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  • Turkey and the Balkans

    Between Europeanisation and De-Europeanization

    Edited by Başak Z. Alpan, Ahmet Erdi Öztürk ...
    This book delves into Turkey’s increasing ethno-religious, pragmatic, and complicated involvement and activism in the Balkans since 2002, under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi – AKP). It primarily focusses on the intersectionality between domestic and foreign policy that has played an important role in Turkey’s recent relations with the Balkan countries as well as ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Imagining Europe in Times of War and Crises

    Youth Perceptions from Balkans, Caucasus, and Turkey

    Edited by Başak Alpan, Afrim Hoti ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book aims to explore the perceptions of the EU integration by the young population in its “periphery”. It thereby bridges the gap between perceptions studies, youth studies, and the center-periphery conceptual framework. The chapters in the volume make use of data generated from focus group meetings with university students aged between 18-30 (which is the age range generally used by the ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • The European Football Championship

    Mega-Event and Vanity Fair

    Edited by Albrecht Sonntag, Alexandra Schwell, Basak Alpan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The UEFA European football championship was the first European mega-event to take place in post-socialist Europe. Taking this as a departure point, this volume focuses on football as a realm of constructing and negotiating identities using rich ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth media analysis. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Political Football Stadium

    Identity Discourses and Power Struggles

    Edited by Başak Alpan, Albrecht Sonntag, Katarzyna Herd ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the football stadium as a political space and examines how stadiums can be viewed as the objects and catalysts of political change. Rather than acting as functional constructions designed merely to host football games, stadiums stand out in the urban landscape as landmarks that serve as gathering points for large communities.The manifestation of the political in football ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    by Rory Stewart, Gerald Knaus ...
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  • Great Games, Local Rules

    The New Great Power Contest in Central Asia

    by Alexander Cooley ...
    The struggle between Russia and Great Britain over Central Asia in the nineteenth century was the original "great game." But in the past quarter century, a new "great game" has emerged, pitting America against a newly aggressive Russia and a resource-hungry China, all struggling for influence over the same region, now one of the most volatile areas in the world: the long border region stretching ... Read more

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  • Sinostan

    China's Inadvertent Empire

    by Raffaello Pantucci, Alexandros Petersen ...
    Based on more than a decade's writing, research, and travel, this book offers a rare glimpse into China's expanding economic, cultural, and political power in the Eurasian heartland. China's rise is changing the world. Much attention has been given to how China's geo-economic vision is playing out in the global economy, or how its technology is reshaping the planet, yet it is over its western ... Read more

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  • The Games

    by David Goldblatt ...
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  • China's Forgotten People

    Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State

    by Nick Holdstock ...
    One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship. With Islamic terrorism in China likely to increase over the next decade, how the Party responds will have global repercussions. China's Forgotten People explains why terrorism is on the rise in the world's most ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

    Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

    Edited by Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius ...
    Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess ... Read more

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  • Xinjiang

    China's Muslim Borderland

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    Series series Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus
    Eastern Turkestan, now known as Xinjiang or the New Territory, makes up a sixth of China's land mass. Absorbed by the Qing in the 1880s and reconquered by Mao in 1949, this Turkic-Muslim region of China's remote northwest borders on formerly Soviet Central Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Mongolia, and Tibet, Will Xinjiang participate in twenty-first century ascendancy, or will nascent Islamic ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Contemporary Art

    Edited by Jonathan Harris ...
    In a series of newly commissioned essays by both established and emerging scholars, Globalization and Contemporary Art probes the effects of internationalist culture and politics on art across a variety of media. Globalization and Contemporary Art is the first anthology to consider the role and impact of art and artist in an increasingly borderless world.First major anthology of essays concerned ... Read more

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