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"Quality of governance: Values and violations arrives at a time when governance faces new and often dire challenges and as traditional democratic values strain against the rise of authoritarian forms of populism and anti-government sentiment. This comprehensive volume...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book presents a unique, comprehensive yet accessible look at security in Africa. The author provides a comprehensive review of the key security issues in Africa and offers a contemporary investigation into what security in Africa will mean for the future of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book explores the relationship between the personality of political leaders, its interaction with top leadership positions and its impact on the respective parties' electoral performance and organization. It focuses on the less-investigated region of Eastern Europe...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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"This book makes a vital contribution to the current literature on human well-being. Through a condensed but incisive analysis of a wide range of sources, from ancient philosophy to the political constitutions of modern nation states, Annie Austin builds a strong case...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This book sets out to re-examine the foundations of Thomas Hobbes’s political philosophy, and to develop a Hobbesian normative theory of international relations. Its central thesis is that two concepts – anarchy and authority – constitute the core of Hobbes's political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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"Representative Bureaucracy and Performance: Public Service Transformation in South Africa is a first-rate blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis of one of the major transitions in modern governance. Fernandez makes a major theoretical contribution to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This inspiring book looks at the theory and practice of China’s foreign aid in Africa, especially in the area of healthcare in Uganda. It provides insights into how recipient countries and regions are selected, and describes in detail how the men and women working in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-22
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Aidar Makhmetov analysiert in aller Breite und Tiefe die Herrschaftstechniken, die in Kasachstan angewendet werden. Wenn Herrschaft als Sonderfall von Macht verstanden wird, dienen Herrschaftstechniken dazu, Macht zu erlangen und zu erhalten. Als theoretische Grundlage...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-22
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?The mining sector has been an integral part of economic development in many African countries. Although minerals have been exploited for decades in these countries, the benefits have not always been as visible. This has necessitated reforms including nationalisation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-22
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This book explores the phenomenon of soft power in international relations. In the context of current discourses on power and global power shift s, it puts forward a comprehensive taxonomy of soft power and outlines a methodological roadmap for its empirical study. To...
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Springer
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2019-11-22
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Dieser Open-Access-Sammelband beleuchtet Herausforderungen und Chancen für die Verwaltungskommunikation in der modernen Mediendemokratie aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und berufspraktischen Perspektiven. Die Beitragsautoren diskutieren den Problemkreis der in- und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-11-21
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The Arab Maghreb-the long stretch of North Africa that expands from Libya to Mauritania-is a vitally important region that impacts the security and politics of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and the broader Middle East. As Middle East scholars Frederic Wehrey and Anouar...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Emergency Powers of International Organizations explores emergency politics of international organizations (IOs). It studies cases in which, based on justifications of exceptional necessity, IOs expand their authority, increase executive discretion, and interfere with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Emergency Powers of International Organizations explores emergency politics of international organizations (IOs). It studies cases in which, based on justifications of exceptional necessity, IOs expand their authority, increase executive discretion, and interfere with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-21
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What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean? This volume engages critically and constructively with this question to provide a distinct contribution to the contemporary discussion on human rights. Fassbender and Traisbach, along with a group of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-21
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What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean? This volume engages critically and constructively with this question to provide a distinct contribution to the contemporary discussion on human rights. Fassbender and Traisbach, along with a group of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-21
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Wellbeing, resilience and sustainability are three of the most popular ideas in current usage and are said to represent a much-needed paradigm shift in political and policy thinking. This book is unique in bringing the three concepts together as representing a new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-20
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An unprecedented behind-the-scenes portrait of the Trump presidency from the anonymous senior official whose first words of warning about the president rocked the nation's capital.On September 5, 2018, the New York Times published a bombshell essay and took the rare...
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Little, Brown Book Group
Parution :
2019-11-19
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This book explores secession from three normative disciplines: political philosophy, international law and constitutional law. The author first develops a moral theory of secession based on a hypothetical multinational contract. Under this contract theory, injustices do...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-19
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"Ending violent conflict requires societies to take leaps of political imagination. Artistic communities are often uniquely placed to help promote new thinking by enabling people to see things differently. In place of conflict’s binary divisions, artists are often...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-19
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