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Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
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Federalism in Post‐Assad Syria: Toward Durable Peace in a Pluralist Society
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Syria's civil war has left behind a fractured state. While the new president, Ahmed al‐Sharaa, seeks to unify the country and restore centralized governance, this appears unworkable. Instead, this article contends, asymmetrical federalism offers a pathway toward stability.
Dilan Okcuoglu
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Explaining the Post‐October 7 Durability of Israel's Peace Deals with Egypt and Jordan
Middle East Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Crafting and maintaining peace agreements is one of the most critical challenges in international relations and conflict resolution. Despite their initial promise, many such deals have failed, sparking renewed conflict and instability. This article argues that two primary factors influence the durability of these agreements: elite positions ...
Chen Kertcher, Carmela Lutmar
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Reimagining the (Supra)nation, Remaking the State: The Yugoslav Idea and Ante Marković's Party
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article investigates the reimagining and representation of the Yugoslav idea by the Alliance of Reformist Forces (SRSJ), a party established by federal Prime Minister Ante Marković in 1990. The SRSJ sought to reshape the structure of the federal state and revive the narratives of shared history and culture foundational to the Yugoslav ...
Alfredo Sasso
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Journey to the Centre of the State: Catalans in Madrid and Scots in London
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In recent years, comparative studies between Scotland and Catalonia have grown substantially, especially those dealing with the territorial embeddedness of these territories in the United Kingdom and Spain. Despite this, comparative research on the integration of Catalans and Scots in the decision‐making of central state institutions is ...
Javier Antón‐Merino
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Practicing Power‐Sharing: How Political Adversaries (Fail to) Rule Jointly
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Why does power‐sharing lead to peace and effective governance in some cases but not others? Whereas the current literature on this question predominantly focuses on institutional design, this article argues that more attention should be given to the everyday activities, routines and processes through which power‐sharing is operated.
Alexandre Wadih Raffoul
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Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Depolarisation
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT It has been suggested that multiculturalism has contributed to majority anxieties and thereby to the current polarisation. This article focuses on how to tackle and lessen this polarisation, which is fostering mutual distrust and threatening the national, democratic citizenships upon which any multiculturalist, egalitarian and unifying project
Tariq Modood
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Democratic Equality in a Populist Anti‐Multicultural Era
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores what the future role of multiculturalism is, or may be, in Europe by looking at the case of the Netherlands. It focuses on how to respond to the tensions between, on the one hand, prevalent discourses on the dangers, demise and reckoning of multiculturalism and, on the other hand, the promotion of equal citizenship and ...
Tamar de Waal
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Animal welfare chauvinism in Brexit Britain: a genealogy of care and control. [PDF]
Biosocieties, 2023 Message R.
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