Oxford University Press

Discourses of War and Peace examines specific contexts around the globe in which discourse operates in the service of war and to build alternative visions of peace....

Investment protection treaties generally include, in one form or another, the obligation to treat investments fairly and equitably. This book examines the relationship between this obligation and the minimum standard that can be found in customary international law, tracing the history of both concepts, their differences and similarities....

Muslim-Christian Coexistence and its Destruction in Late-Ottoman AnatoliaConsiders the nature of Muslim-Christian relations within a multi-ethnic empire and draws on popular memory to investigate coexistence at the grass-roots level. Demonstrates the essential role of state-perpetrated political violence in hardening identity boundaries and in...

This book offers a composite snapshot of Chinese social policy at its point of greatest maturation prior to the 2007 global crisis, including developments in pensions, unemployment insurance, urban education for migrant children, rural health care, trilingual education, college enrolment, HIV/AIDS, and intergovernmental financing of social...

A Journey into the Heart of NarniaFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams opens a new window onto C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, revealing the moral wisdom and passionate faith beneath their perennial appeal....

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingdoms and territories of Europe and in English, Spanish, and Portuguese colonies in the Americas....