Böcker utgivna av Verlag Barbara Budrich

Russia, the European Union, and NATO still share some important common interests that need to be given greater attention. A return to strategic partnership is not conceivable without resolving the Ukraine conflict, but prudent management of the antagonism in order to keep open the prospect of a peaceful new normal is crucial.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union the political history of Central and Eastern Europe has been mainly the story of arise, consolidation, transformation and struggles of new democratic regimes and societies. The handbook offers an instructive approach to that history focusing on the relevance of practices and institutions of direct democracy.

This fifth volume in the series focuses on goals of science education at the level of the children, the early childhood professionals, and the pedagogical staff at after-school centres and primary schools, and on process-related quality criteria for science teaching at pre-primary and primary level.

Comparison is an essential research method in political science. This book helps students to understand comparison as an academic instrument, to grasp its necessity and its effective purpose for research. For that reason the author answers three `simple' questions: why compare; what to compare; and, how to compare.

Since its early beginnings peace and conflict research has focused on causes of phenomena such as civil war, terrorism, and state failure. The author merges this approach with a peace causes perspective and asks why civil war happened in Peru (1980-1995) though not in Bolivia,

Women's movements in Islamic countries have had a long and arduous journey in their quest for the realization of human rights and genuine equality. The author examines whether discriminatory laws against women do in fact originate from Islam and, ultimately, if there is any interpretation of Islam compatible with gender equality.

This volume provides in-depth examinations of a variety of individual, social, and environmental factors that contribute to the success of expatriate employees. Using data from numerous large-scale studies from both the public and private sectors, this volume provides valuable insights into expatriate success with implications

The stories in this anthology emerged from interviews with women and young people about their experiences of intervention when they were escaping a situation of abuse, neglect and/or sexual exploitation. They come from the research project "Cultural Encounters in Intervention Against Violence (CEINAV)" in four countries

Tolerance and urban in- and exclusion, participatory citizenship and the production of social space - taking urban protests on gentrification and urban restructuring in Berlin and Istanbul as points of departure, the authors discuss different forms of protest movements and struggles.

The theory and concept of multi-level governance (MLG) is a fairly recent one, emerging with the deepening integration of the European Union in the early 1990s and the development of free trade agreements around the world.

Currently, the EU is at the crossroads of its existence as a political union: The war in and around Syria, the main cause of the refugee question, asks for a coherent European position and action. The book aims at analyzing the risks the EU is facing as well as searching for political and institutional responses and ways out of the crisis.

The labour markets and European societies as a whole are subject to constant change. One way to face these challenges is the application of "entrepreneurial skills" like self-motivation, time management etc. The authors give examples of entrepreneurship in the fields of digitalization, social innovation, and eco-innovation

Political science as a discipline is multifaceted and its role in society is complex. This collection of essays is based on an approach grounded in history and informed by a theory of participatory pluralism. The author reflects on the discipline's fragmentation and its retreat from public debate,

Why is there so much reservation and scepticism among the Czech public as well as politicians towards the European Union? Has the experience of the Czech Republic as a member of the EU changed Czech Euroscepticism since 2004? The authors provide a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Euroscepticism using the concept of Europeanisation. The unique connection of the concepts of Euroscepticism and Europeanisation creates an innovative research framework.

In this book the author takes the concept of the New as a starting point to open the way to a broader reflection on art production within neoliberal capitalism.

Today, international migration is one of the most controversial political topics which demands innovative approaches of global and regional governance. The book provides a fresh theoretical framework to understand European responses to the international migration of people and explains the dynamics of Germany's migration and refugee policy.

This book is dedicated to the role of work organizations when it comes to the realization of an active fatherhood. Firstly, it deals with barriers for active fatherhood and its correlating mechanisms of inequality: Which aspects of discrimination and social closure do fathers face today if they assert a claim for active fatherhood, and with what

A simple introduction to the UN as an organization is not sufficient for the new generation. This primer aims to make readers understand the UN's historical, technological, political, and economic context in order to analyze its strengths and weaknesses in the light of proposals being made to create more workable global institutions.

The book is an exploration of the complexities of women's leadership in post-conflict Rwanda and South Africa. Through interviews with women who held political leadership positions in these countries, the book examines their educational, professional, activist, and personal backgrounds. It weaves a link between the complicated relationship

The handbook introduces common European Competence Standards for the academic training of career practitioners in Europe. These shared standards, developed by more than 200 experts from all across Europe, are already being used in many countries for the development of degree programs.

The book explores the concept of artistic witnessing as political activity. In which ways may art and artists bear witness to political events? The Contributors engage with dance, film, photography, performance, poetry and theatre and explore artistic witnessing as political activity in a wide variety of case studies.

Local municipalities in South Africa have become the focal point of community anger over the perceived inadequate provision of basic services. The book demonstrates that the strife against local governance knows no geographic, social, or racial boundaries, occurring in all communities, though more frequently violent in black communities than white

The authors aim at initiating a dialogue between European integration theory and gender studies. The contributions illustrate if and how gender scholarship has made creative use of integration theories and thus contributes to a vivid theoretical debate. They are designed to make gender scholarship more visible to integration theory and to stimulate

The Euro is it really the crowning achievement of half a century of European integration efforts? Quite the contrary: It seems that the Euro has now become a great threat to the European Union as such. This book explains the impact which the ongoing Eurocrisis has already had on the member states and their inhabitants; and it does so without

Should Turkey become a part of the European Union? This heated debate has been going on for many years now, always under the assumption that it is the membership candidate alone who needs to adjust to the EU's influence. The book's main argument is precisely that the Turkish accession needs to be analyzed not only by looking at the EU's impact