Crisis and Change in Post-Cold War Global Politics: Ukraine in a Comparative Perspective (Resende Erica)(Pevná vazba)

Politics and Violence in Central America and the Caribbean (Warnecke-Berger Hannes)(Pevná vazba)

Provides a comparative perspective on Central America and the CaribbeanFocuses on comparative historical analysis as well as contemporary causes of violenceDevelops a Cultural Political Economy of Violence as a genuine approach to interlink Political Economy with Cultural theory for explaining

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives (Holsinger Donald B.)(Pevná vazba)

Inequality in Education: Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes a series of methods for measuring education

Global Development: A Cold War History (Lorenzini Sara)(Pevná vazba)

In the Cold War, 'development' was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts and minds

Our World in Crisis: Civil War and Genocide (Watts Franklin)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Governance and Politics in the Post-Crisis European Union (Coman Ramona)(Paperback)

Global Art and the Cold War (Curley John J.)(Pevná vazba)

In this readable and highly original book, Jay Curley presents the first synthetic account of global art during the Cold War. Through a careful examination of artworks drawn from America, Europe, Russia, Asia, and Australia, he demonstrates the inextricable nature of art and politics in this

Artists Making Landscapes in Post-War Britain (Garlake Margaret)(Pevná vazba)

An unconventional and illuminating new history of British landscape art in the post-war period In this trailblazing study, Margaret Garlake complicates traditional histories of British landscape art in the post-war period. Drawing together work from painters and photographers--many of them

Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland (Schlgel Karl)(Pevná vazba)

Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against

Latin America and the Global Cold War (Field Thomas C.)(Pevná vazba)

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin America's forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary

Governance and Politics in Post-Military Nigeria: Changes and Challenges (Adejumobi S.)(Pevná vazba)

This edited collection is the product of a National Research Working Group (NRWG) established by Said Adejumobi and supported by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). It analyzes the progress made in Nigeria since the return to democratic rule in 1999 and the prospects of democratic

British Submarines in the Cold War Era (Friedman Norman)(Pevná vazba)

British Submarines in the Cold War Era shows how a combination of evolving strategic and tactical requirements and new technology produced successive types of submarines. It is based largely on unpublished and previously classified official documentation, and to the extent allowed by security

Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century (Parker Geoffrey)(Paperback)

An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and the impact of climate change First published in 2013, Geoffrey Parker's prize-winning best seller Global Crisis analyzes the unprecedented calamities--revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars,

Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown (Krieger Jrg)(Pevná vazba)

In the edited collection Time Out: Global Perspectives on Sport and the Covid-19 Lockdown, practitioners and international scholars explore the impact of the global Covid-19 health pandemic on sport from a global perspective. It is part of a two-volume Covid-19 and Sport series that tackles the

Europe and the Financial Crisis (Della Posta Pompeo)(Pevná vazba)

The global financial and economic crisis has brought about many effects that are still difficult to interpret univocally. This book studies the consequences of the crisis on Europe by examining the effects on the European institutional setup, governance and architecture and by studying in detail

Prostate Cancer (Shen Michael)(Pevná vazba)

'Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in

Rise and Fall of Nations - Ten Rules of Change in the Post-Crisis World (Sharma Ruchir)(Paperback / softback)

The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes (A. Thomsen Christian)(Pevná vazba)

A new perspective on political organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the ancient Greek citystate The first comprehensive study of Rhodes in more than 20 years and one of the few books dedicated to a single Hellenistic city-state Introduces the reader to Hellenistic Rhodes, an important, but also

Our World in Crisis: Health and Disease (Howell Izzi)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Spy in Moscow Station - A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat (Haseltine Eric)(Paperback / softback)

The thrilling, true, cold-war era story of counterespionage in Moscow and the clandestine eavesdropping arms

Representative Government in Modern Europe (Gallagher Michael)(Paperback)

Focuses on comparative European politics. This title reflects key events and changes including the impact of the world financial and economic crisis; the EU's adoption of the Lisbon Treaty; and, the election of a centre-right governments in Germany and the

Our World in Crisis: Global Pollution (Watts Franklin)(Pevná vazba)

Comprehensive explorations of major issues affecting the global

Change and the politics of certainty (Edkins Jenny)(Pevná vazba)

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and autobiographical illustrations, the book argues that although we might need to traverse the fantasy of certainty and security, we do not need to give up on

Twilight of the Merkel Era: Power and Politics in Germany After the 2017 Bundestag Election (Langenbacher Eric)(Pevná vazba)

Planetary Politics: A Manifesto (Marsili Lorenzo)(Pevná vazba)

The global crisis of our time involves a complex of ecological, economic, technological and migratory challenges that no state is able to control. The result is a provincialization of our democracies with respect to the new planetary powers confronting humanity - it is from this that our