The slow pace of the Doha Round has boosted the proliferation of regional and bilateral
trade agreements. Paradoxically, the more powerful actors, the US and the European Union, who at the same time have benefited the most from the multilateral ...
Over the past two decades, China's political reforms, open-door policy, dramatic economic growth, and increasingly
assertive foreign policy have had an unprecedented regional and global impact. This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of government and politics in ...
Create the Pastoral Care Center that your flock needs!Contract Pastoral Care and Education: The Trend
of the Future? provides clergy of all faiths and pastoral care students with insight into the shifting role of chaplains in today's health care environment ...
Examining the causes of the acute Latin American debt crisis that began in mid-1982, North
American analysts have typically focused on deficiencies in the debtor countries' economic policies and on shocks from the world economy. Much less emphasis has been ...
This latest volume by Jean Richard is concerned with the evolution of the crusading movement
and with the interaction between crusaders and indigenous peoples of the Near East. The articles look at changes in the concept of crusading, means of ...
Greek-Turkish conflict-ridden relations have long occupied a problematic position in the Western alliance, first in
NATO then, more dramatically, within the context of the newly developing European Union and its defence initiatives. Following three major earthquakes on both sides of ...
This study, the first of its kind in English, examines Russian responses to the independence
movement in Latin America during the early nineteenth century. From a strictly presentist perspective, the investigation of this subject contributes to the historiography of colonialism ...
This is the first major work on the history of the secular church in the
Frankish states of Syria and the Holy Land - a subject which has not hitherto attracted the interest of ecclesiastical historians. The present book has ...
