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This book analyzes Pyongyang¿s nuclear policy changes for the last three decades under Kim Il Sung, Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Un. It explains when and why the North Korean leaders have chosen either risk-acceptant confrontation or risk-averse engagement toward the United States.

This book illuminates the processes by which industrial manufacturing organizations in Japan conducted collective actions and how, and under what conditions, industries interacted with each other and responded to government interference, particularly during the Great Depression and World War II.

In this book, Nadia Salem expands the standardized mythic quest of the herös journey for storytellers to include the heroine¿s journey. By arguing that the former reflects coming of age while the latter coming of middle-age, Salem reveals how both are integral to depictions of fully developed characters.

This book tackles the linguistically unique and notoriously difficult BA construction in Chinese, covering its linguistic properties and acquisition by learners of Chinese as a foreign language, alongside teaching recommendations. Adopting the Interface Hypothesis and the Processing Instruction approach, Hongying Xu argues that not all linguistic properties of the BA construction are equally difficult to acquire and that properties that call for knowledge from interfaces¿including semantics, pragmatics, and syntax¿are more difficult to master than those that involve pure syntactic knowledge. Xu argues that instructors should provide manipulated input to help learners notice and process these properties before they are required to produce any grammatical and appropriate sentences using the BA construction.

Self-determination in the European Union rests on the strength and skills of a country¿s representatives to manage and leverage relationships with other nations, and for individuals it rests on the ability to use autonomy and freedom wisely. To flourish, an individual must consciously determine their own path. Similarly, we can say a country can flourish. Self-determinism for a country is conditioned on the forces that facilitate or hinder its ability to succeed as a society. The same forces that can help a nation to flourish might also accelerate the decision to emigrate among a nation¿s people. This is the paradox, and it is the quest: national and individual self-determination, to allow choice for emigration but to have strength of culture, civics, and institutions to discourage it, or to encourage return migration for those who have left. In this book, we address this paradox and this quest using the case of Lithuania. More specifically, we examine how municipalities can and do respond to ongoing population shrinking due to emigration in Lithuania, the non-economic factors that facilitate decisions to emigrate, and the opportunities for local governments to shrink smartly or reverse shrinkage.

Kashmir's Necropolis: New Literatures and Visual Texts explores the literary, visual, and cultural productions from and on Kashmir. The author argues that the selected texts articulate an aberrant space caught in a violence in which postcolonial concepts of agency, violence, resistance and horror undergo unique transformations.

This book develops a theory of aesthetics that criticizes scientific and philosophical reductionism that denies the importance of culture in art and taste, but its theory accepts some fundamental aspects of Neo-Darwinist theory of culture by addressing points of convergence among the notions of meme, simulacrum, and symbol.

Panamanian Suite narrates the complex relationship between Panama and the United States by following the development of music in each nation. As an important port of Caribbean migration in the twentieth century, Panama played an essential role in the emergence and shaping of cultural forms such as jazz.

As a result of the ideological void left by the fall of communism, countries that were part of the former Soviet bloc began a lengthy transition to democracy. This book explores the growing concerns about the formation of authoritarian regimes and the push towards democratic governance.

Trust and justice are challenging humanity in scales and scopes unprecedentedly in the middle of globalization. Mankind is located at structural turning points and there are pressing needs to study justice and trust which glue mankind together. Trust and Justice: Complexity of Man, Complexity of Society, and Complexity Theory considers man as an organic complexity and society as an interactive complexity. Applying complexity theory, it discusses the implications and limitations of theories of justice. Wei-Bin Zhang analyses the dynamics of trust in modern societies. Nonlinear dynamic interactions between trust and deception and honesty and manipulations are emphasized. The author points out that some trustful relationships are not right if they are considered with broad perspectives. Modern rational civilization is bolstered by its ideology, an ideology that provides a structure for the creation, distribution, and consumption of wealth, power, and sex (and its associated products such as family and children). Zhang provides some insights into relationships between ideologies, trust, and justice. An interdisciplinary approach is applied to reveal the complexity of trust and justice.

This book scrutinizes the changing dynamics of the global security order, in an era highlighting the constant tension between a rules-based liberal international order and a world order characterized by economic and military power contests.

In this book, Daniel Patrick Kelly examines Kant¿s Critique of Pure Reason through the lens of historical contextualization and highlights the importance of Kant¿s "Transcendental Dialectic" in the greater justification of his overarching transcendental idealism.

The theory of the ¿enabling condition¿ explains how favorable political conditions can facilitate economic upgrade. Through a case study comparison involving five single party, authoritarian regimes, it concludes that Chinäs unfavorable political situation augurs ill for its ambitions to build a highly productive economy.

The Apocalypse of John and Liberation Theology in Africa is a rich and multifaceted portrayal of the Apocalypse as a sophisticated code to interpret either history or a response to God in contemporary personal life. This book brings new ways of reading for the liberation of the African continent.

This book analyzes the process of the sinicization of Buddhism. It provides a comprehensive investigation on how the perceived similarities between Buddhism and Daoism originated and how traditional Daoist terminologies were applied.

Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book captures a snapshot of humane, subjective, and emotive facets of cities, studied through microhistories, social movements, and urban cultures.

This book highlights how the foreign policy and intervention behavior of state actors are influenced by regional hegemonic interests and collective identity, drawing from empirical insights gathered from structural realism and social constructivism to explain why and how states intervene in conflicts.

The Afrikan Revolution in Ayiti: Libète ou Lanmò, Freedom or Death is an Afrocentric re-examination and interpretation around the historiography of the Haitian Revolution and provides an in-depth study that highlights several significant Afrikan epistemological and cosmological aspects that led to freedom.

Through a study of the Italian Clean Hands operation, the author shows that the introduction of egalitarian decision-making within local prosecutors¿ offices is a crucial condition for the effective prosecution of systemic corruption.

This book investigates how Victorian fiction reconfigures the narrative and social conventions of inheritance by revealing its unsettling affinities with speculative forms. The book takes an interdisciplinary historical and formal approach, reading contemporary political and legal discussions alongside Brontë, Dickens, Collins, and Eliot.

South Slavic Women¿s Transgenerational Trauma Healing through Oral Memory Practices: Women War Crimes and War Survivors explains that Kolo-Informed Trauma Treatment is a clinical, cultural, psychological, and neurobiological approach that draws upon the rich scientific UNESCO intangible cultural heritage and embodied practices of the South Slavic Kolo-circle movement format or somatic folk dance. The author argues that Slavic oral memory practices are not in fact worthless or outdated in healing trauma. The inclusion of the little-known or rarely researched women who have experienced war crimes and war trauma demonstrates the intrinsic depth and female indigenous resources aligning with many scientific interdisciplinary fields and women¿s human rights. Central to the Kolo-Informed Trauma Treatment is the profound recognition of the importance of women¿s cultural memory and somatic oral traditions to evolve towards communal healing. Women¿s memory narrative enables the South Slavic people to have profound communal approaches to offer insights into the effects of war trauma, advocating paths towards thriving. Through a recalibration with the relationship of women as valued resources and prominence as creators of healing cultures, South Slavic women¿s communal healing practices, if orchestrated on a planetary scale, elaborate inclusive dynamic homeostasis.

In this book, Petre Petrov argues that Soviet ideology, in the form in which it solidified during the Stalinist period, should not be seen as a member of a known political ideology. Rather, Soviet ideology is its own kind of political ideology, whose original life calls for an innovative conceptual treatment.

This collection highlights the important role of the topic of revelation in the work of Paul Ricœur. It discusses his biblical hermeneutics and his philosophical hermeneutics of the self on such topics as identity, trauma, or forgiveness, and also puts him in conversation with other thinkers on the topic of revelation.

This book depicts hackers¿ activities and their personalities from a different angle by exploring their social media network, their audience, the creation of public opinion, the hackers¿ personal characteristics, and the shift in hackers¿ activities under the influence of the political situation.

The chapters in this volume analyze the interplay between knowledge, public policy, and entrepreneurship in both theory and practice. In particular, they examine how policymakers often struggle with limited economic knowledge, which hinders their ability to intervene in the market process to achieve their desired ends.

Democratic Education in an Armed Society provides an account of how our conceptions of democratic education affect our ability to make democracy work while holding a gun. It suggests that school gun violence is tied to how we teach children to think of themselves as democratic actors.

This volume explores of the history of figures, issues, and debates in Continental philosophy to re-frame our understanding of how modern and recent philosophy has unfolded, especially through the investigation of understudied ideas and thinkers.

This book examines how Q-Anon and other right-wing beliefs use intolerant religious tropes that promote fear and violence and counter with a progressive religious frame of ethics and recent findings in social-psychology to inspire a new collective national identity.

Drawing on published works as well as personal correspondence, this book sheds new light on Guy Debord¿s work on the spectacle, arguing that he offers a politics of communication that relies on the ironic language of contradiction, of critical theory, and of the incommunicable to undermine the hierarchical language of the spectacle.

This book provides a detailed `multi-sectoral analysis¿ of Public-Private Partnerships in Africa, examining the theory and implementation of PPPs and providing case studies on the use of PPPs in various African countries and industry sectors.