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This open access book discusses how national citizenship is being transformed by economic, social and political change. It focuses on the emergence of global markets where citizenship is for sale and on how new reproduction technologies impact citizenship by...
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Springer
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2018-09-12
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IMISCOE Research Series
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Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-12
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Ever wonder why militant groups behave as they do? For instance, why did Al Qaeda attack the World Trade Center whereas the African National Congress tried to avoid civilian bloodshed? Why does Islamic State brag over social media about its gory attacks, while Hezbollah...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-12
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the dimensions and dynamics of the role of international aid in the reform and capacity development of public service in post-communist Albania. It challenges the technocratic, results-based management frameworks used by aid...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-09-11
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This book examines engagements with financial services in contexts of conflict. Using Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as case studies, it explores informal financial and business strategies and how these shift during conflict. Through a combination of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-11
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From Fox News' politics editor Chris Stirewalt -- a fun and lively account of America's populist tradition, from Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt, to Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, and Donald Trump. Whatever the ideological fad of the moment, American populism has always...
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Twelve
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2018-09-11
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Economists have long sought to maximise economic growth, believing this to be their best contribution to improving human welfare. That approach is not sustainable in the face of ongoing issues such as global climate change, environmental damage, rising inequality and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-11
Collection :
Wellbeing in Politics and Policy
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This book offers an analysis of China in its muddling through of financial reforms towards adopting a local real property tax. The research is designed to serve dual purposes. First, it is an effort to provide an independent perspective on an urgent public policy under...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-10
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This book will survey past and present efforts to democratize international institutions, and will advance the argument that a new degree of transparency and accountability on a global scale is necessary to address the threat of climate change. The volume will analyse...
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Springer
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2018-09-10
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Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit zeichnet der Autor die Geschichte des Kulturbundes erstmalig von 1945 bis 1990 quellenkritisch nach. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Fragestellungen, ob und wie zentrale Beschlüsse an der Basis umgesetzt und wie die Möglichkeitsräume des...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-10
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This book analyses the foreign policy of Silvio Berlusconi, Italian media tycoon and politician who served as Prime Minister of Italy in four governments. The authors examine the Italian position in the international arena and its foreign policy tradition, as well as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-08
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This book analyzes both NATO’s and the EU’s military crisis management operations and provides an explanation for the fact that it is sometimes NATO, sometimes the EU, and sometimes both international organizations that intervene militarily in a conflict....
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Springer VS
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2018-09-06
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‘We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed’ Martin Luther KingIn an era where the liberties we often take for granted are under threat, Letters To Change the World is a collection...
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Ebury Digital
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2018-09-06
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Before Europeans arrived in what is now known as the United States, over 600 diverse Native nations lived on the same land. This encroachment and subsequent settlement by Americans forcibly disrupted the lives of all indigenous peoples and brought about staggering...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-06
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'Highly readable' Ben Macintyre'Pacy, original and frequently chilling' Henry HemmingJune 1940. Britain is Europe's final bastion of freedom - and Hitler's next target. But not everyone fears a Nazi invasion. In factories, offices and suburban homes are men and women...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-09-06
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This book discusses the role of selective identities in shaping China’s position in regional and global affairs. It does so by using the concept of the political transition of power, and argues that by taking on different types of identities—of state, ideology...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-05
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Großorganisationen sollen nicht als rationale Apparate verstanden werden, sondern als soziale Gebilde, in denen es zwar Hierarchien gibt, aber das bei Vorgesetzten wirklich verfügbare Machtpotential von einem erfolgreichen mikropolitischen Handeln abhängt. Wie kann ich...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-05
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Perché le persone scelgono di vivere in situazioni che esse stesse valutano negativamente e che provocano loro disagio e sofferenza?Perché accettano le regole e i comandi dettati da soggetti e organizzazioni con cui non sono in sintonia, e che spesso disprezzano? In...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2018-09-05
Collection :
La critica sociale
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Henry Kissinger's role in the Vietnam War prolonged the American tragedy and doomed the government of South Vietnam The American war in Vietnam was concluded in 1973 after eight years of fighting, bloodshed, and loss. Yet the terms of the truce that ended the war were...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-09-04
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This book explores theories of conflict and peacebuilding and applies them to case studies from the Asia Pacific region, seeking to shift attention to the inherency of conflict, the constant danger of re-emergence, and the need to establish mechanisms to resolve it. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-04
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