Saturday, December 5, 2009

Bringing Religion into International Relations or Nazi Propaganda and World War II

Bringing Religion into International Relations

Author: Jonathan Fox

This book examines the role religion plays in international relations as well as why this role has been ignored until now by international relations theorists. Fox and Sandler argue that while religion is not the driving force in world politics, international relations cannot be understood without taking religion into account. Religious legitimacy influences policy makers and their constituents; local religious phenomena, especially religious conflicts, cross borders; many transnational issues like human rights and population control have religious components. The authors also examine Huntington's Clash of Civilizations, which touches indirectly upon the role of religion in current world politics, and provide insights into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.



Table of Contents:
1Introduction1
2The overlooked dimension9
3Religion and legitimacy35
4Local religious conflicts are international issues63
5Transnational religious phenomena83
6The clash of civilizations debate115
7The Palestinian-Israeli conflict : a case study of religion and international politics137
8Toward a theory of international relations and religion163

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Nazi Propaganda and World War II

Author: Aristotle A Kallis

Was Nazi wartime propaganda a 'totalitarian' mechanism that controlled the perceptions of the Germans? Was it as effective as generally thought? Did it 'win' the psychological war over the minds of the population? Was Joseph Goebbels the 'mastermind' of the Third Reich? This book analyzes the factors that determined the organization, conduct and output of Nazi propaganda during World War II, in an attempt to re-assess previously inflated perceptions about the influence of Nazi propaganda and the role of the regime's propagandists in the outcome of the 1939-45 military conflict.



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