Politics and political relationships underpin the world we live in. From the division of the earth's surface into separate states to the placement of 'keep out' signs, territorial strategies to control geographic space can be used to assert, maintain or resist power and as a force for oppression or liberation. Forms of exclusion can be consolidated and reinforced through territorial practices, yet they can also be resisted through similar means.

Territoriality can be seen as the spatial expre...

Designed as a core text for undergraduate students. Politcal Geography employs a novel and accessible structure to guide students through the key Approaches, Concepts, and Futures of Political Geography.Â

First edition published 2010 in series Active learning in sport.

This text is an introduction to quantitative and qualitative research methods for undergraduate students majoring in Human Development and Family Studies, and now includes useful applications and key examples from human development.

Democracy does not solve all the problems in the world, but democracy is always better than dictatorship. To promote cred-ible elections, the EU, OSCE, Carter Centre, AU, OAS and many other organizations field international election observers. These observers are a special kind of people. They go where nobody else goes. To the local people in far-off provinces they are a shining light. To (semi)dictators it means that there are limits as to what they can get away with. In this book, journalis...

A new anthology of recent articles from one of the leading family science publications, the Journal of Family Issues (SAGE).

Unique purpose-written resource to help students in higher education understand and apply critical thinking in the study of sport.

The new and updated seventh edition of Political Geography once again shows itself fit to tackle a frequently and rapidly changing geopolitical landscape. It retains the intellectual clarity, rigour and vision of previous editions based upon its world-systems approach, and is complemented by the perspective of feminist geography. The book successfully integrates the complexity of individuals with the complexity of the world-economy by merging the compatible, but different, research agendas of...

Introduction to Japanese Politics, now in its updated 6th edition, is a comprehensive review of political developments in Japan. This classic introduction to Japanese politics has now been revised to cover: Japan's history, political institutions and processes, recent changes in the LDP and the contentious realm of foreign and security issues.

A vital work of political philosophy by one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century, which remains as a provocative contribution to limits on the use of violence. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by William McBride.