This book examines Stalin's increasing popularity in his native Georgia and in Putin's Russia. Through extensive field research, political commentary, and autobiographical elements from the perspective of the post-Soviet millennial generation, the author analyzes how Stalin's image is manipulated and exploited for political gain.
A SWOT Analysis of a Family-Wahhabi Nationalism Case Study
This book analyzes the process of national development in Saudi Arabia through the use of the SWOT model, which examines the kingdom's strengths and weaknesses as well as the opportunities and threats it faces in internal and external arenas. This book combines a historical and contemporary analysis of Saudi politics and society.
This book is all about understanding Russian thinking on security. Marcin Skladanowski argues that that Aleksandr G. Dugin, in a radicalized form, presents thinking about security typical of the Russian political tradition, which is nationalist, state-centric, and anti-Western.
This book explores the total resistance to Nazism among the Catholic Christian voters of the Zentrum party in the elections in German states in the Interwar period. Kolden explains the unique Catholic resistance by comparing the diverging evolutions of Catholic and Protestant cultures and mentalities since the awakening of German nationalism in ......
Popular Memory in the Rise of the Ethnonationalist State
By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US popular culture, but in the mid-eighties it returned with a vengeance. Today, remembrance of World War II is ubiquitous across US media and politics, demonstrating its centrality to American collective identity. In this book, Barbara Biesecker explores this shift, revealing how "the Good ......
Many Americans wonder how our politics became dysfunctional-and what it will take to fix it. Historian Michael Santos takes readers on a journey to the heart of the American nation and the values that have allowed us to overcome previous challenges, sometimes in spite of ourselves.
Is political Islam the heir of radical Arab nationalism? If political Islam succeeds, will it face the same challenges faced by radical Arab nationalism? Will it be able to implement modernity? This book assesses the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.
Is political Islam the heir of radical Arab nationalism? If political Islam succeeds, will it face the same challenges faced by radical Arab nationalism? Will it be able to implement modernity? This book assess the history and political legacy of radical Arab nationalism to show that it contained the seeds of its own destruction.
In this groundbreaking work, Ivan Colevic investigates the symbols of politics and the politics of symbols in Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Hercegovnia. Ivan Colevic is one of the most widely respected social theorists from the former Yugoslavia. This is the first translation of his work in English.