Comparative politics

The global expansion in judicial power has led to a growing interest in the way judges are chosen.

This compelling and timely book explores the relationship between classical Islamic theology and the contemporary radicalization of Islam.

This book analyzes why some dictators find it in their self-interest to curb corruption.

This brief introduction surveys Christian thinking on an array of topics related to security and peace from a just war perspective.

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's political and economic marginalization.

In 2011 the U.

After the reelection of George W.

This book unpacks the political economy of government subsidised housing programmes in South Africa.

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question: Is torture ever morally permissible?

Fifty years ago, academics and policymakers throughout the world agreed that it was impossible for certain sets of historically antagonistic groups to coexist peacefully on a long-term basis.

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times.

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to Political Economy.

This book explores the interplay and dialogue between faith communities and the humanitarian-development community.

Positioning race front and centre, this book theorizes that political violence, in the form of a socio-political process that differentiates between human and less-than-human populations, is used by the state of Israel in racializing and ruling the citizens of occupied Palestine.

This book investigates the relation between Durkheim's sociology, Critical Theory, and the philosophy of social sciences.

Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey's Kurdish conflict--both as a conflict resolution tool and as a tool of resistance.

Within the context of the 2009 Kampala Convention, this book examines how a balance can be struck between the imperative of development projects and the rights of persons likely to be displaced in Africa.

On March 27, 1933, representatives from across the American religious spectrum came to Madison Square Garden, united in a shared purpose to speak out against the rise of fascism in Germany and Adolph Hitler's seizure of power.

This book documents the emergence of a pattern of political instability in Latin America.

Dieser Band ist den psychologischen und theologischen Grundlagen der Seelsorge, der Erörterung ihrer therapeutischen und religiösen Dimension sowie der Entfaltung einer interdisziplinären Praxis gewidmet.

This book develops a post-secular, post-sectarian political theology, taking that burgeoning field in a new direction.

This book examines the transformation of contemporary social democracy through the concept of ''third way'' reforms in nine OECD countries.

Civil war and conflict within countries is the most prevalent threat to peace and security in the opening decades of the twenty-first century.

This volume offers an innovative analysis of Roman political culture in Italy from the first to the sixth century AD on the basis of seven case studies.

Until now the innumerable and widely distributed Soviet writings on the third world haven been scrutinized for the clues they contain on the Kremlin's aid, trade, and foreign policies, on Soviet strategies for local communist parties, and even on shifts in the Sino-Soviet Relationship.

By the election year of 1844, Joseph Smith, the controversial founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had amassed a national following of some 25,000 believers.

In 2007, Little Mosque on the Prairie premiered on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation network.

In Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict, Cass R.

New atheism is best known as a literary and media phenomenon which has resulted in the widespread discussion of the anti-religious arguments of authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, yet it also has strongly political dimensions.

Turkey is often cited as a model for Muslim countries; its pro-western democracy an example that the clash of civilizations is not inevitable.

Christianity arose from the lands of biblical Palestine and, regardless of its twentieth century associations with the Arab-Israeli conflict, to Christians around the world it remains first and foremost the birthplace of Christianity.

This volume presents ground-breaking analyses of how the far right represents natural environments and environmentalism around the globe.

Events in Russia since the late 1980s have created a rare opportunity to watch the birth of democratic institutions close at hand.

Alexander Classen widmet sich dem Spannungsverhältnis von demokratisch legitimierter Interessenvertretung und unrechtmäßiger Einflussnahme zu Lasten der Allgemeinheit.

An historical study of the culture and leadership of Jewish radical ultra-Orthodoxy in Hungary, Jerusalem and New York.

The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shiis is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iranwith no apparent end in sight.

This volume examines the dynamics of judicial politics in authoritarian states.

The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the islands of the Pacific dependencies on the eve of the Second World War.

What caused the Covid-19 pandemic, a natural spillover event or an accident in a Wuhan laboratory?