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In today's precarious world, working people's experiences are strangely becoming more alike even as their disparities sharpen. The Fight for Time explores the logic behind this paradox by listening to what Latino day laborers say about work and society. The book shows...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-18
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This volume explores how Gibraltarian Britishness was constructed over the course of the twentieth century. Today most Gibraltarians are fiercely proud of their Britishness, sometimes even describing themselves as ‘more British than the British’ and Gibraltar’s Chief...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by “left versus right” issues of wealth distribution. Drawing from a number of opinion surveys, it explores the shifting positions of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This study thinks with photography about peace. It asks how photography can represent peace, and how such representation can contribute to peace. The book offers an original critique of the almost exclusive focus on violence in recent work on visual culture and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-17
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Als Open Access Publikation bietet der Datenreport Zivilgesellschaft erstmals einen Überblick über Stand und Entwicklung von Zivilgesellschaft und bürgerschaftlichem Engagement in Deutschland auf verbindender Grundlage der ganzen Bandbreite vorliegender Erhebungsdaten....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This book frames the contentious political disputes surrounding Taiwan within the perspective of neorealist political theory. Analyzing the motives and relative importance that the actors involved bring to bear, Dr. Sang offers a timely intervention and a much-needed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This path-breaking volume reveals a little-known aspect of how Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, a jihadist terrorist group, functions in Pakistan and beyond by translating and commenting upon a range of publications produced and disseminated by Dar-ul-Andlus, the publishing wing of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-15
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How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-12-15
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What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? examines the policies, strategies, and tactics followed by the Indian state and the ‘client’ governments in Srinagar to manage the conflicted state of Jammu and Kashmir during 1948–89 . It shows how the policies deployed to...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-12-15
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"The perfect book for the present moment. Prosecuting the President is magnificent." -- David Marcus, Professor of Law, UCLA
In this exceptionally timely book, law professor Andrew Coan explains what every American needs to know about special prosecutors - perhaps the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-12-15
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This book deals with post-Cold War processes of autocratization, that is, regime change towards autocracy. While these processes are growing in number and frequency, autocratization remains a relatively understudied phenomenon, especially its most recent manifestations....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-14
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The book aims to explore the foresight of prominent Middle Eastern authors and artists who anticipated the Arab Spring, which resulted in demands for change in the repressive and corrupted regimes. Eventually, it led to cracking down on the protests with excessive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-14
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This book offers a unique analysis of the participatory spaces available for civil society organisations (CSOs) in Caribbean governance. It reveals the myriad ways in which the region’s CSOs have contributed to enriching Caribbean societies and to scaffolding Caribbean...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-14
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Stephan Liedtke untersucht die weltweite Ölversorgungssicherheitspolitik der USA und der VR China. Er zeigt, welche außenpolitischen Maßnahmen die beiden mächtigsten Staaten der Welt einsetzen, um ihre Ölversorgungssicherheit zu erhöhen und stabile Ölpreise, die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-14
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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Minimum income schemes (MIS) have become key social protection institutions for European citizens, but we know little regarding the logic and dynamics of institutional change in this policy field. This book provides an analytical model that will facilitate an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-14
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Many people consider themselves to be both environmentalists and supporters of animal welfare and rights. Yet, despite the many issues which bring environmentalists and animal advocates together, for decades there have been flashpoints which seem to pit these two social...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-12-14
Collection :
Social Movements
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A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary era Driven by technological advancements and global corporations, more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes, creating new winners and losers. Globalization: The Essentials explores...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2018-12-14
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Since India attained independence, its foreign policy discourse has imagined its South Asian neighbourhood through the politics of realism. This imagination explicates state interest in South Asia by establishing it as a space of sovereign territoriality. Even today,...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-12-14
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This critical and systematic analysis of election reforms post-HAVA (Help America Vote Act of 2002) offers a detailed look ahead at the significant challenges that remain in the context of a new presidential administration. Employing a mixed methodological approach,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This book examines how opposition groups respond to the dilemma posed by authoritarian elections in the Arab World, with specific focus on Jordan and Algeria. While scholars have investigated critical questions such as why authoritarian rulers would hold elections and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-13
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