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This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover’s Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I. Here, Clotilde Druelle focuses on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-13
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This book asks the question: what is the role of memory during a political transition? Drawing on Ethiopian history, transitional justice, and scholarly fields concerned with memory, museums and trauma, the author reveals a complex picture of global, transnational,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-03-13
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This volume examines the possibility – or need – of a revitalization of pacifism as a world-political practice. It takes as its point of departure the observation that although ‘just war thinking’ has long been dominant in Western debates about war and peace, recent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-13
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This book examines the state-building process in Colombia, specifically in the Pacific Coast region. Using the regionally isolated and historically neglected Pacific Coast as a case study, the authors analyze the Colombian nation-building and democratic processes,...
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Springer
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2019-03-13
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Berlin ist seit der Wiedervereinigung Hauptstadt des vereinten Deutschlands, die alten Zentren Ost und West wachsen immer mehr zusammen. Das Buch beleuchtet die politische Geschichte Berlins als Hauptstadt Deutschlands, die Entscheidung über die Verlagerung des...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-12
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Since 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to be offset by the United Kingdom’s entry into Europe in 1975, with the result that national foreign policy came to rest on the two pillars...
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Polity
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2019-03-12
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How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members?How far can we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the fundamental questions addressed by...
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Polity
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2019-03-12
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Short Introductions
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A deeply personal and shocking look at how China is coming to terms with its conflicted past as it emerges into a modern, cutting-edge superpower. Through the stories of three generations of women in her family, Karoline Kan, a former New York Times reporter based in...
Editeur :
Legacy Lit
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2019-03-12
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Andreas Friedel lokalisiert die Ursachen der Funktionsschwächen des mit der Kontrolle der Nachrichtendienste des Bundes (BND, BfV und MAD) beauftragten Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums (PKGr) des Deutschen Bundestages. Hierfür evaluiert er systematisch die...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-11
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The contemporary world has reached a pivotal moment of escalating injustices and apocalyptic risks, but also of unprecedented opportunities. Mounting pressures of social and ecological problems are met by a confluence of intellectual trends that allow the questioning of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2019-03-11
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Precarity is a key theme in political discourse, in media and academic discussions of employment, and within the labour movement. Often, the prevailing idea is of an endless march of precarity, rendering work ever more contingent and workers ever more disposable....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-11
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This book assesses the effectiveness of Nigeria’s counterterrorist policies against Boko Haram. It takes a critical review of the interventionist strategies adopted by the Nigerian government, highlights the motivations behind the choice of strategies, and proffers a...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-08
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This book provides a comprehensive search for the basic political drivers of international development cooperation, based on the policy and performance of the OECD countries from the early 1960s to the present. The author focuses on the stated and implemented policies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-08
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This book presents an analysis of five anticorruption agencies (ACAs) from Serbia, Macedonia and Croatia, exploring the impact of organisational factors and leadership on their enforcement patterns during the first decade of the transitional reforms (2001-2012)....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-08
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This extended essay investigates the meaning of imperialism in Syria, providing a valuable addition to the ongoing debate on the Syrian crisis through the lens of imperialism, modern warfare, and geopolitics. It offers a detailed analysis of how the Syrian war has been...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-03-08
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Since the 1990s, human rights advocates, business leaders, and consumers have become increasingly attuned to mitigating sweatshop labor and other abuses in the supply chains that manufacture the clothing, electronics, and countless other products that we buy and use...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-08
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This study entails a theoretical reading of the Iranian modern history and follows an interdisciplinary agenda at the intersection of philosophy, psychoanalysis, economics, and politics and intends to offer a novel framework for the analysis of socio-economic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-07
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Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative, and boldly graphic biography-led book.Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders profiles leaders from all walks...
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Dk
Parution :
2019-03-07
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This book is the first to provide a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the foreign policy of Bosnia and Herzegovina, a post-conflict country with an active agency in international affairs. Bridging academic and policy debates, the book summarizes and further...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-06
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This book draws lessons and conclusions, based on the methodology outlined in the author's previous book, Water as a Catalyst for Peace (Routledge, 2013), and further charts the course to a more practical framework for achieving regional stability and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2019-03-06
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