Conservation in Earthen Heritage
Much of our earthen heritage is decaying not from natural causes, but from failed conservation. Based on World Heritage case studies, this book questions current approaches and proposes a new strategy combining theory and practice for successful intervention.
Bridging the Sino-American Divide
In this volume, nearly forty scholars based in China reflect on American Studies. Major themes include globalization, the transmission of ideas across cultural boundaries, and the state of Sino-American relations, offering a sample of the field in China today.
The momentous 2004 EU enlargement brought new prospects but also old problems. A mental remnant of the Iron Curtain persists, turning new member states into a grand, full-scale experiment in rule by experts.
Framing Violence
This collection analyses many of the questions surrounding challenges in framing the rising violence across the globe and in its new forms. It provides case studies and debates, with violence discussed in its political form and its domestic, financial, and artistic forms.
Political Theory
Paradoxically, political theory is being marginalized in the academy. This volume addresses this situation. What are the problems and challenges it faces today? What is its importance? Its greatest strength is that it operates across disciplinary boundaries.
Arab authoritarian regimes use liberalisation as a tool to avoid democracy. But what if these self-serving reforms backfire? This book analyses how policies meant to strengthen authoritarian rule may unintentionally destabilise it, leading to democracy by accident.
In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, these volumes examine the effects on their diasporas, focusing on approaches from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.
Translating the European House
This collection explores the intersection of translation and politics. Using examples from the fall of the Berlin Wall to EU enlargement, these articles afford a fascinating insight into the textual and ideological factors shaping international political discourse.
A Creative Passion
Anarchism—the idea that people can live free from rulers—remains a misunderstood philosophy. This book offers insights into anarchist cultural practices, exploring how, as Bakunin proclaimed, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
Greece in the Balkans
This interdisciplinary study explores the complex relationship between Greece and its Balkan neighbours over the past two hundred years, shedding light on its attributes of opportunity and risk, attraction and enmity, from multiple perspectives.
Republic of Macedonia Foreign Policy
Macedonia’s existence is contested and its internal balance is delicate, yet it could become a model of stability. Dejan Marolov presents an in-depth analysis of its foreign policy since the break-up of Yugoslavia. Anyone interested in the Western Balkans should read this book.
Weizfeld focuses on the political philosophy and the constitutional transformation of the contradiction between two major nations in one land, namely Palestine-Israel.
Workers and Politics
A study of working-class politics and British labour history. It explores the history of the British Left, Socialism, Communism, the ideas of Karl Marx, and the development of Socialism as the ideology of the working class.
Justice and Home Affairs
This study evaluates the conditions determining the EU’s success in changing the internal security of Turkey. Using case studies on organised crime, terrorism and drugs, it explores how the EU ensures alignment with its Justice and Home Affairs standards.
African Mosaic
African Mosaic is essential reading for all students of Africa. This invaluable collection of essays by leading experts deals with the most pressing issues facing the continent, from development and human rights to education and technology.
This book challenges the wisdom that separates liberal democracies from authoritarian systems. It argues that a liberal democracy not only can be as evil as its counterparts, but can become more authoritarian as it advances—an advanced stage of democracy itself.
Analysing Desecuritisation
This book applies securitisation theory to the Israeli-Palestinian situation, focusing on the potential for a desecuritisation process. It develops desecuritisation as a framework for analysing conflict resolution and peace, exploring the prospects for reconciliation.
Machiavellis Revivus
This book reframes Machiavelli not as a “teacher of evil,” but as a virtuous humanist. It offers a subversive interpretation of his works as an educational cure for our time—a battle-cry to repel the ignorance and misfortunes in our human condition.
This book interrogates the controversial civil-military relations debate in Zimbabwe. It demonstrates the complexity of the relationship between military institutions and civic societies, particularly in developing countries, and brings this history up to date.
The 21st century is marked by a geopolitical power shift from West to East, creating challenges more difficult than any in the past. Will this new era be defined by rivalry between a weakening US and a rising China? This volume provides expert insights.