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The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range of vibrant case...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-16
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With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections?...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-01-16
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The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-12-08
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**Over 1 million copies sold worldwide**MAJOR NEW EDITIONFrom Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the bestselling exposé of the all-powerful organizations that control our lives.Joseph Stiglitz's landmark book lifted the lid on how...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-11-28
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The eyes of the world are on the Middle East. Today, more than ever, this deeply-troubled region is the focus of power games between major global players vying for international influence. Absent from this scene for the past quarter century, Russia is now back with...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-11-10
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It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational.It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013...
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Polity
Parution :
2017-09-25
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The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown. Is it possible that the second largest economy in the world could collapse and drag the rest...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-08-08
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The Future of Capitalism
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While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives. Next stop:Abu Dhabi, where my father had a job,and money, for the first time in years . . .__________________________________________________Flitting from the mud-soaked...
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Penguin
Parution :
2017-08-03
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Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued dependence on fossil...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-07-24
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Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends like globalization, democratization, and especially...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-26
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Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments. Thanks to a series of trends like globalization, democratization, and especially...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-19
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China and India are becoming increasingly influential, powerful and prominent countries – but what kind of states do their leaders and people wish them to become? Will they act and behave like major Western entities or like something altogether different, hence changing...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-15
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By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek island of Lesbos into Europe. In the autumn of 2015, award-winning writer Navid Kermani decided to accompany them on the "Balkan route." In this perceptive account from the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-09
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The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural, political and economic dimensions of globalization, the book provides a thorough...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-16
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The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth century was facilitated by the state itself.The unprecedented size and scale of today's global cities and mega cities owe their conditions of possibility to a fundamental shift in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-24
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The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth century was facilitated by the state itself.The unprecedented size and scale of today's global cities and mega cities owe their conditions of possibility to a fundamental shift in the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book considers how ideas about blackness travel across the Americas via migration, and media, cultural, and political exchanges. It examines African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latin@s in the United States in order to explore questions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-06-29
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Friends and foes of international cooperation puzzle about how to explain order, stability, and predictability in a world without a central authority. How is the world governed in the absence of a world government? This probing yet accessible book examines...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-01-07
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There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it. Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-10-26
Collection :
Resources
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In this book Rajneesh Narula examines the interdependence of globalization and technological innovation at two levels: first, between locations, by examining the role of cross-border initiatives in the innovation process; second, between corporate entities, by studying...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-03
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