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This book provides a framework for understanding the creation of public value in urban environments. The ability of cities to produce value is related to their capacity to generate meaningful resources for city residents and workers that enable them to craft...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
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This book offers a synthesis of the main achievements and pending challenges during the thirty years of transitional justice in Chile after Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. The Chilean experience provides useful comparative perspectives for researchers, students and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-25
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An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to lead in the reform of the global governance system, suggest that he has just such an...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-10-25
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Public Service Motivation (PSM) beschreibt eine besondere Motivation von Mitarbeitenden im öffentlichen Dienst, auch ohne externe Anreize einen Beitrag zum Gemeinwohl leisten zu wollen. Doch was passiert mit Bediensteten im Polizeivollzugsdienst, wenn sie plötzlich ihre...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2021-10-23
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This book provides scholars in the English-speaking world with a window to understand China’s perspectives on diplomatic theories and policies.This book is a study of China’s diplomatic theories and Chinese foreign practice analysis. Along with the recent diplomatic...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-10-23
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This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical examination of the free speech ‘battles’ of the last decade, arguing for a critical republican conception of civility as an explanatory and prescriptive solution. Issues such as no-platforming and safe spaces,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-22
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With this volume, the editors propose a multi-dimensional and critical review of migrants’ vulnerabilities. They argue that a deeper understanding of vulnerability is paramount to discuss empowerment and resilience. Regardless of their motivations, migrants can face...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-10-22
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Eminent Italian historian Giovanni Levi once notably remarked that “no one is a Marxist anymore,” pointing to a paradox in Italian cultural history. While what is called "Marxism" was supposedly hegemonic over Italian culture, and especially history writing, for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-22
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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In No Standard Oil, environmental policy expert Deborah Gordon examines the widely varying climate impacts of global oils and gases, and proposes solutions to cut greenhouse gas emissions in this sector while making sustainable progress in transitioning to a carbon-free...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-10-22
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This book explores the emergent concept of 'human security' within the political context of COVID-19 Chinese politics. For decades, Western nations have used 'human rights' as a rubric with which to scold Chinese leaders, betraying a fundamental unwillingness to accept...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book analyses contemporary capitalism from Brazil and from the Marxian critique of political economy, particularly; the co-dependency of wealth and poverty and of civilization and barbarism; the current tendency towards capital over-accumulation and the specific...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-21
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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Seit dem Wiedererstarken rechter Parteien und Denkweisen erlebt Deutschland ein gesteigertes Maß an Ausgrenzung und gesellschaftlicher Polarisierung. Ihr Medium ist die Sprache, die Neurechte von der AfD bis hin zu Kommentatoren in den dunkelsten Ecken des Internet um...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This open access book documents myriads of ways community-based climate change adaptation and resilience programs are being implemented in South Asian countries. The narrative style of writing in this volume makes it accessible to a diverse audience from academics and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book explores the involvement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the issue area of environmental and disaster displacement. In considering both agencies’ historical involvement,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-21
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This book investigates to what extent and in what ways Marxist writings and precepts on imperialism informed the so-called idealist stage of International Relations (IR). Though the formative years of International Relations coincide with a vibrant period in Marxist...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-10-20
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The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics-- both ancient and modern-- at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-20
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The Oxford Handbook of Australian Politics is a comprehensive collection that considers Australia's distinctive politics-- both ancient and modern-- at all levels and across many themes. It examines the factors that make Australian politics unique and interesting, while...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-10-20
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The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan explores what it has meant for the two countries to act as sovereign states entangled at birth by an unsatisfactory partition. Sovereignty is conventionally understood as a means to achieve the goals that states set for...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2021-10-20
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An accessible and comprehensive introduction to key concepts in globalization written by leading authors in the field In the comprehensively revised Third Edition of Globalization: A Basic Text, distinguished researchers and authors George Ritzer and Paul Dean deliver...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2021-10-20
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A former firearms executive pulls back the curtain on America's multibillion-dollar gun industry, exposing how it fostered extremism and racism, radicalizing the nation and bringing cultural division to a boiling point. As an avid hunter, outdoorsman, and...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
Parution :
2021-10-19
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