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Why have the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lasted longer than any others in American history? The conventional wisdom suggests that the move to an all-volunteer force and unmanned technologies such as drones have reduced the apparent burden of war so much that they have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-05-01
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In the West, "sharia" often calls to mind antiquated laws founded upon gender discrimination and barbaric punishments.In the East, for some it means the ideal standards by which Muslims strive to live; for others, it is the greatest obstacle to modernization of their...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2018-05-01
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This Brief examines the objectives of cultural policy in Jordan, the institutional framework within which it operates, and its outcomes. It considers the principles and methods of cultural policy, evaluates cultural attitudes and values, and places Jordan’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-04-30
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The study interrogates the persistence of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) conflict that ravaged Northern Uganda for over two decades, and the relevance of the integrated framework for peacebuilding (John-Paul Lederach, 1997) in transforming conflict relationships into...
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Galda Verlag
Parution :
2018-04-30
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Korruption wird meist mit undemokratischen Staaten in Verbindung gebracht. Dass das Phänomen jedoch auch in konsolidierten westlichen Demokratien aufzutreten vermag, wo korrupte Verhaltensweisen aufgrund des herrschenden Selbstverständnisses einer modernen politischen...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-30
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This book elucidates what it means to transition to alternative sources of energy and discusses the potential for this energy transition to be a more democratic process. The book dynamically describes a recent sociotechnical study of a number of energy transitions...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-30
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This book offers a timely and compelling explanation for the deterioration of U.S.-China security relations during the Obama Presidency. The U.S.-China relationship has become one of (if not the most) vital features of contemporary world politics, and with arrival the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-28
Collection :
New Security Challenges
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Adopting a broad conceptualization of foreign and security policy, the book examines the role of the High Representative as chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and in her/his capacity as Vice President of the European Commission to assess different patterns of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-28
Collection :
European Administrative Governance
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This book explains the causal pathways, the mechanisms and the politics that define the quantity and quality of policy learning. A rich collection of case studies structured around a strong conceptual architecture, the volume comprises fresh, original, empirical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-28
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This book explores the ways in which democratizing Muslim countries treat their ethnic minorities’ requests of inclusiveness and autonomy. The author examines the results of two important cases—the securitization of Kurds in Turkey and the “autonomization” (a new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-27
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The German political foundations are a world-wide unique phenomenon.The concept of their international work as both independent organizations and state financed institutes are naturally raising several questions. This book focus on the foundations’ work in Jerusalem,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-04-27
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This book argues that Australia is vital to the US imperial project for global hegemony in the struggle among great powers, and why Australia’s deep dependency on the US is incompatible with democracy and the security of the country. The Australian continent is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-27
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As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-27
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Even in Latin America's most socially and economically stable countries, new parties emerge constantly, old parties collapse, and party systems across the region are notoriously fragile. Still, there are also successful stories. There have been a number of parties in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-04-27
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We are living in a time of extreme inequality: America’s three richest people now own as much wealth as the bottom half of the population. Although most accept that this is grotesque, many politicians accept it as irreversible. In this book, leading US researcher and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-04-27
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow’s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant military actor on...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-04-27
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Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of the West’s greatest secrets. He was also a Russian spy…Codenamed ‘Orphan’ by his Russian recruiter, Maclean was Britain’s most gifted traitor. But as he leaked huge amounts of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2018-04-26
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Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785, when Condorcet published his famous jury theorem. But that theorem has typically been...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-04-26
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The end of socialism in the Soviet Union and its satellite states ushered in a new era of choice. Yet the idea that people are really free to live as they choose turns out to be problematic. Personal choice is limited by a range of factors such as a person’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-25
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This book analyzes U.S. pro-insurgency paramilitary operations (PMOs) or U.S. proxy warfare from the beginning of the Cold War to the present and explains why many of these operations either failed entirely to achieve their objective, or why they produced negative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-04-25
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