Palgrave Macmillan

Is economic globalization irresistible? One of its main effects has been to shield financiers and investors from democratic processes deemed out-of-sync with powerful economic interests. This book is an inquiry into the ways by which citizens and states may be able to undo some of these constraints imposed by transnational legality....

The more than 9,000 entries in this financial reference provide comprehensive coverage of the terms used in the banking and finance industries, ranging from the vocabulary of personal banking to the technical jargon of the international money markets. Encyclopedic comments on banking and financial practice are accompanied by definitions of complex...

Psychoanalytic Knowledge presents cutting-edge thinking on some fundamental ideas in psychoanalysis by important international scholars in the field of the philosophy of psychoanalysis. It explores the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge in the light of contemporary philosophical views or critiques of a diversity of topics relevant to...

Nation states around the globe are struggling with increasing concerns over human and global insecurity. Within this climate crime and criminal justice policies in many countries have become key areas of political focus, with the prison poised to play an important role in security strategies. This book problematises the persistent use of prisons...

Ousselin sets out to show that Europe is essentially a literary fiction and that the ongoing European unity movement cannot be understood without reference to the literary works that helped bring it about....

Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach to understanding the political dynamics that led to the collapse of the Soviet order. A detailed analysis of the design, implementation and collapse of Soviet policy toward the countryside is used to explore the implications of a...