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This book provides new insights into how excessive loyalism hinders Russia’s authoritarian government. When Russian bureaucrats, diplomats and academics go to great lengths to display their loyalty to the regime in Moscow, many observers regard it as a show of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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The importance of tax collection for sustainable development cannot be overstated: it forms a central pillar of the UN's Agenda 2030 and offers a concrete pathway to finance development in an increasingly politicised and diminishing foreign aid landscape. However, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This volume examines environmental disasters worldwide, often stemming from extractive industries like fossil fuels. Questioning human desires for comfort, convenience, and national defense, it confronts the relentless pursuit of profit in a capitalist system. From the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-09-26
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This book explores eco-social policy and its role in the global governance system. By focusing on the eco-social policy discourses of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the World Bank, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-09-26
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An immersive and authoritative history of the school choice movement--from its idealistic roots among Black activists to the costly unaccountable programs of today.
Seventy years after Brown v. Board of Education and demands to desegregate public schools, race and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-09-12
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In this book, Aljunied analyses how ASEAN and its key maritime member states of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia govern environmental issues through strategic engagements with social forces.In the new millennium, ASEAN states’ power is enhanced and solidified...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-31
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The book aims to address and reflect on the role of governance of the tourism sector in the era of the Anthropocene, also in light of the challenges of climate change and of the Covid-19 pandemic providing an innovative contribution on the discusses lessons for the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-30
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This book gives voice to an indispensable yet often overlooked group of care workers in China’s eldercare industry. Drawing on rich, first-hand accounts from frontline care workers and interwoven with a wealth of sociological insights, the author offers a critical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-29
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This volume explores the relationship between humans and technology across a variety of contexts, with particular attention to how technology mediates interactions between individuals. It considers a wide range of settings, including education and training, professional...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-26
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As China’s flagship platform for cultural diplomacy and international engagement, the global expansion of Confucius Institutes has been accompanied by growing controversy—particularly in the West. This book—and the volumes that follow—is the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-23
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In the transformative journey toward modernizing grassroots governance in China, this book stands as a pioneering text that reshapes our understanding and approach to social governance at the grassroots level. Through the lens of co-creation, this book delves deep into...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-23
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In an era of rapid geopolitical shifts and economic uncertainty, this book takes an academic, professional, and unorthodox approach to analyzing the intricate feedback loops between politics, economics, and security. Against the backdrop of pressing global challenges,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-23
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the unprecedented situation following the later stages of the war in Ukraine in 2022. It explores the experiences of millions of Ukrainians who sought refuge in neighboring countries and examines the wide-ranging support they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-18
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This book provides the first in-depth analysis of China’s Global Initiatives launched between 2021 and 2023 as elements of a coherent strategy intended to construct a Chinese-led international order.This highly ambitious enterprise was initiated in 2013 and has relied...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-08-12
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This book offers a comparative analysis of municipal service delivery in four major Bangladeshi cities: Dhaka, Chittagong, Khulna, and Rajshahi. Using the SERVQUAL model, it evaluates service quality through five dimensions—Tangibles, Reliability, Responsiveness,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-08
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the pressing issue of environmentally displaced persons (EDPs) in Latin America and the Caribbean, filling a gap in the existing literature. The concept of EDPs only gained prominence on the international stage in the late...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-08-07
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Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Kommunikation in Kommunen. Es zeigt die Chancen und Grenzen des Kommunalverwaltungsmarketings auf und stellt praxisorientierte Tools bereit. Ziel des Bandes ist es, Kommunen dabei zu unterstützen,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book introduces the theory of resource misallocation and its applications in the context of energy transition. Technological advancement is often regarded as the primary driver of energy transition and, ultimately, the achievement of net-zero emissions. However,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book examines family policies in Latin America. The first half of the book adopts a thematic approach to assess how the concept of ‘family’ has changed over the last few decades, and how family policies are intrinsically linked to demographic changes,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-31
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This book provides a comprehensive examination of three key water reforms in China. By leveraging unique natural experiments and employing state-of-the-art applied microeconometric methods, this book offers robust insights into the causal links between water reforms and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-07-30
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