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Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
The sudden end of the Cold War took the Japanese foreign policy community by surprise. The Yoshida Doctrine which served Japanese foreign policy so well during the Cold War is no longer a viable foreign policy option. This dissertation examines the restructuring of Japanese foreign policy since the...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Iran and Turkey
This book investigates the early history of the Seljuq Turks, founders of one of the most important empires of the mediaeval Islamic world, from their origins in the Eurasian steppe to their conquest of Iran, Iraq and Anatolia. The first work available in a western language on this important...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture
Examining Chinese domestic as well as international circumstances surrounding the emergence of an independent women's movement in Beijing in the 1990s, this book seeks to explain how such a movement could have arisen after the repression of student activists in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It also...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
This book explores the roles of national actors within international organizations, with particular emphasis on the collaborative approach adopted by Nordic governments and associations. Analyzing Nordic regional cooperation within international organizations, this volume seeks to shed light on...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Classical Islam
Muhammad b. ‘Umar al-Waqidi was a Muslim scholar, born in Medina in the 1st Century. Of his several writings the most significant is the Kitab al-Maghazi, one of the earliest standard histories of the life of the Prophet. Translated into English for the first time, Rizwi Faizer makes available...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
This book explores various characteristics of tropical African cities, with special reference to change in the post-independence period. It stresses the diversity of urban forms and urban experience to be found within the region, distinguishing the more general features from those peculiar to...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship. Attending Krishna's...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
In Indian philosophy and theology, the ideology of Vedanta occupies an important position. Hindu religious sects accept the Vedantic soteriology, which believes that there is only one conscious reality, Brahman from which the entire creation, both conscious and non-conscious, emanated. Madhusudana...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
The descriptions Chinese and Japanese people attribute to themselves and to each other differ vastly and stand in stark contrast to Western perceptions that usually identify a 'similar disposition' between the two nations. Academic Nationals in China and Japan explores human categories, how...
To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
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