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The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe that Russian expansion threatened India; Russian leaders came to believe in a British threat to their empire. Each sought security by trying to control the policies of weaker states which lay between their imperial frontiers and on whose alignment depended the balance of power. By 1914 when both felt even more threatened by Germany than by one another Russia seemed to have gained the upper hand in a struggle for hegemony in Asia which had been crucial for the course of world politics. This book examines the intellectual origins of the ‘Great Game’. | The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 A Study in British and Russian Imperialism

GBP 90.00
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The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh addresses the complex intersection of global politics and local dynamics in Bangladesh particularly in relation to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat). With multidisciplinary insights and perspectives the contributors to this volume provide an objective socio-historical analysis of Islam politics and society in Bangladesh. Separating fact from fiction they attempt to uncover the truth about Jamaat the largest Islam-based political party in the country. Suppressed and marginalized by the BAL regime Jamaat remains active in the social landscape of Bangladesh. What makes Jamaat so resilient against all odds? Can it peacefully coexist with rival political parties in a polarized nation such as Bangladesh? This book seeks to answer these crucial questions. An essential read for those interested in Bangladeshi politics and political Islam. | The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

GBP 130.00
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The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

First published in 1979 The Miners: A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46 describes the events and factors that led to the nationalisation of the coal industry in 1946. The World War had a creative as well as a destructive effect on the industry; it compressed fundamental changes into seven short years. By the end of the war the federated trade unions had succeeded in bringing about the unification of their industry; and the various county district and craft associations were themselves also unified in one single national body. Two rival plans emerged during 1945: a coal-owners’ plan in conjunction with an ‘experts’ report’ approved by Churchill and his Caretaker Cabinet and Labour’s ‘plan for the coal industry’ which came into force in 1946 as the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act. Anew epoch in management had begun with a National Coal Board new industrial relations and a new National Union of Mineworkers. This book will be of interest to students of history sociology economics and political science. | The Miners: One Union One Industry A History of the National Union of Mineworkers 1939-46

GBP 90.00
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China's African Challenges

China's African Challenges

China‘s relations with African nations have changed dramatically over the past decade. African oil now accounts for more than 30% of China‘s oil imports and China is Africa‘s second-largest single-country trading partner as well as a leading lender and infrastructure investor on the continent. Yet these developments are bringing challenges not only for Africa and the West but for China as well. This book examines these challenges considering Africa as a testing ground both for Chinese companiesgoing global and for a Chinese government that is increasingly having to deal with issues beyond its shores and immediate control. What does China need to do to protect and develop its African engagements against a backdrop of mounting African expectations concerns from Western actors in Africa and the rival presence of other emerging actors? How sustainable is the momentum that China has established in its African ventures? China‘s adaptations to the challenges it is facing in Africa are examined and assessed as are the implications of these changes for China Africa and the West. China‘s African engagements are certainly changing Africa but could they also be changing China? | China's African Challenges

GBP 160.00
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The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas Nationalism Ideologies and Education

The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas Nationalism Ideologies and Education

This book investigates the politics embedded in the Korean-language textbooks utilised between 1895 and 2019 within the context of one Korea (pre-colonial and colonial eras) the divided Koreas and an ethnic Korean group residing in Japan (Chongryon). By analysing the inclusions and omissions from Korean-language the author successfully highlights the impact of Korean politics making clear how rulers have attempted to control their citizens and legitimize their rule by using primary school Korean-language textbooks as a medium for political education and inculcation. It succinctly displays how different visions of ‘ideal citizenship’ have been presented in Korea and traces the resulting shift in views towards neighbouring nations as a result identifying how different rival countries were demonized at different times. This chapter also shows some consistent omissions such as the lower classes and marginalized individuals within their respective nations. Presenting recommendations for potential improvements of the content of future textbooks this study will be of interest to students of Asian Studies Post-colonial Studies Critical Curriculum Studies Critical Discourse Studies and Korean Studies. | The Politics of Korean Language Textbooks in the Two Koreas Nationalism Ideologies and Education

GBP 130.00
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The Turing Test Argument

The Turing Test Argument

This book departs from existing accounts of Alan Turing's imitation game and test by placing Turing's proposal in its historical social and cultural context. It reconstructs a controversy in England 1946–1952 over the intellectual capabilities of digital computers which led Turing to propose his test. It argues that the Turing test is best understood not as a practical experiment but as a thought experiment in the modern scientific tradition of Galileo Galilei. The logic of the Turing test argument is reconstructed from the rhetoric of Turing’s irony and wit. Turing believed that learning machines should be understood as a new kind of species and their thinking as different from human thinking and yet capable of imitating it. He thought that the possibilities of the machines he envisioned were not utopian dreams. And yet he hoped that they would rival and surpass chauvinists and intellectuals who sacrifice independent thinking to maintain their power. These would be transformed into ordinary people as work once considered 'intellectual' would be transformed into non-intellectual 'mechanical' work. The Turing Test Argument will appeal to scholars and students in the sciences and humanities and all those interested in Turing's vision of the future of intelligent machines in society and nature.

GBP 130.00
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) is one of the most rapidly developing centres of the multipolar world covering an enormous landmass including China India Russia and its southern Eurasian neighbours. With both its eight member states and a growing group of observer states the SCO’s activities have expanded beyond its initial focus on security and stability to broader cooperation with the UN and other groupings such as the G20 BRICS NATO and ASEAN. Bringing together large and disparate nation-states with often rival geostrategic agendas means that it not only faces substantial structural challenges but also has great potential. The contributors to this volume representing a range of the states within the SCO evaluate the possibilities for the Organization and the challenges it faces in achieving them through a prism of legal regulation. They evaluate the bloc’s prospects for economic humanitarian legal trade labour migration and environmental cooperation as well as its more traditional concerns with security and defence. The authors analyzing the quality of cooperation between states within the SCO note the controversial character of this process: it demonstrates both efficiency and declarative and decorative nature of the SCO. A valuable read for scholars and policy-makers with a focus on Eurasian cooperation and processes of regionalism and universalism in international relationships. | The Shanghai Cooperation Organization Exploring New Horizons

GBP 130.00
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EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

This book examines EU and US bilateral trade and investment relations with China their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the ‘reciprocity gap’ in market openness. It explores the extent of EU and US policy change the underlying factors accounting for this change and compares EU and US foreign economic policy answers to an adversary increasingly perceived as an unfair economic competitor and as a systemic rival. The book covers a broad range of policy areas from ‘trade wars’ trade defense instruments their reform and use investment screening and export control to industrial policies. It makes eclectic use of different strands of International Relations International Political Economy and Policy Analysis theorizing to account for the extent of and differences in the EU and US responses. The People’s Republic of China’s stellar economic and political rise combined with the resilience of its unfair trade practices its reinforced authoritarian repression at home and its ever more assertive foreign (economic) policy has triggered a shift in perceptions of China followed by equally profound policy change in the European Union and the US. This book expertly charts and explains this significant shift in stance. This book will be of key interest to scholars students and practitioners in the fields of EU trade policymaking US foreign/ foreign economic policy EU-China-US economic relations European political economy and more broadly to European studies Asian studies International Relations International Political Economy and transatlantic relations. | EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

GBP 130.00
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