The Jewish nation-state and human rights

By Alexander Yakobson, Amnon Rubinstein

Can Israel be both Jewish and truly democratic? How can a nation–state, which incorporates a large national minority with a distinct identity of its own...

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46441-3 (Routledge)

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Ideational change in Egypt, Iran and Tunisia

Edited by Kathryn M. Yount, Hoda Rashad

July 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77486-4 (Routledge)

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Comparative perspectives

Edited by Nuno Severiano Teixeira

This book examines the international dimensions of democratization processes, showing the degree to which international actors, ranging from states to non-governmental players, have an influence...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45303-5 (Routledge)

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Intervention, Ethnic Conflict and State-Building in Iraq

A Paradigm for the Post-Colonial State

By Michael Rear

External intervention by the U.N. and other actors in ethnic conflicts has interfered with the state-building process in post-colonial states. Rear examines the 1991 uprisings...

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96466-1 (Routledge)

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Perspectives Across the Ummah

Edited by Shahram Akbarzadeh, Benjamin MacQueen

Questions over the compatibility of Islam and Human Rights have become a key area of debate in the perceived tensions between ‘Islam and the West’....

June 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44959-5 (Routledge)

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The Evolving Arab City

Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development

Edited by Yasser Elsheshtawy

Today cities of the Arab world are subject to many of the same problems as other world cities, yet too often they are ignored in...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-41156-1 (Routledge)

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Challenges and Opportunities

By Seyyed Hossein Mousavian

This book provides an assessment of relations between Iran and Europe, identifying the areas of common interest as well as the issues of conflict, whilst...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44756-0 (Routledge)

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Colonial Discourse and Europe's Borderline Civilization

By Natasa Kovacevic

The transition of communist Eastern Europe to capitalist democracy post-1989 and in the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars has focused much scholarly attention - in...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46111-5 (Routledge)

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Identity and community

By Esmail Nashif

Since the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, more than a quarter of the Palestinians have been imprisoned by Israel...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44498-9 (Routledge)

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By Suvi Salmenniemi

This book examines civic activism, democratization and gender in contemporary Russian society.

It describes the character and central organizing principles of Russian democratic civic life,...

May 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44112-4 (Routledge)

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