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Now twenty years after 9/11, this well established and uniquely composed textbook, in its revised second edition, provides a cross-disciplinary introduction to the evolving field of homeland and civil security. It unites researchers and practitioners in addressing...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2022-05-16
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This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.This book has been developed through...
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Springer
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2022-05-15
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Damage to critical energy infrastructure as a result of terrorism, criminal activity or natural disaster can have a significant impact at both a national and international level. Reducing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to protect populations is therefore a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2022-05-15
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The book focuses on the traditional view of party-voter representation, parties and their respective positions, and party systems as central actors, the role of governmental institutions as well on policy inputs, outputs, and outcomes and the agenda setting process.The...
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Springer VS
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2022-05-13
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The guiding principle of peacemaking and peacebuilding over the past quarter century has been "liberal peace": the promotion of democracy, capitalism, law, and respect for human rights. These components represent a historic effort to prevent a reoccurrence of the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-13
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Der Open-Access-Band stellt die Bedingungen, Verfahrensweisen und Organisationsformen einer gemeinschaftlichen Entwicklung von Gemeinden, Städten und Regionen in den Mittelpunkt einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung.Da Kommunen angesichts der Anforderungen...
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Springer VS
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2022-05-13
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This book examines critically how the Chinese government has proactively engaged the nine cities and two special administrative regions in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) in Southern China for deeper collaborations in order to transform the country from the “World Factory”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-13
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When the Treasury lost control of interest rates to the Bank of England in 1997, its status looked under threat. However, it quickly reasserted its power by dominating policymaking across Whitehall and diminishing other ministries in the process. It also successfully...
Editeur :
Polity
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2022-05-12
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'Tightly plotted and hugely readable' Jane Rogers, author of PROMISED LANDS'Marvellous . . . fans of immersive historical fiction, the 18th century, all things French and a dash of peril, this one's for you' Emily Brand, author of THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF BYRON'Glasfurd...
Editeur :
John Murray
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2022-05-12
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The book analyses the management of the internal displacement caused by activities of Boko Haram’s terrorist insurgence in Nigeria. With over 3.1m persons displaced, the humanitarian crisis is at teeter ends with acute malnourishment, inadequate wash and non-relief...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-11
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The book is a response to the dominant discourse of South Africa as unwelcoming to African immigrants. Acknowledging the reality of xenophobia against African migrants in South Africa, it explores the positive spaces of interactions between South Africans and African...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-10
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In this book, Ann Laura Stoler navigates the shadows and shatterzones of democratic policies, considering how imperial features are folded through (il)liberal orders, where racial inequities thicken in the borderlands of interior frontiers. Sometimes those frontiers, or...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-10
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Der Sammelband analysiert aus einer interdisziplinären Perspektive Auswirkungen der Corona-Pandemie auf Korruptionsformen, Korruptionsbekämpfung und Korruptionsforschung. So werden insbesondere spezifische Korruptionsgefahren durch die weitreichenden staatlichen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-05-09
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This book analyzes regional integration in South America with a focus on the Mercosur and Brazilian foreign policy from the 1990s. It reviews the history of the Mercosur and identifies the results achieved by the bloc, as well as the causes of difficulties and the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-08
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The book examines the impact of COVID-19 on economic and political processes, contending that the global reaction to the pandemic has been the largest failure in scientific policy in a generation. Unlike earlier crises, it has impacted the world's leading economies...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-06
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This book describes various crisis situations in transitional China, and by analyzing the unique characteristics and backgrounds of emergencies and crisis, it argues that crisis management has become a major challenge for the Chinese governments. It then discusses the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-06
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Welche Rolle spielen Emotionen bei der Konstruktion, Kommunikation und Nutzung von Zukunftsbildern? Sind Emotionen primär eine Komponente, die Vorurteile transportiert? In welchem Maße sind Forschende selbst Emotionen ausgesetzt, die die Methodenwahl und die Ergebnisse...
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Springer VS
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2022-05-06
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This book explores the most important aspects of populism as a significant social phenomenon. It recapitulates the approaches to defining populism in the social sciences, singles out the most important concepts in the definition of populism, and presents them to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
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This book explores the immigration policies and practices of the Trump administration, with a specific focus on Trump’s travel ban and the wall along the southern border with Mexico. Both were enacted shortly after Trump was elected President. It examines how the Trump...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2022-05-06
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A bold re-conceptualization of the fundamentals driving behavior and dynamics in cyberspace.
Most cyber operations and campaigns fall short of activities that states would regard as armed conflict. In Cyber Persistence Theory, Michael P. Fischerkeller, Emily O....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-06
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