Citizenship in Transition
The Arab Spring and new waves of migration challenge dominant ideas about citizenship. This timely book deconstructs the debates shaping migration and integration in Europe, illuminating emerging patterns in cultural identity, education, and citizenship.
City of Empires
This title represents the first volume dedicated entirely to studies of the historic city of Famagusta in the years which followed the siege of 1571, despite the city’s undoubted importance.
Civil Liberties in Real Life
US authors explore ‘What is civil liberty?’, examining how and why marginalized groups used freedoms of speech, religion, and assembly in their struggle for equality. This must-read covers topics from the influence of consumerism to free speech in the classroom.
Coevolution of Mutualistic Species Assemblages
While new evidence suggests complex human societies preceded agriculture, little attention has been given to how humans extended cooperation to animals. This book provides a novel framework, offering insight into our coevolution with nonhuman animals.
Competition Policy and Resource Utilization
This book examines how competition law can promote efficient resource allocation in resource-dependent developing economies. It offers insights into problems like the ‘resource curse,’ corruption, and abusive business practices, and their implications for competition.
Competitive Political Regime and Internet Control
Why do some democracies control the internet while authoritarian states don’t? This book argues regime type is not the key determinant. Instead, it proposes a new framework where control is shaped by online transgressiveness and the capacity of civil society to resist.
This collection of essays addresses American culture as a space of tension between conformity and resistance. It gives justice to marginalized voices that have shaped the nation’s uniqueness and proposes possible formulas for a new American identity.
Africa, arguably the world’s richest continent, lags in development and is politically marginalized. This book debates strategies to advance a Union of African States, arguing it is critical to provide the clout needed to spur development and gain global relevance.
Connecting Contemporary African-Asian Peacemaking and Nonviolence
This book brings together accomplished and emerging scholars to draw strategic lines of connection between diverse peoples in Africa and Asia, the two most populous continents. Each essay here reviews recent attempts at peace-building in these regions.
Connecting South-South Communities
This book offers an overview of over twenty-five years of relations between South Africa and Malaysia, evaluating their diplomatic, commercial, and cultural connections. It unpacks the notions of ‘African ways’ versus ‘Asian ways’ and highlights the role of non-state actors.
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.
Consuming Visions
This collection of essays explores the “consuming visions” that shaped 20th-century American life. Ranging from the anti-chain store movement to the “bling” aesthetic, these innovative works reveal how questions of consumption have always been political.
Contemporary Arts Across Political Divides
In a world devastated by crisis, what can art do to create democratic spaces? Artists, activists, and curators analyze how to bridge political divides and foster dialogue. Using global case studies, this book pushes for a broader, more conflict-oriented understanding of art.
Contemporary Customary Land Issues in Africa
Drawing from the Land Use and Rural Livelihoods in Africa Project, the contributions here examine current trends in customary land issues in Africa, focusing on the practice of converting customary land into leasehold tenure, particularly in Zambia.
Contemporary Issues in International Relations
Recent global crises have changed international relations, highlighting the discipline’s shortcomings and the need for a new study. This book provides an objective assessment of ongoing problems, making it a valuable resource for students, academics, and researchers.
Contemporary Perspectives on Turkey’s EU Accession Process
Turkey’s EU bid is more controversial than ever, with relations at an all-time low. Using (de)Europeanisation as a framework, these essays explore the accession process from various perspectives, examining Turkish policy, EU discourse, and comparisons with the Western Balkans.
Contemporary Populism
What is populism? This book approaches the phenomenon from a theoretical and empirical perspective, making reference to its developments on several continents. It helps to clarify the concept and presents the diverse forms populism has taken worldwide.
Corruption in Ukraine
Bazaluk expands the understanding of Ukraine as a limitrophe state, as a frontier between two world cultures, the East and the West. He explains the relationship between the totally corrupt Ukrainian political system and the geographic location of the country.
Why have Africa’s two largest oil producers, Angola and Nigeria, experienced such different outcomes? This book reveals how Angola’s leader used oil wealth to consolidate a 38-year autocracy, while in Nigeria, perennial contestation for power created a more competitive system.
This collection explores creativity and the arts as vital to social movements and change. Leading academics and practitioners investigate how creative activism is deployed, taught, and critically analysed, defining the key parameters of this emerging field.