Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
About Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies
This series aims to provide stimulating, thoughtful, and provocative academic studies that focus on the experience of people outside Europe and North America or that include Western and non-Western countries and regions in comparative studies of the global experience. The series looks for high-quality manuscripts in the social sciences and the humanities.
Series Editors
Gillian Berchowitz, Ohio University Press
Executive Editor
Featured Title
Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China offers a unique insight into current conflicts resulting from the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the Chinese government’s oppression of religious minorities, issues that have heightened the degree of polarization between the Uighur and the dominant Chinese ethnic group, the Han.…
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Cast Out
A History of Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global Perspective
By Augustus Leon Beier and Paul Ocobock
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences.…
Available October 2008 (est.)
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 8
Civil War, Civil Peace
Edited by Helen Yanacopulos and Joseph Hanlon
More than two hundred wars have been fought in the past halfcentury. Nearly all have been civil wars, and at the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than thirty civil wars were being fought. The “rules” of interstate war do not apply; each atrocity provokes retribution, and civil war takes on a brutal dynamic of its own.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 5
Communities of Work
Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts
Edited by William W. Falk, Michael D. Schulman and Ann R. Tickamyer
The image of rural America portrayed in this illuminating study is one that is vibrant, regionally varied, and sometimes heroic. Communities of Work focuses on the ways in which rural people and places are affected by political, social, and economic forces far outside their control and how they sustain themselves and their communities in response.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 2
Ethnic Conflict
Religion, Identity, and Politics
Edited by S.A. Giannakos
The outbreak of numerous and simultaneous violent conflicts around the globe in the past decade resulted in immense human suffering and countless lost lives. In part, both results were aided by inactivity or by belated and often misplaced responses by the international community to the embattled groups.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 1
Hanging by a Thread
Cotton, Globalization, and Poverty in Africa
Edited by William G. Moseley and Leslie C. Gray
The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world’s major regions, is now increasingly engaged in the production of this crop for the global market, and debates about the pros and cons of this trend have intensified.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 9
Human Rights in African Prisons
Edited by Jeremy Sarkin
Prisons are always a key focus of those interested in human rights and the rule of law. Human Rights in African Prisons looks at the challenges African governments face in dealing with these issues.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 10
Immigration, Diversity, and Broadcasting in the United States 1990—2001
The last decade of the twentieth century brought a maturing of the new racial and ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of diversity and multiculturalism as dominant fields of discourse in legal, educational, and cultural contexts.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 3
Military Intervention after the Cold War
The Evolution of Theory and Practice
For hundreds of years, military intervention in another country was considered taboo and prohibited by international law. Since 1992, intervention has often been described as an international responsibility, and efforts have been made to give it legal justification.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 4
Under the Heel of the Dragon
Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China
The Turkic Muslims known as the Uighur have long faced social and economic disadvantages in China because of their minority status. Under the Heel of the Dragon: Islam, Racism, Crime, and the Uighur in China offers a unique insight into current conflicts resulting from the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the Chinese government’s oppression of religious minorities, issues that have heightened the degree of polarization between the Uighur and the dominant Chinese ethnic group, the Han.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 7
Violence, Political Culture & Development in Africa
Edited by Preben Kaarsholm
Africa has witnessed a number of transitions to democracy in recent years. Coinciding with this upsurge in democratic transitions have been spectacular experiences of social disintegration. An alternative to discourses of the “failed” and “collapsed” state in Africa is an approach that takes seriously the complex historical processes underlying the political development of individual nation states.…
Research in International Studies, Global and Comparative Studies n° 6
