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Examines political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the Middle East peace process. Summary in English.

This volume brings together Spanish and German scholars specialised in the field of religious interaction. Most medieval societies ruled by Muslims and Christians were religiously plural not by choice and ideal but by nature. Religious affiliation and identity had to be repeatedly negotiated, defined, and chosen. The impact of legitimated religious violence towards subordinate religions or of religious wars underlies the more peaceful periods. Semi-permeable borders between the religions favoured inter-religious exchanges, while at the same time the efforts to impose segregation and discrimination aimed to restrict contact and influence. Agency by members of the subordinate religions was administratively and economically welcome and religiously and socially inevitable. 0The authors address topics such as the different strategies for power, order, exchange and identity chosen to organise religious plurality in medieval societies. Rights and regulations by both dominant and subordinate religions for demarcation, and in the opposite direction, pragmatism and forum shopping, were important strategies. A comparative approach stemming from the controversy on the concept of convivencia or coexistence in and beyond the Iberian Peninsula, as a possible model of inter-religious cohabitation, is combined with the inspiring results on religious plurality unearthed by intense research on mixed societies in the Mediterranean, Byzantium, the Crusading States and Central Asia. New theoretical and empirical models and concepts are proposed for comparative work in this research field.

Argues that the rise of the new Intifada and increasing violence is the result of the frustration among the Palestinian population over lack of progress in the Palestinian-Israeli peace process and the persistence of Israeli occupation; concludes that a political settlement to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is feasible only if Israeli security and Palestinians' national rights are respected. Summary in English.

The dynamics of revenue and expenditure policy in contemporary Mexico / Gabriel Farfán-Mares -- Empresarios, sociedad civil y esquemas de gobernanza / Cristina Puga -- Candidaturas independientes en México : un caso de movilización del cambio jurídico / Reyes Rodríguez Mondragón -- Campaigns and elections : five assumptions about mediated politics / Yolanda Meyenberg Leycegui -- La comunicación presidencial en México : Fox, Calderón y Peña / Rubén Aguilar Valenzuela -- The Mexican agenda in Latin America : the Pacific Alliance / Natalia Saltalamacchia -- What is actually happening with the "Mexican moment?" / Amalia D. García Medina -- A panorama of Mexico : governance, crime and justice information / Mario Palma Rojo and Victoria Bonilla -- Modernization of the municipal government in Mexico / Mauricio Valdés Rodríguez

Examines main aspects of the Oslo peace accords, opposition to them confronted by both Israelis and Palestinians, and possible effects on the future of the peace process. Summary in English.