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  • Religious NGOs at the United Nations

    Polarizers or Mediators?

    Edited by Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, Klaus Dieter Wolf ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
    Examining the involvement of religious NGOs (RNGOs) at the UN, this book explores whether they polarize political debates at the UN or facilitate agreement on policy issues.The number of RNGOs engaging with the United Nations (UN) has grown considerably in recent years: RNGOs maintain relations with various UN agencies, member-state missions, and other NGOs, and participate in UN conferences and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Quiet No More

    New Political Activism in Canada and Around the Globe

    by Joel D. Harden ...
    Spontaneous and creative protest movements have burst onto the political stage in Canada and around the world. Joel D. Harden, an activist, writer, and educator, offers a ground-level account of the most important of these recent expressions of large-scale political engagement, mostly by young people. Based on first-hand accounts from many of the participants and organizers, Harden describes key ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Strangers No More

    Immigration and the Challenges of Integration in North America and Western Europe

    by Richard Alba, Nancy Foner ...
    An up-to-date and comparative look at immigration in Europe, the United States, and CanadaStrangers No More is the first book to compare immigrant integration across key Western countries. Focusing on low-status newcomers and their children, it examines how they are making their way in four critical European countries—France, Germany, Great Britain, and the Netherlands—and, across the Atlantic, in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Empire to Community

    by Amitai Etzioni ...
    Whether one favors the U.S. global projection of force or is horrified by it, the question stands - where do we go from here? What ought to be the new global architecture? Amitai Etzioni follows a third way, drawing on both neoconservative and liberal ideas, in this bold new look at international relations. He argues that a "clash of civilizations" can be avoided and that the new world order need ... Read more

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  • Queer Wars

    by Dennis Altman, Jonathan Symons ...
    The claim that �LGBT rights are human rights� encounters fierce opposition in many parts of the world, as governments and religious leaders have used resistance to �LGBT rights� to cast themselves as defenders of traditional values against neo-colonial interference and western decadence.Queer Wars explores the growing international polarization over sexual rights, and the creative responses from ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • The Puzzle of Non-Western Democracy

    by Richard Youngs ...
    Western democracy is being questioned around the world. At the same time, Western aid groups are quick to say that they are not trying to impose a particular style of democracy on others and that they are open to supporting local, alternative forms of democracy. This book examines what it is about Western democracy that non-Westerners are reacting negatively to and whether the critics often are ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • EU Foreign Policymaking and the Middle East Conflict

    The Europeanization of national foreign policy

    by Patrick Müller ...
    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This book examines the interplay between the national and the European levels in EU foreign policymaking, focusing on the Middle East.European engagement in peacemaking in the Middle East dates back to foreign-policy cooperation in the early 1970s. Following the launch of the peace process in 1991, the EU and its Member States further stepped up their involvement in conflict resolution, focusing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Evolution of EU Counter-Terrorism

    European Security Policy after 9/11

    by Raphael Bossong ...
    Series series Contemporary Terrorism Studies
    This book traces the evolution of the EU’s fight against terrorism from the late 1970s until the end of the first decade after 9/11.This historical analysis covers both EU-internal and international counterterrorism policies and features an in-depth account of the EU’s reaction to the terrorist incidents in New York, Madrid and London. In the first few weeks after these incidents, the EU mobilised ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Governing Women

    Women’s Political Effectiveness in Contexts of Democratization and Governance Reform

    Edited by Anne Marie Goetz ...
    Series series Routledge/UNRISD Research in Gender and Development
    Though the proportion of women in national assemblies still barely scrapes 16% on average, the striking outliers – Rwanda with 49% of its assembly female, Argentina with 35%, Liberia and Chile with new women presidents this year – have raised expectations that there is an upward trend in women’s representation from which we may expect big changes in the quality of governance. But getting women ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Women and War in the Middle East

    Transnational Perspectives

    by Isis Nusair, Riina Isotalo, Shahrzad Mojab, Spike Peterson, Sophie Richter-Devroe, Martina Kamp ...
    Women and War in the Middle East provides a critical examination of the relationship between gender and transnationalism in the context of war, peace-building and post-conflict reconstruction in the Middle East. Critically examining the ways in which the actions of various local and transnational groups - including women's movements, diaspora communities, national governments, non-governmental ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Immigrant Faith

    Patterns of Immigrant Religion in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe

    by Phillip Connor ...
    Immigrant Faith examines trends and patterns relating to religion in the lives of immigrants. The volume moves beyond specific studies of particular faiths in particular immigrant destinations to present the religious lives of immigrants in the United States, Canada, and Europe on a broad scale.Religion is not merely one aspect among many in immigrant lives. Immigrant faith affects daily ... Read more

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  • Planetary Politics

    Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society

    by Alba Alexander, Drucilla Cornell, Irene Gendzier, Sam Gindin, Philip Green, Dick Howard, Micheline Ishay, Kurt Jacobsen, Leo Panitch, Karsten J. Struhl, Nadia Urbinati, David Held, Ulrich Beck, Carl Boggs, Douglas Kellner, Manfred B. Steger, Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
    Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this collection is a political purpose: the attempt to engage in progressive fashion the dominant trends, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD