This text breaks new ground by tracing conflict resolving strategies in a number of countries which are at varying stages along the path towards settling long-standing ethnic tensions.

This exciting new textbook is the first to offer students a truly comprehensive AND engaging account of the vibrant topic of Nationalism. Packed with a series of rich, illustrative examples, this book examines this powerful and remarkable political force by exploring: - Definitions of Nationalism, including normative and descriptive approaches; - The manifestation of Nationalism through language; - The relationship between Religion and Nationalism; - Discussions on the political uses of History as a social construct; - The social roots of ideologies and the significance of class and gender; -...

Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy is a collection of essays on the flowering of women's participation in the religious and artistic life of Italy from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. It brings together scholars of religious studies, history, literature, music, fine arts, and philosophy from both Italy and the United States. Several essays document and discuss new discoveries, such as the extraordinary collection of musical compositions written by women in Bologna and Milan in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the convent theater of sixteenth-century...

The role of external powers and international bodies in efforts to break patterns of conflict and to install stable and durable peace settlements is well known. This book focuses on an unusual case where the sovereign state and a neighbour state help broker an agreed settlement in a disputed and conflictual region. It analyses the roles of the British and Irish governments in pursuing political stability in Northern Ireland, a disputed region of the United Kingdom over which the Irish state has had a territorial claim.

The book focuses on the changes in the British state, whose writ...