Students and practitioners of Muslim political thought from Western and Muslim countries explore attempts by Muslim thinkers in the recent past and the present--a generation or two after most Muslims
Knutsen (political science, U. of Oslo, Norway) investigates the relationship between economic social class and party choice in political systems. His analysis, studying European voting patterns form
A growing share of the world's population lives in the 175 developing countries, while global income and wealth are increasingly concentrated in the 25 developed countries. The resulting migration fro
Cultus Americanus applies a philosophical model of political culture as ideology, religion, and myth, to a re-consideration of America's liberal consensus to explain cultural diversity in America. Aut
To Broaden the Way suggests that the texts of both the Jewish and Confucian tradition talk in riddles of a special kind: riddles which are introduced-and answered-by religious forms of life. Using a '
Time Signatures engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, HZl_ne Cixous, and AbdelkZbir Khatibi. Alluding to m
In Jesuit Postmodern, nine American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities reflect on their scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do coheres with their self-understanding as J
Dialogues on Migration Policy brings together leading American and European scholars of immigration politics to address migration policy. Editors Marco Giugni and Florence Passy's aim to present a num
This book of new critical essays and interviews with writers interrogates the current usage of the term and the category of the post-colonial as a theoretical concept, discourse and state of mind. By
Oriental Bodies charts the discursive transformations of U.S. immigration policy between 1875 and 1942. Drawing from American foreign policy, identity politics, post-structuralism, post-colonialism, a
The authors (a professor and a graduate of the Washington College of Law at American U.) provide a comparative discussion of the roles and statuses of women in the US, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Colombia,
In Jesuit Postmodern, nine American Jesuit scholars teaching at universities reflect on their scholarly work, why they engage in it, and how the work they do coheres with their self-understanding as J
Divided into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race, poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty & Race in America is especially concerned with the links betwee
Catching Fire provides for the first time an in-depth analysis of political and humanitarian catastrophes in which forced migration characterizes the complexity of both the emergency and the response.
Taking the revival of civic republicanism as his point of departure, Erik Olsen examines the relationship between property, civic virtue, and democracy in post-socialist political thought. Steering a
With The Keys to the White House: A Surefire Guide to Predicting the Next President, average citizens are giving the pollsters and pundits a run for their money. In this book, prominent political anal
Through reading the early work of Walter Benjamin—up to and including the Trauerspiel, author Monad Rrenban elicits a cohesive conception of the wild, inforgettable form, philosophy, as inherent in ev
Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution examines the intellectual and institutional context in which Alexis de Tocqueville developed his understanding of American political culture, with
Violent non-state actors (VNSA) often serve a destabilizing role in nearly every humanitarian and political crisis faced by the international community. As non-state armed groups gain greater access t
Human Rights in Crisis uniquely documents recent ideas on democracy and human rights in the current French intellectual, social, and political context, arguing that the French emphasis on the interdep
By conservative estimates about 50 million migrants are currently living outside of their home communities, forced to flee to obtain some measure of safety and security. In addition to persecution, hu
Using a Kierkegaardian reading of three of Unamuno's novels, Evans (Spanish and Portuguese, Baylor U.) explores the scope and character of Kierkegaard's influence on Unamuno. Evans bases her arguments
Woodrow Wilson's contribution to American foreign policy is well known, but his role in the development of American political thought and institutions is less recognized. In this volume, Wilson schola
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number
A small but growing number of immigrants today are moving into new settlement areas, such as Winchester, Va., Greensboro, N.C., and Salt Lake City, Utah, that lack a tradition of accepting newcomers.
Following Rousseau, Mehrouzi (mathematics and philosophy, Cuyahoga Community College, Ohio) believes that democracy cannot be represented, but must be exercised directly in order to be substantive. He
The original formulation of democracy--rule by the people--included the direct participation by citizens in legislative and political decision making, says Behrouze (mathematics and philosophy, Cuyaho
Election Reform: Politics and Policy is the definitive work on the manner in which policymakers responded to the crisis that emerged from the 2000 presidential election. Editors Daniel Palazzolo and J
Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding. I
Motivated by a desire to narrate and contextualize the deluge of 'French theory,' After the Deluege showcases recent work by today's brightest scholars of French intellectual history that historicizes
Bottum, books and arts editor of the Weekly Standard predicts that the great controversy beginning in the late 1990s about the role of Pope Pius XII during World War II is over. Lacking the prestigiou
Through the presentation of ten ethnographic studies of refugees and immigrants returning to their homeland, Markowitz (anthropology, Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev, Israel) and Stefansson (Institute of A
Scholars of English literature, a majority of them from Florida but also elsewhere in the US, find an ambivalence in Western culture toward war. Their 14 essays are presented in sections on Arms and t
In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reprodu
Anthropologist Celia Rothenberg gives us a rare glimpse into the daily life of a contemporary Palestinian village, where women's lives are structured more by moral codes and societal norms than by pol
Democracy is changing, and the changes should be noted and studied, say scholars of public administration from the US, Denmark, and the Netherlands: ordinary citizens are becoming involved in various
The American Constitution held out the hope that ordinary people were capable of deciding their own fates, and in doing so it immeasurably elevated the dignity of common people. The organization and i
The Politics of Belonging represents an innovative collaboration between political theorists and political scientists for the purposes of investigating the liberal and pluralistic traditions of nation
A Virginia native and a specialist in religious history, Bond (history, Alabama A&M U.) presents an anthology of primary documents to demonstrate the wide variety of extant materials on religion in co
Following the format of Daniel Nelson's (ed.) 1981 Romania in the 1980s and 1992 Romania After Tyranny , social scientists collect, synthesize, and analyze data about the eastern European country s
