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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
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2020-04-30
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht es um die Frage, welche individuellen Faktoren Vertrauen bzw. Misstrauen in Journalismus erklären.In Teilen der Bevölkerung erodiert das Vertrauen in journalistische Medien. Gleichzeitig verliert der Journalismus seine Rolle als...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-29
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Das Buch trägt zur Neubelebung einer Soziologie der öffentlichen Verwaltung bei und lenkt die Aufmerksamkeit auf eine Arbeitswelt mit eminenter Bedeutung für Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit. Kathrin Englert stellt die Frage nach dem Wandel im Amt neu, nämlich als...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-29
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Praxisnaher und handlungsorientierter Leitfaden für das Risikomanagement in KommunenRisikomanagement für die Bereiche Personal, IT und Datenschutz, Beteiligungen, Projekte etc.Aus der kommunalen Praxis für die kommunale PraxisDieses Buch bietet einen pragmatischen...
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Springer Gabler
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2020-04-29
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This book analyses the making of the international world of ‘natural’ disasters by its professionals. Through a long-term ethnographic study of this arena, the author unveils the various elements that are necessary for the construction of an international world: a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-28
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For decades, Africa was falling apart. But now it is coming together, and Africans are achieving greatness. Despite the advances, though, the twenty-first century brings challenges to match each and every major opportunity. In Things Come Together, Robert Rotberg brings...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-28
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Maike Heber geht der Frage nach, wie sich in Italiens Politik und Gesellschaft die dominierende Vorstellung von Demokratie und ihrer Gestaltung nach 25 Jahren Reformprozess verändert hat. Die Verfassung von 1948 ist trotz vieler Versuche, das politische System zu...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-28
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The Internet of Things (IoT) is the notion that nearly everything we use, from gym shorts to streetlights, will soon be connected to the Internet; the Internet of Everything (IoE) encompasses not just objects, but the social connections, data, and processes that the IoT...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-28
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring' Dr. Jordan B. PetersonFrom host of The Rubin Report, the most-watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube right now, a roadmap for free thinking in an increasingly...
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Constable
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2020-04-28
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The book describes the fate of Poles in the German Imperial Army during the First World War. Poland did not exist for over a hundred years on the political map of Europe at that time, and the Poles had to fight for the opposite sides of the conflict: Germany, Austria,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-28
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This book gives a sheer framework for the Turkish story of transition in politics, society, and foreign affairs during the Justice and Development Party era. This book expands upon transitions in political and societal fabric of the country together with its eventual...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-04-28
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A revelatory examination of the global impact of Emmanuel Macron's tumultuous presidency.A political novice leading a brand new party, in 2017 Emmanuel Macron swept away traditional political forces and emerged as president of France. Almost immediately he realized his...
Editeur :
PublicAffairs
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2020-04-28
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Secrecy is a staple of world politics and a pervasive feature of political life. Leaders keep secrets as they conduct sensitive diplomatic missions, convince reluctant publics to throw their support behind costly wars, and collect sensitive intelligence about sworn...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-28
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What explains France’s unique Left? Many works have reflected upon the importance of Marxism in France, yet few studies have been devoted to the man who did most to introduce Marxism into its political culture: the today near-forgotten figure of Jules Guesde. It was...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-27
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This book examines industrial upgrading in China’s Pearl River Delta (PRD), with a specific focus on how strategic coupling impacts industrial upgrading from the perspective of relational economic geography. It shows that firms in the PRD have been struggling after...
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Springer
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2020-04-27
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This edited volume brings together a wide range of academics to engage with inter-disciplinary research perspectives in response to the development of The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which opens unparalleled opportunities to gain access to new markets in Asia, Europe...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-27
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In Democracy Reloaded, Cristina Flesher Fominaya tells the story of one of the most influential social movements of recent times: Spain's "Indignados" or "15-M" movement that took to the streets of Spain on May 15, 2011 with the rallying cry "Real Democracy Now! We are...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-04-27
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The book analyzes relations between Poland and Mexico from historical and contemporary perspective. It includes their political, economic and cultural dimensions, as well as the role of Polish migration to Mexico.The timeframe of the work is from the begining of first...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-04-27
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This book discusses some of the strategic lines in front of the trends related to the new challenges of global security in this new century: some rather universal problems (migration, terrorism, cyberspace, conflict resolutions techniques in prisons, economic...
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Springer
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2020-04-25
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As the past two decades of war in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Darfur and the Congo have revealed, war in the twenty-first century looks nothing like the traditional state-to-state conflicts of World Wars I and II which defined the previous century. Resolving today’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2020-04-25
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