Rugby union and globalization: an odd-shaped world
This book provides a critical analysis of rugby union in the professional era and assesses the relationship between the local and the global in the game. Through focusing on key figures and important events it traces the turbulent development of a game steeped in an amateur etho…
With the end of the Cold War, many believed that a new, more stable international legal order would emerge. But an enormous gap in values--most noticeably concerning armed intervention--has prevented that from happening. One group of nations continues to cling to the United Nati…
"The book examines the slow and sporadic development of the Internet in Japan and chronicles the dramatic emergence of the i-mode (DoCoMo) mobile Internet. The study also considers the response of the Japanese government to the opportunities and challenges of the Internet, and e…
