Thoroughly researched and well documented, this accessible book looks at the past, present, and future of Hong Kong. Wang examines China's policy toward the Hong Kong transition in general—including the "one country, two systems" formula, the 1984 Sino-British agreement, and the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR)—and also addresses two    More >

Mila works at Heaven, a little bar on "blowjob alley" in Angeles city, the Philippines. Once the site of the United States Clark Air Force Base, the city is now one of the busiest and sleaziest sex tourist destination in Southeast Asia. Mila lives in tremendous hope that someday a customer will rescue her from Heaven and take her to America. In the Philippines, prostitution is not    More >

Housing Microfinance, a comprehensive overview of housing microfinance worldwide, provides solid guidance for both international and domestic microfinance institutions that are considering expanding into housing, as well as for providers of conventional housing loans who seek to offer their services to poor clients who lack collateral or regular income.    More >

Why are some people in the United States securely housed, while others struggle to obtain and maintain stable homes? What beliefs, and their consequent policies, have led to these disparities? Why have decades of government intervention failed to foster affordable housing and end homelessness? To answer these questions, Virginia Beard traces some two centuries of US federal housing    More >

Choice Outstanding Academic Book! How do transformative changes in public policy take place? Why do some issues rise to the top of the political agenda, while others are completely ignored? What makes some major policy initiatives succeed—at times, even when the odds are decidedly against them—while others fail or languish for decades? Answering those questions is the purpose of    More >

Presenting a unique method of looking at environmental policy formulation and implementation, George Honadle clarifies those elements of context that affect how policies work and outlines policymaking approaches that incorporate the important linkages among public policies, human behavior, and natural settings.    More >

In this compelling ethnographic study, Angela Taylor delivers an inside view of how drug dealers settle disputes—yielding rich insight into situational theories of violence and the nature of the drug trade. Taylor draws on firsthand accounts to address the following questions: What are the characteristics of drug-business disputes? How do such disputes move from initial confrontation to    More >

How NGOs React follows the Soros Foundation's educational reform programs in the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Mongolia and raises larger questions about the role of NGOs in a centralist government, relationships NGOs have with international donors and development banks, and strategies NGOs use to interpret global reforms locally. The authors, all former or current educational experts of the    More >

Vladimir Putin's efforts to build influence abroad have succeeded in many places, but the Kremlin has also faced serious hurdles and even defeats. Thomas Kent delves into six cases where hubris and miscalculation led to reversals—some temporary, some permanent—of Russia's fortunes and suggests how understanding the common threads in Russia's self-defeating behavior can be    More >

As national governments struggle to cope with the complex threat of mass-casualty terrorist attacks, there is an ongoing debate about the best approaches to counterterrorism policy. The authors of How States Fight Terrorism explore the dynamics of counterterrorism policy development in Europe and North America. A series of case studies examine security concerns, political debates and policy    More >