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This book examines how student debt informs the political action and participation of university students. The scale of student debt is unprecedented, particularly in the English-speaking world. In these democracies, debt has become an increasingly integral part of...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-04
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This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners. Spanning four continents, these ten important global actors – the BRICS together with the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Mexico – are of profound significance to the EU...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-04
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The European Union in International Affairs
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Regional Parallelism and Corruption Scandals in Nigeria is a ground-breaking book that offers fresh perspectives on the character and role of the African media in covering corruption scandals. It explores whether reports regarding corruption stem from the efforts of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-04
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The first book dedicated to the sociology of privatized security, this collection studies the important global trend of shifting security from public to private hands and the associated rise of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) and their contractors.The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Es kriselt in Demokratien. Und die Krise ist nicht mehr nur die Diagnose eines Notstands, der der politischen Bewältigung bedarf. Vielmehr ist sie selbst zum Mittel der Politik geworden, um die rechtliche Grenze zwischen Ausnahmezustand und Normalzustand neu zu ziehen....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-10-04
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'A groundbreaking analysis of what used to be an impenetrable mystery: how and why do cultures differ? ... Anyone interested in our cultural divides will find tremendous insight in Rule Makers, Rule Breakers' - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard...
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Robinson
Parution :
2018-10-04
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?This book offers an analysis of social security in Ireland from 1981 to 2016 - a period of immense economic and social change during which social provisions such as pensions and family benefits were downsized or diluted in many countries. It considers whether this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-04
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The Persian Gulf 2018 is sixth in the series published by MEI@ND and examines India’s bilateral relations with the countries along the Persian Gulf, namely, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Yemen. It focuses on developments during 2017 and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-04
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There is now widespread agreement that many non-human animals are sentient, and that this fact has important moral and political implications. Indeed, most are in agreement that animal sentience ought to constrain the actions of political institutions, limiting the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems that challenge public governance in modern societies. Many of these problems are spanning political and administrative units; horizontally, vertically, and both. This makes public...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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Climate change, economic crises, migration, and terrorism are among the many problems that challenge public governance in modern societies. Many of these problems are spanning political and administrative units; horizontally, vertically, and both. This makes public...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-04
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This book mines the early history of modern Lebanon, focusing on the country’s Jewish community and examining inter-Lebanese relations. It gives voice to personal testimonies, family archives, private papers, recollections of expatriate and resident Lebanese Jewish...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-03
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Identification vs profiling; state welfare vs state surveillance; privacy vs transparency—Aadhaar has bitterly polarized India since its launch in 2010. No other project has captured the imagination of the people—or inspired such awe and anxiety—in recent memory....
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-10-03
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After the Transition is an all-encompassing examination of the origins, increase, and persistence of inequality in new democracies. It challenges the conventional thinking found in much of the democratization-inequality literature, and offers a new theory. It speaks...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-10-03
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‘In this comprehensive and wide-ranging analysis, McConnon demonstrates the extent to which security concerns have come to pervade the development policies of the three major donor countries.’—Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa, Canada ‘An original and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-03
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This book provides an analysis of the politics of consumption and how the ‘educated consumer’ plays a vital role in advancing responsible market practices and consumption. Based on a comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective, it explores the extent, drives and links...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-02
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'Will set your hair on end' Telegraph, Top 50 Books of the Year'I forgot to breathe while reading The Fifth Risk' Michael Hofmann, TLS, Books of the YearThe bestselling, no-holds-barred exposé of the people who are wrecking our democracy, by the master storyteller of...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-10-02
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This book explores one of the 20th century’s most consequential global political thinkers and yet one of the most overlooked. Tanaka Kotaro (1890-1974) was modern Japan’s pre-eminent legal scholar and jurist. Yet because most of his writing was in Japanese, he has been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-10-01
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After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick?
On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-10-01
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China's problem with terrorism has historically been considered an outgrowth of Beijing's efforts to integrate the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region into the People's Republic of China. Since the end of the Cold War, however, this internal dynamic has converged with an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-01
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