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Mazie investigates controversies of varying intensities among Israeli Jews, including state-run kosher kitchens, the extent of honoring religious imperatives on Shabbat (though many Israelis are secular), and state funding for religious education. An area that arouses strong emotion is that of marriage laws, which are dictated religiously; a civil service within the country for Jews is not available.

Urban spaces throughout Europe are increasingly characterised by a mixture of different religions and worldviews. Being home to a wide range of religious and non-religious groups and individuals does not mean that cities are automatically also spaces of interreligious and interfaith encounters. Whether a city is a venue for interreligious encounter and dialogue, or merely a place where various religions and worldviews exist side by side, is a central question for the continuing social cohesion of modern societies. This volume presents selected findings of the international research project 'Religion and Dialogue in Modern Societies' (ReDi) which investigated dialogical practice in the five metropolitan cities Oslo, Stockholm, London, Hamburg and Duisburg. It offers a range of case studies addressing two fields of activity: dialogue and interreligious encounters in the urban space and dialogue in education.

This introduction summarizes the main contributions of this special issue titled "Quiet Politics and the Power of Business: New Perspectives in an Era of Noisy Politics." The four articles in the issue use and extend Culpepper's influential concept of "quiet politics" according to which business is able to shape policies and regulations when issues are of low salience to the public and politicians. The issue takes Culpepper's analysis further in ways that respond to the rise of noisy politics over the last few years, often associated with new strident forms of left- and right-wing populism. Three contributions are made. First, the articles show that salience is not an inherent property of a policy area but is socially constructed. Second, a variety of strategies are described that business uses when trying to keep politics quiet. Third, strategies are affected by the structure of business, which varies across types of capitalism. Future research can use these insights to extend our understanding of the limits, strategies, and dynamics of quiet politics across political economies.

This article reconstructs the concept of rhetorical action to excavate its original, recurrent, and—for many—discomforting links to constitutive politics. By examining the history of rhetorical action through the ancient period to the mid-17th century, I will argue that that relationship between rhetorical action and constitutive politics is a powerful prism for understanding actio. The article's contributions are twofold and compounding. The first is the establishment of a positive account of the relation between actio and constitutive rhetoric for the ancient politicians and early modern dramatists, which pushes the usual bookends of actio's history both backward and forward, providing analytical leverage to critically reflect on its standard history. The second contribution is a demonstration that much of the confusion and discomfort surrounding actio results from formulating actio negatively against its constitutive political threat. In sum, this article contributes to both the theoretical and historical understanding of rhetorical action.

Whilst the Olympic Movement states that politics have no place in sport, political events have nonetheless exerted a significant effect on modern Olympic Games. Three of the most 'political' Olympic Games are undoubtedly Berlin, 1936; Mexico, 1968; and Munich, 1972.

Introduces a special issue of this journal on youth, citizenship and politics.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The "Irrelevance" of International Law and Organizations -- 2. The Real Origins of International Legal Positivism -- 3. The Achievements of International Legal Positivism -- 4. International Legal Positivism after the Outbreak of World War I -- 5. Functionalism as a Substitute for Positivism -- 6. A Functionalist Analysis of International Law and Politics -- 7. The Function of Decision Performed by International Law and Organizations -- 8. The Function of Adjudication as Performed by the UN. Security Council -- 9. The Function of Resolution as Performed by the UN. Security Council -- 10. The Function of Redefinition as Performed by the UN. General Assembly -- 11. The Increments of International Law and Politics -- 12. A New Philosophy for American Foreign Policy -- 13. The Definitional Context of the Iranian Hostages Crisis -- 14. A Functionalist Approach to u.s. Crisis Management Decision Making -- 15. The Carter Administration's Responsibility for the Death of Detente -- 16. Restoring Persian Gulf Security -- 17. The Israeli Invasion of Lebanon -- 18. The Future of Nuclear Arms Control between the Superpowers -- 19. International Lawlessness in the Caribbean Basin -- 20. Machiavellianism Destroys Constitutionalism -- Notes -- Index