Pope Francis confuses many observers because his papacy does not fitneatly into any pre-established classificatory schemes. To gain a deeperappreciation of Francis’s complicated papacy, this volume proposes that aninterdisciplinary approach, fusing…
The Arab Spring led to a major transformation of political systems of the region’s most countries; an increase in the significance of radical Islam in the political life; a degradation of the security environment. In addition, changes in the…
Feminism’s origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostlywhite and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has beenand continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from allwalks of life have been mobilizing for…
The role and importance of religion in many countries' foreign policy seemto be rising again. Many scholars have shown that Saudi Arabia uses thespread of religion, specifically Salafi Islam, as a tool for its foreign policy andto strengthen its…
The book reconstructs how the normative yardsticks that underpinevaluations of international organizations have changed since 1970. Basedon in-depth case studies of normative change in five internationalorganizations over a period of five decades,…
The phenomenal story of China’s ‘unprecedented disposition to engage theinternational legal order’ has been primarily told and examined by politicalscientists and economists. Since China adopted its ‘open door’ policy in1978, which altered its…
The Committee for Polish Children in the USSR operated in the years 1943–1946. It was established on June 30, 1943 in Moscow following a political left-wing initiative. The Committee was a care-giving institution, fully in line with the Soviet system…
Meet the world's most dangerous man. Or is he? Who is the real VladimirPutin? What does he want? And what will he do next? Despite the millions ofwords written on Putin's Russia, the West still fails to truly understand oneof the world's most…
By applying terminology from trauma theory and a methodological approach from comics scholarship, this essay discusses three graphic autobiographies of women. These are A Game for Swallows by Zeina Abirached (trans. Edward Gauvin, 2012), We are on…
The paper explores selected factors influencing the process of radicalisation leading to the use of political violence and terror by the Muslim minorities living in the European Union member states. Internal and external catalysts conditioning this…
