This book is a thorough and professional study about secession.

With resurgent interest in the Muslim world and in particular political Islam, this collection of translated essays by major Muslim thinkers from the Middle East and South Asia demonstrates the ongoing and contentious debate between ...

The essays gathered in this collection explore the effects of recent changes on two of the main building blocks of constitutionalism, statehood and democracy.

This volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, and with the more general question of whether Western liberal values can or should be promoted in the rest of the world.

The essays collected in this book place this issue in its historical context and offer case studies of Muslim societies from North Africa to Southeast Asia.

The eighteen essays in this volume cover a wide range of material and reevaluate women's studies and Middle Eastern studies, Muslim women and the Shari'a courts, the Ottoman household, Dhimmi communities, children and family law, morality, ...

"Examining legal and political debates in Turkey, several European countries, and the United States, Elver shows the exclusion of pious Muslim women from the public sphere in the name of secularism, democracy, liberalism, and women's rights ...

Multicultural States challenges the national frames of reference of the debates which surround questions of ethnicity, race and cultural difference by investigating contemporary theories, policies and practices of cultural pluralism across ...

This book examines the official war stories being told to the international community about why and against whom the war on terror is being waged.