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This book explores the digital transformations of democracy and democratic societies. It examines the various challenges posed by these transformations in the context of political practice and to theoreticians of democracy and political communication. The authors...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-05-18
Collection :
Studies in Digital Politics and Governance
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This book explores the political economy of Palestine through critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives, underscoring that an approach to economics that does not consider the political—a de-politicized economics—is inadequate to understanding the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-18
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“Riveting . . . Well-written and highly compelling."—Wall Street Journal“Truly thrilling. Daniel Levin brilliantly conveys both the menace and the evil of Middle Eastern intrigue, and some victories of human kindness over cruelty and...
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2021-05-18
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The book refutes the dominant understanding about caste panchayats as mere dispute resolution bodies that are vestiges of the past. In tracing the long career and evolution of intra-caste governance from 300 BC to the present, it challenges several orthodoxies in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-17
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Stress tests highlight a system’s weak spots. This second edition provides a stress testing of the United States by exploring in detail the background to the disasters of the War on Terror, Hurricane Katrina, the financial crisis, the Gulf oil spill and the COVID-19...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-16
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This book builds on the six years of hands-on experience that the author had while working in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It provides an overview and history of NATO, looks at the political and military components of the Alliance, as well as the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-15
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The focus of this volume is on the role of the developmental state in a situation in which a series of major crises affects the (semi-) periphery of the global economy.The authors go beyond the established debate on developmental states in East Asia by highlighting a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-14
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This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation. While some of the case studies in this book show that induced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-14
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Das staatliche Instrument der Allgemeinverbindlicherklärung von Tarifverträgen (AVE) vermag Flächentarifsysteme zu stabilisieren, weil es die Tarifbindung auf nicht-organisierte Unternehmen ausdehnt. Doch was geschieht mit dem Instrument unter dem zugenommenen Druck,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-05-13
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This book analyses multiple facets of Kracauer’s work, comprehending the essayistic, narrative, philosophical, theoretical and critical writings, and putting special emphasis on some aspects: the phenomenology of metropolis, the theory of historiographic method, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-13
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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Vers le style du XXe siècle (Towards a style for the 20th Century), by the «Uriage team» under the direction of Gilbert Gadoffre, was published by Seuil in 1945. It was the work of nine authors who had been involved with the «école de cadres» (leadership school) which...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-05-13
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Hasan al-Turabi (1932-2016) was born into a Sudanese family with a clerical and Sufi history. Whilst studying law at the University of Khartoum, he became a leader of the Islamic student movement. After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-05-13
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The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies, focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens.
Political regimes in Latin America have a long history of excluding poor people from politics....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-05-13
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In these turbulent times, defined by ideological chasms, clashes over social justice, and a pandemic intersecting with misinformation, Americans seem hopelessly divided along fault lines of politics, race, religion, class, and culture. Yet not everyone is accepting the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-05-13
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An optimistic vision of the future after Covid-19 by a leading professor of globalisation at the University of Oxford.We are at a crossroads. The wrecking-ball of Covid-19 has destroyed global norms. Many think that after the devastation there will be a bounce back. To...
Editeur :
Sceptre
Parution :
2021-05-13
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For many areas of social science research, including conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and international state-building, Kosovo remains a uniquely interesting and relevant case. This book is motivated by the belief that there is much to be gained, analytically and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-05-12
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This wide-ranging book analyses EU-Asia security relations in a systematic, substantive and comparative manner. The contributions assess similarities and differences between the EU and its Asian partners with respect to levels of threat perception, policy response and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-11
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This edited book examines the role of interpreting in conflict situations, bringing together studies from different international and intercultural contexts, with contributions from military personnel, humanitarian interpreters and activists as well as academics. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-05-11
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Community energy projects give their own answers to the challenges of energy system change: They are social innovations. By building new relations between local economies, communities and technical infrastructures, these projects not only change the energy system but...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-05-10
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This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-05-10
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