
Introduction and overview / Robert Taylor -- Political economy -- China's "new normal" growth trajectory : regional and global implications / Lucia Morales and Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan -- Origins and dimensions of the 21st century maritime silk road : experimental patch-work or grand strategy? / Robert Pauls and Joern-Carsten Gottwald -- Urban- rural differences in social policies : the…

Transforming teacher education through innovation / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik, Rachel Jakhelln, and Doris Jorde -- Quality in teacher education programs / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik -- Five-year integrated research-based teacher education for primary and secondary school / Ida K. Riksaasen Hatlevik, Rachel Jakhelln, and Doris Jorde -- Coherence in teacher education : a case of research-based ref…


ABSTRACT First published in 1998, this was the first book to present a comprehensive summary of both the global as well as institutional issues which are involved in biotechnology sharing. It covers the controversial subject of intellectual property rights (IPR) and the patenting of new discoveries in genetic knowledge in both agriculture and the human genome. One controversial issue is the cr…

ABSTRACT This monograph provides a coherent and systematic explanation of China’s regional economic development from the perspective of regional government competition. It gives an almost unknown exposition of the mechanisms of China's regional economic development, with numerous supporting cases drawn from both China and elsewhere. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested t…

ABSTRACT The policing of rape is in permacrisis. This book addresses the question of why police investigations continue to fail most rape victim-survivors and puts forward a framework for what policing can do to change this. Low conviction rates and poor victim-survivor experiences are the hallmarks of the rape justice gap. Three decades of research, policy, and legal changes have tweaked rape…

ABSTRACT This book examines to what extent politics in Iceland have been transformed in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The book focuses on whether the short-term sudden shock caused by the Great Recession has permanently transformed politics, political behaviour and the Icelandic party system or whether its effect was primarily transitory. These questions remain highly relevant…

ABSTRACT This book, first published in 1988, considers the problems that developing countries face when importing technology from abroad. The major issues - technical, economic, political - are analysed in the case of one particular country: Korea. The book describes the negotiations with the foreign companies that controlled the desired technology, the building of the plants, the training of …

ABSTRACT China's rise to global power status in recent decades has been accompanied by deepening economic relationships with Africa, with the New Silk Road's extension to Sub-Saharan Africa as the latest step, leading to much academic debate about the influence of Chinese business in the continent. However, China's engagement with African states at the political and diplomatic level has receiv…

Theoretical perspectives -- Introductory reflections on new educational theory through ethnography / Jürgen Budde -- Educational ethnography in an age of technoculture: Exploring noise and glitch instead of fetishizing the new / Felicitas Macilchrist -- Using netnography for educational research in an age of technoculture: Rich, intimate and immersive / Rosetta Gambetti, Rob Kozinets -- Old a…