Diplomacy is transforming and expanding its role as the method of interstate relations to a general instrument of communication among globalized societies. Working on the interface of diplomacy and academia, this title combines an insider view into innovation and change of the diplomatic process with a concise interdisciplinary academic analysis.

Includes articles that indicate the powerful role of queer theory in questioning the political, social, cultural, institutional hegemony of heterosexuality in culture and society at large as well as in academic research institutions. This book shows the challenges queer theory poses for ways of thinking about sexuality and identity in Norway.

This book presents an analysis of one of the fundamental Mahayana Buddhist teachings, namely the three bodies of the Buddha (the Trikaya Theory), which is considered the foundation of Mahayana philosophy.

Provides an account of India's role in world politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century. This book shows how the approach laid down by Nehru and followed by his successors has been replaced. It discusses this change, shows how it has come about, and explores how India's role in world politics might develop going forward.

Since 2001, Indonesia's military commitment to Aceh province resulted in one of Southeast Asia's largest wars for decades. This work presents the background and history of this war, investigating its domestic and international implications, at a time when the tsunami catastrophe has brought Aceh to world attention.

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The Hungarians and the Finns have had very few direct contacts in the historical past. These people have, however, shared a similar position in that they have both belonged to a group of small and medium-sized nations lying in a zone between East and West, which has sometimes been called Europe Between . Despite the considerable differences between the two societies, it may be instructive to ...

Compares and explores how social democratic governments had to adapt to globalization, European integration, and social change; and whether they successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in light of the devaluation of traditional policy instruments.

This text challenges us to take an alternative approach to the 20 biggest global problems of the 21st century. The author concludes that while our difficulties belong to the future, our means of solving them belong to the past and proposes unusual and persuasive alternatives.

This Companion volume shows the infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible.

Explores the evolution of the principles and methods for determining record trustworthiness from antiquity to the digital age. This study examines efforts undertaken by researchers in the field of archival science to develop methods for ensuring the trustworthiness of records created and maintained in electronic systems.

This book examines the relationship between land tenure, conservation and rural development in the context of the Southeast Asian archipelago. In particular, it is concerned with people living in and around national parks and other protected areas.

This book examines the daily lives of Roman women.

Explores the range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, and inserting implants. This book asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of 'modern primitives', or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic.

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Explores women's life experiences from western and eastern India. This book contains readings of personal narratives which help in painting various images of lives that we can only know at second hand. The melange includes memoirs, published articles, 'portraits from memory', a collection of essays, and an oral interview.

Approaches and methods in comparative education research are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attention. This book presents insights within the longstanding traditions of the field. It includes a focus on intra-national and cross-national comparisons, and highlights the value of approaching themes from different angles.

Hage brings insights from political economy and psychoanalysis, defining societies as mechanisms for the production and distribution of hope.