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The Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014, subsequent war in Eastern Ukraine and economic sanctions imposed by the West, transformed European politics. These events marked a dramatic shift away from the optimism of the post-Cold War era.The conflict did not escalate to the...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-07
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This volume, incorporating the work of scholars from various parts of the globe, taps the wisdom of the Westphalian (and post-Westphalian) world on the use of federalism and secession as tools for managing regional conflicts. The debate has rarely been more important...
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Springer
Parution :
2019-01-05
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While previous studies focus on lack of enforcement of forest laws, poverty, and ecological values of forest dependent people, coherent studies on people’s motivations for forest illegalities and non-compliance behavior remain scanty. Emmanuel Ametepeh argues that the...
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Springer VS
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2019-01-04
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This collection examines the opportunities and challenges, rights and wrongs, and prospects and risks of Brexit from the perspectives of gender and sexuality. While much has been written about Brexit from legal, political, social and economic perspectives, there has...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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This edited volume provides a critical and comparative discussion of the changing synergy between the military and society in the dramatically transforming global security climate, drawing on examples from the Asian, Pacific, African, Middle Eastern, European and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-04
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This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change. It examines how China, following its emergence as the world’s largest energy consumer and its resultant growing dependence on...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-04
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"There's never been a more pressing time to question every aspect of our inadequate democracy"- Polly Toynbee "This important book shows the many challenges democracy faces in a world of populism and radical digital change" - Margaret Hodge 2018 saw celebrations of the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2019-01-04
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Political Quarterly Monograph Series
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At the end of the twentieth century, many believed the story of European political development had come to an end. Modern democracy began in Europe, but for hundreds of years it competed with various forms of dictatorship. Now, though, the entire continent was in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-04
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One of the signal events in global politics in the last decade has been the transformation of political and civic activism. Not only is the new activism qualitatively different in character from what it was in 2000; its intensity and frequency have dramatically...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Most Americans pay little attention to the massive number of elections that occur at the state level every year. Yet cumulatively, a party's success in state-level races across the country can produce major shifts in policymaking and governance. That is precisely what...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-03
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Political, social, and economic transformation is a complex historical phenomenon. It can adequately be analysed only by a multidisciplinary approach. The Handbook brings together an international team of scholars who are specialists in their respective research...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic procedures are arbitrary and do not reflect popular will; indeed, that the idea of popular...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-01-03
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Benjamin Friedländer entwickelt einen Analyse- und Interpretationsrahmen, mit dem die Möglichkeit besteht, fundierte Untersuchungen zum Spannungsverhältnis von Zentralisierung und Dezentralisierung im Kontext der kommunalen Gesamtsteuerung durchzuführen. Dabei ist der...
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Springer VS
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2019-01-02
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For the last thirty years Somalia has experienced violence and upheaval. Today, the international effort to help Somalis build a federal state and achieve stability is challenged by deep-rooted grievances, local conflicts and a powerful insurgency led by Al-Shabaab....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-01-01
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This book offers a psychosocial perspective on political violence, employing a strong current of psychoanalytic thinking. In the course of its chapters an international roster of researchers and scholars offers a richly complex and insightful view of diverse forms of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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This book analyses the changing nature of the British economy and the consequences of Brexit upon its place within the European economic space. The overhang from the global financial crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the political negotiation of prolonged economic downturn...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-30
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This book explores a variety of social risks and possible policy options that could be put in place to either prevent, or lessen the negative consequences of their materialisation. Pieters groups these policy issues into four major social risks -- income replacement in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-30
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This book assesses the changes that the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) could produce by boosting the competitiveness of firms in India and Korea. It evaluates the CEPA in terms of its effects on the environment and natural resources of the importing...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-12-30
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Dieses essential gibt einen Überblick über die sogenannten K-Gruppen. Es beschreibt die Entstehung dieser maoistisch-neoleninistischen Kaderorganisationen aus dem Zerfall der Studierendenbewegung von 1968. Der Autor zeigt die Entwicklung der K-Gruppen zu einer der...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-30
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The 2008 financial crisis rocked British capitalism to its foundations. More than a decade after the crash, the country is still dealing with its consequences. This book explores the extent to which British capitalism has been reconfigured in this tumultuous period....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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