This collection of essays examines the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear and reunification challenges through the crucial lens of Sino-Japanese relations. While China and Japan share the goal of a stable, nuclear-free Korea, both North and South Korea adeptly resist their influence.
Nordic Work with Traumatised Refugees
Nordic countries are seen as safe havens for refugees. But has society done what it could for their mental health? This book provides an investigative perspective on the challenges in refugee mental health and care, addressing key issues faced by them.
From Eastern Partnership to the Association
This book analyzes the legal and political dimensions of the EU’s Eastern Partnership policy. It provides an in-depth analysis of Association Agreements with states like Ukraine, examining human rights, the rule of law, and their geopolitical significance.
‘Philosophy’ – After the End of Philosophy
This work rethinks philosophy for our interconnected times, proposing a new “critical philosophy” with an emancipatory thrust. It takes aim at bullshit and offers compelling analyses to grapple with the serious challenges facing our globalizing world.
A Land of One’s Own
This book examines women’s land rights in Indian literature and society. As discrimination over land and property continues to keep women in a subordinate position, this book deals with the gap between women’s legal rights and their actual ownership of land.
The European Union’s Eastern Neighbourhood Today
As the European Union faces a crisis and Russia becomes more assertive, Eastern Europe is caught in the middle. This volume explores the region’s opportunities, vulnerabilities, and dilemmas, along with the challenges of a possible second Cold War.
Guardians or Oppressors
This book analyzes why militaries in the Middle East and Mediterranean seek a guardianship role and how they react to democratization. It provides a multi-faceted understanding of complex civil-military relations in one of the world’s most unstable regions.
This book brings together diverse perspectives on the War of 1812, exploring its effects through religion, literature, the press, Native American experiences, and the forging of a new Canadian identity.
The United States and China
As the US and China vie to shape East Asia’s future, this book dissects their clashing worldviews, the balance of power, and the grave consequences for the region’s security.
Global Perspectives on the Holocaust
This volume expands Holocaust coverage beyond its traditional European focus to a worldwide and interdisciplinary perspective. Scholars from five continents explore new research on the history, identity, and profound legacy of the Holocaust.
What Comes After Occupy?
Occupy Wall Street in NYC received much publicity, but little attention has been given to the hundreds of Occupy groups in other locations. This volume rectifies this, with essays addressing the creative politics of occupation in these different contexts.
This book offers a multidimensional study of the evolution of far-right parties and ultranationalist ideology and their impact on contemporary European politics, society, and the state, revealing the danger they represent.
Why Philosophy Matters
This work examines the answers provided by over thirty philosophers to aspects of building character, forging personal relations, promoting sound political strategies, living meaningfully, and dying gracefully. In so doing, over twenty lessons for living a worthy life emerge.
Challenging the assumption that politics is in crisis, this volume explores crises in political institutions, action, and theory. It is an engaging read for anyone interested in democratic deficit, political transformation, and systems of governance.
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.
Peacemaking Strategies in Cyprus
This book systematically examines all 41 peacemaking initiatives for the Cyprus question since 1955. Based on over 130 interviews with top political leaders, it offers propositions on how peacemaking can succeed in Cyprus and other intractable cases.
This book analyzes the EU’s challenges as a global actor amid recent political and economic crises. It covers foreign policy, sanctions, and trade, offering timely analysis of EU responses to events like the Ukrainian conflict, and proposes a unique macroeconomic model.
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.
Exploring various dimensions of Euroscepticism in the context of the greatest economic crisis in the history of the EU, this title discusses the future of the European body in a critical context marked by what appears to be “never-ending” concerns of leadership and legitimacy.
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