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Since the foundation of the Atlantic Alliance after World War II, the face of world politics, and consequently of NATO, has changed dramatically. This volume examines this alliance. It is suitable for courses relating to US defense policy, arms control and the military in politics, war and peace,… More

Rome after Sulla offers a new perspective on the damaged, volatile, and conflictual political culture of the late Roman republic. The book begins with a narrative of the years immediately following the dictatorship of Sulla (80-77 BC), providing both a new reconstruction of events and original… More

Although there is no exact equivalent to our term "science" in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks. More

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Today, many people believe that the EU lacks solidarity and needs a social dimension. Why is this? What does it mean? Is it viable? This book provides an in-depth examination of the arguments for, and the feasibility of, a European Social Union, incorporating economic, social, philosophical, legal,… More

Today, many people believe that the EU lacks solidarity and needs a social dimension. Why is this? What does it mean? Is it viable? This book provides an in-depth examination of the arguments for, and the feasibility of, a European Social Union, incorporating economic, social, philosophical, legal,… More

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Ethnography After Antiquity explores the modes and motivations of Byzantine ethnographic writing, shedding new light on how Byzantines distinguished themselves from foreign cultures. More

…narratives within the political and literary milieu of two of the biggest scientific and governmental revolutions in European history, Therapoetics after Actium not only expands our knowledge of the relationship between medicine and culture, but offers an argument for why medicine still needs the… More

Explores the ways in which three novelists of empire - Paul Scott, V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie - have charted the blurred boundaries of identity in the wake of British imperialism. This text provides readings of post-colonial fiction, showing how imperialism shaped British national identity. More

Banks, clearing houses, corporations, companies, technology firms, consultants and academics are all talking about SEPA (the Single Euro Payments Area) and the PSD (Payment Services Directive) For Europe's banks complying to this regulation involves massive change. More

This analysis of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty focuses on the many issues raised by its implementation and on the demand for further reforms triggered by the ongoing economic and financial crisis. Contributors include both academic authors and European policy makers. More

This analysis of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty focuses on the many issues raised by its implementation and on the demand for further reforms triggered by the ongoing economic and financial crisis. Contributors include both academic authors and European policy makers. More

In this radical new book, Patrick Chabal reveals how the future of the West is now inextricably linked to that of the 'non-West'. More

The death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC threw the Macedonians into confusion; there was no capable heir, and no clear successor among the senior figures in Alexander's circle. Initial attempts to preserve the unity of Alexander's conquests gave way to a period of bloody and prolonged warfare. For… More

Europe is changing and reinventing itself. The enlargement of the European Union to 25 members in May 2004, and even more in the future, will not change so much the global weight of Europe in the world economy as its economic geography. More

This richly documented collection of essays, commissioned from a distinguished group of historians, deals with a wide range of issues in the medieval and modern historiography of the early middle ages. More

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This volume presents new research on post-accession migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the short period since the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007. More

AND THE BAND PLAYED ON brings to life the trauma of the Titanic through the true story of one family. More

The book examines social changes in the old and new cities of the Greek world and in the new post-Alexandrian kingoms, within the context of an up-to-date appraisal of the military and political changes after Alexander. More

…goals. Socially-orientated smart procurement has been a controversial issue under EU law. The extent to which the Court of Justice (ECJ) has supported or rather constrained its development has been intensely debated by academics and practitioners alike. After the slow development of a seeming More

Part two of an expansive two-volume work which critiques American foreign policy throughout the entire Cold War period. More

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - object of inquiry in the democratic thought of classical Athens. Thinkers criticized democracy's strategic investments in nativism, the shifting boundaries of citizenship, and the precarious membership that a blood-based order effects… More

Explores the records from Aphrodito, a late Roman village, and provides a micro-history, giving more detail about daily life here than anywhere else in the Roman Empire. Challenges the conventional focus on late antique cultural elites. Creates instead a vision of Late Antiquity focused on free… More

Both funny and engaging, this is the story of two completely inexperienced, under-prepared recent graduates who were fed up with life in the City and set out to row across the Indian Ocean. More

The role of multilateral institutions in the shaping of global capitalism. More

Escape from the Staple Trap is a powerful critique of the dominant trend in Canadian political economy since the 1970s. More

On 23 June, 2016 the UK voted to leave the European Union. Uncertainly has caused market volatility, illiquidity in property funds, fear amongst individuals and the OECD reported on 11 July, 2016 that the economic shock and disruption delivered by Brexit is on a par with the impact of devastating… More

This timely book casts new light on the key issues arising from the contentious debate around the future of the European Social Model. More

The true story of the British Empire's fall and America's rise in the aftermath of World War II More

The second edition of this widely acclaimed book considers the extent to which the Baltic states have succeeded politically and economically in their aspirations to emulate Western institutions since independence. More

The Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement is a loose coalition of non-governmental organizations receiving financial support from the United States and Europe. This study brings together topics such as nuclear testing, the European Union and regional Pacific politics. More

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This publication is to understand why countries in the Asia and Pacific region were significantly less affected by the global financial crisis than the world's most advanced economies of Europe and the United States, and what are the main lessons from their experience for building resilience from… More

The 'Arab Spring' triggered paradigmatic shifts but, despite these changes, much in the Euro-Mediterranean region remains the same. Utilising 'Logics of Action', an innovative theoretical framework designed to capture the complexity of political interaction in one of the fastest changing regions in… More

Examines the implications of the fully integrated European market More

Escape from the Staple Trap is a powerful critique of the dominant trend in Canadian political economy since the 1970s. More

Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a subject that - at least in the case of Athens - has received far less attention. Along with the problems of reconstructing the economy and replenishing the population, the problem of renegotiating… More

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A critical assessment of the role of national parliaments in the EU after the Lisbon Treaty and the sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone, this book examines whether national parliaments have become resigned or resilient actors in these new socio-economic and politico-legal circumstances. More

On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon platform drilling the Macondo well in Mississippi Canyon Block 252 (DWH) exploded, killing 11 workers and injuring another 17. The DWH oil spill resulted in nearly 5 million barrels (approximately 200 million gallons) of crude oil spilling into the Gulf of… More

The book will also prove to be invaluable for academics and students studying disaster management and human security, international aid policy, international relations and Asian economic issues. More

This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon on EU criminal law. By focusing on key areas of criminal law and procedure, the book assesses the extent to which the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty has transformed European… More

Aims to present an evaluation of recent legislative initiatives against unsolicited commercial e-mail ('spam') in the EU. More

Rolf Strootman brings together various aspects of court culture in the Macedonian empires of the post-Achaemenid Near East. More

Spencer Mawby offers a fresh perspective on the current literature and historiographical debates surrounding the end of the British Empire. Adopting a thematic approach, Mawby analyses the nature of anti-colonialism, domestic arguments regarding the empire, security and intelligence, relations… More

Joerg Rupke analyzes ritual and intellectual change in the city of Rome from the third to the first centuries B.C.E. The development of rational argument about religion and antiquarian systematization of religious practices is contextualized with respect to Roman expansion and the cultural exchange… More

Drawing on over a hundred papyrus petitions, one of the only sources of personal narrative from the Roman world, Ari Z. Bryen investigates how people living in Roman Egypt negotiated their relationships to local communities and the Empire through legal stories. More

Deals with the events of the Second Punic War after Hannibal's victory at Canna. More

Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. More

The first five books of Livy's history of Rome record the city's foundations through the Republic to Rome's recovery after the Gallic invasion of the 4th century BC. More

After an introduction to the development of Greek Oratory, there are pen-portraits of Antiphon, Andocides, Lysias, Isocrates, Isaeus, Demosthenes, Aeschines, Lycurgus, Hyperides and Dinarchus. More

This book assesses the state of EU law fifty years after the Communities were established, contributing to the debate on the European Constitution. More

Hellenistic courts were centres of monarchic power, social prestige and high culture in the kingdoms that emerged after the death of Alexander. More

Author and Antarctic explorer Neider recounts the history of expeditions to the South Pole along with his own adventure stranded on Mt. Erebus after a near-fatal helicopter crash. More