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The question of whether new rules or regulations are required to govern, restrict, or even prohibit the use of autonomous weapon systems has been the subject of debate for the better part of a decade. Despite the claims of advocacy groups, the way ahead remains unclear...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-11-02
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Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-11-01
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This book presents an overview of the economic policies adopted by the Bolivarian governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela between 1998 and 2018, and the economic and social results of these policies. The recent history of Venezuela has attracted much...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-28
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This edited book explores the multi-layered relationships between public diplomacy and intensified uncertainties stemming from transnational political trends. It is the latest wave of political uncertainty that provides the background as well as yields evidence...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-26
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This book analyses the role of emerging powers as a development assistance providers and the nature of their development cooperation, their behaviour, motives and markedly their changing identities in international relations. With their growing economic and political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-24
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This edited volume presents the results of a three-year comparative study on Chinese cultural diplomacy (CD) across Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, which contributes to the broader theoretical debate on China`s increasing soft power in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-17
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This book addresses the implications of current thinking on precarity, precariousness and the precariat for the study of International Relations and International Political Economy. Drawing on a broad range of critical theoretical resources including literatures on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-05
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book offers a range of perspectives on the Africa–China partnership in the context of the Forum on China and Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). Incorporating historical, political, social and cultural dimensions, it offers innovative views on the Africa–China relationship...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-01
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This book is a timely resource for the debate around “revitalizing” Canada’s public diplomacy, bringing together some of the top scholars of Canadian public diplomacy and practitioners past and present to build a one-stop shop for thinking on the past, present, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-17
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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Political ideologies shape the behaviour of states, international institutions, terrorist groups, political elites, non-governmental organisations, and other international actors. The book analyses how the most important of them affect today’s world politics, and...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-02
Collection :
Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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This book explores the potential of movement as a means of eliciting conflict transformation and unfolding peace at the intrapersonal and relational levels. It examines how peace and dance have been related in different cultures and investigates embodied ways to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-08-13
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Over the last decade, the world’s largest corporations – from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever – have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-08-04
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The book examines how the European Union, which in the past had tended to be seen by India as an undervalued partner, is now increasingly part of most conversations in fields like the economy, technology, standards, best practices, development,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-16
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This book argues that the macroeconomic policy adjustment models recommended by the IMF and the World Bank for implementation in many Muslim countries, with substantial donor financial support, have not been effective. Economic indicators show low economic growth,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-16
Collection :
Political Economy of Islam
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This book has four main objectives: to bring the thus far almost entirely neglected historical case of ‘the rise of Japan’ into the literature on power shifts in general and ‘the rise of China’ in particular; to propose a discourse-based conceptualization of identity...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-16
Collection :
Global Political Sociology
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This edited volume provides an inclusive explanation of what, why, and how cities interact with global counterparts as well as with nation states, non-governmental organizations, and foreign publics. The chapters present theoretical and analytical approaches to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-11
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This book aims to identify what components are needed for economic diplomacy in today’s rapidly changing world, looking at the nature, focus and tenets of economic diplomacy, and the differences between economic diplomacy and commercial diplomacy. Further, it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-08
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This book investigates the normalisation of blame-shifting within ideological discourse as a broad feature of history, working from Churchill’s truism that history is written by the victors. To that end, it explores historical episodes of political persecution carried...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-03
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This book shows how religions and their internal struggles shape key actors and processes in the international political economy. It highlights how fundamentalist, business-oriented Christians in the United States were instrumental in the neoliberal turn in US hegemony,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-02
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This handbook constitutes a specialist single compendium that analyses African political economy in its theoretical, historical and policy dimensions. It emphasizes the uniqueness of African political economy within a global capitalist system that is ever changing and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-23
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