Product Description: Das Buch führt einen neuen Begriff von Kultur als Prozess des Aushandelns von Bedeutungen ein und plausibilisiert diesen in einer Reihe von empirischen Studien.

Product Description: Ethnic conflict is the major form of mass political violence in the world today, and it has been since World War II. Dramatic acts of terrorism and calculated responses to them may distract the attention of policymakers and the public, but ethnic and nationalist conflict continues to pose the greatest challenge to peace and security across the globe...read more

Product Description: The contributions to this volume are divided into three parts, each introduced by one of the editors, and a general introduction which discusses the peculiarities of the Swiss case of state formation and nation building. The five chapters of Part I provide an idea of the variety of approaches and perspectives which currently exist in the study of nationhood and national identity...read more

Product Description: Nicht zuletzt wegen der Ertrags- und Strukturkrise auf dem deutschen Bankenmarkt ist das Outsourcing ein hochaktuelles Thema. Aber erst seine Weiterentwicklung zu der Organisationsform Wertschopfungsnetzwerk offnet den Weg zu vielversprechenden strukturellen und prozessoralen Neuerungen...read more

Product Description: Nationalism and the prevalence of ethnic conflict are features of contemporary politics. Many commentators have viewed such conflicts as a return to some primitive impulse. Andreas Wimmer's book argues that nationalism is in fact characteristic of the modern world, deriving from the nature of the state...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)