Regional studies (139)

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book focuses on the recurring struggle over the meaning of the Anglican Church’s role in the Indian residential schools--a long-running school system designed to assimilate Indigenous children into Euro-Canadian culture, in which sexual, psychol...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a "crisis of authority" prompted by growing opposition in the America...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Considering the rise of global political instability and subsequent importance of new social movements, this cutting edge book examines the relationship between the alter-globalization movement and political power in Italy, Spain, and Greece. It argu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:The Middle East region holds the world's largest oil and natural gas proven reserves. Several Middle Eastern States are major oil producers and consumers. Given price fluctuations and environmental concerns many countries have sought to diversify the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:America s regional foreign policy priorities are shifting, toward Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, and away from Europe and Russia. Wiarda examines these changes and the reasons for them in each of these regional areas in this compre...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Chinas Gegenwartsgesellschaft gleicht einem sozialwissenschaftlichen Laboratorium: Einerseits ist sie einer rasanten Umgestaltung unterworfen, die in vielerlei Hinsicht Parallelen zur Entwicklung in westlichen Ländern aufweist. Andererseits finden di...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Melanie Müller untersucht die Folgen der Integration der verschiedenen Weltregionen in das System der Vereinten Nationen für soziale Bewegungen. Am Fallbeispiel Südafrika zeigt sie, dass internationale Konferenzen als ‚transformatives Ereignis‘ chara...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Christiane Altmann untersucht erstmals die Debatte um den Lubavitcher rebe, Rabbi Schneerson, den sog. „Messias von Brooklyn“. Anders als die bisherigen Studien schildert die Autorin den Messianismus im Kontext jüdischer Konfliktstrategien und vertri...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:British interest in the Arctic has returned to heights not seen since the end of the Cold War; concerns about climate change, resources, trade, and national security are all impacted by profound environmental and geopolitical changes happening in the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book reviews employment and leisure trends in Japan from the post-war era to the present. In addition, it also examines how these trends will affect tourism destinations and businesses that rely heavily on Japanese overseas tourism. Topics that ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book differs from most others of its kind, by looking at the Hong Kong issue from China’s perspective, which in turn mirrors China’s own situation. Through a legal lens, the author conducts a political and cultural examination of the past and th...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This collaborative volume​ discusses the One Belt One Road, or the New Silk Road, initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping from the perspectives of the Belt and Road countries. This initiative has been viewed as a re-globalization drive by China in...