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This book explores the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratization that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades. Written in an accessible style, it will appeal to students of politics, sociology and religion, and prove useful on a range of advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

This is an accessible and readable synthesis of all available knowledge about refugee women in Britain and France, which offers a unique comparative perspective.

This stimulating and comprehensive study of A. S. Byatt's work spans virtually her entire career and offers insightful readings of all of Byatt's fictions up to and including The Children's Book (2009). The authors also consider her role as a critic, cultural commentator and public intellectual.

This book addresses the question of political legitimacy in the European Union from the point of view of political responsibility, going beyond current debates that focus on the 'Democratic deficit'.

This book examines the security agendas of the European Union, the UK, France, Germany and Russia in connection with three defining events in international security - the crisis in Kosovo of 1999, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq crisis of 2003 - in order to assess the potential for alliance-building among European actors.

This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies by focusing on the relationship between that authority and the development of the international economy through the twentieth century.

Will the real Ireland please stand up? European Republic, Global Citizen, Anglo-American State or Irish Nation? - this text offers an analysis of Irish foreign policy that focuses upon its transformation as a result of Ireland's membership of the European Union and a broader evolution in national identity.

When the personal became political it changed British politics for ever. Gay men and the left, available in paperback for the first time, explores the enormous impact that gay politics had on the landscape of post-war Britain.

This book focuses on the capacity of European governments and the EU institutions to deliver high quality regulation. Drawing on comprehensive research and an original survey, it shows how regulatory quality can be measured and appraised - thus appealing both to academics and to policy-makers involved in major regulatory reforms.

Is democracy in crisis? Not according to this book! In this fascinating study, Professor Qvortrup shows that citizens are engaged in politics like never before by voting in referendums and participating in demonstrations and other forms of 'low politics'.

This is the first book to attempt a systematic comparative analysis of Japanese and British climate policy. It also provides a conceptual roadmap for further cross-national studies on sustainable development/climate policy.

At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

This book brings together a breadth of documentary and anecdotal evidence to challenge exisiting theories about the relationship between Britain and Germany at a critical period during the Cold War, and to show that both countires came to recognise the importance of working for the creation of a more united Europe.

This book provides an introduction into the development, the making and the implementation of European Union environmental politics. It employs a clear and accessible analytical perspective based on the theoretical state-of-the-art of EU policy Studies

This book examines whether it is possible to support the development of generalised trust through public action and education. It analyses political efforts in Palermo to break the Mafia's territorial and mental control and to turn a tradition of non-co-operation and distrust into trust and co-operation.

Newly available in paperback, the first comprehensive historical study of egalitarian ideas advocated by the British Left. Offers a compelling new perspective on British political thought, will appeal to scholars and students of British history and political theory and to anyone interested in contemporary political debates on progressive politics.

An explanation of how India has been affected by the different phases of globalization

Germany, pacifism and peace enforcement traces the reaction of Europe's biggest and potentially most powerful country to the ethnic wars of the 1990s, the emergence of large-scale terrorism, and the new US emphasis on pre-emptive strikes.

How does the European Union affect nationalist conflict and devolution in member states? This books explores this question in the case of Spain, where devolution has been an important instrument for managing nationalist conflict, and the Basque Country, where one of Europe's most protracted nationalist conflicts persists.

The first major publication to assess the impact on local politics of the new office of directly-elected mayor, now finally available in paperback.

Explaining local government uniquely presents a history of local government in Britain since 1800 until the present day. The study explains how the institution evolved from a structure that appeared to be relatively free from central government interference to one of the most centralised systems of government in the Western world.

With the 2005 review conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book puts into a measured context alarms about the further spread of nuclear weapons to 'rogue states' and elsewhere.

This book uncovers the controversial policies surrounding the strategy of national missile defence and provides an alternative, and arguably more inclusive, mode of interpretation of a strategy that is deeply embedded in performances of US identity.

This book considers the White House's approach towards issues such as abortion, sex education, obscenity, and same-sex marriage. It not only offers an account of policy-making but assesses the role of the Christian right, evaluates the political significance of moral concerns, and throws new light on George W. Bush's years in office.

The politics of Englishness provides a digest of the debates about England and Englishness and a unique perspective on those debates. Not only does the book provide readers with ready access to and interpretation of the significant literature on the English Question, it also enables them to make sense of the political, historical and cultural factors which constitute that question. The book addresses the condition of England in three interrelated parts. The first looks at traditional narratives of the English polity and reads them as variations of a legend of political Englishness, of England as the exemplary exception, exceptional in its constitutional tradition and exemplary in its political stability. The second considers how the decay of that legend has encouraged anxieties about English political identity and about how English identity can be recognised within the new complexity of British governance. The third revisits these narratives and anxieties, examining them in terms of actual and metaphorical 'locations' of Englishness: the regional, the European and the British.

Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Rethinking Equality provides a clear, critical and very up-to-date account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories.

Mike Leigh may well be Britain's greatest living film director; his worldview has permeated our national consciousness. Written with the co-operation of Leigh himself, this book gives detailed readings of the nine feature films he has made for the cinema, as well as an overview of his work for television.

Variously described as 'the average pilgrim', a 'wanderer', and 'a Buddha preaching in European clothes', Charlie Marlow is the voice behind Joseph Conrad's 'Youth' (1898), Heart of Darkness (1899), Lord Jim (1900) and Chance (1912). Conrad's Marlow offers a comprehensive account and critical analysis of one of Conrad's most celebrated creations, asking both who and what is Marlow: a character or a narrator, a biographer or an autobiographical screen, a messenger or an interpreter, a bearer of truth or a misguided liar? Reading Conrad's fiction alongside the work of Walter Benjamin, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger, and offering an investigation into the connection between narrative and death, this book argues that Marlow's essence is located in his liminality - in his constantly shifting position - and that the emergence of meaning in his stories is at all points bound up with the process of his storytelling.

R.K. Narayan's reputation as one of the founding figures of Indian writing in English is re-examined in this comprehensive study of his fiction, which offers detailed readings of all his novels. Arguing against views that have seen Narayan as a chronicler of "e;authentic"e; Indianness, John Thieme locates his fiction in terms of its specific South Indian contexts and cultural geography and its non-Indian intertexts. The study also considers the effect that Narayan's writing for overseas publication had on novels such as Swami and Friends, The Guide and The Man-Eater of Malgudi. Narayan's imaginary small town of Malgudi has often been seen as a metonym for India. Thieme draws on recent thinking about the ways in which place and space are constructed to demonstrate that Malgudi is always a fractured and transitional site, an interface between older conceptions of Indianness and contemporary views that stress the ubiquitousness and inescapability of change in the face of modernity. The study also shows that Malgudi is seen from varying angles of vision and with shifting emphases at different points in Narayan's career. As well as offering fresh insights into the influences that went into the making of Narayan's fiction, this is the most wide-ranging and authoritative guide to his novels to have appeared to date. It provides a unique account of his development as a writer.

In this comprehensive and lucid critical study, Andrew Teverson examines the intellectual, biographical, literary and cultural contexts from which Rushdie's fiction springs in order to help the reader make sense of the often complex debates that surround the life and work of this major contemporary figure.