ÒThe people want... Ó: This first half of slogans chanted by millions of Arab protesters since
2011 revealed a long-repressed craving for democracy. But huge social and economic …

In 1970, just months before his death, the historian Richard Hofstadter called on US
historians to engage the subject of violence. For a generation, he wrote, the profession had …

6. Although most Latin American governments define themselves “socialist” rather than
“communist,” the fact that President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela recently called for the Fifth …

Islamophobia: The Ideological Campaign Against Muslims examines the rise of anti-Muslim
and anti-Arab sentiments in the West following the end of the Cold War through GW Bush's …

This book investigates the ways in which soft power is used by African countries to help
drive global influence. Selecting four of the countries most associated with soft power across …

To Make the Earth Whole studies the art of citizen diplomacy_a process that can address
clashes of religion and culture across regional lines even when traditional negotiations …

Walls are being built at a dizzying pace to separate us, cocoon us, and exclude us. The
contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world--in …

In Jesus and the Chaos of History, James Crossley looks at the way the earliest traditions
about Jesus interacted with a context of social upheaval and the ways in which this historical …

New Testament and Christian origins scholarship have historically been influenced by their
political and social context.'Jesus in an Age of Terror'applies the work of critical and media …