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  • Transnational Trajectories in East Asia Transnational Trajectories in East Asia
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    Transnational Trajectories in East Asia

    In recent decades, East Asia has become increasingly interconnected through trade, investment, migration, and popular culture at regional and global levels. At the same time, the region has seen renewed national assertiveness and nationalist impulses...
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  • Global Port Cities in North America Global Port Cities in North America
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    Global Port Cities in North America

    As the material anchors of globalization, North America's global port cities channel flows of commodities, capital, and tourists. This book explores how economic globalization processes have shaped these cities' political institutions, social structures,...
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  • Rabbis of our Time Rabbis of our Time
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    Rabbis of our Time

    The term 'rabbi' predominantly denotes Jewish men qualified to interpret the Torah and apply halacha, or those entrusted with the religious leadership of a Jewish community. However, the role of the rabbi has been understood differently across the Jewish...
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  • Tantric Visual Culture Tantric Visual Culture
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    Tantric Visual Culture

    Indian culture relies greatly on visual expression, and this book uses both classical Indian and contemporary Western philosophies and current studies on cognitive sciences, and applies them to contextualize Tantric visual culture.The work selects...
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  • International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management
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    International Multiparty Mediation and Conflict Management

    This volume aims to provide a detailed explanation of the effects of cooperation and coordination on international multiparty mediation in conflicts. Contemporary scholarship stresses that the crucial ingredients for a successful multiparty mediation are...
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  • A Prosody of Free Verse A Prosody of Free Verse
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    A Prosody of Free Verse

    There is to date no comprehensive account of the rhythms of free verse. The main purpose of A Prosody of Free Verse: explorations in rhythm is to fill that gap and begin to provide a systematic approach to describing and analyzing free verse rhythms...
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  • Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction
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    Theorizing Pedagogical Interaction

    Pedagogical interaction can be observed through many different landscapes, such as the graduate seminar, the writing skills center, the after-school literacy program, adult ESL classrooms, and post-observation conferences. By viewing these settings...
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  • Reassessing Orientalism Reassessing Orientalism
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    Reassessing Orientalism

    Orientalism as a concept was first applied to Western colonial views of the East. Subsequently, different types of orientalism were discovered but the premise was that these took their lead from Western-style orientalism, applying it in different...
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  • South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea
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    South Korean Popular Culture and North Korea

    Over recent decades South Korea's vibrant and distinctive populist culture has spread extensively throughout the world. This book explores how this "Korean wave" has also made an impact in North Korea. The book reveals that although South Korean media...
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  • Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization
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    Space, Utopia and Indian Decolonization

    The book illuminates the spatial utopianism of South Asian anti-colonial texts by showing how they refuse colonial spatial imaginaries to re-imagine the British Indian colony as the postcolony in diverse and contested ways. Focusing on the literary field...
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  • Voting Rights in the Age of Globalization Voting Rights in the Age of Globalization
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    Voting Rights in the Age of Globalization

    This book discusses how the extension of voting rights beyond citizenship (i.e., to non-national immigrants) and residence (i.e., to expatriates) can be interpreted in the light of democratization processes in both Western countries and in developing...
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  • New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads
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    New Donors on the Postcolonial Crossroads

    After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries were said to be playing catch up with the West, and in the field of development cooperation, they were classified as 'new donors.' This book aims to problematize this distinction between...
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  • India and China in Asia India and China in Asia
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    India and China in Asia

    This book analyses the structure of the India-China relationship and the two prominent powers' positions with and against each other, bilaterally and globally, in a complex Asian environment and beyond. India and China's perceptions of one another are...
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  • Israel in the Post Oslo Era Israel in the Post Oslo Era
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    Israel in the Post Oslo Era

    Israel in the Post Oslo Era examines the official Israeli stands and policies towards the Palestinian problem from the beginning of the twenty-first century. The book argues that Israel is gradually withdrawing from the commitment of a two-state...
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  • Researching China in Southeast Asia Researching China in Southeast Asia
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    Researching China in Southeast Asia

    This book maps out the state of China Studies in seven Southeast Asian countries from different perspectives. It looks at the history, current status, and characteristics of the study of China in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam,...
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  • Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran
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    Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran

    Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought. The study develops an appropriate method for the...
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  • Power Interconnection in Southeast Asia Power Interconnection in Southeast Asia
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    Power Interconnection in Southeast Asia

    Providing an analysis of multilateral power markets, this book examines power interconnection in Southeast Asia, especially among the ASEAN countries. It uses evolutionary experience of electricity interconnection and trade in three international markets...
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  • Reporting African Elections Reporting African Elections
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    Reporting African Elections

    The ability to be divided along ethnic and religious lines is inherent to much of Africa's media. Such potentially divisive reporting has the ability to incite violence through prejudiced information, particularly during election processes.Reporting...
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  • Norm Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention Norm Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention
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    Norm Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention

    NATO, an organisation brought together to function as an anti-communist alliance, faced existential questions after the unexpected collapse of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s. Intervention in the conflict in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995 gave it a...
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  • State Domination and the Psycho-Politics of Conflict State Domination and the Psycho-Politics of Conflict
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    State Domination and the Psycho-Politics of Conflict

    This book offers a detailed study of the psycho-politics of governmental manipulation, in which a vulnerable population is disciplined by contorting their sense of self-worth.In many conflict settings, a nation's government exerts its dominance over a...
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  • Political Transformations in Nepal Political Transformations in Nepal
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    Political Transformations in Nepal

    This book offers an in-depth analysis of the interrelationship between long-standing caste discrimination in Nepal, its vicious circle of impact upon the Dalit groups and the changes brought by the recent political transformations. It explores the links...
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  • Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey
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    Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey

    Patterns of Nationhood and Saving the State in Turkey tackles a theoretical puzzle in understanding the state policy changes toward minorities and nationhood, first by placing the state in the historical context of the international system and second by...
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  • Religious Zionism and the Six Day War Religious Zionism and the Six Day War
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    Religious Zionism and the Six Day War

    This book offers a new insight into the political, social, and religious conduct of religious-Zionism, whose consequences are evident in Israeli society today. Before the Six-Day War, religious-Zionism had limited its concern to the protection of...
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  • Internal Displacement and Conflict Internal Displacement and Conflict
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    Internal Displacement and Conflict

    Grounded in multidisciplinary research, this book presents a methodical understanding of those displaced within their national borders, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).The IDP phenomenon remains less understood than that of refugees due to the...
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  • How to Succeed in a PR Agency How to Succeed in a PR Agency
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    How to Succeed in a PR Agency

    Learning how to be successful in a public relations (PR) agency is a stressful on-the-job, sink-or-swim, immersive experience. While other texts teach PR theory and practice, no other book guides early to mid-career PR professionals through the...
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  • Constitutional Remedies in Asia Constitutional Remedies in Asia
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    Constitutional Remedies in Asia

    Many jurisdictions in Asia have vested their courts with the power of constitutional review. Traditionally, these courts would invalidate an impugned law to the extent of its inconsistency with the constitution. In common law systems, such an...
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  • Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis
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    Classical Marxism in an Age of Capitalist Crisis

    Will capitalism survive forever?Capitalism has always lived in and with crisis. Wars, revolutions, economic depression and repeated recessions, the threat of nuclear annihilation and ecological disaster have all failed to break the dominance of this...
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  • Castro and Franco Castro and Franco
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    Castro and Franco

    Cuba's Fidel Castro and Spain's Francisco Franco were two men with very similar backgrounds but very different political ideologies. Both received a Catholic education and had strong connections to the Galicia region of Spain. Both were familiar with...
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  • Law, Cinema, and the Ill City Law, Cinema, and the Ill City
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    Law, Cinema, and the Ill City

    This book uses film and television as a resource for addressing the social and legal ills of the city. It presents a range of approaches to view the ill city through cinematic and televisual characterization in urban frameworks, political contexts, and...
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  • The Failure of Democracy in Iraq The Failure of Democracy in Iraq
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    The Failure of Democracy in Iraq

    The Failure of Democracy in Iraq studies democratization in post-2003 Iraq, which has so far failed, due mainly to cultural and religious reasons. There are other factors, such as the legacy of the dictatorial regime, exclusionary policies, the problem...
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  • Power Sharing in Lebanon Power Sharing in Lebanon
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    Power Sharing in Lebanon

    This book studies the origins and evolution of power sharing in Lebanon. The author has established a relationship between mobilization, ethnurgy (ethnic identification), memory and trauma, and how they impact power sharing provisions. The book starts...
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  • Singapore's Multiculturalism Singapore's Multiculturalism
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    Singapore's Multiculturalism

    Since independence in 1965, Singapore has developed its own unique approach to managing the diversity of Race, Religion, Culture, Language, Nationality, and Age among its citizens. This approach is a consequence of many factors, including its very...
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  • Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9 Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9
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    Crisis and Conflict in Han China, 104 BC to AD 9

    This book, first published in 1974, studies the historical development of China during the Western Han dynasty (202 BC-AD 9), a time of great intellectual, religious and political change. The struggle between Reformists and Modernists is analysed using...
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  • Education and Social Change in Korea Education and Social Change in Korea
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    Education and Social Change in Korea

    This book, first published in 1993, provides students and scholars with an introduction to Korean education and the dynamics of interchange between the educational system and rapidly changing Korean society. Severe political, social and educational...
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  • Integrationism and the Self Integrationism and the Self
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    Integrationism and the Self

    In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for suffering. This ground-breaking book...
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  • Contemporary Chinese Education Contemporary Chinese Education
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    Contemporary Chinese Education

    Education is seen by the Chinese as a key element in the modernisation of their country and in maintaining socialism. This book, first published in 1984, examines the nature of modern education in China since 1976, and looks at different parts of the...
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  • Iran's Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus Iran's Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus
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    Iran's Foreign Policy in the South Caucasus

    Iran's role as a regional power is more significant than many in the West may realise. The country lies between Central Asia/the Caucasus and the Gulf region on the one hand, and, on the other, between the Mediterranean/Levant region and South Asia. Many...
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  • Judicializing the Administrative State Judicializing the Administrative State
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    Judicializing the Administrative State

    A basic feature of the modern US administrative state taken for granted by legal scholars but neglected by political scientists and historians is its strong judiciality. Formal, or court-like, adjudication was the primary method of first-order agency...
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  • Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age
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    Mediated Intercultural Communication in a Digital Age

    This book focuses on mediated intercultural communication in the context of globalization. Analyzing social and traditional media using qualitative, interpretive, and critical and cultural perspectives, contributors engage with diverse topics - ranging...
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  • Movements in Organizational Communication Research Movements in Organizational Communication Research
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    Movements in Organizational Communication Research

    Movements in Organizational Communication Research is an essential resource for anyone wishing to become familiar with the current state of organizational communication research and key trends in the field. Seasoned organizational communication scholars...
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  • Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal
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    Masculinity and Modern Slavery in Nepal

    South Asia is the region with the highest number of slaves globally according to the Global Slavery Index. Bonded labour affects between 15 and 20 million labourers within the region, and is shaped by locally specific interconnections between ethnicity,...
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  • Politics in Developing Countries Politics in Developing Countries
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    Politics in Developing Countries

    Politics in Developing Countries provides a clear and reader-friendly introduction to the key factors and themes that shape political processes in developing countries. Achieving development outcomes such as reducing poverty and inequality is only...
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  • Autonomy of Migration? Autonomy of Migration?
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    Autonomy of Migration?

    Examining how migrants appropriate mobility in the context of biometric border controls, this volume mobilises new analytics and empirics in the debates about the politics of migration and provides an analytically effective and politically significant...
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  • Monetary Foundations of the Raj Monetary Foundations of the Raj
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    Monetary Foundations of the Raj

    In the administration of colonial finances, the monetary policy of the Imperial power relating to their dependencies has tremendous impact on the colonial economy. The British East India Company, therefore, adopted a policy of gradually subsuming the...
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