Public international law: human rights

The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses.

This book focuses on two key aspects of hate crime in the UK since 1945: those motivated by racial and religious prejudices.

What can populism and fundamentalism possibly have in common?

This book explores the thirty-year trajectory of the Free Patriotic Movement that aimed to achieve the freedom, sovereignty and independence of Lebanon from the Lebanese political elite and Syrian hegemony.

This book explores how the rule of power relates to the case of occupied Palestine, examining features of local dissent and international governance.

Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St.

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation.

This book explores how traditional Sunni Muslim conceptions have informed or shaped Islamization strategies in contemporary Turkey.

Grounded in nine years of ethnographic research on the al Muhajiroun/Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah movement (ALM/ASWJ), Douglas Weeks mixes ethnography and traditional research methods to tell the complete story of al Muhajiroun.

Interrogating Modernity returns to Hans Blumenberg's epochal The Legitimacy of the Modern Age as a springboard to interrogate questions of modernity, secularisation, technology and political legitimacy in the fields of political theology, history of ideas, political theory, art theory, history of philosophy, theology and sociology.

This edited volume engages a long-standing religious power, the Holy See, to discuss the impact of the structural and postsecular transformations of international relations through the emergence of a global and digital public sphere.

This book discusses the evolution of three philosophical foundations from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries that converged to form the basis of liberal democracy's approach to the place and role of religion in society and politics.

This book demonstrates how human rights obligations of the EU foreign constitution can be operationalized in the realm of international economic regulation.

This book employs methods from comparative law to analyze voluntary migration, exploring the free movement of immigrants and their freedom of settlement under Brazilian and Mercosul law, as well as under German law and the European Union's legal framework on migration.

Atheism Revisited is a collection of essays that explore the multifaceted nature of atheism.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

This book studies the relationship between British government and faith groups in its international development agenda within and beyond the context of Brexit.

Based on Catholic and Confucian social ethics, this book develops an ethic of solidarity and reciprocity with the migrants in Asia who are marginalized.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

This book is a journey into the heart of an Islamic worldview.

This innovative volume is focused on the impact of religion on the realization of democratic citizenship.

This volume addresses our global crisis by turning to Augustine, a master at integrating disciplines, philosophies, and human experiences in times of upheaval.

This book explores the increasing political and social prominence of Islamist groups across the Middle East in recent years.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace.

This book is concerned with the ideology of Islamophobia as a cultural racism, and argues that in order to understand its prevalence we must focus not only on what Islamophobia is, but also why diversely situated individuals and groups choose to employ its narratives and tropes.

The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head something that has been brewing in Western societies since the Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy as it evolved after World War II.

This book aims to advance the understanding of cultural property in armed conflict, and its significance for anti-terrorism and peace-building strategies.

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

September 11 and the subsequent War on Terror continues to cast a long shadow over the world.

This book explores the peacebuilding ideas and experiences of Maasai and Gusii women of faith in Kenya.

This book develops a comparative study on violence in Jamaica, El Salvador, and Belize based on a theoretical approach, extensive field research, and in-depth empirical research.

Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now than at any point in their history.

Moving from a historical and cultural perspective, this book examines the geo-political and socio-economic changes involving the enlarged Mediterranean.

This book examines both the evolution of the Catholic vote in the US and the role of Catholic voters in the historic 2016 elections.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe.

This book is a theoretically and historically informed exploration of 'secularism' in Muslim contexts.

This book chronologically analyzes thirteen key US Presidents, from Washington to Trump, to highlight how religion has informed or influence their politics and policies.

This book explores the complexity of the Syrian question and its effects on the foreign policies of Russia, Iran, and Turkey.

This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran's connections with non-state entities in the Middle East.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This first study of faith-based development NGOs' (FBOs) political roles focuses on how U.

This book explores how Nostra Aetate, the Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions of the Second Vatican Council, can influence inter-religious dialogue and understanding in the modern world.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

This innovative edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of modern secularism across Asia which contests and expands prevailing accounts that have predominantly focused on the West.

This book offers vivid insights into policies of religious education in schools since the series of wars in former Yugoslavia in the 1990's.

This book presents a creative synthesis of two ostensibly disparate fields of law - arbitration and human rights.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market.