Silja Hausermann & Hanspeter Kriesi 
Contention in Times of Crisis [PDF ebook] 
Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries

With the increasing acceptance of evolutionary and institutional thinking among economists, general interest in the German Historical School has risen steadily during the last decade. This book trace …

In a country famous for having the most CCTVs in the world, how safe are your rights? Six types of execution are practiced in the industrialized world, torture is openly sanctioned by America, and in …

First Published in 2005. Since the breaching of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent end of the Cold War, there has been a marked increase in attention paid to multinational military forces. Ad …

John E. Roemer, one of the founders of analytical Marxism, draws on contemporary mathematical economics to put forward a refined extension of the Marxian theory of exploitation, labour value and clas …

In 2012, on the eve of Vladimir Putin”s inauguration for a controversial third term as president, mass protests ended in violent clashes between demonstrators and the police. ”;They ruined my big d …

Much has been said about the driving forces of region-building processes or regionalization worldwide, yet few systematic and comparative studies have been conducted on how regions can contribute to …

Through a careful examination of religious and philosophical literature, the contributors to the volume analyze, compare and assess diverse Western, Islamic, Hindu and East Asian perspectives concern …

The Group of Eight has become a central actor in global governance with a steadily expanding role and agenda. The leaders” summits remain at the apex of the G8 system, but the leaders” work is comp …

Empires have returned as features of the international scene. With the Cold War”s global ideological contest gone, alternative structures such as the War on Terror or the Clash of Civilizations losi …

Following the end of the Second World War, the creation of regional organizations in Europe provided niche functions to help ensure regional stability through security and transition. Yet, as the Col …