Symposium on the role of religious leaders in peacemaking and social change in Africa: Zambia's case by F.D. Sakala

“… The Zambian people chose a new president on 31 October 1991 after almost twenty years under one party rule. …”
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‘Another brick in the wall’. On the origins of nationalism in the ‘new’ federal states of Germany by A. V. Belinskii, M. V. Khorol’skaya

“…A relatively broad support enjoyed by the populist and nationalist parties and movements (AfD, National Democratic Party of Germany, PEGIDA), as well as a higher rate of hate crimes in the eastern part of the Federal Republic of Germany raise a question on the nature of nationalism in this region. …”
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1922 — the best year of the Comintern. Soviet Russia, German communists and the Genoa conference by A. Yu. Vatlin

“…In this regard, the position of the German Communist Party (KPD) was of particular importance to the Bolshevik leaders. …”
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Informing immigrant voters: Chinese-language media in New Zealand election campaigns, 2008–2020 by Kate McMillan, Fiona Barker, Caleb Hoyle

“…Drawing on the case of New Zealand Chinese language media, this article advances understanding of how ethnic media carry out the democratic role of informing migrant voters during elections. …”
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Soviet Researchers on the Middle East: Ahead of Their Time by I. D. Zvyagelskaya

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Limits of the Turkish Model Applicability in the Middle East Countries after the Arab Awakening: The Case of Egypt by D. V. Zhigulskaya

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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…Drawing on theories of party politics, the authors argue for five different factors that could possibly explain the share of young MPs: the age of the party leader, the age of the party, the size of party support, the party’s ideology, and the party’s formal recruitment procedure for candidates. …”
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Les islamistes à l’épreuve du printemps arabe et des urnes : une perspective critique by Haoues Seniguer

“…Although Islamist movements or parties neither initiated nor joined collective mobilizations right away, their restraint revealed two new aspects : on the one hand, contrary to what certain literature about Islamists may have theorized, the repression that had most often affected them had not deprived them permanently of engaging in collusive transactions with authoritarian regimes, whose longevity they even had ended up accepting and getting accustomed to. …”
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