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  1. Arabic Thought and its Place in History

    By De Lacy O'Leary

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  2. Asian Perspectives on Teacher Education

    Edited by Shin'ichi Suzuki, Edward R. Howe

    Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  3. 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...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Dealing with the Legacy of Authoritarianism

    The “Politics of the Past” in Southern European Democracies

    Edited by Antonio Costa Pinto, Leonardo Morlino

    In recent years the agenda of how to ‘deal with the past’ has become a central dimension of the quality of contemporary democracies. Many years after the process of authoritarian breakdown, consolidated democracies revisit the past either symbolically or to punish the elites associated with the...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  5. 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...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  6. The European Union's Foreign Economic Policies

    A Principal-Agent Perspective

    Edited by Andreas Dür, Manfred Elsig

    Series: Journal of European Public Policy Special Issues as Books

    The European Union is a key actor in international economic governance. Through its foreign economic policies it plays a central role in the negotiation of international trade agreements, the global regulation of the financial services sector, and the provision of aid to developing countries. This...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  7. 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...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  8. 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....

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  9. 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...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge

  10. 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 "...

    To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge