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We all need food to survive, and forty percent of the world’s population relies on agriculture for their livelihood. Yet control over food is concentrated in relatively few hands. Turmoil in the world food economy in recent decades has highlighted a number of...
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Polity
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2020-04-20
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Bangladesh: A Suffering People Under State Terrorism explores the destructive political situation in Bangladesh under the one-party and one-person rule of the despotic Sheikh Hasina. The contributors to this edited collection examine the catastrophic political...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-04-20
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This book aims to build the ideal model of China's grand strategy framework, which is based on three key variables: national power, strategic concept and international institution. Taking the rise of China as an opportunity, this book adopts the assessment of national...
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Springer
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2020-04-20
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This book contributes to both the internal debate in liberalism and the application of political liberalism to the process of democratization in East Asia. Beyond John Rawls’ original intention to limit the scope of political liberalism to only existing and well-ordered...
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Springer
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2020-04-17
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This book presents ten original essays that reassess the meaning, relevance, and legacy of Michael Walzer’s classic, Just and Unjust Wars. Written by leading figures in philosophy, theology, international politics and the military, the essays examine topics such as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-17
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„Politiker und Politikerinnen sollten bei ihrem Wettstreit um politische Ämter keine Gewalt anwenden.“ Das ist eines von vielen Beispielen für normativ-evaluative Hypothesen. Während innerhalb der zuständigen politikwissenschaftlichen Teildisziplin „Politische Theorie“...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-17
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Sondersendungen des öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernsehens sind eine zentrale Institution der politischen Medienöffentlichkeit in Deutschland. Sie werden unter hohem Zeitdruck und mit Aufbietung geballter journalistischer Kompetenz produziert. Die Medienakteure sehen sie...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-17
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Immigration has become one of the central issues dominating the agenda of political parties, and has also played a crucial role in the rise of right-wing populism in Western Europe. This book explores the role of conservative parties in immigration policy change. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-16
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Unterscheidet sich die CDU im Saarland in ihren programmatischen Standpunkten und ihrem Themenprofil von den Christdemokraten in Schleswig-Holstein oder in den Stadtstaaten Berlin, Bremen und Hamburg? Steht die SPD in Baden-Württemberg oder Hessen weiter links als der...
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Springer VS
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2020-04-16
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This book explores Russia’s efforts towards both adapting to and shaping a world in transformation. Russia has been largely marginalized in the post-Cold War era and has struggled to find its place in the world, which means that the chaotic changes in the world present...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-16
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This book examines the life and works of Friedrich Engels during the decade before he entered a political partnership with Karl Marx. It takes a thematic approach in three substantial chapters: Imagination, Observation, and Vocation. Throughout, the reader sees the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-15
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The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. Against the backdrop of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-15
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The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. Against the backdrop of the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-15
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In Post-Democracy (Polity, 2004) Colin Crouch argued that behind the façade of strong institutions, democracy in many advanced societies was being hollowed out, its big events becoming empty rituals as power passed increasingly to circles of wealthy business elites and...
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Polity
Parution :
2020-04-14
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Do you know what the Constitution actually says? This witty, highly relevant and informative annotation is your go-to guide to how the United States government works (or at least how it’s supposed to work). Written by political savant Ben Sheehan, and vetted for...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2020-04-14
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In this memoir about overcoming adversity in America, the U. S. Senator responsible for creating "opportunity zones" explains how hard work and community growth can drive businesses and end poverty.Senator Tim Scott knows adversity. As the son of a single mother from...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2020-04-14
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"Democracy theories and comparative political science have been challenged within the last decade by an unexpected democratic deficit and the rise of populism in the new EU-member states. This volume written by German and Czech scholars gives some food for thought for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-13
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Trade Policy in Multilevel Government investigates how multilevel polities organize openness in a globalizing political and economic environment. In recent years, the multilevel politics of trade caught a broader public's attention, not least due to the Wallonian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-11
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Trade Policy in Multilevel Government investigates how multilevel polities organize openness in a globalizing political and economic environment. In recent years, the multilevel politics of trade caught a broader public's attention, not least due to the Wallonian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-04-11
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This book examines the progress of institutionalisation of evaluation in European countries from various perspectives. It describes both prior developments and current states of evaluation in 16 European countries and across the European Union (EU), focussing on three...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-04-10
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