Comparative politics

Emile Durkheim, along with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is one of the three 'founding fathers of sociology'.

iPolitics describes the ways in which new media innovations change how politicians and citizens engage the political arena.

Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.

Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics is an investigation into Hebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom.

Surrounded on all sides by Islam, the beloved Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew continues to impact the world for Christ from his seat in Constantinople, a city central to Christian history.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the European Union''s many crisis management capacities and explains their origins.

This book proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of immigration.

How do interstate actors negotiate their interests?

The first comprehensive study to explain the workings of transgovernmental environmental and nuclear cooperation across the so-called ''Global South''.

This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of the cinematic representations of the experiences of African women and girls in situations of political conflict.

This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.

This book is an ethnography of politics of waiting.

The Nature of Asian Politics provides an unparalleled, comprehensive first look at the politics of Southeast and Northeast Asia.

The Secular Contract seeks to defend the European Enlightenment's secularization of political philosophy by promoting an understanding of Enlightenment secular liberalism and extending it to contemporary issues.

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Beyond Belief: Surviving the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in France presents a demographic study of the behaviors of Protestants and Catholics in a town in southeastern France between 1650 and 1715.

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 investigates corruption and anti-corruption efforts in Africa, emphasising the regional and thematic differences across the continent, whilst also exploring key patterns and trends.

This book provides a comprehensive account of national parliaments' adaptation to European integration.

Religions in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations, Third Edition is the ideal textbook for those coming to the study of religion for the first time, as well as for those who wish to keep up-to-date with the latest perspectives in the field.

This book examines the life and work of Mazisi Kunene, the only recognized poet laureate of Africa, a Nobel Prize nominee, and a key symbol of African cultural independence.

Myanmar has faced numerous divisions that hinder its democratization and peacebuilding processes since emerging out of decades of military dictatorship.

Most party systems are relatively stable over time.

Auf Basis einer Mehrmethoden-Untersuchung aller empirischen Fälle in der Periode von 1960 bis 2007 entwickeln die Autoren dieses Bandes ein Modell der Ursachen von Staatskollaps.

This book constructs a measure of education inequality using time-series cross-national data and utilizes real-world examples based on author interviews.

In 1974, the International Congress on World Evangelization met in Lausanne, Switzerland.

This book explores the media and cultural exchanges between Africa and China in the twenty-first century against the backdrop of the rise of Africa and China in global geopolitics.

Levy reveals why economic liberalization is so contested in France, with a comprehensive explanation of economic and social policy since the 1980s.

Win the War for Your Own IntegrityAfter Phil Robertson quoted Scripture in an interview with a national magazine, his hit show, Duck Dynasty, put him on ';indefinite hiatus.

What challenges and risks do Chinese and Russian bases pose to the United States' military strategy?

This is the first book to provide a full and dispassionate account of the politics and economics of the Eurozone crisis, focusing on the interlinked origins and impacts of the Euro-Zone crisis and the policy responses to it.

Zionism combined dialogues with Jewish, Christian, and secular messianisms to create a politics based in redemptive visions of its own.

South Africa is the most industrialized power in Africa.

While trying to revive Jewish national life by teaching Hebrew and Judaism in the Soviet Union, Ephraim Kholmyansky is arrested and threatened with long years of imprisonment and exile.

Can constitutional amendments be unconstitutional?

The present study addresses the governance architecture of the much debated Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of social inclusion and evaluates its implementation in France, Germany and at EU-level.

Unlike the majority of contemporary scholarly works that examine Sino-Japanese relations between 1925 and 1945, this study de-emphasizes the story of conflict and war in favor of one that revolves around the way in which the Chinese intellectually encountered the "e;enemy"e;, the Japanese.

The Russian Orthodox Church (1986) concentrates on the recent history of the church, examining the situation of Russian Orthodox believers in the Soviet Union.

IS AMERICA HEADED TOWARD DEATH OR REBIRTH?

Dieses Lehrbuch führt systematisch in das breite Spektrum von Geschichte, Strukturen, Problemlagen, Lösungswegen und die europäischen sowie die darüber hinausgehenden internationalen Zusammenhänge von Sozialpolitik in Deutschland sowie in die Theorie des Sozialstaates ein.

In 2006, the Al Jazeera Media Network sought to penetrate the United States media sphere, the world's most influential national market for English language news.

Verfassungen sind Macht-Ordnungen.

In an era of resurgent military political activism, this volume examines the cross-national drivers of cabinet militarization in democratic regimes, and provides an in-depth study of its causes and consequences in Brazil.

The "e;clash of civilizations"e; focuses on conflict and cooperation between and within states.

This collection offers a detailed assessment of the varied ways in which President Barack Obama was received by audiences beyond America's borders and assesses what effect this had on his foreign policy initiatives.