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'A unique, kaleidoscopic view of Chinese society ... A must read' Qiu Xiaolong, author of Shanghai RedemptionAs any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank Langfitt wanted to learn more about the real...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-06-13
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The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles...
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John Murray
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2019-06-13
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This is a startling and controversial investigation into the international assistance given to countries at war. Marriage points to the similarities in the psychological and political dimensions of international aid and the violence this assistance is supposed to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-06-12
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Dieses essential vermittelt das Know-how für einen erfolgreichen Umgang mit den entscheidenden Instrumenten jeder Pressearbeit. Im Mittelpunkt stehen praxisorientierte Antworten auf zentrale Fragen jeder Pressearbeit: Wie erzielt eine Non-Profit-Organisation (NPO)...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-12
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This book examines the relationship between migration, diversification and inequality in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The authors advance a view of migration as a diversifying force, arguing that it is necessary to grapple with the intersection of group identities, state...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-06-11
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Obwohl die Zahl der Publikationen über Lobbyismus und Transparenz deutlich zugenommen hat, ist über den Zusammenhang der beiden Phänomene wenig bekannt. Die Motive einer Transparenzschaffung oder Transparenzverhinderung durch Lobbyisten blieben in der wissenschaftlichen...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-10
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Diplomatic issues, i.e. the textbook discussion, the Yasukuni debate, and the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands dispute cause political shocks to Japan-China relations, but economic exchange is maintained. Franziska Schultz discusses political shocks within bilateral relations,...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-10
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This book presents a new democratic theory of election reform, using the tradition of political realism to interrogate and synthesize findings from global elections research and voting theory. In a world of democratic deficits and uncivil societies, political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-08
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"If one wants to understand why, from its modest beginnings, the European Parliament has become a major player in EU decision-making, look no further than this book. It presents, to date, the theoretically most compelling, methodologically disciplined and empirically...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-08
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Björn Küllmer untersucht anhand der Fälle Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA, wie demokratische Staaten die Regulierung von Inhalten im Internet umsetzen. Welchen Einfluss haben die bestehenden Regulierungsregime in den „klassischen Medien“ auf die neu entstehenden...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-06-07
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The 2016 election of Donald J. Trump invoked a time for reflection about the state of American politics and its deep ideological, cultural, racial, regional, and economic divisions. But one aspect that the contemporary discussions often miss is that these fissures have...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-06-07
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Tanja Wolf entwickelt eine Typologie zur Unterscheidung rechtsextremer und rechtspopulistischer Parteien in Europa. Diese basiert auf einer systematischen Herleitung der Unterscheidungsmerkmale. Hierfür werden nicht nur die gängigsten Definitionen extremer...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-07
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This book discusses policy strategies for the effective management of natural resources in Africa within the context of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). While natural resource wealth has the potential to lift many out of poverty, sustain...
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Springer
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2019-06-07
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Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-06-07
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The Future of Capitalism
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“Jenkins’ rare combination of psychological theorizing and archival research in several countries and time periods yields a fascinating new take on the central question of when states over-estimate or under-estimate others’ resolve. The biases that leaders and elites...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-06-07
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A calming collection of allegories, and illustrations from a world-renowned peace ambassador.Global peace ambassador Prem Rawat has spent his entire life travelling the world to deliver one timeless message: Peace is Possible. Conflict, he explains, takes place at three...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2019-06-06
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Twenty years, a thousand pages, and now a single beautiful edition of Arundhati Roy's complete non-fiction.'Arundhati Roy is one of the most confident and original thinkers of our time' Naomi Klein 'The world has never had to face such global confusion. Only in facing...
Editeur :
Penguin
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2019-06-06
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This book explores the role that states might play in promoting a cosmopolitan condition as an agent of cosmopolitanism rather than an obstacle to it. In doing so the book seeks to develop recent arguments in favour of locating cosmopolitan moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-06-06
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This book explores the role that states might play in promoting a cosmopolitan condition as an agent of cosmopolitanism rather than an obstacle to it. In doing so the book seeks to develop recent arguments in favour of locating cosmopolitan moral and political...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-06-06
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Der Band stellt das politische System von Schleswig-Holstein dar. Die historischen, gesellschaftlichen und ökonomischen Grundlagen des Regierens und die politische Kultur im nördlichsten deutschen Bundesland werden analysiert. Das politische System Schleswig-Holsteins...
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Springer VS
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2019-06-05
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