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In January 2011, parliament was restored in Myanmar after two decades of military rule. Startlingly, it began to repeal obsolete laws, scrutinize government expenditures, summon ministers to the floor, and discuss the state's annual budget. It also allowed its elected...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-03-01
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The aim of this open access book is to take stock of, critically engage, and celebrate feminist IR scholarship produced in Europe. Organized thematically, the volume highlights a wealth of excellent scholarship, while also focusing on the politics of location and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
Collection :
Trends in European IR Theory
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In 1984, the celebrated sociologist and historian Norbert Elias convened a major conference on ‘Civilisations and civilising processes’ at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research (University of Bielefeld). Participants included the most distinguished and influential...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
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Populism is on the rise, and so are academic studies on populism. The study of populism has long focused on the way its spokespersons have behaved as an oppositional force, in Western countries in particular. While discourses and practices of populists exercising a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
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This open access book consists of 39 short essays that exemplify how interactions between inter- and trans-national interdependencies and domestic factors have shaped the dynamics of social policy in various parts of the world at different points in time. Each...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
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This book explores the domestic adoption and implementation of international norms. The study of normative outcomes is expanded beyond traditional studies of value conflicts and localization to explore how transnational networks and local content policies affect an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-28
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Der Sammelband untersucht den Umgang ausgewählter Nationalstaaten mit der globalen COVID-19-Pandemie unter Anwendung des personenbezogenen Ansatzes der Politikwissenschaft.Der Band geht dabei von der grundlegenden These aus, dass sich der Umgang mit der Krise in...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-02-27
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The book is the first to explore the history and political significance of the Japanese public housing program. In the 1960s, as Japan's postwar economy boomed, architects and urban planners inspired equally by Western modernism and Soviet ideas of housing as a basic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-26
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This book covers a wide range of the issues in development studies. Recognizing the existence of manifold challenges in achieving and sustaining economic development, it is divided into four sections—(i) The Macroeconomy: Foreign Trade,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-26
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This book states that burden-sharing is one of the most persisting sources for tension and disagreement within NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation). It also belongs to one of the most studied issues within NATO with distinguishable traditions and schools of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-26
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The textbook provides an in-depth overview of African history and politics from the Atlantic slave trade, through the phases of colonialism and decolonization, to the development problems of the present. Various development theories are used to explain successful and...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-25
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In 2019, a group of Louisianans voted to create a new city in part of the Baton Rouge area. The effort drew attention not only because the decision would create a disproportionately White and wealthy city, but also because it would leave the area's considerably poorer,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-02-25
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Why is it so difficult for a great power or a hegemon to retrench its overseas military power? Specifically, why are U.S. military bases and troops still largely where they were five years ago, twenty years ago, or even seventy years ago? Through developing a theory of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-25
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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Die Polizei ist wegen ihrer präventiven und repressiven Aufgaben im Bereich von Gefahrenabwehr und Strafverfolgung eine für moderne Gesellschaften wichtige Institution. Da sie in besonderen Situationen zum Einsatz kommt und tief in die Grundrechte der Bürger*innen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-02-25
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This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'être. It makes general arguments about France’s changing identity and specific arguments about the burqa and niqab ban. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-24
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Einführend wird kurz das Entstehen der Taliban geschildert sowie ihre Schreckensherrschaft, ihr „Steinzeit-Kalifat“, illustriert. Ein weiteres Hauptkapitel beleuchtet die nach 20 Jahren gescheiterte westliche nation building-Mission in Afghanistan. Dabei wird die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-02-24
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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the Institutional Grammar, an approach for analyzing the design of institutions. To lay the foundation for the application of the Grammar for different application areas, the book first provides a background of the IG,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-24
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After leading the world economy for a century, the United States faces the first real challenge to its supremacy in the rise of China. Is economic (or broader) conflict, well beyond the trade and technology war that has already erupted, inevitable between the world’s...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-02-24
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This book features valuable conversations about how COVID-19 has changed how we teach and even who we are as instructors in political science.This project devotes special attention to how our pedagogy in political science has evolved from ‘triage’ to transformation over...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-02-24
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A “searing” (Jeremy Scahill) exposé of SEAL Team 6, the US military’s best-known brand, that reveals how the Navy SEALs were formed, then sacrificed, in service of American empire. The Navy SEALs are, in the eyes of many Americans, the ultimate...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2022-02-22
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