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The book argues that in order to better understand the undercurrents of the Niger Delta conflict, it is imperative to analyse the dynamics of choice in terms of the distinct courses of action taken by the Ogoni and Ijaw. Given the similar structural constraints, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-08
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This book explores how experienced party organisers in the UK work to recruit and to retain party activists for local campaigning. Local door-to-door campaigning is widely regarded as being a key element in a successful election campaign. However, for door-to-door...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-06-08
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This volume is a selection of Chinese political scholar Xianglin Xu’s published works spanning nearly 20 years of research that explore and discuss the socio-economic transition in China under state political reform. Contextualized within the decades following the 80s,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-08
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This publication is an attempt to enlarge the perspectives of Contemporary European Border Studies both temporally and epistemologically. Border studies in Europe are indeed still largely focused on the analysis of cross-border cooperation and its relationship with the...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-06-08
Collection :
Fare (Frontières, Acteurs, Représentations de l'Europe)
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This book offers a tool in international relations conducted separately from the activities of ambassadors and other diplomats at the highest level of diplomacy at embassies in capital cities. In communities around the world, foreign consuls provide a local link to the...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-06-06
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This book describes the past, present and future of East Asian order, and analyzes how China, Japan, the U.S and ASEAN play important roles in the transformation of East Asian order, and discusses the new logic of regional order formation in the era of globalization and...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-05
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This book offers the prequel to China's successful implementation of its New Silk Road, the so-called Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The preconditions for the establishment of especially the land route between China and Western Europe have been set decades ago in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-05
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One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the devastating social and economic costs of job insecurity. It is also false. In this...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-06-05
Collection :
The Case For
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Written by a team of international scholars from China, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK, this book provides interdisciplinary studies on the construction and transformation of Chinese national identity in the age of globalisation. It addresses a wide range of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-04
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Congressional debates are increasingly defined by gridlock and stalemate, with partisan showdowns that lead to government shutdowns. Compromise in Congress seems hard to reach, but do politicians deserve all the blame? Legislators who refuse to compromise might be doing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-04
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This book provides an analysis of the European Parliament elections 2019 with a focus on East-Central European countries. The authors offer conceptual insights into Euroscepticism and discuss traditionally familiar concepts in a new light, pairing East-Central European...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-03
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Whereas some Western democracies have turned toward substantially tougher law and order policies, others have not. How can we account for this discrepancy?
In The Partisan Politics of Law and Order, Georg Wenzelburger argues that partisan politics have shaped the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-03
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This book explores the progress in and the obstacles surrounding developing comprehensive security cooperation between Russia and South Korea since diplomatic relations were established in 1991 within the framework of economic security. The book focuses on oil and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-02
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"Jamie Margolin is among the powerful and inspiring youth activists leading a movement to demand urgent action on the climate crisis. With determined purpose and moral clarity, Jamie is pushing political leaders to develop ambitious plans to confront this ...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2020-06-02
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Over the last fifty years, pseudoscience has crept into nearly every facet of our lives. Popular sciences of everything from dating and economics, to voting and artificial intelligence, radically changed the world today. The abuse of popular scientific authority has...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-06-02
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An Invitation to Community and Models for ConnectionAfter almost every presentation activist and writer Mia Birdsong gives to executives, think tanks, and policy makers, one of those leaders quietly confesses how much they long for the profound community she describes....
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2020-06-02
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At the beginning of the 21st century, there are an increasing number of states in which elections do not meet the standards of liberal democracy due to electoral malpractices. The analysis of the malpractices at all stages of the electoral cycle and their impact on the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-02
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This book examines a selection of themes that have become salient in contemporary debates on constitutional democracies. It focuses in particular on the experiences of India and Germany as examples of post-war and post-colonial constitutional democracies whose...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-06-01
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Hendrik Schröder bietet neue Einsichten in ein bislang randständig behandeltes Thema innerhalb der politischen Bildung: Emotionen. Mit Hilfe eines selbst entwickelten interdisziplinären Analyseverfahrens (ARtE) rekonstruiert er die Funktion von Emotionen innerhalb...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-06-01
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This book shows how international discourse citing ‘self-determination’ over the last hundred years has functioned as a battleground between two ideas of freedom: a ‘radical’ idea of freedom, and a ‘liberal-conservative’ idea of freedom. The book examines each of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-01
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