Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Limited Statehood in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia
Citizenship, Economy and Security
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
This book explores the complexity of the only widely-acclaimed successful democratic transition following the Arab uprisings of 2010-2011 – the Tunisian one. The country’s transformation, in terms of state-society relations across several analytical dimensions (citizenship, security, political...
The Complementary Roots of Growth and Development
Comparative Analysis of the United States, South Korea, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
The common roots of success and failure in economic growth and development lie in the systemic governance and fragmentation of institutional complementarities, respectively, but not in the unilateral adaptation of market-led or state-led models. To substantiate this argument, Akan utilizes case countries...
Towards an EU-Taiwan Investment Agreement
Prospects and Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
In late 2015, against a background of growing populist opposition to international trade agreements, the European Commission announced its willingness to negotiate a comprehensive bilateral investment agreement with Taiwan. While this should be relatively straightforward, this book warns that it is...
CEO School
Insights from 20 Global Business Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book focuses on what makes a successful CEO and the paths to becoming one in today’s global economy. Chapters in the book include insights by 20 top CEOs – one from each G20 country – gathered from an extensive global qualitative research project.
Through seven easy-to-digest...
by Robert C. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Hanes Walton Jr. (1941-2013) was a pioneering and prolific scholar of African American politics, and the architect of the modern scientific study of the subject.The first person to earn a PhD in political science from Howard University, Walton devoted his career to laying the intellectual foundations...
Literary Studies Deconstructed
A Polemic
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Literary Studies Deconstructed critiques the state of Literary Studies in the modern university and argues for its comprehensive reconstruction. It argues that Literary Studies as currently practised avoids engaging with much of literary experience and prioritises instead the needs of critics as a...
by Stuart Rosenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Some American intellectual traditions, although pristine in appearance, are racist at their core. This book reveals the racism inherent in those Platonist and Enlightenment moral traditions that motivate much contemporary rhetoric. Part One contains five chapters of substantial critique, while Part...
China Buys the World
Analyzing China's Overseas Investments
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2018
This book discusses the strategies that will define China’s overseas expansion in the coming years. China is spending billions of dollars acquiring overseas companies and assets, from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to the Hinkley Point nuclear station. Will this corporate buying binge continue?...
The Growth of the Scholarly Publishing Industry in the U.S.
A Business History of a Changing Marketplace, 1939–1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
This book analyzes the dynamic growth of the scholarly publishing industry in the United States during 1939-1946, a critical period in the business history of scholarly publications in STM and the humanities and the social sciences. It explains how the key publishing players positioned themselves...
by Katie Daily
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2018
Rejection and Disaffiliation in Twenty-First Century American Immigration Narratives examines changing attitudes about national sovereignty and affiliation. Katie Daily delinks twenty-first century American immigration narratives from 9/11, examining genre alterations within a scope of literary analysis...
The Postmillennial Vampire
Power, Sacrifice and Simulation in True Blood, Twilight and Other Contemporary Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This book explores the idea that while we see the vampire as a hero of romance, or as a member of an oppressed minority struggling to fit in and acquire legal recognition, the vampire has in many ways changed beyond recognition over recent decades due to radically shifting formations of the sacred...
by Diane E. Chido
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
This book describes the problems of intelligence sharing among peacekeeping partners, mainly due to security concerns and a lack of policies and resources. The study posits that the current emphasis on violent extremism as a driver of conflict is misplaced, as TOC is a more pervasive cause, creating...
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain
One Hundred Years Later
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
This book marks the centenary of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain by critically re-examining the established interpretation of the work. It introduces a new methodological approach to art-historical practice rooted in a revised understanding of Lacan, Freud and Slavoj Žižek. In weaving an alternative...
by Vanessa Bible
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
This book tells the story of Terania Creek – the world’s first direct action blockade in defence of a forest, occurring in Australia in 1979. Contrary to claims that the Australian counterculture was a mere imitation of overseas models, the Australian movement, coalescing with a home-grown environment...