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"Since the Arab Spring in 2011 and ISIS's rise in 2014, Egypt's Copts have attracted attention worldwide as the collateral damage of revolution and as victims of sectarian strife. Countering the din of persecution rhetoric and Islamophobia, The Political Lives of Saints journeys into the quieter corners of divine intercession to consider what martyrs, miracles, and mysteries have to do with the more routine challenges faced by Christians and Muslims living together under the modern nation-state. Drawing on years of extensive fieldwork, Angie Heo argues for understanding popular saints as material media that organize social relations between Christians and Muslims in Egypt toward varying political ends. With an ethnographer's eye for traces of antiquity, she deciphers how long-cherished imaginaries of holiness broker bonds of revolutionary sacrifice, reconfigure national sites of sacred territory, and pose sectarian threats to security and order. A study of tradition and nationhood at their limits, The Political Lives of Saints shows that Coptic Orthodoxy is a core domain of minoritarian regulation and authoritarian rule, powerfully reversing the recurrent thesis of its impending extinction in the Arab Muslim world"--Provided by publisher

Introduction : resistance in times of crisis / Stijn De Cauwer -- A critical Europe can do it! : interview with Rosi Braidotti / conducted by Joost de Bloois -- We should be modest, when it comes to the designation of the possible subjects of a new politics : interview with Jacques Ranciere / conducted and translated by Stijn De Cauwer and Gert-Jan Meyntjens -- The history of the notion of crisis : interview with Joseph Vogl / conducted and translated by Sven Fabre and Arne Vanraes -- Neoliberalism against the promise of modernity : interview with Wendy Brown / conducted by Joost de Bloois -- The European Union is a cage : interview with Antonio Negri / conducted and translated by Stijn De Cauwer and Gert-Jan Meyntjens -- We need to have a clear alternative : interview with Tariq Ali / conducted by Stijn De Cauwer -- Finance is an extractive sector : interview with Saskia Sassen / conducted by Tim Christiaens and Massimiliano Simons -- How to think a war machine? : interview with Maurizio Lazzarato / conducted by Tim Christiaens and Stijn De Cauwer ; translated by Tim Christiaens -- The creativity dispositive : labor reform by stealth : interview with Angela McRobbie / conducted by Stijn De Cauwer, Gert-Jan Meyntjens, and Heidi Peeters -- The idea of crisis : interview with Jean-Luc Nancy / conducted and translated by Erik Meganck and Evelien Van Beeck -- Terror and the rejection of sense : interview with Jean-Luc Nancy / conducted and translated by Erik Meganck and Evelien Van Beeck -- Community in crisis : a letter exchange between Zygmunt Bauman and Roberto Esposito / translated by Jolien Paeleman

Change and continuity in Russian politics -- The Soviet system -- Perestroika and the fall of the USSR -- Yeltsin and the politics of crisis -- Putinism, reform and retrenchment -- Presidency and parliaments -- Russian federalism -- Political parties and opposition -- Elections and voters -- The new Russian political economy -- Russia and the world -- What kind of polity is Russia?

Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of age under Hitler and whose lives were scarred and sometimes destroyed by what they saw and did.Drawing on six dozen memoirs by the generation of Germans born in the 1920s, Konrad Jarausch chronicles the unforgettable stories of people who lived through the Third Reich, World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition, but also participated in Germany's astonishing postwar recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation. Written decades after the events, these testimonies, many of them unpublished, look back on the mistakes of young people caught up in the Nazi movement. In many, early enthusiasm turns to deep disillusionment as the price of complicity with a brutal dictatorship--fighting at the front, aerial bombing at home, murder in the concentration camps-becomes clear.Bringing together the voices of men and women, perpetrators and victims, Broken Lives reveals the intimate human details of historical events and offers new insights about persistent questions. Why did so many Germans support Hitler through years of wartime sacrifice and Nazi inhumanity? How did they finally distance themselves from this racist dictatorship and come to embrace human rights? Jarausch argues that this generation's focus on its own suffering, often maligned by historians, ultimately led to a more critical understanding of national identity-one that helped transform Germany from a military aggressor into a pillar of European democracy

Introduction : forms of pluralism and democratic constitutionalism / Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen -- Federation, confederation, territorial state : debating a post-imperial future in French West Africa, 1945-1960 / Fred Cooper -- Decolonization and postnational democracy / Gary Wilder -- From the American system to Anglo-Saxon union : scientific racism and supra-nationalism in nineteenth-century North America / Joshua Simon -- Constitutions and forms of pluralism in the time of conquest : the French debates over the colonization of Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s / Emmanuelle Saada -- The constitutional identity of indigenous peoples in Canada : status groups or federal actors? / Patrick Macklem -- Federacy and the Kurds : might this new political form help mitigate Hobbesian conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria? / Alfred Stepan and Jeff Miley -- Europe-what's left : towards a progressive pluralist program for EU reform / Robert Howse -- Subsidiarity and the challenge to the sovereign state / Nadia Urbinati -- Indian secularism and its challenges / Christophe Jaffrelot -- Tainted liberalism : Israel's millets / Michael Karayanni -- Jurisdictional competition and internal reform in Muslim family law in Israel and Greece / Yuksel Sezgin -- Corporate legal particularism / Katharina Pistor -- Tax competition and the unbundling of sovereignty / Tsilly Dagan -- The politics of horizontal inequality : indigenous opposition to wind energy development in Mexico / Courtney Jung -- Conclusion : territorial pluralism and language communities / Astrid von Busekist

List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. This is no peace: a historical perspective -- 2. Jihadi terrorism -- 3. Causes of terrorism -- 4. Radical jihadi movements -- 5. Salafi jihadism (Daesh) and stealth jihadism -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Glossary -- Appendix 2. Islamic sects -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index -- About the author

"Time is widely recognized as one of the most precious and finite resources required for the accomplishment of human purposes. Within the domain of the political, time is required for almost any exercise of liberty that people seek to protect through the enforcement of social contracts, constitutions, and laws. Time is therefore inextricable from the realization of any vision of political justice. All political subjects encounter myriad ways in which their time is structured, valued, appropriated, or freed by the state. In the United States, we wait to turn 18 to acquire political voice and full representation. Then we wait again, to turn 62 or 66, when we can retire from work and receive retirement benefits, if we wish. People file taxes on April 15; redistricting hinges on decennial censuses; and prosecutors specify when crimes were committed to determine whether statutes of limitation have expired. Around us convicted criminals are punished with prison sentences of varying durations, legal permanent residents refrain from traveling for long periods of time as they seek to naturalize, and election cycles run their course only to begin anew. Despite the significance of time for the satisfaction of people's ends, the legitimate power of the state to command the time of its subjects and set a political schedule is not generally contested"--

This book undertakes a philosophical examination of a number of important quantitative research methods in the behavioral sciences, in order to overcome the shallow and uncritical understanding that is typically provided by textbooks. The methods are: exploratory data analysis, statistical significance testing, Bayesian confirmation theory and statistics, meta-analysis, and exploratory factor analysis. Further readings are provided to extend the readers' understanding.

'Asia has benefitted greatly from its integration into the world economy. But globalization has its challenges, including those that are the subject of this excellent new study: how to manage the interface with global capital markets, especially in the current, highly unusual monetary policy settings in the major economies. Dr Juthathip Jongwanich has been researching these issues for several years. In this volume she writes with great authority, providing a comprehensively, succinct and accessible examination of the many complex issues. A must-read volume for policymakers and academics alike.' - Hal Hill, H.W. Arndt Professor of Southeast Asian Economies, Australian National University.'A very timely and excellent book on capital volatility. Jongwanich provides a superb analysis on the impact of capital flows on home country, exchange rates and the capital account policies. A very important book, especially for academia and policymakers.' - Muhamad Chatib Basri, Former Finance Minister of Indonesia.'This timely book presents outstanding research on the determinants and effects of capital flows as well as the effectiveness of capital control policies in dealing with volatile capital flows in emerging Asian countries. It will be a useful and valuable reading for researchers and policymakers to understand the nature of cross-border capital movement and design the policies conducive to more stable and sustainable economic growth.' - Jong-Wha Lee, Professor of Economics and Director of Asiatic Research Institute, Korea University.'This is an important book. Ever since the East Asian financial crisis, it has been recognized that emerging market economies are vulnerable to both excessive inflows of capital and sudden outflows. But up until now there have been few detailed empirical studies of this issue. This book looks at the key factors determining capital mobility, considers the impact of capital flows, especially on real exchange rates, and examines the possibility of effective capital controls. Jongwanich draws two key conclusions: shifting the mix of inflows towards FDI is possible and desirable, and well-functioning domestic financial markets are essential if capital inflows are to be well used.' - David Vines, Professor of Economics and Fellow of Balliol College, University of Oxford