International Comparative Social Studies

Series Editor: Mehdi P. Amineh, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research-University of Amsterdam and International Institute for Asian Studies-University of Leiden

Series Editor:

Mehdi Amineh

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Series Type: 
Series
ISSN: 
1568-4474
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€129.00$179.00
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
30
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004207455
The Communal Idea in the 21st Century
Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel Aviv University, Yaacov Oved, Tel Aviv University, and Menachem Topel, Ashkelon Academic College - Yad Tabenkin
The communal idea is investigated theoretically and through contemporary experiences on the verge of the 21st century. This idea draws its vitality from potent civilizational codes, and while its realizations come up unavoidably to self-betrayal, its renewal from ashes is not less unavoidable.
€139.00$193.00
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
29
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004226562
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New Title
Shifting Frontiers of Citizenship: The Latin American Experience
Edited by Mario Sznajder, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem, Luis Roniger, and Carlos A. Forment, New School for Social Research
This book aims to assess the shifting frontiers of citizenship in Latin America, analyzing contemporary practices and redefinitions, the impact and limits of the Liberal model of citizenship, the emergence of alternative models, and the transnational dimensions and the prospects of different ...
€89.00$122.00
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
28
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004221475
Global Society and Human Rights
Vittorio Cotesta, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Global Society and Human Rights tries to grasp and reconstruct the processes of global unification and the shaping of a common feeling of humanity: the conviction, in different cultural contexts, of the unity of mankind and the existence of inalienable human rights.
€139.00$193.00
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
27
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004218574
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 ...
€99.00$136.00
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
26
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004211742
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.
€133.00$172.00
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
25
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004187788
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
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
24
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004192843
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
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
23
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004188921
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
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
22
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004181724
Meaning, Subjectivity, Society
Karl E. Smith, La Trobe University
Who am I? Who are we? How are we to live? This book grapples with these perennial questions, primarily through a dialogue with Cornelius Castoriadis and Charles Taylor, using an interdisciplinary-hermeneutical approach examining issues of meaning, subjectivity and modern society.
€104.00$135.00
Series:
ICSS
Volume:
21
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004181120
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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