Area Studies Paperbacks

New and Published Books – Page 2

11. Black Star Over Japan

    Rising Forces of Militarism

    By Albert Axelbank

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    The Japanese are the only people in the world who have experienced the horror of nuclear weapons with their own flesh. Atomic holocaust was followed by American occupation and the American-inspired, postwar Japanese ‘Peace Constitution’ which explicitly outlawed Japanese military forces and the use...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
12. Arabic Thought and its Place in History

    By De Lacy O'Leary

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
13. Global Citizenship and the Legacy of Empire

    Marketing Development

    By April Biccum

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    This book investigates the parallels between mainstream development discourse and colonial discourse as theorized in the work of Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Edward Said. Aiming to repoliticize post-colonial theory by applying its understandings to contemporary political discourses, author April...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
14. The Discourse of Palestinian-Israeli Relations

    Persistent Analytics and Practices

    Edited by Sean F. McMahon

    Series: Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law

    Many observers have portrayed the Oslo Process as a milestone in the peacemaking process between Palestinians and Israelis. In this controversial and groundbreaking new work, McMahon challenges the interpretation of the Oslo Process as a breakthrough or new beginning in Palestinian-Israeli...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
15. The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China

    Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics

    Edited by Kevin Caffrey

    The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
16. The Cultural Transition

    Human Experience and Social Transformation in the Third World and Japan

    Edited by Merry I White, Susan Pollak

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This volume makes available a wide variety of cultural perspectives on education and on economic and social progress. Contributors focus on three main questions, the answers to which are vital for understanding the needs of both national policy and personal fulfilment in widely differing cultures....

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
17. The Emperor's Adviser

    Saionji Kinmochi and Pre-War Japanese Politics

    By Lesley Connors

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    Saionji Kinmochi was an aristocrat, a scholar and a progressive liberal politician who twice occupied the highest political office in the nation and who, during three decades, as adviser to three Emperors, coordinated and directed Japanese politics. His long life encompassed the emergence of the...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
18. Direct Foreign Investment

    A Japanese Model of Multi-National Business Operations

    By Kyoshi Kojima

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    Direct foreign investment and the activities of multinational corporations are new dynamic elements in the international economy. This book identifies, theoretically and practically, a Japanese model of multinational business operations which has characteristics differing from the American or "...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
19. The Phonetics of Japanese Language

    With Reference to Japanese Script

    By P Suski

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Japan

    This book gives true characters of Japanese speech sounds in reference to European speech sounds. When it was first published in 1931, it was the first book of its kind. There are only 5 Japanese vowel elements as opposed to 18 in English, 13 in French and 8 in German. There are 15 Japanese...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
20. The Politics of Belgium

    Institutions and Policy under Bipolar and Centrifugal Federalism

    Edited by Marleen Brans, Lieven De Winter, Wilfried Swenden

    Series: West European Politics

    For too long Belgium remained an unexplored terrain by comparative political scientists. Belgium's politics were best known through the writings of Arend Lijphart, who considered it a model case of consociationalism. Over the past ten to fifteen years, the analysis of consociationalism has been...

    Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge