Political control and freedoms

This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection.

This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding.

This book will challenge the orthodox view that children cannot have the same rights as adults because they are particularly vulnerable.

From sending imams abroad to financing mosques and Islamic associations, home states play a key role in governing Islam in Western Europe.

This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth century American school architecture and curriculum.

This peer-reviewed book features essays on the Armenian massacres of 1915-1916.

This book provides an analysis of whether the International Criminal Court can be regarded as an International Criminal World Court, capable of exercising its jurisdiction upon every individual despite the fact that not every State is a Party to the Rome Statute.

This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual persons.

This book examines the management of migratory flows in the Mediterranean within an international security perspective.

This book draws together established and emerging scholars from sociology, law, history, political science and education to examine the global and local issues in the pursuit of gender justice in post-conflict settings.

This innovative volume is focused on the relationship between religion on the one hand and political and judicial rights on the other.

This volume examines the role and function of religious-based organizations in strengthening associational life in a representative sample of West European countries: newly democratized and long-established democracies, societies with and without a dominant religious tradition, and welfare states with different levels and types of state-provided social services.

How have Muslim marriages legally ended around the turn of the 21st century?

This book critically examines the making and persistence of impoverished areas at the margins of Romanian cities since the late 1980s.

One of the main goals in fisheries governance is to promote viability and sustainability in small-scale fishing communities.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

The book offers the first systematic account of Iran's foreign policy following the nuclear agreement (JCPOA) of July 14, 2015.

This book offers an in-depth overview of Turkish history and politics essential for understanding contemporary Turkey.

This book analyses whether the design of the institutions of Southern African Development Community (SADC) reflects the community's treaty objectives and principles of democracy and the rule of law.

This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory.

This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities' requests of inclusiveness and autonomy.

Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has also increased.

This book provides an insightful analysis of the looming refugee and mixed migration crisis in the context of four major, contemporary flows: two in west and east Europe, and one each in the Americas and Asia.

As globalization processes and related neoliberal agendas promote privatization through state action, people's struggles for rights to water have intensified.

The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.

This book demonstrates a new, interdisciplinary approach to life writing about torture that situates torture firmly within its socio-political context, as opposed to extending the long line of representations written in the idiom of the proverbial dark chamber.

This book focuses on Boko Haram and terrorism in Nigeria, framing the conflict in an international law context.

As the epicenter of Christianity has shifted towards Africa in recent decades, Pentecostalism has emerged as a particularly vibrant presence on the continent.

In this book, Lopez proposes the 'political imaginary' model as a tool to better understand what human rights are in practice, and what they might, or might not, be able to achieve.

This book provides a critical account of the main controversies involving Norman Geras, one of the key modern political thinkers.

This book examines the conduct and purposes of educational research.

This book focuses on a little-studied yet virulent and devoted fascist faction that was active within Zionist circles during the 1920s and 1930s.

This edited volume examines inclusive education and disability in the global South.

This book addresses questions in connection with the international legal regime on demands for secession, which have arisen in various States.

This volume analyses criminal procedural issues from a European perspective, particularly in connection with EU law and ECHR law.

Christianity flourishes in areas facing profound dislocations amidst regime change and warfare.

Refugees and migration are not a new story in the history of humankind, but in the last few years, against a backdrop of huge numbers of migrants, especially from war-torn countries, they have again been a topic of intensive and contentious discussion in politics, the media and scientific publications.

This book explores how politics, religion and cinema encounter and re-invent each other in contemporary Turkish cinema.

Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fit neatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes.

This book provides an updated overview of current international human rights law relating to the police.

This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W.

Microaggressions and Modern Racism: Endurance and Evolution explores the causes, manifestations, and consequences of microaggressions, macroaggressions, and modern racism within society.

This volume sheds new light upon the role of victims in the aftermath of violence.

The book offers a comprehensive perspective on the highly topical issue of protecting and promoting labour standards in international economic law and the globalized economy.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the many forms of victimization of immigrants, including trafficking in persons for sexual exploitation and forced labor; assaulting, robbing and raping; refusing to pay wages; renting illegal living space that violates health codes; and domestic abuse both in general, and in particular, of mail-order brides.

This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective.

This book presents an important discussion on soil and sustainable agriculture from a range of perspectives, addressing key topics such as sustainable intensification, the FAO Voluntary Guidelines, and the crucial role of appropriate tenure rights.

This book illustrates the parallel struggles among Blacks in the US and the Caribbean for equality and greater political participation and equal treatment during the 1960s and 1970s.

This book advocates a holistic reform of the current monetary and financial system dealing with the issues of money creation, central banks, loans, stock markets, tax justice, pension security and the international monetary system - "e;Bretton Woods II"e;.

This book demonstrates the importance of a duty-based approach to morality.