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In this thoroughly revised edition of his bestselling 1999 volume Why Peacekeeping Fails, Dennis Jett explains why peacekeepers today are dying in record numbers while engaged in operations that either are bound to fail or make little contribution to peace. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-15
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Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have been focusing on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state conflict. But the Arab Spring has shown the urgent need for new ways to frame...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-15
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Recent decades have seen an increase in the number of terrorist attacks, necessitating the development of more efficient global security policies. One of the most important elements of this enhanced security is the protection of critical infrastructure.
This book...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-05-15
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This book analyzes the political economy of the MENA region with a focus on pre-revolutionary political and economic conditions, the 2011 revolution itself, and post-revolutionary political processes in Tunisia. The author places particular emphasis on the political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-14
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This book charts the economic, social and political rise of the Justice and Development Party (JDP) as well as its political resilience over the last sixteen years. Going beyond the standard dichotomy debate of political Islam versus secularism, the author shows how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-14
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A withering and witty examination of how the American legal system, burdened by complexity and untrammeled growth, fails Americans and threatens the rule of law itself, by the acclaimed author ofA Generation of Sociopaths.Our trial courts conduct hardly any trials, our...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
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2019-05-14
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Do international human rights treaties constrain governments from repressing their populations and violating rights? In Contentious Compliance, Courtenay R. Conrad and Emily Hencken Ritter present a new theory of human rights treaty effects founded on the idea that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-14
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Can we sidestep tedious climate policy negotiations and forge a coalition of the willing instead? Many international organizations and scholars hope to spur local climate action by orchestration, indirect and voluntary governance arrangements. Lena Bendlin looks beyond...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-13
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This book offers a novel approach to mapping the people and organisations working in EU affairs, allocating much of the volume to a discussion of non-EU institutional representation in Brussels. Complementary to this, a distinct section focuses on those entities...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-11
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This book offers a prospective analysis of the anticipated security consequences of climate change in relation to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Using climate and security literature to complement recent foresight and scenario analysis developed by NATO,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-11
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This book discusses the perceptions India has about its South Asian neighbours, and how these neighbours, in turn, perceive India. While analyzing these perceptions, contributors, who are eminent researchers in international relations, have linked the past with present....
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-11
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This pivot sheds light on U.S. foreign policy objectives by examining diplomatic cables produced by the U.S. Embassy and Consulates in Australia, some which have been officially declassified over the past 30 years and others which were made public by the anti-secrecy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-05-11
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This book examines the waves of protest that broke out in the 2010s as the collective actions of self-organized publics. Drawing on theories of publics/counter-publics and developing an analytical framework that allows the comparison of different country cases, this...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-05-10
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This book presents a systematic study of the history, theory and policy of investor citizenship and residence programmes. It explores how states develop new rules of joining their community in response to globalisation and highlights the tension between citizenship...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-10
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In 1979, the Chinese government famously introduced The Single Child Policy to control population growth. Nearly 40 years later, the result is an estimated 20 million "missing girls" in the population from 1980-2010.In Lost and Found, John James Kennedy and Yaojiang Shi...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-10
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Wie wandlungsfähig ist gewerkschaftliches Handeln? Diese Frage steht im Zentrum der durchgeführten komparativen Analyse nationaler Gewerkschaftspolitiken in Deutschland, Österreich und Slowenien. Dort unterliegen die Gewerkschaften vergleichbaren Handlungsbedingungen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-10
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During the last few decades, the gap between the incomes, wealth and living standards of rich and poor people has increased in most countries. Economic inequality has become a defining issue of our age. In this book, leading political economist Frank Stilwell provides a...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-05-10
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Football is the most popular sport on the planet partly because it’s so simple to play – but as philosopher, novelist and avid fan Stephen Mumford shows, behind the straightforward rules of the game there lurks a world of intriguing complexity. Mumford considers the...
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Polity
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2019-05-10
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power – from Trump’s US and Bolsonaro's Brazil to Orban's Hungary – while Russia and China have turned back towards...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-05-08
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Dieser Band präsentiert theoretische und empirische Forschungsarbeiten, die den Stand der politischen Bildung im Bereich der Inklusion aufzeigen. Im Mittelpunkt stehen verschiedene Inklusionsverständnisse, Fragestellungen und Ergebnisse, die zusammen als Konturen das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-05-07
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