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Human geopolitics, the competition for population rather than territory, is an essential but weakly understood dimension of world politics today. Such competition has preceded violent conflict throughout history, but has been muted since the Treaties of Westphalia laid...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-05-02
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This book examines the conceptions of justice from Zarathustra to Islam. The text explores the conceptions of justice by Zarathustra, Ancient Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. During the Axial Age (800-200BCE), the focus of justice is in India, China,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-04-17
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Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin for a fourth presidential term in 2018 has seen Russian democracy weaken further and Russia’s relations with the West deteriorate seriously. Yet, within Russia, Putin’s position remains unchallenged and his foreign policy battles...
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Polity
Parution :
2019-04-16
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The world has been sleep-walking into cyber chaos.The spread of misinformation via social media and the theft of data and intellectual property, along with regular cyberattacks, threaten the fabric of modern societies. All the while, the Internet of Things increases the...
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Polity
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2019-04-15
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Florian Meißner befasst sich mit der Fukushima-Katastrophe und der entsprechenden Berichterstattung deutscher und japanischer Medien. Der Autor geht der Frage nach, warum über die Ereignisse des Jahres 2011 in beiden Ländern sehr unterschiedlich berichtet wurde und...
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Springer VS
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2019-04-15
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Der Autor Jeremias Kettner ist promovierter Politikwissenschaftler. Er ist Gründer einer Beratungsfirma und arbeitet als Global Risk Analyst und Aussenpolitikexperte. Er ist Gastdozent und kommentiert die Beziehungen Deutschland und Europas mit der arabischen Welt in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2019-04-12
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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How did France and Australia develop a deep strategic partnership, when only about two decades ago, a group of Australians bombed the French consulate in Perth to protest against French nuclear testing in the Pacific? Which interests, which personalities, which elements...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-25
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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How do international organizations in the United Nations system put together their budgets? What is the role of complex principals - most notably member states - and the complex agents in the bureaucracies of international organizations in budgeting processes? And what...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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International organizations like the United Nations, theInternational Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In recent years, many of them have also become heavily politicized.
In this book, we examine how the norms...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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This new dictionary defines critical terms relating to China's politics since 1949. It comprises over 200 succinct definitions covering core political structures, ideologies, and practices, as well as individuals, groups, and concerns that are essential to them....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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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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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 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
Collection :
Political Economy of Islam
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-03-04
Collection :
Critical Security Studies in the Global South
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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...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-03-01
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Rule-based global order remains a central object of study in International Relations. Constructivists have identified a number of mechanisms by which actors accomplish both the continuous reproduction and transformation of the rules, institutions, and regimes that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-02-18
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International organizations like the United Nations, theInternational Monetary Fund, or the European Union are a defining feature of contemporary world politics. In recent years, many of them have also become heavily politicized.
In this book, we examine how the norms...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-02-14
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This book chronicles the story of the United Nations under Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in the decade 2007–2016. Marcel Jesenský provides a compelling account of the organization’s activities and Ban Ki-moon’s role in reconciling the aims, principles and prerogatives...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-13
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Five billion people, two-thirds of the world's mega-cities, one-third of the global economy, two-thirds of global economic growth, thirty of the Fortune 100, six of the ten largest banks, eight of the ten largest armies, five nuclear powers, massive technological...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2019-02-07
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This book shows how the first institution of global governance was conceived and operated. It provides a new assessment of its architect, Eric Drummond, the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, appointed a century ago. The authors conclude that he stands in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-06
Collection :
Understanding Governance
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