Author: Andrew Kipnis, Jonathan Unger, Luigi Tomba ISBN: 0415457483 / 9780415457484 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Chinese society and its political system are predicated on traditions of governing that are deeply alien to most readers from liberal, Western powers. Chinese governance reflects both a long, indige...
Author: Knut A. Jacobsen ISBN: 0415452198 / 9780415452199 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Research on Indian culture and society has been conducted from a dizzying range of perspectives. However, in recent decades it has been particularly characterized by a change in focus from the past ...
Author: Li Mingjiang ISBN: 0415476917 / 9780415476911 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
The startling growth of China’s economic and military power, as well as its cultural influence, is having a huge impact on the rest of the world. The key region to observe this impact is, of c...
Author: Bhavna Dave ISBN: 0415468264 / 9780415468268 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
The study of contemporary Central Asia has acquired significant scholarly attention since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Central Asian Studies (which focuses on the five post-S...
Author: David Cook ISBN: 0415476232 / 9780415476232 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Jihad (or ‘struggle’) and martyrdom in Islam have an ever-greater relevance in today’s world, but there remains a great deal of ignorance about these critical concepts. This new fo...
Author: Mustafa Shah ISBN: 0415473985 / 9780415473989 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
The Prophetic traditions of Islam, which are commonly referred to as the hadiths (literally: ‘reports’), preserve the sum and substance of the utterances, deeds, directives, and descript...
Author: Abdullah Saeed ISBN: 0415498686 / 9780415498685 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Islam has had a significant impact on world history, not only as a major religion that has directed the personal beliefs and actions of individuals, but also as the basis of a distinct system of gov...
Author: Joseph Liow, Nadirsyah Hosen ISBN: 0415476801 / 9780415476805 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
The Islamic community in Southeast Asia is widely regarded as one of the most moderate and tolerant in the Muslim world. While most of the region’s Muslims are Sunni and fairly orthodox, the I...
Author: Gavin Picken ISBN: 0415470765 / 9780415470766 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Islamic law is a legal tradition entrenched within a religious context; it is one of the most intriguing and fascinating areas of Islamic Studies. Many practitioners of Islam believe that their live...
Author: Peter Pormann ISBN: 0415479533 / 9780415479530 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Islam developed over the course of its history one of the world’s most innovative and interesting scientific and medical traditions. In this context, the term Islam should not simply be unders...
Author: David Taylor ISBN: 0415552958 / 9780415552950 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
There are more Muslims - over 400 million - in South Asia than in any other region in the world. Many of the most important political, intellectual and spiritual developments within Islam have had t...
Author: David Westerlund, Ingvar Svanberg ISBN: 0415481244 / 9780415481243 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
In recent decades, the number of Muslims in the West has increased rapidly, and interesting transformations of Islam have taken place—to some extent with repercussions in Islamic or predominan...
Author: Subrata K. Mitra ISBN: 0415440440 / 9780415440448 Year: 2008 Availability: 45-60 days
Comprising the states of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, South Asia has gained considerable international visibility over the past decade. Nuclear proliferat...
Author: Jeffrey Haynes ISBN: 0415490243 / 9780415490245 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
The early twenty-first century has witnessed a global resurgence of religious activity and identification. In particular, numerous examples of the growing political influence of religion can be cite...
Author: Theo Farrell ISBN: 0415456010 / 9780415456012 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Security Studies traces its origins to work on the causes of war. It remains the most significant subdiscipline of International Relations and, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, its conc...
Author: Lynn T. White III, Yiyi Lu, Yongnian Zheng ISBN: 041544151X / 9780415441513 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
After nearly three decades of rapid economic development, China is now a major power whose actions can significantly affect other countries, from America to Zimbabwe. As a result, China Studies has ...
Author: Michael Dumper ISBN: 0415440386 / 9780415440387 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
The Arab - Israeli conflict remains one of the longest-running disputes in modern world politics and the search for a lasting peace remains as elusive as ever. The series of wars and disputes starti...
Author: See Seng Tan ISBN: 0415475236 / 9780415475235 Year: 2009 Availability: 45-60 days
Especially since the end of the Cold War, research on and around the international relations of Asia has grown exponentially and, to make sense of what is now a vast and unwieldly corpus of scholarl...
Author: Gerd Nonneman ISBN: 0415469155 / 9780415469159 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
The potential for reform in the pattern of persistent authoritarianism in the Arab world has been the subject of interest for policymakers, the informed general public, and scholars alike, particula...
Author: Barry Rubin ISBN: 0415563909 / 9780415563901 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Why is the Middle East the only part of the world which has drawn the West into wars in the last thirty years? With a sequence of events since 1945, including the Six-Day War, the Iranian revolution...
Author: John Joseph ISBN: 0415452430 / 9780415452434 Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
The intrinsic link between language and politics has long been recognized (for example, Aristotle wrote ‘… that man is more of a political animal than bees or any other gregarious anima...
Author: Christine Sylvester ISBN: 041547843X / 9780415478434 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Feminist International Relations is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in International Relations. Edited by Christine Sylvester, a leading scholar in the field, it i...
Author: Ali M. Ansari ISBN: 041540911X / 9780415409117 Year: 2011 Availability: 45-60 days
A quarter of a century on from the revolution of 1979 there is an ongoing political struggle within Iran between traditionalists and modernists, with the ever-younger average age of the population p...
Author: Allen Hicken ISBN: 0415450616 / 9780415450614 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
Southeast Asia offers a rich tapestry of comparatively under-studied countries that shed light on political dynamics and political economy within developing states. Some countries manage rapid econo...
Author: Noel Thompson ISBN: 0415566517 / 9780415566513 Year: 2010 Availability: 45-60 days
G. D. H. Cole was one of the foremost British socialist thinkers of the twentieth century. His literary output was immense and encompassed works of social theory, economics, political economy, econo...
