Politics, Religion and Gender Viable Vision It also highlights the growing

It also highlights the growing global awareness of air quality issues

Spectacular terrorist attacks on its Parliament and places of worship

Bringing together authors from multiple disciplines and different parts of the world

Examining key factors in the successes and failures of a pivotal movement that aided the colonized people of the Congo and broadened the idea of human rights

and the controversial issues of the role of the OSS and the use of Japanese troops to preserve law and order

Politics, Religion and Gender Viable Vision It also highlights the growingHeated debates about Muslim women's veiling practices have regularly attracted the attention of European policymakers over the last decade. The headscarf has been both vehemently contested by national and or regional governments, political parties and public intellectuals and passionately defended by veil wearing women and their supporters. Systematically applying a comparative perspective, this book addresses the question of why the headscarf