Israeli Flags Flying Alongside Belfast’s Apartheid Walls: A New Era of Comparisons and Connections
Abstract
Comparison is the stuff of political discourse. Pick up virtually any newspaper in the world and you will commonly find a cartoon that makes a play on the juxtaposition of two news items in the paper to make its point. It is an effective technique. However, since it is usually based on little more than temporal coincidence between the two items, the comparison may prove as ephemeral as the newspaper itself. Similarly, comparison is a central feature of the scholarly analysis of politics. While more rigorous and less opportunistic than the cartoonist’s mode of comparison, scholarly comparison where it employs quantitative techniques and applies them to a wide range of cases may throw as little light on individual cases.
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Political Comparison Peace Process African National Congress Divided Society Scholarly AnalysisPreview
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