Politics/Current Affairs

The Millennium Development Goals, adopted at the UN Millennium Summit in 2000, are the world's targets for dramatically reducing extreme poverty in its many dimensions by 2015. This report lays out the recommendations of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Education and Gender Equality.

Focusing on the River Stour in Dorset, this book draws upon a range of data: ethnographic research, cultural mapping, local archives and folklore. It explores the controversies surrounding water ownership and management, and the social and political questions raised by water privatization in the UK.

This report, sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations, was done by an Independent Task Force on Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula. Noting that the new Republic of Korea government has taken steps to open North Korea to broader contacts with the outside world while asserting that it will brook ...

With Tony Blair and George Bush's authority ever more threatened by the blowback from their venture in the Middle East, the Suez Crisis of 1956, has taken on a new relevance. Years after Antony Eden's fateful decision to take on the Egyptian President, this work retraces the legacy of this dramatic foreign policy blunder.

In the world of CCTV, email and DNA, this book shows the extent to which Big Brother is watching us all.

This volume is a concise introduction to political, economic and social life in Britain. Illustrated with maps, charts and tables throughout, the book assumes no prior knowledge, and places current developments clearly in their historical, cultural, international and comparative context.

An annual guide to a sustainable future, with particular attention to China and India, two of the world's rapidly developing countries in terms of industry, population and significance to the global economy, and associated impacts on the environment. This book draws on the expertise of the Worldwatch Institute's team of writers and researchers.

Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. This book presents an ethnographic study which shows that Sudanese ethnic identity is created from deeply held social values, especially those concerning gender and propriety.

Presents the life-worlds and personal experiences of workers and employees in three enterprises in East Berlin at the moment of political and economic upheaval. This book sets out in 1989 at the moment of the fall of the Berlin Wall, witnessing the confrontations with the market economy and examining the reinterpretations of the socialist past.

Presents an analysis of one of the most dramatic and important election years in postwar Germany. This book addresses different issues, including the transatlantic relationship, EU policy, voting behavior and far Right parties. It is useful for students of German, European and comparative politics.

Places the practices of racism at the center of analysis of so-called post-racist or multi-cultural nation-states. This volume treats racism and its related concepts of race, identity, culture, and naturalizing symbols of blood to highlight the manner in which governing institutions use nationalist precepts to create "races."

For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views of ...

In light of the curve balls the times are throwing at the identity, priorities, and world views of young Israelis, Hazan (social anthropology, Tel Aviv U.) constructs an ethnographically informed discourse pertaining to the tension and interplay between the mythical framework and formulae of Zionism

While Italian politics may appear on the surface to be evolving towards a Westminster model with right- and left-wing blocs alternating in power, this impression is belied by the often nervous and disconnected way in which events unfolded in 2005.

Follows selected stories of friendship ranging over early childhood, school, the workplace, and some unique war experiences. This book explores the symbolism of friendship in rituals for the fallen soldiers, the commemoration of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and the national infatuation with recovering bodies of missing soldiers.

Written in honor of prominent anthropologist Richard B Lee who is concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of indigenous rights, the impact of colonialism and post colonial state formation on local communities and cultures. This book defines persistent problems that deeply affect the majority of the world's cultures.

This title provides a new and original framework for analysis of global terrorism, with a view to understanding and resolving Islamic-based, fundamentalist jihadism.

A guide to the bonkers world of Britain's government that features 240,000 rules and regulations.

This book brings a needed balance to the debate: are the USA and Europe really at odds after stressful unavoidable diplomatic residue following the Iraq War? The book outlines a clear common ground for both sides, noting that American relations with Europe remain vital for commercial, cultural, and geo-political reasons.