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This companion features original essays on the complexity of globalization and its diverse and sometimes conflicting effects. Written by top scholars in the field, it offers a nuanced and detailed examination of globalization that includes both positive and critical...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-05-16
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This volume studies a fundamental element of Montesquieu’s argumentative architecture that is most apparent in his De l’Esprit des Lois: the problem of giving order to, and establishing a network of consistent explanations of political, social and cultural diversity....
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Springer
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This book investigates how NGOs in authoritarian states, such as China, craft accountability and legitimacy to ensure their survival. It explores this through the lens of child welfare organisations from 2007 to 2017. The authors provide a fresh approach to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This book argues that popular culture has been transformed in a silent revolution from emphasising history’s heroes to its victims. While city squares and stations were named in the nineteenth century after military victories, now the equivalent airports are named after...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This book analyses whether the design of the institutions of Southern African Development Community (SADC) reflects the community’s treaty objectives and principles of democracy and the rule of law. The author provides a detailed analysis of the policy making and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-15
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This book posits that the ‘refugee crisis’ may actually be a crisis of identity in a rapidly changing world. It argues that Western conceptions of the individual ‘Self’ shape metaphors of political homes, and thus the geopolitics of belonging and exclusion....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-05-15
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No single nation, culture or religion can achieve peace and security at home while ignoring the terrorist threats posed to others globally.
This book presents lectures and a keynote speech delivered as part of the NATO Advanced Training Course (ATC) Countering ISIS...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-05-15
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In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term ‘intelligence failure’ became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the thirty years preceding its very public...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-05-15
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Martina Lizarazo López beleuchtet den Wandel von der traditionellen zur modernen Demographiepolitik in Frankreich zwischen dem Ende des Baby-Booms und dem erneuten Geburtenanstieg ab der Mitte der 1990er Jahre, als wesentliche demographische, sozio-ökonomische,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-05-12
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This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of Canadian foreign policy under the government of Justin Trudeau, with a concentration on the areas of climate change, trade, Indigenous rights, arms sales, refugees, military affairs, and relationships with the United...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-12
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This book explores the power of words in post-Peace El Salvador and Guatemala—their violent and equally liberating power. The volume explores the entire post-Peace Accords era in both Central American countries. In “post-conflict” settings, denying or forgetting...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-11
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In der vorliegenden Publikation beschäftigt sich Hubert Kleinert zunächst mit der Problematik der sozialwissenschaftlichen Zu- und Einordnung der AfD und ihrer Mitglieder. Die Grundlage dieser Analyse bildet eine empirische Untersuchung der politischen Einstellungen von...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-05-11
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Is Confucianism compatible with democracy? Ongoing debates among political theorists revolve around the question of whether the overarching goal of Confucianism -- serving the people's moral and material well-being -- is attainable in modern day politics without broad...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-11
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In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-11
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This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the theory of strategy, examines the general theory of strategy in accordance with 23 key Principles and explains its nature, functions, and intended consequences.
Theory of Strategy makes the radical argument...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-11
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Focusing on four East European polities-Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania--this book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes. These processes have been...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-11
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Prime ministers are presented as ever-more powerful figures; at the same time they seem to fail more regularly. How can the public image be so different from the apparent experience? This book seeks to answer this conundrum. It examines the myth that prime ministers are...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
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In the aftermath of the Liberian civil war, groups of ex-combatants seized control of natural resource enclaves in the rubber, diamond, and timber sectors. With some of them threatening a return to war, these groups were widely viewed as the most significant threats to...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
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Focusing on four East European polities-Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania--this book examines the dynamics and implications of processes of commercialization of security that have occurred following the collapse of communist regimes. These processes have been...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-05-10
ePub
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