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This book offers a unique and timely political analysis of war, international law and human rights, and the important interconnections among them. It questions why war features as a foundational problem in ?contemporary world affairs and explores how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-07
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Life, Death, and the Western Way of War traces when and how western soldiers--once regarded as simple fighting tools--became the far less expendable beings that we know today. In Kant's terms, the study traces the process through which soldiers have been turned from...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-04-07
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Corona-Pandemie, Klimawandel, Terrorismus, Flüchtlings- und Wirtschaftskrise, Militäreinsätze in Afghanistan und Mali, Abgasskandal etc. Die Liste der Risiken, Krisen und Konflikte ist lang, und die „Fälle“ sind zunehmend komplex. Wie steht es um die professionelle...
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Springer VS
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2022-04-06
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Die öffentliche Verwaltung unterliegt einem großen Veränderungsdruck durch die Digitalisierung (Onlinezugangsgesetz!) und die Demografie (Fachkräftemangel und Generation Y in den Verwaltungen, "Digital Natives" und anspruchsvolle ältere Seniorinnen und Senioren als...
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Springer Gabler
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2022-04-06
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the party finance regime at the level of the European Union. Based on an in-depth analysis of the interaction between European political parties and their institutional environment, it shows how the Europarties have coped...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-06
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The contributors to this volume are motivated by a common apprehension and a common hope.The apprehension was first voiced by Einstein, who lamented the inability of humanity, at the individual and social level, to keep up with the increased speed of technological...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-05
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Die Beiträge des Bandes thematisieren den Zusammenhang von Medien, Demokratie und Bildung im Dreischritt „Information” als Basis politischer Öffentlichkeit, „Partizipation” als anzustrebende demokratische Praxis sowie „Reflexion” auf die grundlegenden...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-04-04
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Over the past half century, the behavior...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-04-04
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This book is the first to shed light on the recent opinion of taxpayers on tax and fiscal policy in Japan through an attitude questionnaire.
It is said that Japanese taxpayers’ tax morale is high. However, taxpayers in Japan are often described as having strong...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-04
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The global climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology cause profound anxieties for humanity. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in dire poverty-widening the gap in an already deeply divided economy. However, a new generation of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-04
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This book presents a comprehensive analysis of regional integration in East Africa in the last century, reflecting the general trends of integration processes in the East Africa sub-region with a focus on the East African Community. Particular attention is paid to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-01
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This book is about national economic policy responses to the Great Depression of the interwar period. Taking off from a generally liberal starting point in the 1920s, states diverged greatly in their responses. Some were daring while others remained conservative. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-01
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This book is a collection of essays that explore commonalities and contrasts between strategy in armed conflict and strategy in public health. The first part uses the asymptotic limit theorems of information and control theories to study strategy as an exchange of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-04-01
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“Why does my congressional district look like a salamander?” Politically engaged citizens have been asking this question for far too long. This volume collects perspectives from a wide cross-section of disciplines to explain what drives gerrymandering, why it can be...
Editeur :
Birkhäuser
Parution :
2022-04-01
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
A compelling examination of China's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-01
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This book deals with the constantly evolving, vast, and diverse field of nontraditional security. Nontraditional security goes beyond military security and focuses primarily on socioeconomic security. Its major concern is human beings rather than border or territory of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-01
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The invocation of fifth columns in the political arena -- whether contrived or based on real fears -- has recurred periodically throughout history and is experiencing an upsurge in our era of democratic erosion and geopolitical uncertainty. Fifth columns accusations can...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-01
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In this engaging book, Maria Chiara D’Argenio delineates a turn in recent Latin American filmmaking towards inter/cultural feature films made by non-Indigenous directors. Aimed at a global audience, but played by Indigenous actors, these films tell Indigenous stories in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-31
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The intense debate over US targeted drone strikes outside war zones has been limited by the failure to review and assess a considerable body of quantitative research and qualitative material on the impacts of such strikes on terrorist groups and civilians. This book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2022-03-31
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In this book, ten substantive chapters examine how collisions between technological developments (globalizing forces) and thickening populist pressures (localizing dynamics) constantly keep reinventing the state in unforeseen and unpredictable ways. We learn of how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-03-31
Collection :
Global Political Transitions
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