Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis details the relationships between the Egyptian Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the Al Thani royal family in Qatar, and between the Mauritanian Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah and the Al Nahyans, the rulers of Abu Dhabi and senior royal family in the United Arab Emirates.
A prominent scholar reveals the surprising ways that capitalism is actually the best way to follow Jesus's mandates to alleviate poverty and protect our earth.
Das Buch widmet sich – aus einer ideengeschichtlichen Perspektive – dem Erscheinen einer neuen autoritären Regimeform im Transformationsprozess von monarchischen zu republikanischen Regierungen, oft als Cäsarismus angedeutet, die im neunzehnten und beginnenden zwanzigsten Jahrhundert viele politische Diskussionen entfachte.
This book aims to provide for a path-breaking cross-regional comparison of the capabilities and readiness of Asia-Pacific countries to contribute to peace support missions, with an eye to identifying emerging trends and policy implications.
This book examines the causes and consequences of post-conflict elections in securing and stabilizing peace agreements without the need to send troops.
In diesem Band werden in vier soziologischen Fallstudien begünstigende Faktoren identifiziert, welche lokale Gemeinschaften anfällig oder widerstandsfähig machen gegenüber Erscheinungsformen des Rechtsextremismus.
Neben den 'Aufrichtigen Erzählungen eines russischen Pilgers' ist dieses erstmals 1907 erschienene Buch die wohl wichtigste Schrift über das Jesusgebet.
This book explains the prevalence of electoral authoritarianism (or multi-party autocracy) in the politics of sub-Saharan Africa and examines why repeated elections have not deepened democracy.
The sixteenth-century Reformation transformed the church and society at large and its key theological insights had a concrete impact on the socio-political and economic spheres.
A complete translation of Trialogus, John Wyclif''s three-way dialogue which familiarized priests and layfolk with complex issues underlying Christian doctrine.
This book draws on the extensive literature on populism, democracy, and emerging markets as well as interviews with senior government officials, experts, and journalists in the Philippines and beyond, This book is the first to analyze the significance and implications of the rise of Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte within a rapidly-changing Asia Pacific region.
Pirates and Emperors, Old and New constitutes a collection of extended essays written between 1986 and 2001 which explore how "e;selected incidents of terrorism"e; are used as a cover for Western violence across the globe.
Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Wahlkreisarbeit von Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestags als eine zentrale Voraussetzung der repräsentativen Demokratie.
Conservative plans for a coalition government, a snap General Election, prime ministers considering whether to resign after an electoral or referendum defeat, and the prospect of Labour and Conservative deals with the Liberals, SNP and Northern Ireland Unionist parties, have become dominant features of British politics since 2010, and the hung parliament in June 2017.
Haitian Modernity and Liberative Interruptions investigates the intersections of history, literature, race, religion, decolonization, and freedom that led to the founding of the postcolonial state of Haiti in 1804.
This edited volume discusses critically discursive claims about the theological foundations connecting Islam to certain manifestations of violent extremism.
Decentralization is referred to as a process of sharing of powers by the Central ruling groups with other groups, each having authority within a specific area or the State.
