Human rights, civil rights

Like any other subject, the study of religion is a child of its time.

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding.

This book presents comparative analyses of different modes of the governance of religious diversity and state-religion connections and relations in twenty-three countries in five world regions: Western Europe, Southern and South-Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the MENA region, and South and Southeast Asia.

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

This contributed volume takes a comprehensive look at factors that impact correctional health care and the related implications for public health and public health policy.

Religion is often viewed as a universally ancient element of the human inheritance, but in the Western Himalayas the community of Himachal Pradesh discovered its religion only after India became an independent secular state.

Postsecular Feminisms explores the contested relationship between feminism and secularism through a series of case studies, featuring perspectives from the global North and South.

Throughout the history of the United States, the concepts of land and the West have fired the American imagination and fueled controversy.

This book offers a comparison of the differences between the 'public' and 'private' spheres, and questions the need for law enforcement to intrude upon both.

This book formulates a human right to research in Africa based on an in-depth examination of the available international and regional human rights instruments as well as those relevant to the national contexts of African countries.

What does it mean to think, believe, and act like an American?

An engaging introduction to Latin America with a fresh, thematic approach to key political and social issues.

In the light of NATO's humanitarian war in Kosovo is it possible to understand or explain wars as an outcome of perceptions of rights?

This book focuses on current frontier-related issues such as humanitarian crises, economic crises, discrimination of migrants in certain countries, different typologies of borders such as land, maritime, air, space, and even cyberspace borders, and environmental protection of water resources at borders.

This book includes original and ground breaking research into parliamentary law making and legislative responses to counter-terrorism in Australia.

This book assesses the impact of the work of Chris Brown in the field of International Political Theory.

This book offers a critical re-examination of the relationship between caste and class.

'Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not'.

Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.

This book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza''s thought and its consequences materially rather than metaphysically.

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice.

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, language, or any other status.

Secularism: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to confusing and contradictory public discussions of secularism across the globe.

Buddhist violence is not a well-known concept.

Conflicts in Africa, Asia and Latin America have become a common focus of advocacy by Western celebrities and NGOs.

New waves of land grabbing are working to dispossess peasants in both the Global South and the Global North.

Over the past two decades, book-length analyses of politics in Southeast Asia, like those addressing other parts of the developing world, have focused closely on democratic change, election events, and institution building.

Die Reformation veränderte im sechzehnten Jahrhundert die Kirche und die Gesellschaft insgesamt, denn zentrale theologische Einsichten hatten konkrete Auswirkungen auf den politischen und den wirtschaftlichen Bereich.

Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today.

This book examines the conceptual and political history of the right of self-determination of peoples.

What is state crime?

In a democratic polity, protection and promotion of Human Rights is of utmost importance.

Feminist Foreign Policy in Theory and in Practice outlines the foundations of feminist foreign policy and the fundamental concepts discussed and utilized by governments, civil society organizations, and those in the academic community as they define, formulate, and implement it.

Artificial intelligence (AI) - both in its current, comparatively limited form and even more so in its potential future forms (such as general and superintelligence) - has raised both concerns and hopes.

Decades of conflicts and persecution have driven millions from their homes in all parts of the northeast African country of Sudan.

Universality Ethics and International Relations introduces students to the key debates about ethics in international relations theory.

In the days of Moses, blasphemy was the mortal offence of failing to respect the divine.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

Any serious consideration of Asian American life forces us to reframe the way we talk about racism and antiracism.

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

Inspired by the works of Professor Marcelo Neves, in this book colleagues come together to explore how their research has been influenced by non-European and post-colonial approaches.

This research unpacks the reasons of the Muslim Brotherhood's factionalism post-2013 and defines the scope of disagreements within the group, by applying an interactionist approach to factionalism.

A bold new perspective on the strategic logic of international human rights enforcementWhen a government violates the rights of its citizens, the international community can respond by exerting moral pressure and urging reform.

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

This is the story of how the Protestants in the GDR struggled to survive while striving to put their theology into practice and remaining true to their vision of what the role of the church should be - a 'church for others' as Dietrich Bonhoeffer put it.