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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-10
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This edited volume investigates and evaluates the context, causes, and consequences of various essential issues in Taiwanese domestic politics and external relations before and after the regime change in 2016. It offers theoretical interpretation and temporal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-09
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This book presents the series of lectures on the "Belt and Road Initiatives" from the Guang Ming Forum organized by Guang Ming Daily. Co-authored by Ge Jianxiong, Hu Angang, Lin Yifu, Qiao Liang and nine other respected scholars and experts, it provides a...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-05-09
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A controversial call to put honor at the center of morality To the modern mind, the idea of honor is outdated, sexist, and barbaric. It evokes Hamilton and Burr and pistols at dawn, not visions of a well-organized society. But for philosopher Tamler Sommers, a sense of...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2018-05-08
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This book analyzes the verticalization of coalition cabinets from the national to the sub-national level. Presenting case studies for countries with federal systems of government, such as Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, and India, as well as those...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-05-08
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This book argues that Islam has been securitized in US foreign policy, especially during the W. Bush administration when it was increasingly portrayed as the ultimate “other.”This securitization was realized through the association of Islam with unique security threats...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-08
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The central claim of this book is that the dichotomy between economic dependence and economic independence is completely inadequate for describing the political challenges faced by contemporary capitalist welfare states.The simplistic contrast between markets and states...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-08
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This book provides an innovative theoretical and analytical framework for studying the role and impact of specialized research organizations and consultancies on decision making in climate politics. It includes advanced empirical analysis of the case of Germany,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-08
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Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies. Yet, when we analyze the root causes of war, insurrections, rebellions, revolutions and general sociological human behavior, it is the small...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-08
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This book critically engages with a long tradition of scholarly work that conceives of the European Union as a peculiar international actor that pursues a value-based, normatively oriented and development-friendly agenda in its relations with international...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-07
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This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries. Based on...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-07
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Much has been written about reintegration of ex-combatants in a traditional or conventional disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) programme. This volume examines reintegration of ex-combatants in a un-conventional DDR in which a cash-based scheme replaced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-07
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The book draws comparison between MERCOSUR and the European Union to explain variation of regionalism and to expose its limits.The project is based on the idea that contemporary examples of regionalism should be evaluated against several propositions of multiple...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-07
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When we think of constitutional law, we invariably think of the United States Supreme Court and the federal court system. Yet much of our constitutional law is not made at the federal level. In 51 Imperfect Solutions, U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Jeffrey S. Sutton argues...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-07
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Recessions are a recurring phenomenon and there are repeated debates about how to combat them when the crisis hits and after the economy begins to grow again. Laurence Seidman argues that currently we are not ready to combat the next recession.
A recession involves a...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-07
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This book contributes to key debates in peacebuilding by exploring the role of theatre and art in general. Premaratna argues that the dialogical and multi-voiced nature of theatre is particularly suited to assisting societies coming to terms with conflict and opening up...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-05
Collection :
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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This book seeks to comprehensively analyze and document U.S. foreign policy toward a strategic Cold War ally that posed a stark challenge to the traditionally-stated U.S. preference for democracy and political freedom. It details the complex ways in which the U.S....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-05
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This book presents three later works by the German social-democratic thinker and politician Eduard Bernstein, translated into English in full for the first time: Social Democracy and International Politics: Social Democracy and the European Question; League of Nations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-05-04
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The idea of an alliance between Britain and its old Commonwealth colonies has recently made a remarkable comeback in the context of Brexit. Based on belief in a special bond between the English-speaking peoples of the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, it...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-05-04
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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 :
2018-05-04
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