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Secure Oil and Alternative 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

While intensive cooperation between China and the EU in the fields of energy use, environmental protection and sustainability is highly needed the question remains unanswered how this cooperation could be organized. This volume puts the geopolitical implementation of China’s and the EU’s energy ...

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European and Chinese Sociologies

Edited by Laurence Roulleau-Berger CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and Li Peilin, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Sociology is involved in a process of internationalisation. The rapid development of China has provided the “China's experience” and the production of a new sociology. In this book a new dialogue between European and Chinese sociologists is opening up new horizons for Western thought.

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9789004187788

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Imploding Populations in Japan and Germany

Edited by Florian Coulmas, Duisburg-Essen University and German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo and Ralph Lützeler, Ruhr-University of Bochum

Japan and Germany are at the vanguard of a new population dynamics in developed countries: population decline in the absence of war, famine and pandemics. This book presents an in-depth overview of the social and economic implications of this development.

€102.00$132.00

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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.

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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 ...

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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?

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Transnationalism

Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel Aviv University and Yitzhak Sternberg, Open University, Israel, with Judit Bokser Liwerant and Yosef Gorny

This book deals with transnationalism and captures its singularity as a generalized phenomenon. The profusion of transnational communities is a factor of fluidity in social orders and represents confrontations between contingencies and basic socio-cultural drives. It has created a new era ...

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"The" Fifth Modality

Carl W. Roberts, Iowa State University

This book introduces a theoretical perspective for distinguishing all mass societies’ persons, situations, and cultures in accordance with four modalities (e.g., ability for most U.S. citizens, necessity for most Scandinavians, obligation for most Japanese, and permission for most Arabs)

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Social Capital in Europe: Similarity of Countries and Diversity of People?

Edited by Heiner Meulemann, University of Cologne

Social capital may foster the integration of a society and the stability of a democracy.This volume examines the differences in levels, causes and consequences of social capital between 22 European countries surveyed in the 2002 European Social Survey. Muliti-level analyses are used in each ...

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East-West Identities

Edited by Chan Kwok-bun, Jan W. Walls, Simon Fraser University, and David Hayward, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne

While the economic forces shaping globalization are powerful and seemingly getting stronger, they are not immutable, nor are their effects predictable or necessarily overwhelming. Contributors to this book are optimistic that the socio-cultural formations of the future, such as cultural ...