabaratnam argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ‘expertise’.
This book challenges and enhances standard ‘critical’...
Re-Writing International Relations
History and Theory Beyond Eurocentrism in Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2016
The book presents a possible way of reading and re-writing the Eurocentrism of International Relations. The method proposed to re-write histories of the manifestations and criticisms of Eurocentrism is through ‘connected histories’.
The first section of the book focuses on manifestations...
Interrogating Illiberal Peace in Eurasia
Critical Perspectives on Peace and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
The collapse of the USSR wrought dramatic changes in Eurasia, both in terms of the structure of state power within the region, and the ways in which Western states and international organisations engaged with it. Analyses of conflict in this region remain rooted in supposed ‘global models’, often...
Multilevel Governance and Climate Change
Insights From Transport Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Based on a major three-year research project, this book explores the various roles of political actors and the policies that deal with the governance of reducing transport-related carbon emissions. Using this clear - and globally crucial - example of climate change governance, the authors are able...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
African political writing of the mid-20th century seeks to critically engage with questions of identity, history, and the state for the purpose of national and human liberation.
This volume collects an array of essays that reflect on anticolonialism in Africa, broadly defined. Each contribution...
Historical Sociology and World History
Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The concept of 'uneven and combined development' was originally coined by Leon Trotsky to theorise Tsarist Russia's distinctive experience of modernity and revolution. But it has re-emerged over the last decade or so as a burgeoning research programme within International Relations (IR) and historical...
Asylum after Empire
Colonial Legacies in the Politics of Asylum Seeking
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Asylum seekers are not welcome in Europe. But why is that the case? For many scholars, the policies have become more restrictive over recent decades because the asylum seekers have changed. This change is often said to be about numbers, methods of travel, and reasons for flight. In short: we are in...
Homeland Security Cultures
Enhancing Values While Fostering Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Homeland Security Cultures: Enhancing Values While Fostering Resilience explores the role that culture plays in the study and practice of homeland security in an all-hazards, whole-community, and all-of-government scope. It does so by analyzing and discussing strategic, organizational, operational,...
The Global Illusion of Citizen Protection
Transnational Threats and Human Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
This book comprehensively analyzes the global illusion of citizen protection so common today. This text helps students understand a central puzzle in human security, which has two distinct components: (1) although it might be reasonable to assume that political leaders’ threat responses would almost...