Research, References and Encyclopedias Books

This book examines Indonesia's strategies and policies to influence regional cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, focusing especially on Indonesia's efforts to be the maritime fulcrum in the Indo-Pacific during President Joko Widodo's (Jokowi) administration...

The Routledge Handbook of Experimental Linguistics provides an up-to-date and accessible overview of various ways in which experiments are used across all domains of linguistics and surveys the range of state-of-the-art methods that can be applied to...

This book is a detailed analysis of moderate Islamism and its controversial challenges for the modern world, & will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Political Science, electoral politics, Islamic studies and Area Studies, with...

In this book, we review both the concepts and mechanics behind the Zero Trust Framework. We also introduce advanced technologies into it as well, including the use of Biometrics, the Public Key Infrastructure, and Quantum Mechanics/Quantum Cryptography.

This handbook provides a comprehensive review of research in conflict and peace communication and offers readers a range of insights into foundational, ongoing, and emerging discussions in this field.

Focusing on cross-border marriages within Asia, a region where collectivist and familistic values are still prevalent, this book points to the importance of going beyond the state-individual nexus to conceptualise and foreground the family as a strategic...

In 2004, Japan instituted a system to protect citizens against military attacks and terrorism for the first time after World War II. Faced with the changing security environment in East Asia, the Japanese government was forced to implement the most...

This book critically examines the approaches to Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants programming in Africa.

Although relations between China and Europe are strained in many areas, including trade, human rights and views about political systems, nevertheless established linkages, development trajectories and intellectual cultures, offer good prospects for...

This book focuses on how to use various data mining techniques to develop real-world applications. It offers practical applications with a clear understanding of data mining concepts. The book also has a special chapter on case studies of data mining in...

This book analyses Singapore's decolonisation movement between 1953-63 and important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. It will be of interest to researchers of Southeast Asian History and Politics, and those interested in decolonisation,...

This book provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing on the post-colonial period. It will be of interest to researchers in Asian studies,...

The book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Dagestan, a strategically important republic of the Russian Federation which borders Chechnya, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and its people. It outlines Dagestan's rich and complicated history, from...

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing they should be considered an integral component of human rights discourse. The book will interest those in the fields of media studies,...

This book examines the role of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and some of the challenges they face.

Iwasaki analyses the state of Japanese politics using the established analytical framework of presidentialization - looking at leadership power resources, leadership autonomy and the personalization of the electoral process - and assesses the factors...

This volume provides a comprehensive, up-to-date overview of the latest management and organizational research related to risk, crisis, and emergency management. It is the first volume to present these separate, but related, disciplines together...

Through close readings of epic, lyric, and tragic poetry, The Poetics of Failure in Ancient Greece engages into a thorough discourse on error, loss, and inadequacy as a personal and collective experience.

John Ruskin's critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his time, established him as a leading critic of the 19th century. His prescient thinking resonates with today's issues in cultural heritage conservation. This volume presents...

Transnational Architecture and Urbanism combines urban planning, design, policy, and geography studies to offer place-based and project-oriented insight into relevant case studies of urban transformation in Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle...

This book is an exploration of media scandals in contemporary Japanese society. Shedding new light on the study of scandal in Japan, the book offers a novel view of scandal as a specific social ritual which follows moral disturbances in Japanese society.

This excellent reference source brings together hard-to-find information on the constituent units of the Russian Federation.The introduction examines the Russian Federation as a whole, followed by a chronology, demographic and economic statistics, and a...

Reaching beyond the Global North, this book showcases research on transnational celebrity as a technology of soft power and counter-hegemonic organizing, and as a driver of discourses of race and migration. It also explores self-presentation and...

The expansion of multinational corporations, dependence on global supply chains, and globalization have aided the rising expansion of Innovations worldwide. The book analyzes the drivers and relationship between these increasingly dispersed Innovations...

This groundbreaking book provides a comprehensive account of social work, social welfare, and social development in Nigeria from a postcolonial perspective.

Architectures of Existence proposes that philosophical thinking (ecosophical thinking) can inform the way we engage with our world and its inhabitants, as architects, designers and planners, but also as individuals, as people, and as a society.

The United Nations, Indo-Pacific and Korean Peninsula focuses on the United Nations (UN) and its frameworks to examine the power politics on the two of the world's more politically sensitive and geo-strategically crucial regions of the Korean Peninsula...

This book presents an investigation of economic growth in Russia. The sharp decline in the national production that Russia endured in the 1990s resulted in Russia plunging into the poverty trap. The goal of this book is to determine whether and how...

Chen demonstrates how the pursuit of foreign policy independence repeatedly placed the Whitlam Government in a position wedged in between Australia's traditional allies and the Third World; and how it navigated Australia's national interests on a series...

This book explores the detrimental effects on global peace of populism's tendency to present complex social issues in simplistic "good vs. evil" terms.

Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.

Ethics of Contemporary Collecting addresses pressing and pertinent issues around ethical contemporary collecting, reflecting on how practices are evolving or in flux.

This book offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how climate change is impacting conflicts, contention, and competition in the world.

This book examines key issue areas of Indo-Pacific strategies in the context of deepening US-China rivalry. It will be of interest to scholars and policy makers working on Asian Security, Politics, International Relations and the security dynamics of...

This book is a narrative non-fiction, based on the patchy epistemologies of traditional small-scale fishers in India and the Indian Ocean Region. It specifically explores the impact of climate change on Fish and Fishers, and the mutual entanglements in...

This book studies how memes disrupt and reimagine politics in humorous ways. Memes create a playful activity that follows a shared set of rules and gives a (shared) voice, which may generate togetherness and political identities but also increase...

This book provides a critical study of the power, trust and legitimacy of algorithmic gatekeepers.

Karim examines the changes and continuity of Indonesia's foreign policy in the post-authoritarian era, under presidents Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Joko Widodo.

Chu explores the significance of the Summer Olympic medal haul for relations between Beijing and Taipei, and between Beijing and Hong Kong. Chu asks what significance these victories had for each of the three governments as well as for the relations of...

This book explores the stereotype that Japan is the world's most polite country, examining how proper conduct is acquired and expressed, and how the apparent conflict with some of the concepts of Western modernity, such as society, freedom and the...

This book examines the origins of the U.S. Navy's 2007 Maritime Strategy, the formation of the U.S. government's "Pivot to Asia" strategy, and the most recent revisions to this strategy that focus more specifically on China. The book also explores the...

This book provides the historical and political context for the security interventions in Mali over the past three decades.

This book focusses on social work in the time of COVID-19. Social workers, their clients, as well as the organisations they represent have been affected by the pandemic in multiple ways.

Gadjeva uses Kyoto as a case study to explore the innovative mechanisms being used to promote Japanese culture and cultural properties since the outbreak of COVID-19. A valuable read for professionals and scholars of cultural and tourism studies, that...

This edited book analyzes Kosovo's foreign policy and bilateral relations with the United States and several European countries.

Critical Discourse Studies aims to enhance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures and social change. This book is in response to specific changes in mediation technologies of discourse, brought about by...

This book showcases the vibrancy of the study of digital journalism in Latin America. In a research field marked by inequality, the studies included in this volume illustrate how research about and from the Gloabl South, where 86% of the global...

Contributors from Japan, Korea and China explore the reaction of the United Nations to emerging global issues. The areas explored and discussed include global governance, peace and security, global health governance, global citizenship, nuclear...