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Rethinking Global Governance casts fresh eyes upon a once poignant but now languishing concept. Its purpose is to disrupt the simple association between global governance and the actions and activities of international organizations in the post-Cold War era and to focus...
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Polity
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2019-07-12
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The United States and Canada share the longest border in the world, maintain one of the closest alliances, and are notably similar in many ways. Yet the two countries also have important differences, including sharply contrasting political institutions. InThe United...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-11
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This book analyzes the economic reforms and political adjustments that took place in Cuba during the era of Raúl Castro’s leadership and its immediate aftermath, the first year of his successor, Miguel Díaz-Canel. Faced with economic challenges and a political crisis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-11
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The European Social Model is at a crossroad. Although from the 1990s onwards, the threat of an imminent crisis shaped much of the rhetoric surrounding the future of the welfare state, disagreement within the academic community remains. What is however increasingly clear...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-11
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World orders are increasingly contested. As international institutions have taken on ever more ambitious tasks, they have been challenged by rising powers dissatisfied with existing institutional inequalities, by non-governmental organizations worried about the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-11
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World orders are increasingly contested. As international institutions have taken on ever more ambitious tasks, they have been challenged by rising powers dissatisfied with existing institutional inequalities, by non-governmental organizations worried about the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-07-11
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Staatsbürgerschaft gilt in soziologischer Theorie und politischer Praxis als Ausdruck gesellschaftlicher Zugehörigkeit und politischer Teilhabe. Der Band lädt dazu ein, sich dem Konzept derStaatsbürgerschaft als einem wandelbaren und spannungsreichen Konzept zu nähern....
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Springer VS
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2019-07-10
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Identität, Identifikation und Ideologie sind auch im 21. Jahrhundert zentrale Begriffe in der Politik und hilfreich bei der Identifizierung und Erklärung aktueller politischer Probleme. Der Band zeigt die große Bedeutung der Theorie sozialer Identität für Fragen der...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-10
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This book is a critical resource for understanding the relationship between gender, social policy and women’s activism in Latin America, with specific reference to Chile. Latin America’s mother-centered kinship system makes it an ideal field in which to study motherhood...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-10
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This book studies the cultural, societal, and ideological factors absent from popular discourse on Vladimir Putin’s Russia, contesting the misleading mainstream assumption that Putin is the all-powerful sovereign of Russia. In carefully examining the ideological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-09
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Luisa Girnus zeigt das enge Verhältnis von politischem Lernen und politischer Legitimation hinsichtlich politischer Mündigkeit auf. Politische Legitimation wird dabei als Begründen und Bewerten politischen Handelns verstanden – ein Verständnis, das vor dem Hintergrund...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-09
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The updated third edition of the definitive text on health social work Thoroughly revised and updated, the third edition of Handbook of Health Social Work is an authoritative text that offers a comprehensive review of the diverse field of health social work. With...
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Jossey-Bass
Parution :
2019-07-09
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“Dowding and Taylor offer student and scholar alike a clear and compelling perspective on the foundations of political economy. Their narrative coherently frames the scholarship of the last half century, and persuasively applies it to the recurring problems facing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-09
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In this stirring true account of American leadership, learn how President Trump will put an end to a corrupt system of government ruled by the establishment and special interests.Still Winning is the story of the unlikeliest of heroes who emerged from the unlikeliest of...
Editeur :
Center Street
Parution :
2019-07-09
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Is climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2019-07-09
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This book deals with the events leading up to the 1936 Popular Olympics which would have united the Popular Front in opposition to the Berlin Olympics. It also discusses the days after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War which began on the same day the games were due...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-09
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Against the backdrop of combating the financial and economic crisis in the European Union for the past decade, this volume strives to explore the manifold impacts the prevailing crisis management has on the further alignment of European Integration. The efforts targeted...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-07-08
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This book explores the intercultural policy paradigm emerging within diversity and migration studies. Drawing on empirical studies of cultural diversity and placing a focus on the current crises of identity in Europe, Zapata-Barrero argues for an intercultural model of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-07-08
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This book provides an innovative and in-depth analysis of how attitudes towards democracy and political institutions differ across 31 countries in Europe, and how these attitudes have fluctuated over time. After addressing conceptual and measurement issues about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-06
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This book explores hybrid peacebuilding in Asia, focusing on local intermediaries bridging the gaps between incumbent governments and insurgents, national leadership and the grassroots constituency, and local stakeholders and international intervenors. The contributors...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-05
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