englischThis book provides hands-on recommendations on how to best coordinate development cooperation activities. This interdisciplinary study applies one of sociology’s grand theories to guide its comprehensive field research in two regions. As a result, it analyses how individuals’ actions scale [...]

englischThe fifth ‘Freiwilligensurvey’ provides information about 20 years of civic engagement in Germany. In addition, it sets new content priorities with questions on both political culture and the field of refugees and migration. In this book, special analyses by the ‘Sozialwissenschaftliches [...]

englischThis anthology presents the results of a research project that used qualitative empirical methods to analyse processes of institutional change with which the police respond to migration-related challenges. The contributions the book contains deal with diversity management concerning police [...]

englischTerrorism is first and foremost viewed as a matter of security policy; however, its emergence, perception, effects, prevention and mitigation actually involve a multitude of societal sectors as well as academic fields, which also means that numerous academics, practitioners and [...]

englischWhat do we mean by the demos of democracy? How do understandings of the people and ‘we’ change in political discourse? And what does this imply for changes to democracy itself? These questions are addressed in this book from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Concrete analyses [...]

englischSince the foundation of the European Union, especially since the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon, the importance of international law has been emphasized in European primary law. However, the EU's commitment ‘the strict observance and the development of international law’ has been [...]