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a regional level perspective to nationalist violence through a comparative analysis of the Basque Country and Corsica.Continuing with the theme of social movements, Manuel Cevera-Marzal, based in Belgium, develops the new concept of "movementism" through the case of La France Insoumise in the second piece; demonstrating once again how the French case can lead to innovative comparative theory-building.The mostly Quebec-based team of Thomas Gareau Paquette, Amanda Léal, Juliette Leblanc, Virginie Vandewalle and Ruth Dassonneville marshal an impressive arsenal of data in their statistical analysis of voting for women in Canadian federal elections, including candidates from the bloc québecois.They assert that women candidates may very well NOT be at a disadvantage, at least in the Canadian political landscape; a finding that is quite important for the study of gender and politics in a comparative perspective.In the fourth article, in the Data and Measures section, two scholars from Kazakhastan, Assiya M. Dikanbayeva and Meiram S. Sarybayev, provide a firsttime English-language analysis of French foreign policy in the Central Asian Region of the former Soviet Union-Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.Using the notion of "soft power" the authors share insight into how Franco-Central Asian relations have become closer through collaboration in education and culture.Taken together, these articles not only forward a highly global perspective with scholars from three different regions of the world-Europe, North America and Central Asia.The theories and findings that are presented also make a broad contribution to political science more generally through engaging a range of sub areas of study within the political science-nationalism and violence, social movements, gender and politics and international relations/foreign policy as well as a mixture of methodological approaches.