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Birthe Tahmaz untersucht, inwieweit der Nahostkonflikt zusätzlich zu den Vereinten Nationen als Quelle zur Normenbildung und Handlungsfähigkeit der UNRWA fungieren kann. Die Autorin zeigt auf, dass - entgegen üblicher Annahmen - VN-Organisationen verschiedene...
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Springer VS
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2018-11-04
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This book focuses on the triadic relationship between electoral candidates and the two other poles of the delegation and accountability triangle—political parties and voters. The chapters rely mostly on the Belgian Candidate Survey (CCS project), gathering about 2000...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-03
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This book suggests a new bargain between the NPT nuclear weapon states and the non-NPT nuclear weapons possessor states, mainly India and Pakistan, through a regional arrangement to help move towards universalization of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. The author...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-11-03
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This book investigates the writings of German intellectual historian and philosopher Hans Blumenberg. While Blumenberg was not an explicitly political thinker and remains relatively under-explored in Anglophone academia, this project demonstrates that his work makes a...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-11-02
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This new edition of The Caucasus is a thorough update of an essential guide that has introduced thousands of readers to a complex region. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and the break-away territories that have tried to split away from them constitute one of the most...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-02
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This book examines links between post-conflict security, peace and development in Africa, Latin America, Europe and New Zealand. Young peace researchers from the Global South (Uganda, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Brazil, Colombia) as well as from Italy and New Zealand address in...
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Springer
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2018-11-02
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This book explores the politics behind “de-liberalization”, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms. By offering a comparative study on the governmental reform strategies and policy choices of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, it...
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Springer
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2018-11-02
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This book follows up on the author’s popular previous volume on Indian development planning and policy, published under the UNU WIDER series in development economics. It first introduces an evaluation of the newly mandated policy body of India, National Institution for...
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Springer
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2018-11-02
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Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution,...
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Polity
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2018-11-02
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Lebanon seems a country in the grip of permanent crisis. In recent years it has suffered blow after blow, from Rafiq Hariri's assassination in 2005, to the 2006 July War, to the current Syrian conflict, which has brought a million refugees streaming into the...
Editeur :
Hurst
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2018-11-01
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Why did Britain go to war in Iraq in 2003? Existing accounts stress dodgy dossiers, intelligence failures, and the flaws of individual leaders. Deploying the large number of primary documents now available, this book puts ideas at the centre of the story. As the book...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-01
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The voice of reason in a world that won’t shut up.The Sunday Times BestsellerWinner of the Parliamentary Book AwardsEvery day, James O’Brien listens to people blaming hard-working immigrants for stealing their jobs while scrounging benefits, and pointing their fingers...
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Virgin Digital
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2018-11-01
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Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow helped to reveal to the West the true and staggering human cost of the Soviet regime in its deliberate starvation of millions of peasants and remains one of the most important works of Soviet history ever written.More deaths...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-11-01
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Peace is a universal ideal, but its political life is a great paradox: "peace" is the opposite of war, but it also enables war. If peace is the elimination of war, then what does it mean to wage war for the sake of peace? What does peace mean when some say that they are...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-01
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Historic Myanmar elections in November 2015 paved the way for an NLD government led by Aung San Suu Kyi to take office in March 2016, and saw the country deepen its graduated transition away from authoritarian rule. Nevertheless, military forces that for decades...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-01
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Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets in Miami and picks Richard Nixon as its candidate, to little fanfare. But when the Democrats back Lyndon Johnson's...
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Penguin
Parution :
2018-11-01
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In the aftermath of major crises governments turn to public inquiries to learn lessons. Inquiries often challenge established authority, frame heroes and villains in the public spotlight and deliver courtroom-like drama to hungry journalists. As such, they can become...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-11-01
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Dieser interdisziplinäre Sammelband vereint in zehn Beiträgen Analysen bi- und multipolarer Relationen, durch die potentielle Chancen, aber auch problematische Implikate vor Augen treten.Der Inhalt„Ironie“. Interpretationsmodell der Historie und ihre Bedeutung für...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2018-10-30
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Transatlantische Beziehungen
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The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations. This book mines the thought of Filipino propagandist and novelist, Jose Rizal, to present a vision of liberalism for the colonized....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-30
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This book discusses history of mental construction of the border between India and Bangladesh. It investigates how and when a border was constructed between the people, and discusses how the mental construction preceded the physical construction. It also...
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Springer
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2018-10-30
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