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Why are citizens in some countries more...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-19
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This book analyses the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa, including both refugee and human rights law as well as treaty and institutional elements. The regime is addressed in two parts.
Part One analyses the relevant treaties: the 1951 Convention...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-19
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This book investigates how, while children used as soldiers are primarily perceived as victims of offences against international law, they also commit war atrocities. In the aftermath of armed conflict, the mainstream justice system targets warlords internationally,...
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Springer
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2018-07-18
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This book is the first and only practical guide to negotiating peace. In this ground-breaking book Sven Koopmans, who is both a peace negotiator and a scholar, discusses the practice, politics, and law of international mediation. With both depth and a light touch he...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-18
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This book analyses the legal framework for refugee protection in Africa, including both refugee and human rights law as well as treaty and institutional elements. The regime is addressed in two parts.
Part One analyses the relevant treaties: the 1951 Convention...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-18
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This book explores the role of intellectuals and governance processes in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Focusing on East Java, the author argues that intellectuals have played an increasingly direct and practical role in the exercise of governance at the local level of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-17
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How we manage public services and hold them to account is critically important. Yet austerity, recent changes to accountability frameworks, and the loss of the Audit Commission have created a huge deficit in our understanding of how well services are delivered. The time...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-17
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During the age of empire, European and American colonists perpetrated one of history’s most monstrous crimes: slavery. Millions of Africans were subjected to forced abduction, misery and death as part of the brutal Atlantic slave trade. However, since the perpetrators...
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Polity
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2018-07-17
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This book examines the connection between two major developments in the world: state-formation and democratization. Since 1946, the number of states has increased from 66 to almost 200 independent states, but our knowledge of these state-formation processes is limited....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-16
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India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been accompanied by its transformation into a major economic power and underlines a pragmatic turn in its foreign-policy thinking....
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OUP India
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2018-07-16
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2008, 2010, and 2016—three important points in recent history when mass rage emerged in Kashmir. But the reasons that pushed Kashmir to the brink on these three occasions were different from each other—from a perceived threat to identity, to rage over the killing of...
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OUP India
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2018-07-16
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the implementation, functioning, and impact of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), cornerstone of Venezuelan foreign policy and standard-bearer of “postneoliberal” regionalism during the “Left...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-13
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This book analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C. How do mainland politics and discourses challenge ‘our’ own, chiefly liberal and anti-‘statist’ political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-13
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_____________________________‘If you’ve ever felt like you were out of your element, in over your head or working without a net, you will love this book. Funny, fast-paced, and so emotionally true it hurts.’ Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-07-12
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We often think of the army as an institution whose members are required to blindly obey all orders they receive. However, this perception is inaccurate. Disobedience is a fundamental professional obligation of members of the military and overrides the obligation to...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-07-12
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This book argues that a set of persuasive narratives about the links between natural resource, armed conflict and peacebuilding have strongly influenced the natural resource interventions pursued by international peacebuilders. The author shows how international...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-12
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This book is the first and only practical guide to negotiating peace. In this ground-breaking book Sven Koopmans, who is both a peace negotiator and a scholar, discusses the practice, politics, and law of international mediation. With both depth and a light touch he...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-07-12
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Das Buch zeigt anhand ausgewählter Entwicklungen aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, wie moderne Verkehrsmanagementzentralen als Nukleus intelligenter Verkehrssysteme zur Sicherstellung einer bedarfsgerechten Mobilität beitragen können. Dabei gilt es sich an...
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Springer Vieweg
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2018-07-12
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This book investigates how social movements form their political strategies in their quest for social change and -when they shift from one strategy to another- why and how that happens. The author creates a model which distinguishes between two different roads to social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-07-12
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Shortlisted for the 2018 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award!Surely just giving people money couldn't work. Or could it?Imagine if every month the government deposited £1000 in your bank account, with no strings attached and nothing expected...
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Virgin Digital
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2018-07-12
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