Oxford University Press

The Regimes of European Integration shows why international regimes get built or not and whether national governments delegate to the international level. It contains case studies in economic and social regulation in Germany, the UK, and within the European Union....

This work focuses on the situation in one of the most potentially explosive theatres of superpower rivalry: the vast, politically turbulent region embracing the Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, forty-two littoral states, and one third of the world's population....

Stephan E. C. Wendehorst explores the relationship between British Jewry and Zionism from 1936 to 1956, a crucial period in modern Jewish history, encompassing both the shoah and the establishment of the State of Israel....

Displacing Human Rights lays bare the reductive understandings motivating Western intervention in Africa, the inadequate tools it insists on employing, its refusal to be accountable to African citizenries, and, most important, its counterproductive consequences for peace, human rights, and justice....

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This book explores the rapidly developing field of oxide thin-films and heterostructures, which exhibit unusual physical properties interesting from the fundamental point of view and for device application. The chapters, written by world-recognized scientists, discuss topics that represent some of the key innovations in the field over recent years....