In this collection, eminent academics explain the phenomenon of public sector reform. Drawing on vast theoretical, empirical, and comparative data, this is a first-rate resource for scholars seeking to understand its key trends, challenges, and dilemmas.
Based on case studies in Sub-Saharan Africa, this book examines the paradoxes of environmental resource management and climate change policy. It critiques flawed interventions and calls for questioning orthodoxies to address Africa’s developmental challenges.
Revisiting European Security
The EU faces multiple crises, challenging its rule-based order. Can it still act as a normative international power? This volume re-examines the EU’s influence and values, focusing on its migration policies and its role in neighboring regions, Africa, and China.
This book offers a multidimensional study of the evolution of far-right parties and ultranationalist ideology and their impact on contemporary European politics, society, and the state, revealing the danger they represent.
Rights and Subjectivity
To understand the paradox of human rights—universal attributes that depend integrally upon the nation state for their recognition—this study investigates the pre-historical formation of the individual as an inherent bearer of rights.
Russia and the Former Soviet Space
This title represents a fresh contribution to current academic debate regarding the determinants of Russian foreign policy assertiveness, addressing the ways in which perceived security threats have been used by Russia to legitimize its interventions in the former Soviet Space.
Russia in Transition
This book discusses Russia’s transition over the last two decades, giving a panorama of Putin’s ruling ideology by examining his regional and media policies. Russia-China relations are also discussed as a crucial factor for security in the Asian-Pacific region.
Russia-Eurasia Relations
Across the world, there are regions caught between identity and power. This book analyses the great powers’ challenges in Eurasia within the framework of strategic interests, conflict, and cooperation.
Kurban addresses the treaties, crises and other issues that seem to be turning points in Russian-Turkish relations, reflecting on Russian and Turkish archival documents and resources. She analyses Russian-Turkish relations from the First World War up to the present time.
This book explores the long-standing, multi-faceted relationship between Scotland and Europe. From a diversity of viewpoints, it illustrates the richness and complexity of the dialogue over the centuries, and underlines the open and dynamic character of Scottish identity.
Secret Services, 1918-1939
This book examines the secret services and police of Britain, Russia, and Germany in the interwar years. It compares the development of Britain’s “Gentleman’s Club” MI5 and MI6 to the German Gestapo and the Soviet NKVD, shaped by the emerging signals of another World War.
This conference proceedings analyses a range of political, economic, security and socio-cultural issues that lie at the heart of the instability that the Middle East and North Africa region is currently experiencing.
This collection of essays explores Nigeria’s security challenges since colonial times. It examines their historical roots, why they have escalated, the effectiveness of strategies employed to address them, and the lessons to be learnt from how security matters have been handled.
This book analyzes the rise of political violence and terrorism through an in-depth analysis of recent global events. It establishes crucial links between radicalism, terrorism, and international security, serving as an up-to-date resource for researchers in this critical field.
Serve the Power(s), Serve the State
This book examines the organization and the consolidation of various groups, including judicial officers and tax agents, acting to create newly emergent forms of social and political power across a range of different cultures and locations.
Sexual Harassment in the Indian Bureaucracy
Patriarchy has continued to serve as the norm in the Indian bureaucracy, with sexual harassment representing a particular challenge. This book addresses a research gap, studying the forms of harassment and the reasons for victims’ silence in Kolkata, Delhi and Bengaluru.
Sharing Concerns
This book draws together case analyses of public-private partnerships in Australia, France, Romania and Spain. The study illustrates that these partnerships are very adaptable and can take a variety of forms in different industries, regions or legal frameworks.
Sino-Japanese Relations
Sino-Japanese relations are crucial for East Asia and beyond. However, the relationship has been increasingly marked by political strife, historical grievances, and a lack of trust. Any deterioration has the potential to generate conflicts with far-reaching consequences.
South Indian states are advanced in human development, yet rampant child labour persists. Why are societies with high literacy and health indicators failing to protect their children from hard labour? This book examines this question in Karnataka.
Malewska-Szałygin argues that common-sense convictions of rural Polish citizens are “post-peasant” or “post-agrarian”, rather than post-socialist or post-communist, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the early 2000s in the highland region in the south of Poland.
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