This book selects the most outstanding journal articles from the Chinese version of Foreign Affairs Review written by prestigious Chinese scholars in recent years. The articles focus on analysis of foreign affairs issues which are of relevance to China, and provide insightful pe…
In the last two years, Canadian society has been marked by political and ideological turmoil. How does an increasingly divided country engage a world that is itself divided and tumultuous? Political instability has been reinforced by international uncertainty: the COVID-19 pande…
Steve Itugbu, for many years a foreign policy aide to Obasanjo, draws on an extensive corpus of official documents, interviews, unpublished material and first-hand experience to explore the president's multi-faceted personality in depth. In so doing, Itugbu demonstrates that Nig…
Negotiating China's destiny in World War II
'Negotiating China's destiny' explains how China developed from a country that hardly mattered internationally into the important world power it is today. Before World War II, China had suffered through five wars with European powers as well as American imperial policies resulti…
Présentation de l'éditeur : "The majority of European early modern empires - the Castilian, French, Dutch, and English/British - developed practices of jurisdictional accumulation, distinguished by the three categories of extensions, transports, and transplants of authority. Thi…
Introduction -- Early modern extraterritoriality -- Historical sociology, Marxism, and law -- Social property relations -- Ambassadors -- Consuls -- Colonial practices of jurisdictional accumulation -- Analytical crossroads : dominium, consuls, and extraterritoriality. "This bo…
"This book links law, empires, and capital through a Political Marxist history of early modern extraterritoriality framed by the new concept of jurisdictional accumulation. Based on secondary and primary material, the concept reveals new aspects of the Spanish, French, English/B…
"This book links law, empires, and capital through a Political Marxist history of early modern extraterritoriality framed by the new concept of jurisdictional accumulation. Based on secondary and primary material, the concept reveals new aspects of the Spanish, French, English/B…
"This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia-US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community…
"This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia-US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community…
"This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia-US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community…
"This intellectual biography of Nikolai N. Bolkhovitinov (1930-2008), the prominent Russian historian who was a leading scholar of US history and Russia-US relations, also examines broader social, cultural, and intellectual developments within the Americanist scholarly community…
This Handbook represents an unprecedented exploration of the positive peace platform. It permits a comprehensive appreciation of the breadth of positive peace that engages with nonviolence, environmental sustainability, social justice and positive relationships scholarship. The …
This Handbook represents an unprecedented exploration of the positive peace platform. It permits a comprehensive appreciation of the breadth of positive peace that engages with nonviolence, environmental sustainability, social justice and positive relationships scholarship. The …
100 Years of Conference Interpreting: a Legacy
When Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando and Georges Clemenceau met in Versailles in January 1919, they ushered in the modern era of multilateral diplomacy and--perhaps inadvertently--laid the foundation for a new profession. Indeed, communication among…