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This book provides a comprehensive treatment of traditional as well as newer topics in local public, fiscal and financial management principles and practices. It covers traditional topics of local public management, local revenue administration with special emphasis on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-06-01
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This book describes the emergence of research policy as a key competence of the European Union (EU). It shows how the European Community (EC, the predecessor of the EU), which initially had very limited legal competence in the field, progressively developed a solid...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-01
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This book explores the similarities and differences among national election systems around the globe and sheds light on how election systems are susceptible to gerrymandering, which is the process by which an incumbent or a political party attempts to manipulate the...
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Springer
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2020-05-30
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This book examines US interventions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda -- two countries whose post-independence histories are inseparable. It analyzes the US campaigns to prevent Patrice Lumumba from turning the DR Congo into a sovereign, democratic,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-30
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Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castañeda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in America. He...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-30
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Philipp Scherer legt dar, wie sich die Begriffe links und rechts seit dem späten 18. Jahrhundert zu zentralen Ordnungskriterien in der Politik entwickelt haben und warum die Links-Rechts-Unterscheidung in Deutschland bis heute eine wichtige Kommunikations- und...
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Springer VS
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2020-05-29
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This book investigates how the externalisation of EU migration policies is implemented in Tunisia after the fall of the Ben Ali regime in 2011 through the involvement of civil society organisations. The ‘democratic transition’ initiated by the Tunisian Revolution led to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-29
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This book provides a robust conceptualization of peace. Hamelink defines peace as conceived of moments of celebrating human togetherness, with deep fractures that polarize society standing in the way of collectively celebrating togetherness and posing a serious...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-29
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Dieses Essential zeigt die aktuelle Verkehrsentwicklung auf und leitet die zentralen Herausforderungen für eine integrierte Verkehrsplanung ab, die auf eine nachhaltige Verkehrsentwicklung gerichtet ist. Es wird gezeigt, dass neben technologischen Innovationen vor allem...
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Springer VS
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2020-05-29
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Energietransitionsprozesse werden weltweit nicht zuletzt durch die Überzeugungen der Akteure geprägt. Meike Löhr untersucht dieses Verständnis von Akteuren und Akteurskoalitionen der Energietransition in Dänemark, Deutschland und Frankreich, um damit die kognitive...
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Springer VS
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2020-05-29
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Während die normative Begründung von Demokratie seit der Antike ein zentrales Thema der politischen Ideengeschichte darstellt, erhält die Rechtfertigung autoritärer Herrschaft bisher relativ wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Diese Diskrepanz soll mit diesem Buch beseitigt werden....
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Springer VS
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2020-05-29
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A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab. In the summer of 2014 the world watched in horror as the black flag of ISIS swept all before it. Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
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2020-05-28
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This book develops a new concept of post-refugee transnationalism to describe experiences of Bosnian refugees who settled in Ireland after fleeing the conflict in 1990s Bosnia and Herzegovina. The book explores their ambivalent relationship with their host and home...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-05-27
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Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) embrace of the UN, and what does its engagement mean in larger terms?
This study focuses directly on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-27
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Over a relatively short period of time, Beijing moved from dismissing the UN to embracing it. How are we to make sense of the People's Republic of China's (PRC) embrace of the UN, and what does its engagement mean in larger terms?
This study focuses directly on...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-27
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This book examines India-China relations throughout history as well as in the context of current business cooperation and competition. It also explores geo-political and societal factors, such as religion or class models, that influence and shape bilateral relations,...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-27
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This book focuses on the current tension between China and the US on trade imbalance and discusses China’s opening-up strategy in the context of this trade conflict. The book is divided into two parts. In the first part, the author presents a detailed analysis of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-05-26
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This book provides an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between compromise and democracy. Compromises have played a significant role in our representative democracies and yet the nature of the relationship between compromise and democracy has generally...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-26
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This book sheds light on the contradictions underlying the European Union enlargement process, specifically to the Western Balkans, challenging the common assumption that the integration of an extended European space might be possible without mutual transformation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-26
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This book examines Japan’s nuclear identity and its implications for abolition of nuclear weapons. By applying analytical eclecticism in combination with international relations theory, this book categorizes Japan’s nuclear identity as a ‘nuclear-bombed state’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-26
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