"Contemporary Political Issues: A Global Perspective" is an insightful exploration of the dynamic and interconnected world of politics in the 21st century. In this thought-provoking book, I delve into a comprehensive examination of the most pressing political challenges facing our global society today. The world is undergoing rapid transformations, and political landscapes are constantly evolving. From the rise of populist movements to the complexities of international relations, this book offers a nuanced and in-depth analysis of contemporary political issues. It goes beyond the headlines, providing readers with a deeper understanding of the underlying forces shaping political dynamics across the globe. Key Features: 1. Global Scope: This book takes a truly global perspective, examining political issues in different regions and exploring their interconnectedness. From North to South, East to West, each chapter offers insights into the unique challenges faced by various nations while also highlighting the shared global concerns that bind us together. 2. Interdisciplinary Approach: I adopt an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on insights from political science, sociology, economics, and other relevant fields. This multifaceted perspective enables readers to grasp the complexity of contemporary political issues and appreciate the interconnected nature of political, economic, and social forces. 3. Critical Analysis: Rather than presenting a mere catalogue of facts, this book encourages critical thinking. Each chapter includes a rigorous analysis of key issues, encouraging readers to question assumptions, consider multiple perspectives, and engage in informed discussions about the future of global politics. 4. Relevance to Everyday Life: The book bridges the gap between academic discourse and real-world relevance. By exploring how political issues impact individuals and communities, it aims to empower readers with the knowledge needed to navigate the complexities of the modern political landscape. 5. Emerging Trends and Future Prospects: Recognizing that the world is in a constant state of flux, the book explores emerging political trends and anticipates future developments. It equips readers with the tools to understand not only the present but also the potential trajectories of global political dynamics. "Contemporary Political Issues: A Global Perspective" is an essential resource for students, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a comprehensive understanding of the multifaceted and ever-changing world of politics. Through its engaging and accessible style, the book invites readers to embark on a journey of exploration, inquiry, and enlightenment in the realm of contemporary political issues.

The global high-tech economy has generated a technological and scientific productive miracle. But along with the miracle has come problems. Social Problems in Global Perspective focuses on some of these problems, including family decline, divorce and single parenting; the gender war- with men and women distrustful and threatened by one another in the workplace, the home, and the bedroom- the moral malaise created by science and religion, the media, and morality. This book presents detailed chapters on the high-tech economy, religious fundamentalism, terrorism, and ethnic conflicts. It also includes chapters on homosexuality and AIDS, the world population explosion, and pop culture.

The book opens with a discussion of different methods and approaches employed to study the subject, including analytical political theory, post-structuralism and critical theory. It then surveys some of the most prominent perspectives on global ethics, including cosmopolitanism, communitarianism of various kinds, theories of international society, realism, postcolonialism, feminism, and green political thought. Part III examines a variety of more specific issues, including immigration, democracy, human rights, the just war tradition and its critics, international law, and global poverty and inequality. -- Publisher description.

While fear motivates immediate action in response to specific threats, anxiety often manifests as a chronic concern that drives individuals to seek answers and stability through political engagement. High levels of anxiety can lead to increased information-seeking behavior, prompting individuals to research candidates and policies in search of assurance. Anxious individuals may gravitate towards political figures who embody calmness or assertiveness, interpreting such traits as signals of competence and reliability. As a result, during election cycles characterized by economic instability or social upheaval, people may prioritize candidates who convey certainty and effective management capabilities over those who communicate ambitious but unrealistic promises. Intriguingly, anxiety can produce conflicting effects on political decision-making. While it compels individuals to become more informed, it can also lead to avoidance behavior when faced with overwhelming information. Voters may disengage from the political process or gravitate towards simplistic narratives or authoritarian candidates who promise to alleviate their anxiety. Hence, understanding the paradoxical nature of anxiety is critical for dissecting its influence on political behavior.

Now available in three thematic volumes, the second edition of Moral Issues in Global Perspective is a collection of the newest and best articles on current moral issues by moral and political theorists from around the globe. Each volume seeks to challenge the standard approaches to morality and moral issues shaped by Western liberal theory and to extend the inquiry beyond the context of North America. Covering a broad range of issues and arguments, this collection includes critiques of traditional liberal accounts of rights, justice, and moral values, while raising questions about the treatment of disadvantaged groups within and across societies affected by globalization. Providing new perspectives on issues such as war and terrorism, reproduction, euthanasia, censorship, and the environment, each volume of Moral Issues in Global Perspective incorporates work by race, class, feminist, and disability theorists. Human Diversity and Equality, the second of the three volumes, examines issues of equality and difference and the effects, within and across borders, of kinds of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, disability, class, and sexual orientation. Nine essays are new, four of which were written especially for this volume. Moral Issues in Global Perspective is available in three separate volumes—Moral and Political Theory, Human Diversity and Equality, and Moral Issues.

Global Childhoods in International Perspective gathers a wide spectrum of contributors from Europe, the U.S., South Asia, South Africa and Latin America, who, attuned with present dilemmas in the area of childhood studies, discuss some key theoretical and empirical aspects of child scholarship, such as identity, child wellbeing, child mobility and migration, intergenerational relationships and child abuse. Through these expert contributions, the book explores the many ways in which the relationship between universality and particularities of childhood plays an important role in describing global childhoods. The book highlights childhood as a cross-cutting issue in global sociology with chapters on globalization and schooling in Burkina Faso, child abuse and neglect in India, identity and integration among children of African immigrants in France, social class mobility of Filipino migrant children in Italy and France, and an investigation into Kyrgyz childhoods. Ideal reading for researchers, practitioners and students interested in both childhood studies and the other areas including community research, sociology of education, social stratification, and the sociology of migration.

Intended as a text for the postgraduate students of political science, this well-researched book attempts to track the evolution of political ideas in the recent past and their background. It brings out the contemporary epistemological and methodological debates within the discipline and social sciences as a whole, and incorporates the latest developments in the field. Divided into forty chapters under eleven parts, the book deals with the core concepts and debates in political theory, and focuses on the state-society interactions. It tries to explain how the states, societies and cultures have responded to the emerging challenges thrown up by the social, economic and political factors, and the direction of the response. It also dwells on the impact of globalisation on current trends. Finally, the book analyses the ideas of modern Indian thinkers such as V.D. Savarkar, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ram Manohar Lohia, B.R. Ambedkar and Jayaprakash Narayan. Besides the postgraduate students of political science, the book would also be useful to the aspirants of civil services examinations and the initiated readers.

This is the definitive work on the first and greatest of Japan's twentieth-century philosophers, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945). Interspersed throughout the narrative of Nishida's life and thought is a generous selection of the philosopher's own essays, letters, and short presentations, newly translated into English.

Discover the profound influence of psychological theories on political behavior in "Political Psychology," a key volume in Fouad Sabry's "Political Science" series. This essential book explores how cognitive processes, emotions, and social influences shape political attitudes and decisions, offering a deep dive into the psychological roots of political actions. Chapters Highlights: 1: Political Psychology - Introduction to how psychological principles intersect with political behavior. 2: Leadership - Psychological traits and behaviors that define effective political leaders. 3: Power (Social and Political) - Dynamics of power perception and exercise within social and political contexts. 4: False Consensus Effect - The impact of cognitive bias on political views and behavior. 5: Authoritarian Personality - Traits linked to authoritarianism and their effect on political preferences. 6: Social Dominance Orientation - The psychological basis of social hierarchies and its political implications. 7: Right-Wing Authoritarian Personality - Psychological profile of right-wing authoritarianism and its influence. 8: The Authoritarian Personality - Development and political implications of authoritarian traits. 9: Social Dominance Theory - Explanation of social hierarchies from a psychological viewpoint. 10: Machiavellianism (Psychology) - Traits linked to Machiavellianism and their political impact. 11: Organizational Behavior - Application of psychology in political organizations. 12: Raymond Cattell - Cattell’s contributions to personality psychology relevant to political behavior. 13: Personality Development - Influence of personality traits on political attitudes. 14: Selective Exposure Theory - The role of information seeking in political polarization. 15: Self-Esteem Functions - How self-esteem shapes political decisions. 16: Steven Neuberg - Relevance of social cognition research to political behavior. 17: Core Self-Evaluations - Impact of self-evaluations on political attitudes and leadership. 18: Trait Leadership - Traits contributing to effective political leadership. 19: Leadership Analysis - Various leadership models and their political influence. 20: Epistemic Motivation - How epistemic motivation shapes political beliefs. 21: Regality Theory - Links between psychological predispositions and political behavior. "Political Psychology" is an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to understand the psychological factors that influence political dynamics, offering crucial insights for professionals, students, and enthusiasts.

This book explores human dignity, human rights and social justice based on a Chinese interdisciplinary dialogue and global perspectives. In the Chinese and other global contexts today, social justice has been a significant topic among many disciplines and we believe it is an appropriate topic for philosophers, theologians, legal scholars, and social scientists to sit together, discuss, enrich each other, and then deepen our understanding of the topic. Many of them are concerned with the conjuncture between social justice, human rights, and human dignity. The questions this volume asks are: what’s the place of human rights in social justice? How is human dignity important in the discourse on human rights? And, through these inquiries, we ask further: how is possible to achieve humanist justice? This volume presents the significance, challenges, and constraints of human dignity in human rights and social justice and addresses the questions through philosophical, theological, sociological, political, and legal perspectives and these are placed in dialogue between the Chinese and other global settings. We are concerned with the norms regarding human dignity, human rights and social justice while we take seriously into account their practice. This volume consists of two main sections. The first section examines Chinese perspectives on human rights and social justice, in which both from Confucianism and Christianity are considered and the issues such as patriotism, religious freedom, petition, social protest, the rights of marginalized people, and sexual violence are studied. The second section presents the perspectives of Christian public theologians in the global contexts. They examine the influence of Christian thought and practice in the issues of human rights and social justice descriptively and prescriptively and address issues such as religious laws and rights, diaconia, majoritarianism, general equality, social-economic disparities, and climate justice from global perspectives including in the contexts of America, Australia, Israel and Europe. With contributions by experts from mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, USA and Norway, the book provides valuable cross-cultural and interdisciplinary insights and perspectives. As such it will appeal to political and religious leaders and practitioners, particularly those working in socially engaged religious and civil organizations in various geopolitical contexts, including the Korean Peninsula and Japan.