Political activism / Political engagement

Damit die Zukunft wieder ein Versprechen wird – der Bestseller von Harald WelzerWas ist bloß aus unserer Zukunft geworden?

Liu Xiaobo ist nicht nur der prominenteste Systemkritiker Chinas, sondern einer der einflussreichsten Schriftsteller und Denker des Landes.

Grün, clever, sexy: Umweltschutz im 21.

Kampf um Trinkwasser, Massengewalt, ethnische "Säuberungen, Bürgerkriege und endlose Flüchtlingsströme bestimmen schon jetzt die Gegenwart.

Dass Frauen wählen dürfen, ist gar nicht lange her.

Während des Kalten Kriegs traf die Schweiz Widerstandsvorbereitungen für den Fall einer Besetzung durch den kommunistischen Ostblock.

Die Reaktion ist ein Stiefkind der Geschichte, die Revolution hat ihr den Rang abgelaufen.

Die 1960er-Jahre sind das ereignisreichste Jahrzehnt der Geschichte.

This book examines the reasons for which children join terrorist movements and how they eventually become peace activists fighting the very crimes that they once committed.

This book offers a comparative perspective on the new wave of revolutions in the MENA region.

Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Conversion takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England.

This book explores the powerful role of ordinary people's agency in times of violent conflict.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of how EU state aid law is shaping the future of EU investment policy in a global context.

This book explores men's attraction to violent extremist movements and terrorism.

This book, first ethnographic attempt, examines negated spaces, practices, and relationships that have been intentionally or unintentionally dismissed from academic and non-academic studies, articles, reports, and policy papers that investigate and debate the experiences of Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt.

With contributions from a diverse array of international scholars, this edited volume offers a renewed understanding of gender-based violence (GBV) by examining its social and political dimensions in migration contexts.

In terms of practical-theology's critical reflection on marginalized people's wounds in a wider society, this book investigates the question, "e;How to proclaim the good news in response to first-generation Korean immigrants' contextual suffering in the United Sates?

This book analyzes the transformation of ethnic and religious political parties in Turkey with special focus on their role in the country's democratization and regime changes.

This book examines how Muslim communities in the Netherlands perceive and experience extremism, counter-radicalisation policies, and Islamophobia.

This book analyzes women entrepreneurs in Muslim countries who are using Islamic values to develop and run small businesses.

This book provides a sociological understanding of transformations within Eastern Orthodoxy and the settlement of Orthodox diasporas in Western Europe.

This book explores how ordinary Arab-speaking social media users have reacted to propaganda from the Islamic State, rather than how IS propaganda has targeted ordinary users, thus providing a change in perspective in the literature.

This book takes James Gilligan's theory of shame and violence as a starting point for an application of the model across disciplines (psychology, sociology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, history, architecture and urban studies) and levels of analysis (from the individual to the global).

This is a book of courtroom war stories, drawn from my forty years of experience as an obscure lawyer for the underdog and the downtrodden.

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries.

This book provides a new theory for how democracy can materialize in the Middle East, and the broader Muslim world.

At the time of drafting the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention), the drafters were hopeful that the document will be the response needed to ensure that the world would never again witness such atrocities as committed by the Nazi regime.

This book provides a detailed examination of the threats and dangers facing the West at the far end of the cybersecurity spectrum.

Northern Ireland presents a fundamental challenge for the sociology of religion - how do religious beliefs, attitudes and identities relate to practices, violence and conflict?

International investment arbitration has been dubbed the "e;Antarctica"e; of international procedural law.

This textbook presents a systematic study of terrorism from the standpoint of economic analysis.