Special Issues as Books

North Korea and Northeast Asian Regional Security

Edited by Simon Shen

With its unstable and intermittent nuclear weapon project, and the recent leadership succession issue, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been a source of insecurity for the past decade in this region, in addition to the delicate international relations among the powerful China,...

Published November 25th 2014 by Routledge

Communication in Accounting Education

Edited by Richard M.S. Wilson, F. Elizabeth Gray, Lynn Hamilton

Accounting, often described as "the language of business", requires a diverse set of written, listening and oral communication skills if those who practise it are to be effective. Given the pace of change relating to, for example, the evolution of international accounting standards and the demands...

Published November 25th 2014 by Routledge

The Bonds of Love, Revisited

Edited by Eyal Rozmarin

Jessica Benjamin is one of the most important and influential psychoanalysts of the last 4 decades. She is one of the founders of relational psychoanalysis, a movement that has by now expanded over the globe and was also one of the first to introduce feminism and gender studies into psychoanalytic...

Published November 25th 2014 by Routledge

Military Occupations in First World War Europe

Edited by Sophie De Schaepdrijver

Our view of the First World War is dominated by the twin images of the fronts and the home fronts, yet the war also generated a third type of ‘front’, that of military occupation. Vast areas of Europe experienced the war under a military regime and this book deals with the occupations by the German...

Published November 23rd 2014 by Routledge

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century

Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

Edited by Aurel Croissant, Steffen Kailitz, Patrick Koellner, Stefan Wurster

Series: Democratization Special Issues

Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autocratic regimes goes hand in hand with a lack of systematic research on the results of the political and substantive policy performance of variants of...

Published November 20th 2014 by Routledge

Performing the Self

Women's Lives in Historical Perspective

Edited by Katie Barclay, Sarah Richardson

That the self is ‘performed’, created through action rather than having a prior existence, has been an important methodological intervention in our understanding of human experience. It has been particularly significant for studies of gender, helping to destabilise models of selfhood where women...

Published November 20th 2014 by Routledge