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An excellent examination of how the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of globalization have brought about changes not only to the territorial configuration sovereignty of states and their boundaries, but also to traditional notions of state, boundaries, sovereignty and social orderThese essays focus on the key regional and geopolitical characteristics of this global reordering, with an emphasis on Eastern Europe and South Asia. They discuss the territorial reordering which is taking place at the level of the state as boundaries are redemarcated in line with ethno-territoral demands

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of the most contentious and protracted political issue in the Middle East, bringing together a range of top experts from Israel, Palestine, Europe and North America. Topics include the historical background of the conflict, peace efforts, domestic politics, critical issues such as displacement, Jerusalem and settler movements, and the role of outside players such as the Arab states, the US and the EU.

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the International Geographic Union conference on geopolitics and globalisation in a post-modern world, held in Israel in 1998, and deals with aspects of change.

"What, Where, When and Sometimes Why" provides a quantitative overview of post-c.1450 women's history publications by data mining a half million abstracts from two widely used article databases. We assess changes in the field and track the relationship between women's history as a subfield and history as a whole. Among many other findings, we argue against two popular beliefs about women's history: that women's historians are overly-focused on recent history and that women's and gender history is an ever increasing proportion of the profession. We trace publication shifts from 1985–2005, showing, for example, an increasing focus on various non-Western and nineteenth-century histories. Our case study on the history of sexuality finds minimal attention to reproduction and same-sex sexuality, and more thematic similarities across time periods than regions. We conclude by suggesting areas for future research, including the expansion of quantitative studies, of non-Western histories, and of professional activism as means to further develop women's history scholarship.