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Metropolitan Governance is the first book to bring together competing perspectives on the question and consequences of centralized vs. decentralized regional government. Presenting original contributions by some of the most notable names in the field of urban politics, this volume examines the organization of governments in metropolitan areas, and how that has an effect on both politics and policy. Existing work on metropolitan governments debates the consequences of interjurisdictional competition, but neglects the role of cooperation in a decentralized system. Feiock and his contributors pro

The debate about Islamism in the public sphere / Richard C. Martin and Abbas Barzegar -- Inclusive Islamism : the utility of diversity / Donald K. Emmerson -- Inventing Islamism : the violence of rhetoric / Daniel M. Varisco -- The spectrum of Islamic politics / Graham E. Fuller -- Terminological problems for Muslim lives / Amir Hussain -- Islamism : whose debate is it? / Hassan Hanafi -- Between etymology and realpolitik / Nadia Yassine -- Academic word games / Hillel Fradkin -- Islamism : ism or wasm? / Ziba Mir-Hosseini and Richard Tapper -- Rejecting Islamism and the need for concepts from within the Islamic tradition / Syed Farid Alatas -- Islam at risk : the discourse on Islam and violence / Bruce Lawrence -- Naming terror / Anouar Majid -- Political Islam, liberalism, and the diagnosis of a problem / M. Zuhdi Jasser -- Ideology, not religion / Angel Rabasa -- Why Islamism should be renamed / Feisal Abdul Rauf -- Mitigating misrepresentation / Daniel M.Varisco -- Broadening representation / Donald K. Emmerson

"A comprehensive analysis of the paradoxical relationship between Taiwan and China, characterized by social and economic interaction and political and military tensions, and the diplomatic diffidence of the United States in the face of its high strategic stakes"--Provided by publisher