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Vor dem Hintergrund neuer Machtkonzepte wie Soft Power und Nation Branding hat die Auswärtige Kulturpolitik als „dritte Säule“ deutscher Außenpolitik einen erheblichen Bedeutungszuwachs erfahren. Hannah Bauersachs erklärt und analysiert, wie das deutsche Image im...
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Springer VS
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2019-03-06
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Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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Citizenship within our current international system signifies being fully human, or being worthy of fundamental human rights. For some vulnerable groups, however, this form of political membership is limited or missing entirely, and they face human rights challenges...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-06
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An enlarged edition of Thomas Sowell's brilliant examination of the origins of economic disparitiesEconomic and other outcomes differ vastly among individuals, groups, and nations. Many explanations have been offered for the differences. Some believe that those with...
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Basic Books
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2019-03-05
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In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics – from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world. Much less noticed is the rise of a new...
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Polity
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2019-03-05
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Russia is back as a major force in global politics, but what does this mean? IsRussia the dangerous revisionist foe that meddles in Western elections and tries to subvert the liberal international order? Or is it a country precariously trying to maintain security and...
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Polity
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2019-03-04
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This book is the first attempt to comprehensively introduce Japanese geopolitics. Europe’s role in disseminating knowledge globally to shape the world according to its standards is an unchallenged premise in world politics. In this story, Japan is regarded as an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-04
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Following Barrington Moore Jr., this book raises doubts about modernization theory’s claim that an advanced economy with extensive social differentiation is incompatible with authoritarian rule. Authoritarian modernism in East Asia (Northeast and Southeast Asia) has...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2019-03-01
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This book discusses the various critical dimensions of the Qatar Crisis as a development that has fundamentally reshaped the nature of regional integration for the near future. It represents the first academic attempt to challenge the commonly propagated binary view of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-01
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Leadership of powerful states and organizations is crucial for the success of regional integration projects. This book offers a theoretical model explaining such leadership. By applying the model to eurozone governance and reform, the book combines innovative theorizing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-01
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Die Bedingungen beschleunigter gesellschaftlicher Wandlungsprozesse in einer multikulturellen Gesellschaft mit steigender Zuwanderung, der Zunahme des politischen Populismus in und außerhalb Europas, des Extremismus sowie der Gefahr durch den Terrorismus,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2019-03-01
Collection :
Politische Bildung
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In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To counter this, a...
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Hurst
Parution :
2019-03-01
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Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our political, cultural and economic links with 'the...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-03-01
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Adopted in 2007, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples establishes self-determination--including free, prior, and informed consent--as a foundational right and principle. Self-determination, both individual and collective, is among the most important...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-01
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What has become of Israel's peace movement? In the early 1980s, it was a major political force, bringing hundreds of thousands onto the streets; but since then, its importance has declined amid spiraling violence. Now, and especially since the second Intifada of 2000-5,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-01
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Democracy Works asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analyzing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a 'democratic playbook' robust enough to withstand threats to free and fair elections. However,...
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Hurst
Parution :
2019-03-01
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The Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas, 'perhaps the greatest warrior of the Afghan Arabs', fought the Soviet Union for a decade. As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan jihad, he counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of Al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2019-03-01
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Although many observers argue that US-Russia relations are a simple reflection of elites' political and economic preferences in both countries, these preferences tend to arise from pre-existing belief systems that are deeply rooted in the public and accentuated by mass...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-01
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On the eve of a landmark general election, Ruchir Sharma offers an unrivalled portrait of how India and its democracy work, drawn from his two decades on the road chasing election campaigns across every major state, travelling the equivalent of a lap around the earth....
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Penguin
Parution :
2019-02-28
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This book offers a contemporary look at violence in Mexico and argues for a recalibration in how necropolitics, as the administration of life and death, is understood. The author locates the forces of mortality directly on the body, rather than as an object of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-27
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Die Studie untersucht die Verwendung von Legitimationsargumenten und zeigt, dass und wie im bundesrepublikanischen politischen Diskurs Legitimität zunehmend über die Verwendung postdemokratischer Argumente konstruiert wird. Damit wird erstmals die in der Literatur seit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-02-27
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