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Composing Peace: Mission Composition in UN Peacekeeping is about mission composition in peacekeeping operations and asks how diversity of mission composition influences the ability of a peace mission to keep the peace. This book focuses on four types of mission...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-05-06
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Written by a former International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear inspector and nuclear security expert, this book provides a comprehensive and authentic overview of current global nuclear developments. The author provides detailed insights into current and past...
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Springer
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2020-05-05
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This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. By offering a comparative perspective and by applying econometric methods and regression models, it analyses various...
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Springer
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2020-05-05
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This book argues that local governments and institutions across the state of California that offer various forms of sanctuaries to undocumented immigrants create “sanctuary regions.” These regions are safe zones for undocumented immigrants and facilitate their ability...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2020-05-04
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This book explores how nuclear weapons influence conventional warfighting, through three case studies of countries not party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Pakistan, India, and Israel. The author examines how decision makers choose a preferred pattern of war...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-05-04
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Terrorism and radicalization came to the forefront of news and politics in the US after the unforgettable attacks of September 11th, 2001. When George W. Bush famously asked "Why do they hate us?," the President echoed the confusion, anger and fear felt by millions of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-05-01
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Dieses essential zeigt auf, wie durch die Einbindung neuer Zielgruppen Lebensräume in Städten ganzheitlich entwickelt werden können. Durch die Arbeit mit dem Design-Thinking-Ansatz rücken die Bedürfnisse der späteren Bewohner ins Zentrum der Quartiersentwicklung. Die...
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Springer Gabler
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2020-05-01
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Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws? This issue has taken on an importance far beyond the tiny number...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-05-01
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The Defenders of Liberty presents a history of economic liberalism from the Renaissance to the present. It chronicles the tradition of thought that sees human nature as social yet self-interested, methodological individualism as its key analytical tool, and property...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-05-01
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This third and concluding volume of Just Property brings critical accounts of property right up to the present. The book is made up of five pairs of chapters located in five major ideological traditions of modernity: liberalism, libertarianism, social democracy,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-01
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This third and concluding volume of Just Property brings critical accounts of property right up to the present. The book is made up of five pairs of chapters located in five major ideological traditions of modernity: liberalism, libertarianism, social democracy,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-05-01
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This book is a political biography of Arkadij Maksimovich Maslow (1891-1941), a German Communist politician and later a dissident and opponent to Stalin. Together with his political and common-law marriage partner, Ruth Fischer, Maslow briefly led the Communist Party of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-30
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This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest. Focussing on the June 2013 protests in Brazil, it examines how different actors –authorities, activists, the national media, foreign...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-30
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The discipline of International Relations was invented to solve the problem of war. However, so far, no really encompassing solutions have been found.The solutions that were proposed centered around the establishment of the United Nations and the spread of...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-30
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In The Gun Gap, Mark R. Joslyn advances gun owners as a new classification for understanding political behavior and attitudes. He demonstrates a "gun gap," which captures the differences between gun owners and non-gun owners, and shows how this gap improves conventional...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-30
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In The Drone Age, Michael J. Boyle addresses some of the biggest questions surrounding the impact of drones on our world today and the risks that we might face tomorrow. Will drones produce a safer world because they reduce risk to pilots, or will the prospect of clean,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-04-30
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This book explores climate change responsiveness policies for cities and discusses why they have been slow to gain traction despite having been on the international agenda for the last 30 years. The contributing role of cities in accentuating the effects of climate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-30
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This book offers an engaging and historically informed account of the moral challenge of radically asymmetric violence -- warfare conducted by one party in the near-complete absence of physical risk, across the full scope of a conflict zone. What role does physical risk...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-30
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Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by examining how these regimes fare in the eyes of their citizens. Taking a globally comparative approach, it studies both the...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-04-30
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Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by examining how these regimes fare in the eyes of their citizens. Taking a globally comparative approach, it studies both the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-30
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