Comparative politics

The book offers new insights into how ethnicity, language and regional-local identity interact within the context of Ukrainian political reform, and indicates how these reforms affect social cohesion among ethno-cultural groups.

This book explores the debate and politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in the Spanish, French and British public spheres.

This book evaluates the performance of consociational power-sharing arrangements in Europe.

Becca Whitla uses liberationist, postcolonial, and decolonial methods to analyze hymns, congregational singing, and song-leading practices.

This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran's foreign relations and nuclear policy.

This book presents new conceptual and methodological approaches to studying religiosity in Europe.

This book analyses the politics of othering in the USA and Canada from the nineteenth century to the present day.

This book studies values and attitudes in the Gulf region.

This book provides a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of identity in politics, featuring for the first time the question of individual emancipation.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the determinants of EU support between 2006 and 2015, and of electoral behavior during the European Parliament elections.

This book invites readers to think about future directions in social development.

This book explores the unsettling ties between colonialism, transnationalism, and anarchism.

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the domestic and foreign politics of Iran, focusing on its complex nature from political, social and cultural perspectives.

This book explores the idea of socialism from three angles and raises the questions if socialism is possible, inevitable, and desirable.

This volume highlights three intertwined aspects of the global context of Orthodox Christianity: religion, politics, and human rights.

This book examines the problem of constitutional change in times of crisis.

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This book argues that the macroeconomic policy adjustment models recommended by the IMF and the World Bank for implementation in many Muslim countries, with substantial donor financial support, have not been effective.

This book provides a comparative and historical analysis of totalitarianism and considers why Spain became totalitarian during its inquisition but not France; and why Germany became totalitarian during the previous century, but not Sweden.

Southeast Asia is a vast, populous and diverse region.

"e;A very valuable and much needed book on a central element in the processes of social change: the construction and reconstruction of social norms as they move between global and local levels.

This book explains a perspective on the system of justice that emerges in Islam if rules are followed and how the Islamic system is differentiated from the conventional thinking on justice.

This book offers an intellectual history of one of the leading Shi'i thinkers and religious leaders of the 20th-century in Lebanon, Shaykh Muhammad Mahdi Shams al-Din.

This book explores non-state actors that are or have been migratory, crossing borders as a matter of practice and identity.

The book provides an in-depth analysis of Eurosceptics' strategies in the European Parliament.

This edited volume compares the internal dimension, politics and society in Kurdistan-Iraq and Palestine.

This book investigates the forgotten years of Kurdish nationalism in Iran, from the fall of the Kurdish republic to the advent of the Iranian revolution.

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The book offers a processual and discursive perspective on how individuals exit the Muslim Brotherhood.

This book questions how policies for the metropolis become Europeanised.

Given the profound moral-ethical controversies regarding the use of new biotechnologies in medical research and treatment, such as embryonic research and cloning, this book sheds new light on the role of religious organizations and actors in influencing the bio-political debates and decision-making processes.

This book uses various concepts of 'age' to examine young people's voting behaviour in six European countries between 1981 and 2000.

This book is based on a comparative study of regionalisms in Croatia's regions of Dalmatia and Istria as well as Serbia's Vojvodina.

This book highlights historical explanations to and roots of present phenomena of violence, insecurity, and law enforcement in Central America.

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

This book discusses the current tendencies in women's representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives.

This book analyzes how international organizations and the European Union engage with civil society to pursue their policy goals.

An exploration of military responses to revolutions and how to predict such reactions in the futureWe know that a revolution's success largely depends on the army's response to it.

This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962.

How does cooperation emerge in a condition of international anarchy?

The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO).

How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politicsWhy do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off?

As Europe's Muslim communities continue to grow, so does their impact on electoral politics and the potential for inclusion dilemmas.

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states.

How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilienceConventional wisdom holds that the rising middle classes are a force for democracy.

A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship and bring self-government to people across the Middle East.

An exploration of how key provinces in China shape urban and regional development The rise of major metropolises across China since the 1990s has been a double-edged sword: although big cities function as economic powerhouses, concentrated urban growth can worsen regional inequalities, governance challenges, and social tensions.

Unterscheidet sich die CDU im Saarland in ihren programmatischen Standpunkten und ihrem Themenprofil von den Christdemokraten in Schleswig-Holstein oder in den Stadtstaaten Berlin, Bremen und Hamburg?

How societies can preserve democracy with a human-directed social contractThe recent rise of populist movements, especially in Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis.

This useful resource reveals five core principles and presents corresponding, specific strategies for overcoming communications barriers and connecting effectively with anyone, regardless of professional, generational, ethnic, cultural, or other differences.