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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-23
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The book deals with President Hassan Rouhani’s conceptual approach to foreign policy. It discusses the main pillars of thinking underpinning Rouhani’s administration and the school of thought associated with it, with a focus on issues pertaining to development as well...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-22
Collection :
Contemporary Gulf Studies
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How can international organizations (IOs) like the United Nations (UN) and their implementing partners be held accountable if their actions and policies violate fundamental human rights? This book provides a new conceptual framework to study pluralist accountability,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-19
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How can international organizations (IOs) like the United Nations (UN) and their implementing partners be held accountable if their actions and policies violate fundamental human rights? This book provides a new conceptual framework to study pluralist accountability,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-19
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This edited volume focuses on the development and conflict prevention mechanism of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS. The contributors discuss complex socio-political and economic issues and use a cross disciplinary approach to treat most of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-10
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This publication is an attempt to enlarge the perspectives of Contemporary European Border Studies both temporally and epistemologically. Border studies in Europe are indeed still largely focused on the analysis of cross-border cooperation and its relationship with the...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2020-06-08
Collection :
Fare (Frontières, Acteurs, Représentations de l'Europe)
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This book offers a tool in international relations conducted separately from the activities of ambassadors and other diplomats at the highest level of diplomacy at embassies in capital cities. In communities around the world, foreign consuls provide a local link to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-06-06
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-01
Collection :
Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
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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,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-05-27
Collection :
Understanding China
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Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-05-18
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In an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring liberal international order. This order, they claim, ushered in seventy years of peace and prosperity and saw post-war America domesticate the world to its...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-05-11
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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
Parution :
2020-04-28
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