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Is the economic reform of Central Europe influenced by or an influence upon capital markets? Where does globalization fit in? Ken Morita's pioneering work investigates the relationship between the systemic transition of Central European economies and capital markets, in particular the commodity futures markets and speculation.

This book develops a new theoretical framework to examine the issues of economic growth and development

This landmark book, based on the human dimensions of global change paradigm, examines climate impacts through the study of a contemporary society's response to a drought period analogous to expected future climate.

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of the spatial assumptions underpinning transboundary protected areas in Europe, at a time of surging global enthusiasm in creating and managing such areas. It builds a link between the critical geopolitical literature on boundaries and social approaches to nature and hybridity.

The unifying theme in this second volume of essays by William A

In her new book,the author argues that Barnes' writings made significant contributions to gender and aesthetic debates in their immediate early twentieth-century context, and that they continue to contribute to present-day debates on identity.

This book accordingly argues for a global system of justice based on a domestic model of compulsory law.

This book presents analyses of several distressed industries in the United States, including the steel, footwear, textile and apparel, paper and publishing, and automobile industries. In particular, it focuses on the influence of the new era of globalization on these industries.

This book discusses the Christian Platonist's adaptation of Hellenic metaphysics, language, and religious ritual. While Dionysius clearly works within the Hellenic tradition, he innovates to integrate Hellenic and Christian thought.

This book examines the weak state-terrorism nexus with particular emphasis on Africa. Specifically, it provides an in-depth analysis of state weakness, poverty, and the opportunities offered by the latter for the breeding of terrorism and terrorists. It also looks at the part played by radical Islam in transnational terrorism in Africa.

The Nordic welfare model has become an ideal in feminist literature and in welfare state studies

Through a collection of unique case studies and theoretical analyses, this work examines the genesis and impact of decentralization reforms in developing and transition countries

Professor Ian Livingstone is one of a small group of British development economists who have achieved international renown and recognition. The objective of this book is to pay tribute to his life's work, particularly those aspects which related to key but challenging development issues.

Tracing the development of international humanitarian law especially since World War II, this volume focuses on the role of the international community in crafting international and mixed war crimes tribunals.

The Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) and the Pension Credit initiatives implemented by the Labour Government in the UK have both suffered from low levels of take up amongst entitled pensioners. This book sheds important new light on this pressing problem, examining existing research on take-up and highlighting gaps in understanding.

This book explores the relationship between popular music and the city using Liverpool as a case study. It examines the impact of social and economic change within that city on its popular music culture, focusing on de-industrialization and economic restructuring during the 1980s and 1990s.

Can paintings, buildings or installations be 'read' in the way texts are read or deciphered, or do works of visual art ask for their own kind of appreciation? In this anthology, this question is approached from the angles of three disciplines: aesthetics, visual culture and art history.

This volume explores the relationships between space, culture and society. Organised around four broad themes - landscape, identity, colonialism, nature - and covering a variety of locations and historical periods, the essays represent some of the best and most innovative interventions that geographers have made on these topics.

This informative book provides an in-depth study of Cyprus' efforts to join the European Union

This book analyzes the role of cultural autonomy in minority rights protection on the national and global level. It assesses the legal limits of the right to self-determination and autonomy and draws on Marxist internationalism, liberal nationalism and EU integrationist studies to examine the relationship between cultural autonomy and globalization

This insightful work explores one of the under-examined eras of US foreign policy toward the Palestinian question: the Reagan years

Given the legal, political, economic and social similarities that exist, comparisons between the European Union (EU) and Canada can prove instructive. This volume introduces the rationale for comparing Canada and the EU and reviews the political initiatives that have been undertaken to forge links between the two.

Critical Voices is a fascinating account of women writing about art in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. Meaghan Clarke employs extensive research to demonstrate the significant contribution made by women to the art world and draws on a range of sources, including diaries and letters, to highlight the many various forms their criticism took.

Have we resigned ourselves to a cyber-future that has been decided behind our backs? Why is technology central to the concerns of critical social theory? In developing the PC technologists have borrowed ideas from the human sciences about what people are like, about the nature of meaning and the desirability of some experiences over others

Written by a distinguished group of economists, this volume offers insight and in-depth analysis of a wide range of issues related to China's growth and development, from the role of higher education in the country's economic growth, to socioeconomic issues such as stock market manipulation and rural-urban migration.

This volume brings together key articles in the burgeoning field of regulation

The focus of this study is court literature in early sixteenth-century England and Scotland. The author examines courtly poetry and drama in the context of a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage.

This study provides a representation of the broad spectrum of theoretical work on topics related to business ethics, with a particular focus on corporate citizenship. It considers relations of business and society alongside social responsibility and moves on to examine the historical and systemic foundations of business ethics, focusing on the concepts of social and ethical responsibilities.

The Tunisian Sahel is an extraordinary region for study

Security is a major contemporary concern, with foreign and security policies topping the agenda of many governments.