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  • Real World Drug Discovery

    A Chemist's Guide to Biotech and Pharmaceutical Research

    by Robert M. Rydzewski ...
    Drug discovery increasingly requires a common understanding by researchers of the many and diverse factors that go into the making of new medicines. The scientist entering the field will immediately face important issues for which his education may not have prepared him: project teams, patent law, consultants, target product profiles, industry trends, Gantt charts, target validation, ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • The Balkan Route

    Hope, Migration and Europeanisation in Liminal Spaces

    by Robert Rydzewski ...
    Series series Southeast European Studies
    This book is an ethnography of the people migrating through the Balkan route and the reaction of the local communities who witnessed their struggle to reach the European Union (EU). Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in North Macedonia and Serbia, it pays special attention to the “refugee crisis” that gave birth to a new border regime based on a permanent suspension of laws, normalisation of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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  • Hunger and Fury

    The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans

    by Jasmin Mujanovic ...
    Less than two decades after the Yugoslav Wars ended, the edifice of parliamentary government in the Western Balkans is crumbling. This collapse sets into sharp relief the unreformed authoritarian tendencies of the region's entrenched elites, many of whom have held power since the early 1990s, and the hollowness of the West's "democratization" agenda. There is a widely held assumption that ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Regimes

    Central Asian Migrant Workers in Russia and Turkey

    by Rustamjon Urinboyev, Sherzod Eraliev ...
    Series series International Political Economy Series
    This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration policies ... Read more

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  • Geopolitics of European Union Enlargement

    The Fortress Empire

    Edited by Warwick Armstrong, James Anderson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Under the impact of accelerated globalization, transnational integration and international security concerns, the geopolitics of Europe's borders and border regions has become an area of critical interest. The progressive enlargement of the EU has positioned its borders at the heart of recent discussions on the changing nature of the EU, the meaning of 'Europe' and what constitutional shape a more ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Learning from Shenzhen

    China's Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City

    Edited by Mary Ann O'Donnell, Winnie Wong, Jonathan Bach ...
    This multidisciplinary volume, the first of its kind, presents an account of China's contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen, located just north of Hong Kong. In recent decades, Shenzhen has transformed from an experimental site for economic reform into a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy. The first of China's special economic ... Read more

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  • Ethnographies of the State in Central Asia

    Performing Politics

    by Madeleine Reeves, John Heathershaw, Eva-Marie Dubuisson, Aksana Ismailbekova, Alima Bissenova, Mateusz Laszczkowski, Ildiko Beller-Hann, Sarah Kendzior0, Tommaso Trevisani1, Morgan Yih-Yang Liu2, Cynthia Werner3, Kathleen Purvis-Roberts4 ...
    With fresh and provocative insights into the everyday reality of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia, this volume moves beyond commonplaces about strong and weak states to ask critical questions about how democracy, authority, and justice are understood in this important region. In conversation with current theories of state power, the contributions draw on extensive ethnographic research in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe

    Power, Institutions and Mobile Actors in Transnational Space

    Edited by Rano Turaeva, Rustamjon Urinboyev ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    This book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy

    Edited by Tobias Schumacher, Andreas Marchetti, Thomas Demmelhuber ...
    The Routledge Handbook on the European Neighbourhood Policy provides a comprehensive overview of the EU’s most important foreign policy instrument, provided by leading experts in the field.Coherently structured and adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this handbook covers the most important themes, developments and dynamics in the EU’s neighbourhood policy framework through a series of cutting ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The New Cold War and the Remaking of Regions

    by T.V. Paul, Markus Kornprobst, Manjeet Pardesi, Amitav Acharya, Anders Wivel, Thierry Balzacq, Vera Grantseva, Mark R. Brawley, Jonathan Paquin0, Xiaoyu Pu1, Vinod Aggarwal2, Andrew W. Reddie3, Deborah Welch Larson4, Selina Ho5, Seçkin Köstem6, Andrej Krickovic7, Jaeyoung Kim8 ...
    A compelling examination of how secondary states are preserving their strategic autonomy and are resisting spheres of influenceRussia's invasion of Ukraine and the deteriorating United States–China relationship signify the onset of the New Cold War. Unlike the original Cold War, this competition is multipolar and "multiplex," with secondary powers, small states, and even nonstate actors ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • EU and Russian Hegemony in the 'Shared Neighbourhood'

    Between Coercion, Prescription, and Co-optation

    by Isabell Burmester ...
    Series series The European Union in International Affairs
    This open access book examines the EU’s and Russia’s policies in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus through the prism of hegemony, a concept that it applies to both regional actors. The study cross fertilises the literatures on the EU neighbourhood policy, Russia’s foreign policy, and the scholarship on power in international relations to arrive at an innovative conceptualisation of the ... Read more

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  • Remaking Chinese Urban Form

    Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005

    by Duanfang Lu ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. She shows that as China’s quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social reality and a national imagination, the realization of planning ideals was postponed. The work unit – the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD