New Approaches to Human Security in the Asia-Pacific offers a distinctly Asia-Pacific-oriented perspective to one of the most discussed components of international security policy, human security. Thi
Malcolm Feeleya€?s work is well-known to scholars around the world and has influenced two generations of criminologists and legal scholars. He has written extensively on crime and the legal process an
This is the first comprehensive assessment of the career of T.P. Flanagan (1929-2011), generally regarded as the major landscapist working in Ireland in the second half of the 20th century and the mos
What were the unifying principles or strategies that governed the protest movements that swept the Middle East and North Africa in the spring of 2011? Who were the protestors and how did the different
The essays selected for this volume offer significant contributions to the ongoing exploration of the intersection between, on the one hand, international trade law and, on the other hand, the overlap
More than forty years after the composer's death, the music of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970) continues to be recorded and performed and to attract international scholarly interest. The Roberto Gerhard C
Kierkegaarda€?s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaarda€?s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship,
How did romanticism define its relationship with its sources? How has romanticism since been understood and misunderstood across a range of cultural activities? These are among the questions taken up
At the end of the Second World War, Americaa€?s newly acquired status of hegemonic power- together with the launch of ambitious international programs such as the Marshall Plan- significantly altered
Drawing on rich interview material and adopting a life history approach, this book examines the agency of women living in insecure and uncertain conflict situations. It explores the effects of the Isr
Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories themselves. Zoe Jaques and E
Artistic Lives examines cultural production as a non-standard, self-directed, and frequently unpaid activity, which is susceptible to developments that affect the availability of unstructured time. It
This volume addresses the ideational and policy-oriented challenges of Africaa€?s health governance due to voluntary and involuntary cross-border migration of people and diseases in a growing 'mobile
From the editor's introduction: "...natural law [which began in the 17th century and petered out in the 18th] has played a central role in the writing of the history of early modern philosophy and pol
From global missionizing among proselytic faiths to mass migration through religious diasporas, religion has traveled from one side of the world and back again. It continues to play a prominent role i
Providing a comprehensive assessment of Jeremy Gardiner’s career to date, this monograph, the first of its kind, explains how this distinctive artist has taken the exploratory landscape vision of mid-
Current events happening around the world, especially the a€?humanitarian interventionsa€? by NATO and the West within the context of the so-called Arab Spring, make the understanding of the role of s
This volume comprises nine articles on Islamic astronomy published since 1989 by Benno van Dalen. Van Dalen was the first historian of Islamic astronomy who made full use of the new possibilities of c
This first of four volumes on the European tradition of collecting examines its history and practice in ancient northern Europe (around 1600 BCE), ancient and classical Greece and imperial Rome, and t
This collection of 17 articles, which were published mainly in the 1980s and 1990s, examine issues of religion and culture in late medieval Spain. Several of the articles consider aspects of the 13th
