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Private corporations are rarely discussed as playing a role in efforts to curb civil violence, even though they often have strong interests in maintaining stability. Violence often damages the infrastructure necessary to deliver goods to market or may directly target...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-08-13
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In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy. In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-12
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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.
As climate change and a pandemic pose...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-12
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Wie können wir Chinas Integrationsverhalten verstehen? Die Volksrepublik strebt nach einer neuen verantwortungstragenden Rolle und fordert damit die integrierte Staatengemeinschaft heraus. Am Beispiel der WTO zeigt sich, inwieweit Chinas Integrationsverhalten Resultat...
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Springer VS
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2021-08-11
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A U.S. Army veteran and rising star in the conservative movement makes the case that the United States should look to the country as it was on September 12th, 2001 for lessons about our future.On the day after the World Trade Center was attacked, Americans came together...
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Center Street
Parution :
2021-08-10
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This open access book draws the big picture of how population change interplays with politics across the world from 1990 to 2040. Leading social scientists from a wide range of disciplines discuss, for the first time, all major political and policy aspects of population...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-10
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Dieses Open-Access-Buch setzt sich zum Ziel, eingebettet in historische Kontexte paralleler Kalter Kriege im globalen und regionalen Rahmen die historische Genese der amerikanisch-iranischen Sonderbeziehungen nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und deren Transformation in den...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-08-10
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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Coalition government is the most frequent form of government in Western Europe, but we have relatively little systematic knowledge about how that form of government has developed in recent decades. This book studies such governments, covering the full life-cycle of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-10
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Coalition government is the most frequent form of government in Western Europe, but we have relatively little systematic knowledge about how that form of government has developed in recent decades. This book studies such governments, covering the full life-cycle of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-08-10
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This in-depth history of our nation’s 46 presidents is now fully revised and updated to include Donald Trump’s eventful term in office, Joe Biden’s path to the presidency, and the election of Kamala Harris, the nation’s first female, black...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2021-08-10
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This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2021-08-10
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This book focuses on marginal actors in the global order. Such a perspective is often missing as global order analysis is often biased towards exploring large powerful actors and equating their relations with global order. Such an approach is not only dated but also...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-09
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This book is the collaborative response of engaged scholars from diverse countries and disciplines who are disturbed by the contemporary resurgence of anti-democratic movements and regimes throughout the world. These movements have manifest in vitriolic “nationalist”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-09
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Given the escalating and existential nature of our current environmental crises, environmental sociology has never mattered more. We now face global environmental threats, such as climate change and biodiversity loss, as well as local threats, such as pollution and...
Editeur :
Polity
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2021-08-09
Collection :
What is Sociology?
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Contrary to dominant narratives which portray East European politics as a pendulum swing between democracy and authoritarianism, conventionally defined in terms of an ahistorical cultural geography of East vs. West, this book analyzes post-socialist transformation as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-09
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book studies the question of e-Government development from a multi-faceted perceptive. The first introductory chapter outlines the importance of public sector digitalisation. The second chapter clarifies the used e-Government terminology and divides the concept...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-08
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A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states.
Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 20th century. One, the Soviet Union, was geographically the largest nation in the world and a superpower. Another, China,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-07
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This book explores how children have been affected by armed conflict in the borderlands of Thailand, particularly in the region abutting the Thailand-Myanmar border, and in the most southern part of Thailand. The author argues that the Thai government has made...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-08-06
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This book will offer a full reconstruction of the history of Theoretical Marxism in Italy between 1895 and 1935, based on a rigorous philological method. The starting term (1895) is marked by the publication of Antonio Labriola's first essay on historical materialism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-08-06
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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Why has the United States repeatedly engaged in the overthrow of foreign leaders and regimes? Although most regime change interventions have neither furthered US national security nor improved the fate of targeted states, the US has turned to this foreign policy...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-08-06
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