Comparative politics

Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs-that between the United States and China.

Winner of the Alec Nove Prize in Russian, Soviet, and Post-Soviet StudiesWinner of the BASEES George Blazyca PrizeIn 1945, just six years after coming to power, the Slovak People's Party (SLS) was disbanded as a 'criminal organisation' and its leader - Jozef Tiso - hanged for treason.

This book provides an overview of the identity and sense of belonging of Muslims in the Western world.

In the months following disgraced ex-President Alberto Fujimori's flight to Japan, Peru had a political crisis on its hands.

A novel analysis that combines traditional theories on anti-Semitism with evidence from 76 nations to explain the determinants that drive discrimination against Jews.

What does it mean to be a Christian citizen of the United States today?

Throughout history, states have tried to create the perfect combatant with superhuman physical and cognitive features that are akin to those of comic book superheroes.

This book demonstrates how political entrepreneurs - entrepreneurially minded citizens who launch innovative political start-ups - can drive political change.

Anhand eines analytisch und theoretisch integrierten Forschungsansatzes untersucht Caja Schleich in den Konfliktfällen Kosovo und Afghanistan die Kooperation von EU und NATO auf politischer, zivil-militärischer und operativer Ebene.

This book shows how institutional economics can be used to better understand corruption and reform.

This pioneering volume examines Europeanism in the new international society that emerged after the First World War through the League of Nations, with a focus on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Baltic countries, and the Balkans.

"Geschichte zerfällt in Bilder, nicht in Geschichten.

This book assesses the quality of Czech democracy relative to both its postcommunist peers and older EU members.

This edited volume explores the Israeli-Turkish relations in the 2000s from a multi-dimensional perspective providing a comparative analysis on the subjects of politics, ideology, civil society, identity, energy, and economic relations.

This book presents a comparative analysis of the organizing trajectories of indigenous women's movements in Peru, Mexico, and Bolivia.

An introduction to how belonging and identity have been reflected, modified, and rearticulated in crucial moments throughout history.

The Routledge Handbook of Natural Resource Governance in Africa provides a comprehensive analysis of African natural resource governance, stretching across the continent, and encompassing water, land, extractive resources, and mining.

This book examines in depth post-Soviet Jews'' attitudes toward religion, intermarriage, emigration, anti-Semitism and rebuilding Jewish life.

Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr.

This book examines informal workers'' alternative social movements in India.

Die chinesische Präsenz in Afrika nimmt seit Jahren zu.

Taking the long view of conflicts between truth and political powerWhat role does truth play in government?

This edited volume maps the development of the use of political campaigning and marketing techniques in countries of the former Communist Bloc over the last thirty years.

A fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South.

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West.

Focussing on Sub-Saharan Africa, Dominika Koter analyses why ethnic politics emerge in some ethnically diverse societies, but not in others.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Paul Tillich, the French-speaking Association held a symposium on the ambiguities of life.

Can we conceptualise a kind of citizenship that need not be of a nation-state, but might be of a variety of political frameworks?

An examination of differences in how the world''s democracies address a variety of issues involving free expression.

This book analyzes relations between NATO and Russia since the Cold War to draw lessons about how former enemies can become partners.

Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.

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.

Democracy is a dominant principle and practice to legitimate political power in the modern world, and yet its relationship with other moral traditions is not well understood.

How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments?

This book discusses regional and continental integration in Africa by examining the management of migration across the continent.

This collection of essays offers a critical reassessment of J.

Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously fragile.

This book argues that citizenship is an inadequate solution to the problem of statelessness based on a critical investigation of the lived experiences of Kurdish and Palestinian diasporas in western Europe.

How did Western imperialism shape the developing world?

This book argues that the backsliding or stagnation of democracy should be interpreted in a wider perspective on irregular movements towards and away from contemporary liberal democracy.

Political Islam and Democracy in Central Asia is a study of moderation of political Islam in Central Asia.

How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation.

In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.

Navigating financial crashes of the Late Middle Ages up to the present day and analysing them through the lenses of classical, positivist, functionalist and Marxist criminology, Dirty Money: On Financial Delinquency explores the growth of grey areas in the financial world and our understanding, or misunderstanding, of financial delinquency.

Maisie Ward's biography of Gilbert Keith Chesterton has long been a cornerstone in Chesterton studies, as well as in the publishing house she and her husband, Frank Sheed, founded in 1926.

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none.

Combining a historical perspective that traces lines of continuity and change in Arab liberalism, an integrative discussion of cross-sectional themes, and a comparative analysis of the West, Turkey and Iran, this book seeks to enrich our knowledge of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East.