Political activism / Political engagement

The world was standing at the crossroads in 2015 as globalization propelled human beings into an increasingly integrated community of common destiny.

Two leading academic scholars offer the first comprehensive source reader on the Eastern Orthodox church for the English-speaking world.

This volume, dedicated to the memory of Gerard Mannion (1970-2019), former Joseph and Winifred Amaturo Chair in Catholic Studies at Georgetown University, explores the topic of changing the church from a range of different theological perspectives.

Since the end of the Cold War, liberal capitalism has spread worldwide without any significant ideological rivalry, characterized by the frenetic search for an ever-increasing return on capital and constantly-increasing profits, a generalized un-concern for the moral values of liberalism, and for social inequalities and human misery.

Manipulation is a source of pervasive anxiety in contemporary American politics.

Terrorism is a cancer, an infection, an epidemic, a plague.

With the rise of Black Lives Matter and immigrant rights protests, critics have questioned whether mainstream black and Latino civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and UnidosUS are in touch with the needs of minorities-especially from younger generations.

“An engaging, sophisticated yet accessible, account of the Orthodox Church—its self-understanding, theology, sacramental life, and history.

Non-violent movements, under figures like Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, led to some of the great social changes of the 20th century, and some argue it offers solutions for this century's problems.

As the bloodshed in Iraq intensified in 2005, Afghanistan quickly faded from the nation's front pages to become the "e;other war,"e; supposedly going well and largely ignored.

The War of All the People elucidates the ideological and political war against the United States, capitalism, and the widely accepted tenets of modernity.

In 1924, the last caliphate-an Islamic state as envisioned by the Koran-was dismantled in Turkey.

In the 1970s the women's movement created tremendous changes in the lives of women throughout the United States.

From the bestselling authors of The Rise of Babylon and The ISIS Crisis, the essential guide for Christians about what Bible prophecy foretells concerning current events in the Middle Eastespecially the rise of ISIS and the resurgence of Russiawhile providing a way to find peace and hope in the face of end times concerns.

Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009.

This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities.

Images of modern refugees often invoke images of the infant Christ and the historical circumstances of the holy family's flight to Egypt in the face of persecution.

Public debate over surrogate forces and proxy warfare has been largely dormant since the end of the Cold War.

More than ever, politics seem to be driven by discord.

Fully examined for the first time in this engrossing book by one of Americas preeminent presidential scholars, the election that pitted Woodrow Wilson against Charles Evan Hughes emerges as a clear template for the partisan differences of the modern era.

A distinguished professor debunks the assertion that America's Founders were deists who desired the strict separation of church and state and instead shows that their political ideas were profoundly influenced by their Christian convictions.

This book explores the development of transatlantic policy on international terrorism and assesses the situation today.

Swim Against the Tide of a Sinking CultureIn No Reason to Hide, bestselling author Erwin W.

This book examines the intersecting forces of nationalism, terrorism, and patriotism that normalize an acceptance of the global war on terror as essential to maintaining freedom and democracy as defined by white nation-states.

2022 Winner of the Palestine Book AwardsRooted in feminist ethnography and decolonial feminist theory, this book explores the subjectivity of Palestinian hunger strikers in Israeli prisons, as shaped by resistance.

A first detailed study of the concrete Maoist movement also known as Naxalite movement in many regions of Andhra Pradesh, the book is based on a detailed documentation, a firm grasp of the ideological, strategic and tactical issues and a sympathetic though not uncritical approach.

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

Is it true that all we need is love?

Do you want to love your neighbor as yourself but don't know where to start?

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

This book deals with the constantly evolving, vast, and diverse field of nontraditional security.

This book discusses the current reality and the future of ethnic Rohingyas in Myanmar.

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.

The book examines the development and application of mediation in China (including Hong Kong).

La Universidad tiene un gran reto: educar para la paz, para la convivencia, para la aceptación crítica del otro, para resguardar la memoria, para contribuir en los procesos de resiliencia y para hacer de nuestros estudiantes seres comprometidos con la construcción de un país en el cual podamos vivir mejor.

This book presents a selection of the latest arbitration cases, materials, and commentaries from China.

The book addresses why the Pakistani state is facing persistent challenges in extending and consolidating its governance (authority) throughout its territories, especially in the former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (ex-FATA)?

A novel account of the relationship between sincerity, religious freedom, and the secular in the United States.

The global trend of increasing violence against the press has spurred research interest into the questions of where, why, and how communicators are repressed.

Einführend werden die Ideologieelemente der „Querdenker“ besprochen, dort auch die Ergebnisse der ersten empirischen Studien zu „Querdenkern“ und Teilnehmern an Corona-Demonstrationen.

The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing triumphs.

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

This book offers an exciting overview of how the investor-state dispute settlement mechanism currently deals with allegations and/or evidence of fraud and corruption.

This book presents the welfare regime of China as a liminal space where religious and state authorities struggle for legitimacy as new social forces emerge.

This book shares first-hand insights into the implementation of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians, written by a high-ranking Israeli military intelligence officer and former foreign policy advisor to Israel's fifth prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin.

Religious traditions in the United States are characterized by ongoing tension between assimilation to the broader culture, as typified by mainline Protestant churches, and defiant rejection of cultural incursions, as witnessed by more sectarian movements such as Mormonism and Hassidism.

This book selects leading, innovative and influential Chinese maritime judgments and presents full translation of them, with brief summary, to the readers so that they can have insights of how the Chinese maritime judges interpret, apply and develop Chinese maritime law in practice.

This book investigates Turkey's departure from a 'flawed democracy' under Kemalist secularism, and its transitioning into Islamist authoritarian Erdoganism, through the lenses of informal law, legal pluralism, and legal hybridity.

How Barbara Jordan used sacred and secular scriptures in her social activismUS Congresswoman Barbara Jordan is well-known as an interpreter and defender of the Constitution, particularly through her landmark speech during Richard Nixons 1974 impeachment hearings.