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  • Religious Responses to Marriage Equality Religious Responses to Marriage Equality
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    Religious Responses to Marriage Equality

    The Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) ended a 20-year political battle over same-sex marriage in the USA. The ruling in favor of a constitutional right for gays and lesbians to marry reflected growing social acceptance and political...
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  • Emotional Motives in International Relations Emotional Motives in International Relations
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    Emotional Motives in International Relations

    The study of emotions in International Relations is gaining wide-spread attention. Within the "emotional turn" in IR the emotion of rage however has not been given sufficient attention, instead being used as short-hand for irrationality and excess.Rage...
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  • Japanese Contemporary Politics Japanese Contemporary Politics
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    Japanese Contemporary Politics

    In the postwar period, Japanese politics has evolved considerably, with issues of gender, representation, and household economics becoming increasingly salient. Meanwhile, since the end of the Cold War, Japan has joined other developed states in the...
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  • Migrants, Refugees, and the Media Migrants, Refugees, and the Media
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    Migrants, Refugees, and the Media

    The large-scale movements of refugees and economic migrants from conflict zones to more stable societies have resulted in challenges, both for new entrants and their hosts. This fascinating volume brings together a collection of media analyses focused on...
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  • Online Activism in Latin America Online Activism in Latin America
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    Online Activism in Latin America

    Online Activism in Latin America examines the innovative ways in which Latin American citizens, and Latin@s in the U.S., use the Internet to advocate for causes that they consider just. The contributions to the volume analyze citizen-launched websites,...
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  • Religion and Social Reconstruction in Africa Religion and Social Reconstruction in Africa
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    Religion and Social Reconstruction in Africa

    Religion has played a major role in both the division and unification of peoples and countries within Africa. Its capacity to cause, and to heal, societal rifts has been well documented. This book addresses this powerful societal force, and explores the...
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  • On the Persistence of the Japanese History Problem On the Persistence of the Japanese History Problem
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    On the Persistence of the Japanese History Problem

    In Japan, people often refer to August 15, 1945 as the end of "that war." But the duration of "that war" remains vague. At times, it refers to the fifteen years of war in the Asia-Pacific. At others, it refers to an imagination of the century long...
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  • Hamas and Palestine Hamas and Palestine
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    Hamas and Palestine

    Hamas and Palestine: The Contested Road to Statehood analyses the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas, between 2005 and 2017.  The book expounds how Hamas has employed a dual resistance strategy, consisting of political and armed resistance, as a...
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  • The European Periphery and the Eurozone Crisis The European Periphery and the Eurozone Crisis
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    The European Periphery and the Eurozone Crisis

    This book provides a new understanding of the eurozone crisis across three of the worst hit cases: Greece, Portugal, and Ireland.In contrast to accounts which stress the 'immaturity' of the European 'periphery', as well as more critical...
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  • Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought
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    Modern Dystopian Fiction and Political Thought

    Over the past few years, 'dystopia' has become a word with increasing cultural currency. This volume argues that we live in dystopian times, and more specifically that a genre of fiction called "dystopia" has, above others, achieved symbolic cultural...
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  • Female Combatants after Armed Struggle Female Combatants after Armed Struggle
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    Female Combatants after Armed Struggle

    This book stems from a simple 'feminist curiosity' that can be succinctly summed up into a single question: what happens to combatant women after the war? Based on in-depth interviews with 40 research participants, mostly former combatants within...
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  • Gun Studies Gun Studies
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    Gun Studies

    As cultural, social, political, and historical objects, guns are rich with complex and contested significance. What guns mean, why they matter, and what policies should be undertaken to regulate guns remain issues of vigorous scholarly and public debate...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods
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    The Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods

    This new handbook is about the practices of conducting research on military issues.  As an edited collection, it brings together an extensive group of authors from a range of disciplinary perspectives whose chapters engage with the conceptual, practical...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics
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    The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics

    The Routledge Handbook of Scandinavian Politics is a comprehensive overview of Scandinavian politics provided by leading experts in the field and covering the polity, the politics and the policy of Scandinavia. Coherently structured with a multi-level...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia
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    Routledge Handbook of Democratization in East Asia

    This handbook provides a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics and prospects of democratization in East Asia. A team of leading experts in the field offers discussion at both the country and regional level, including analysis of democratic attitudes and...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia
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    Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia

    The Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia is an interdisciplinary resource, covering one of the most dynamically expanding sectors in contemporary Asia. Originally a product of Western thinking, civil society represents a particular set of...
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  • Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections
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    Routledge Handbook of Primary Elections

    Primary elections have been used for the past century for most U.S. elective offices and their popularity is growing in other nations as well. In some circumstances, primaries ensure that citizens have a say in elections and test the skills of candidates...
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  • Just Ordinary Robots Just Ordinary Robots
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    Just Ordinary Robots

    A social robot is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. We seem to accept the use of robots that perform dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. But...
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  • Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914 Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914
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    Politics and Trade in Britain, 1776-1914

    This volume explores the period between Smith's 1776 The Wealth of Nations and ends in the early days of the Anti-Corn Law League campaign on the eve of the 1841 General Election. The collection includes contemporary sources and extensive editorial...
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  • Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation
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    Transnational Networks and EU International Cooperation

    This book provides a timely evaluation of the EU's ability to act internationally and coordinate policy in a time when it also seeks to meet shifting demands of international cooperation. These include global sustainable development, the challenge of...
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  • Christian-Muslim Relations in Syria Christian-Muslim Relations in Syria
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    Christian-Muslim Relations in Syria

    Offering an authoritative study of the plural religious landscape in modern Syria and of the diverse Christian and Muslim communities that have cohabited the country for centuries, this volume considers a wide range of cultural, religious and political...
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  • The EU through Multiple Crises The EU through Multiple Crises
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    The EU through Multiple Crises

    This book explores the mechanisms of political representation and accountability in the European political system, against the backdrop of multiple crises in recent years in the economic, financial, security and immigration fields, which have triggered...
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  • The Army and Ideology in Indonesia The Army and Ideology in Indonesia
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    The Army and Ideology in Indonesia

    This book is an analysis of Indonesia's civil-military relations in the post-1998 reform era. It focuses on the political thinking of the Indonesian Army during the time of democratic consolidation. The book examines the army (Tentara Nasional Indonesia...
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  • Islam as Power Islam as Power
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    Islam as Power

    Providing an in-depth and extensive analysis of the concept of power as articulatedby Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (1935-2010), this case study analyses thesystemic conceptualisation of power and his argumentation of sacralisingIslamised power. The volume...
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  • Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times
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    Multiculturalism in Turbulent Times

    This book interrogates politics and practices of multiculturalism and multicultural education in contexts where liberal and critical multiculturalism is under pressure. It examines and interrogates perspectives on multiculturalism and the political and...
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  • Western Dominance in International Relations? Western Dominance in International Relations?
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    Western Dominance in International Relations?

    Since the 1970s, a 'critical' movement has been developing in the humanities and social sciences denouncing the existence of 'Western dominance' over the worldwide production and circulation of knowledge. However, thirty years after the emergence of this...
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  • The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics
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    The Multidimensionality of Regions in World Politics

    This book examines what counts regarding the role and conceptualization of regions in world politics. It presents a fresh look at which narratives awake, persist, fall dormant or re-emerge amidst diverse interlocking processes of environmental,...
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  • China's Historical Choice in Global Governance China's Historical Choice in Global Governance
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    China's Historical Choice in Global Governance

    Since the 1990s, the world has been witnessing the most fundamental changes in global governance structure and international relations. Due to multipolarization, economic globalization, cultural diversification and information revolution, a number of...
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  • The Claim to Christianity The Claim to Christianity
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    The Claim to Christianity

    The far right is on the rise across Europe, pushing a battle scenario in which Islam clashes with Christianity as much as Christianity clashes with Islam. From the margins to the mainstream, far-right protesters and far-right politicians call for the...
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    Humor in America

    Explores humor and satire as a comic contact zone between the United States and the Pacific world from 1840 to 1890. Considers how nineteenth-century Americans and Pacific Islanders used humor to employ stereotypes or to question them.
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  • Chile and the United States 1880-1962 Chile and the United States 1880-1962
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    Chile and the United States 1880-1962

    The key to the future of the United States relations with its sister republics in South and Central America may well be found in this exhaustive study of Chile-United States relationships. The South American nation's relatively small population belies...
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  • In So Many More Words In So Many More Words
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    In So Many More Words

    When In So Many Words first appeared in 2006, the Chicago Tribune observed that Robert Schmuhl's collection of essays offered "some of the sharpest and most informative cultural criticism available."Now, In So Many More Words expands on the...
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  • 14 Battles for the White Race 14 Battles for the White Race
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    14 Battles for the White Race

    Our White peoples have had some very hard times. We have been through just as much as any other people. Our peoples had to fight in wars that were sometimes hopeless. They fought to the death in some battles just so their loved ones could have time to...
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  • Detained without Cause Detained without Cause
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    Detained without Cause

    Richly told and deeply troubling, this book collects personal narratives of Muslim immigrants to the United States who were racially profiled, detained indefinitely, and mistreated following the September 11 attacks. From descriptions of physical abuse...
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  • Citizen in Trumplandia Citizen in Trumplandia
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    Citizen in Trumplandia

    The book is a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever. Some pundits predict that, if things don't change, another civil war could occur. Have we reached a point of no...
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  • Boundaries of Medicare Boundaries of Medicare
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    Boundaries of Medicare

    While almost all universal health coverage in Canada is provided under the Canada Health Act, there is Medicare coverage that is provided outside of the act. This is the first book to explain the nature of these boundary health services, why they exist,...
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  • Failure of Remain Failure of Remain
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    Failure of Remain

    Studies of the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union ("Brexit") have largely focused on the role of politicians and political parties, on the one hand, and the characteristics of Leave and Remain voters on the other. The Failure of Remain...
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  • Multilateral Sanctions Revisited Multilateral Sanctions Revisited
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    Multilateral Sanctions Revisited

    Sanctions are back with a vengeance with new objectives, measures, challenges, and opportunities. Shaping the thinking of generations of scholars, Canadian visionary Margaret Doxey anticipated and analyzed these issues, making now the time to rediscover...
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  • Twenty-First-Century Feminismos Twenty-First-Century Feminismos
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    Twenty-First-Century Feminismos

    The women's movement is a central, complex, and evolving socio-political actor in any national context. Vital to advancing gender equity and gendered relations in every contemporary society, the organization and mobilization of women into social...
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  • Canadian Federal Election of 2021 Canadian Federal Election of 2021
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    Canadian Federal Election of 2021

    Media pundits and students of Canadian politics alike have strived to interpret the relevance of the 2021 federal election, held in the midst of a global pandemic and reinforcing the existing parliamentary balance of power.This timely volume explains the...
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  • Symbolic State Symbolic State
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    Symbolic State

    The nation-state is a double sleight of hand, naturalizing both the nation and the state encompassing it. No such naturalization is possible in multinational states. To explain why these countries experience political crises that bring their very...
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  • Precarious Lives of Syrians Precarious Lives of Syrians
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    Precarious Lives of Syrians

    Turkey now hosts the largest number of Syrian refugees in the world, more than 3.6 million of the 12.7 million displaced by the Syrian Civil War. Many of them are subject to an unpredictable temporary protection, forcing them to live under vulnerable and...
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  • Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec
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    Contemporary Federalist Thought in Quebec

    Quebec's most recent attempts to assert its distinctiveness within Canada have relied on unilateral constitutional means to strengthen its French and secular character, suggesting that an important change of political culture has taken place in Quebec...
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  • Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies
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    Constitutional Politics in Multinational Democracies

    Constitutional politics is exceptionally intense and unpredictable. It involves negotiations over the very nature of the state and the implications of self- determination. Multinational democracies face pressing challenges to the existing order because...
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  • Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States
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    Fiscal Federalism in Multinational States

    Substate nationalism is often studied as a question of political identity and cultural recognition. The same applies to the study of multinational federalism - it is mainly conceived as a tool for the accommodation of minority cultures and identities...
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  • Across Boundaries Across Boundaries
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    Across Boundaries

    Why and how does secession happen? How do different levels of government interact with each other? Why do some multilevel governments work better than others? What makes political extremism so virulent in today's society? These are some of the most...
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