Analyzes twelve strategic planning efforts in higher education in eight countries in Asia and Africa.

Examines China’s involvement in Ethiopia as the latter embarks on modernization and economic development.

Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy.

Juxtaposes Antonio Gramsci’s work and critical race theory to offer a new understanding of tactics as a transformative practice.

Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.

Identifies and traces the evolution of a forgotten “realist” tradition in medieval Islamic political thought, and considers the prospects for its revival in the context of the contemporary Middle East.

Diagnoses our contemporary spatial experience as fundamentally totalitarian through a multilayered critical theory of space.

Illustrates how the notion of an ecological society remains a decisively political question.

The first detailed analysis in English of monarchy and governance in Korea during King Chŏngjo’s reign.

Examines US foreign and domestic policy through the narratives of post-9/11 US military veterans and the activism they are engaged in.

Shows how Japan’s immigration policy is shaped by the nature of Japan’s economy and elite debates about the country’s national identity.

Explores the wide-ranging impact of the Mexican Revolution on global cinema and Western intellectual thought.

Presents an updated account of Hong Kong and its culture two decades after its reversion to China.

Examines the effects of culturally specific interpretations of refugeehood with an ethnographic focus on Cyprus

A transdisciplinary approach to reconciliation practices and policies by an international team of scholars and scholar-practitioners.

Studies the impact of lobbying efforts by domestic ethnic groups and foreign governments on US policymaking.

Examines why many governments, rebels, and terrorist organizations are using children as soldiers.

Analyzes key concepts and arguments in the work of one of Europe’s leading philosophers.

Offers biographical accounts of several of North Korea’s leaders to illuminate the inner workings of its government.

Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.

Examines how NATO has adapted and endured after the end of the Cold War, transforming itself to deal with a host of new security challenges.

An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s.

Examines the egalitarian, creative, and inclusive practice of radical democracy in contemporary Venezuela.

Examines why some democratic innovations succeed while others fail, using Venezuela, Ecuador, and Chile as case studies.

Challenges prevailing conceptions of what religious ritual does and how it achieves its ends.