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This second collection comprises three volumes.

Volume One: Developing Institutional...

This Handbook brings together more than 40 chapters by some of the leading authors on the main themes and concepts associated with this area of scholarly research. Each chapter provides a comprehensive coverage of a particular aspect of this complex, and controversial, social phenomenon. The handbook provides a clear and authoritative exposition of key contemporary conceptions of patriotism, discusses the justification and the motivational impulses associated with patriotism, and examines some of the different ideas most commonly associated with one's attachment, identification and loyalty...

This is a reprint of one of the most successful Victorian encylopedias: the rare 5th edition published in 1874. It was translated into Japanese by the Ministry of Education of Meiji government in Japan and was considered as the most important source of Western information then in Japan.

The Politics of Modern Turkey is a new four-volume Major Work from Routledge. The first volume of the collection ( Historical Heritage of Politics in Modern Turkey ) brings together key research to provide a historical contextualization of modern Turkish political experience. This volume traces the sizeable literature that uses historical sociology as its basis to underline the continuities and breakdowns in key political areas of the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the modern Republican era, especially with reference to cultural, institutional, and elite politics...

This set compiles all five volumes of the World Boundaries series:
Volume 1: "Global Boundaries"
Volume 2: "Middle East and North Africa"
Volume 3: "Eurasia"
Volume 4: "The Americas"
Volume 5: "Maritime Bound"
Each volume is available separately.

Europa's comprehensive survey of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia.

New for 2014:

• a new essay on opposition movements in Russia, discussing the associations of the prominent anti-corruption campaigner Aleksei Navalnyi with both liberalism and nationalism
• analysis of recent political developments in Russia at both the federal and regional level
• a detailed discussion of the period of political power-sharing in Georgia between President Mikheil Saakashvili and the Government of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili
• expanded directory coverage of the...

The Arab Israeli conflict remains one of the longest-running disputes in modern world politics and the search for a lasting peace remains as elusive as ever. The series of wars and disputes starting in 1948 after the arrival of Zionist settlers in Palestine and the creation of the new state of Israel have primarily been about territory, but a number of other issues have exacerbated and prolonged the conflict. Externally, these include superpower rivalry and interventions in the region by Western industrial powers to secure access to the Middle East s huge oil reserves. Internally, issues...