Product Description: This edited volume focuses on India's experiences waging counterinsurgency campaigns since its independence in 1947. Filling a clear gap in the literature, the book traces and assess the origins, evolution and current state of India's counterinsurgency strategies and capabilities, focusing on key counterinsurgency campaigns waged by India within and outside its territory...read more

Product Description: SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease provides a comprehensive and original analysis of the historic global SARS outbreak of 2003. David P. Fidler constructs a political pathology of the SARS outbreak, analyzes the government responses to it, places these responses in historical context and assesses the implications of the successful management of the outbreak for handling future pathogenic threats that will arise...read more

Focusing on the plight of one Venezuelan teenager, the authors reveal that in their efforts to secure cheap labor, Major League Baseball teams often violate basic human rights, and they propose reforms to redress the inequities created when baseball meets globalization. (view table of contents)

Product Description: The deadly spread of HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases -- especially in Africa, where the strain on public health authorities is at breaking point -- underscores the critical need for an international regime of public health law...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Edmund Burke has long been regarded as one of the most important political thinkers of the late eighteenth century, and his writings and speeches continue to inspire and challenge to the present day. But Burke’s thinking on international relations has not been fully addressed by the scholarly community...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: International Law and Infectious Diseases is the first comprehensive analysis of the intersection between international law and infectious diseases. Infectious diseases pose a global threat and international law plays an important but under-explored role in infectious disease control...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jean Jacques Rousseau's thinking on the nature and dynamics of international politics represents a brilliant and disturbing contribution to our understanding of international affairs. This book attempts to make Rousseau's thinking on international relations easily accessible by collecting for the first time selections from Rousseau's important writings in which he develops his unique international perspective, and by providing a detailed interpretation of this perspective...read more