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9789004181694

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Rule of Law and Democracy

Edited by Leonardo Morlino, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Florence and Gianluigi Palombella, Università di Parma and New York University

Through a reappraisal of rule of law and democracy the contributors provide for a fresh set of inquiries, from the State, consolidated and transitional democracies, to interstate, European and global scenarios. They converge in tackling empirical and normative questions, and suggest further ...

€102.00$132.00

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ICSS

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9789004192843

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The Benefit of Broad Horizons

Edited by Hans Joas, University of Erfurt and University of Chicago and Barbro Klein, Stockholm University

More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish social scientist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global science possible. This book is devoted to an appreciation of his contributions.

€102.00$132.00

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9789004188921

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World Religions and Multiculturalism

Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel Aviv University and Yitzhak Sternberg, Open University and at Beit Berl College, Israel

This book is about new forms of religious activities emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes them not only ...

€104.00$135.00

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ICSS

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9789004181120

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The Globalization of Energy

Edited by M. Parvizi Amineh, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden and University of Amsterdam and Yang Guang, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing

Energy security challenges are topping the policy agenda of the European Union and China. Consequently, policy makers of both energy import-dependent polities continue to look for new responses. But will these new policies put EU-China relations in a cooperative or competitive setting?

€111.00$144.00

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EVS

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9789004185623

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Mapping Value Orientations in Central and Eastern Europe

Edited by Loek Halman and Malina Voicu

This volume elaborates on a number of issues that seem particular important for the people in Central and Eastern Europe: the development and working of democracy, the public support for, legitimacy and efficacy of democracy and the free market economy, and of course the stability of the newly ...

€136.00$176.00

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SGSH

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9789004185456

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The World in World Wars

Edited by Heike Liebau, ZMO, Berlin, Katrin Bromber, ZMO, Berlin, Katharina Lange, ZMO, Berlin, Dyala Hamzah, ZMO, Berlin and Ravi Ahuja, University of Göttingen

The volume contributes to the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. Focusing on social and cultural aspects, it discusses the broader implications of the wars for African and Asian societies which resulted in significant social and political transformations.

€132.00$171.00

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9789004181168

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Translocality

Edited by Ulrike Freitag and Achim von Oppen

Drawing on case studies mostly from Asia and Africa, this book reconsiders the increasing interconnectedness between world regions from a perspective of ‘translocality’. It suggests a more comprehensive reading of processes often simplified as ‘global’, very recent, unidirectional, and ...

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1569-1322

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1569-1330

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Comparative Sociology

Edited by Professor David Weakliem, University of Connecticut.
Book Review Editors: Mehdi P. Amineh and Sander De Rijke

Comparative Sociology is a quarterly international scholarly journal dedicated to advancing comparative sociological analyses of societies and cultures, institutions and organizations, groups and collectivities, networks and interactions.