Combining Political History and Political Science: Towards a New Understanding of the Political

This book shows how a multidisciplinary approach combining conceptual and methodological tools from political history and political science can help to develop a deeper understanding of contemporary political phenomena including democracy, populism, war, and forced migrations, among others.

Throughout the eleven chapters, the volume brings together senior academics and early-career scholars to explore this innovative approach through a broad range of case studies which are not specific to any particular nation but are characteristic of contemporaneity worldwide. Both the international character and the interdisciplinary appeal of this book are reinforced by the fact that the editors and contributors come from different countries and diverse academic traditions.

This book is aimed at scholars, researchers and postgraduate students interested in interdisciplinary approaches and working on politics and global phenomena in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Carlos Domper Lasús is a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the History Department of the Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). His work aims at integrating Iberian dictatorships into post-1945 Western Europe history.

Giorgia Priorelli is a María Zambrano Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History at the Universitat de Girona (Spain). Her research interests include nationalism, Italian and Spanish fascisms, refugees and forced displacement in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.