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The United Nations is a vital part of the international order. Yet this book argues that the greatest contribution of the UN is not what it has achieved (improvements in health and economic development, for example) or avoided (global war, say, or the use of weapons of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-05-30
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This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework.
The volume responds to three key problems common to both academia...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-28
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This book develops a new approach in explaining how a nation's Grand Strategy is constituted, how to assess its merits, and how grand strategies may be comparatively evaluated within a broader framework.
The volume responds to three key problems common to both academia...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-28
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By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping to drive economic growth in major emerging...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-05-07
Collection :
Resources
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This book traces the trajectory and different meanings of the concept of peacebuilding in the United Nations since the early 1990s. It analyses how that concept gained life in a particular context and the implications of this process for the Organisation’s support to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-05-06
Collection :
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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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
Parution :
2019-05-02
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The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and democratization has become a topic of intense debate. However, the main focus of the literature so far has been on IOs created by democratic states and comprised mostly of democracies, for...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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The interconnection between international organizations (IOs) membership and democratization has become a topic of intense debate. However, the main focus of the literature so far has been on IOs created by democratic states and comprised mostly of democracies, for...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-05-02
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How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace?
More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once. Meanwhile, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-25
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How can we know if the peace that has been established following a civil war is a stable peace?
More than half of all countries that experienced civil war since World War II have suffered a relapse into violent conflict, in some cases more than once. Meanwhile, the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-04-25
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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,...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-03-21
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