This book critically examines the relationship between protecting human rights and building peace in post-violence societies. It explores the conditions that must be present, and strategies that should be adopted, for the former to contribute to the latter. The author argues tha…
"An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research. Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law…
"An innovative and accessible textbook on multimethod and case-study research. Multimethod research has become indispensable to doing social science, and is essential to anyone who conducts large-scale research projects in political science, sociology, education, comparative law…
From the Inside Flap: Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies. Ho…
From the Inside Flap: Any conversation about effective teaching must begin with a consideration of how students learn. However, instructors may find a gap between resources that focus on the technical research on learning and those that provide practical classroom strategies. Ho…
Although there is growing interest in the role of religion in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Agenda 2030, very few studies have focused on the contributions of interfaith networks. Most of the contemporary publications on religion and developmen…
Genocide: the power and problems of a concept
Since the 1980s the study of genocide has exploded, both historically and geographically, to encompass earlier epochs, other continents, and new cases. The concept of genocide has proved its worth, but that expansion has also compounded the tensions between a rigid legal concept…
The formation of post-colonial states in Africa, and the Middle East gave birth to prolonged separatist wars. Exploring the evolution of these separatist wars, Yaniv Voller examines the strategies that both governments and insurgents employed, how these strategies were shaped by…
Populists and the pandemic : how populists around the world responded to Covid-19 / Nils Ringe and Lucio Rennó -- The United States : Trump, populism, and the pandemic / Kenneth M. Roberts -- Mexico : a politically effective populist pandemic response / Nicolás de la Cerda and C…
Peter van Bergeijk brings together 40 leading experts from all continents to analyze state-of-the-art data covering the sharp increase in (smart) sanctions in the last decade. Original chapters provide detailed analyses on the determinants of sanction success and failure, comple…
This textbook provides a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues and debates associated with modern land warfare. The second edition has been updated and revised, and includes new chapters on non-western perspectives and hybrid warfare. Drawing on a range of case …
"Offers a new perspective on the sociocultural and political history of law in socialist China by telling the story of how the party-state attempted to mobilize ordinary citizens to learn laws. Exams various case studies to trace the dissemination of legal knowledge at different…
Transition to non-democratic regimes : a theoretical overview -- The reverse process in the contemporary period : a preliminary assessment -- Focusing on the conditions : a qualitative comparative analysis -- Incumbent entrenchment : Dominican Republic and Bolivia -- Opposition …
Combines information taken from government documents, firsthand accounts, and press coverage to examine issues surrounding Indians of North America of mixed decent and other racially mixed people in the United States during the late nineteenth century.