Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law

Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law offers the first comprehensive account of the entanglements of Buddhism and constitutional law in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Tibet, Bhutan, China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan.

British Women Surgeons and their Patients, 1860-1918

When women agitated to join the medical profession in Britain during the 1860s, the practice of surgery proved both a help (women were neat, patient and used to needlework) and a hindrance (surgery was brutal, bloody and distinctly unfeminine).

Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation

In this exploration of themeaning of home, Annie Zaidi reflects on the places in India from which she derives her sense of identity. She looks back on the now renamed city of her birth and the impossibility of belonging in the industrial township where she grew up.

Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa

Understanding the political and socio-economic factors which give rise to youth recruitment into militant organizations is central to grasping some of the most important issues that affect the contemporary Middle East and Africa.

Beyond the Silk Roads

Small-scale traders play a crucial role in forging Asian connectivity, forming networks and informal institutions separate from those driven by nation-states, such as China's Belt and Road Initiative. This ambitious study provides a unique insight into the lives of the mobile traders from Afghanistan who traverse Eurasia.

Beyond Borders: The Human Rights of Non-Citizens at Home and Abroad

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Artificial Intelligence and International Economic Law: Disruption, Regulatio…

Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming economies, societies, and geopolitics. Enabled by the exponential increase of data that is collected, transmitted, and processed transnationally, these changes have important implications for international economic law (IEL).

Are Books Still 'Different'?: Literature as Culture and Commodity in a Digita…

The famous 1962 precedent at the Restrictive Practices Court of the United Kingdom, “Books are different,” is still the reasoning behind many cultural policies around the world, building on long-standing assumptions surrounding “the book.”

Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits o…

Despite often being dismissed as bizarre, apocalyptic thought has persistent appeal in political life. This book explains apocalyptic thought's political appeal by examining it through the eyes of secular thinkers and makes original contributions to both the history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy.

Anti-Racist Shakespeare

Anti-Racist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. It outlines the necessary theoretical foundations for educators to develop a critical understanding of the longue durée of racial formation so that they can implement anti-racist pedagogical strategies and interventions in their classrooms.