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This book sheds new light on the emergence and fluctuation of Iran’s connections with non-state entities in the Middle East. Iran’s involvement with political-militant non-states has been at the heart of international and regional security policy for more than three...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-06
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Transitions from authoritarian to democratic governments can provide ripe scenarios for the emergence of new, insurgent political actors and causes. During peaceful transitions, such movements may become influential political players and gain representation for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-06
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The parliamentary style of politics has been formed over centuries; nobody theorised it in advance. This book presents a thought experiment to spell out key principles of the parliamentary ideal type of politics. Max Weber offers the main intellectual inspiration,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-05
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This book addresses the process of decentralization in Italy, examined from the perspective of political parties. In particular, it assesses whether and to what extent the dynamics of party competition are likely to shape policy agenda and affect policy change. The...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-05
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Inspired by Michel Foucault's The Order of Things, this book tells a story about epochal change in the modern world. Like Foucault, Nicholas Onuf is concerned with how we moderns think about ourselves and our world, but in this book he emphasizes the conceptual links in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-07-05
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Der Band versammelt Beiträge zum Thema der gegenwärtigen „digitalen“ Propaganda, wie sie im Kontext des Populismus eine besondere Rolle spielt. Sie wird als politisch-mediales Phänomen analysiert und als gesellschaftlich-kommunikatives Herausforderung: dies...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-07-04
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Untangling the logical, lexical, and semantic patterns of the multiple official speeches of Indian prime ministers, Speaking the Nation gauges how the Indian state has been projected by different governments in different times, in the face of challenges from internal...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-07-04
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This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-04
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Political parties have long been recognized as essential institutions of democratic governance. Both the organization of parties, and their relationships with citizens, the state, and each other have evolved since the rise of liberal democracy in the 19th and early 20th...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-04
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Heritage practices often lead to social exclusion, as such practices can favor certain values over others. In some cases, exclusion from a society’s symbolic landscape can spark controversy, or rouse emotion so much so that they result in cultural contestation. Examples...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-04
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
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Whether inspired by the Frankfurt School or Antonio Gramsci, the impact of critical theory on the study of international relations has grown considerably since its advent in the early 1980s. This book offers the first intellectual history of critical international...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-07-04
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This book investigates the extent to which depoliticisation strategies, used to disguise the political character of decision-making, have become the established mode of governance within societies. Increasingly, commentators suggest that the dominance of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-07-03
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This book is the direct outcome of a panel on Timor-Leste entitled «How to build a new nation?» and organized in September 2007 in the framework of the EUROSEAS Congress in Naples. Among the more than 40 panels held, Timor-Leste's had been remarkably dense, with 20...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Carnets de l’Irasec
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Human trafficking has been one of the most challenging problems of nation states across the globe since the 20th century. Thailand has lately turned into a country of origin, destination, and transit for human trafficking. So far, the degree of human trafficking into...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Carnets de l’Irasec
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In most Southeast Asian countries, the members of the Chinese Diaspora have secured important position in the fields of administration, education and religion. Thanks to their capacity to work and to adapt as well as their frugality, their cultural influence continues...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Carnets de l’Irasec
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Eric Frécon's study starkly reveals the fragility of the internal societies and the inadequate regulation of the Asian region by boldly plunging into a reality- that of piracy- that during the Cold War had been habitually restricted to notes of secret agents or for the...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Carnets de l’Irasec
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From October 2006, India holds the Chair of the Mekong-Ganga Cooperation Initiative (MGCI). Cambodia and Thailand have held this position for three years each before India, and in that order. MGCI was launched on 10th November 2000 in Vientiane (Laos) and aims at...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Carnets de l’Irasec
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The emergence of public opinion in Thailand through media was a sign of the development of modernity in the Kingdom. Growing influence of the public opinion raised a double question to local authorities: Media tended to spread western concepts, such as “democracy” or...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Carnets de l’Irasec
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This book argues that the Burmese military regime has always favoured an isolationist-type policy that finds its grassroots in Ne Win’s autarchic and xenophobic era as well as in Burma’s royal traditions, but without being completely cut off from the outside world.This...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Carnets de l’Irasec
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This study aims to increase awareness and interest on the pharmaceutical quality and counterfeit medicines issues in the Mekong Subregion. It provides a review of existing empirical findings regarding the state of medicine quality in the region. It also analyzes data on...
Editeur :
Institut de recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine
Parution :
2018-07-03
Collection :
Observatoire des trafics
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