Rowman Littlefield Publishers: 5578 books
Security 2.0
Dealing with Global Wicked Problems
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Today, international security issues are slowly being reconsidered through the lens of human security, which refers to a combination of political, economic, social, nutritional, environmental, physical health, and personal safety issues. When first mentioned in 1994, the concept of human security...
China Ink
The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
This lively book explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth, and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and understanding...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
In the third volume of this popular series, leading experts provide fascinating and unexpected insights into critical issues of culture, economy, politics, and society in today's China. This world, outside the reach of state control and either misunderstood or unreported in Western media, gains clarity...
What a President Should Know
An Insider's View on How to Succeed in the Oval Office
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2007
The winner of the presidential election will need to get quickly up-to-speed on how to manage the government. What are the likely issues he will encounter on the first day in the Oval Office? What does he do about the cost of the Iraq War? He'll get blamed if there's another terrorist attack, so what...
Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle
Another Region is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Latin America after the Neoliberal Debacle studies the crippling problems that plague civilian democracies in the region. Ximena de la Barra and Richard Dello Buono draw on their extensive first-hand knowledge of Latin America to provide a rich analysis of why the needs of the region are too often...
Caught in the Crossfire
Revolution, Repression, and the Rational Peasant
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
Caught in the Crossfire presents a multifaceted explanation of why people participate in something as dangerous and uncertain as a revolutionary movement. Beginning with an analysis of the grievances that motivate peasant participation in political movements, the book also explores the additional...
Jews, Confucians, and Protestants
Cultural Capital and the End of Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2012
Multiculturalism—the belief that no culture is better or worse than any other; it is merely different—has come to dominate Western intellectual thought and to serve as a guide to domestic and foreign policy and development aid. But what if multiculturalism itself is flawed? What if some cultures...
Applying Social Statistics
An Introduction to Quantitative Reasoning in Sociology
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2010
While Applying Social Statistics is 'about' social statistics and includes all of the topics generally covered in similar texts, it is first and foremost a book about how sociologists use statistics. Its emphasis is on statistical reasoning in sociology and on showing how these principles can be applied...
Basic Statistics
An Introduction with R
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Basic Statistics provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to statistics using the free, state-of-the-art, powerful software program R. This book is designed to both introduce students to key concepts in statistics and to provide simple instructions for using R.
Teaches essential...
Mass Informed Consent
Evidence on Upgrading Democracy with Polls and New Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Public opinion polling permeates today's politics, yet many seem suspicious of polls and skeptical in their prominence, fearing that overreliance on public opinion amounts to pandering or that pollsters can manipulate a feeble public. In this book Adam Simon argues that democracy requires that government...
by Brigid Starkey, Mark A. Boyer, Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
This hands-on text provides an essential introduction to international negotiation, exploring the impact of complex multilateralism on traditional negotiation concepts such as bargaining, issue salience, and strategic choice. Using an easy-to-understand board game analogy as a framework for studying...
The End of Authority
How a Loss of Legitimacy and Broken Trust Are Endangering Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Around the world, citizens have lost faith in their political and economic institutions—leading to unprecedented levels of political instability and economic volatility. From Moscow to Brussels, from Washington to Cairo, the failure of democracies and autocracies to manage the fiscal and political...
by Hans Schattle
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This lively and invigorating book explores the complex ways that globalization has profoundly affected the once-static nationally defined boundaries of citizenship. From Cairo to Beijing, campaigns for civil rights and democracy around the world are intensifying and speeding up in the digital media...
An Introduction to World Politics
Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2012
In today’s world, students need to know that there is more to politics than just politics. This clearly written text introduces students to world politics as a combination of comparative politics and international relations in an increasingly interconnected globe and explores topics that are sometimes...