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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe gripping true story of the undercover agent risking his life to fight terrorismTheir aim was to kill as many people as possible.His mission was to stop them.A terrorist plot to kill hundreds of innocent people. An undercover agent posing...
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Transworld Digital
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2018-04-18
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This book ?makes a timely contribution to the analysis of nationalism and terrorism, and also the absence of terrorism. It proposes to analyse why Scottish, Welsh and English nationalism has never had as significant a turn to political violence as the case of Irish...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-17
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This book examines the use of game elements to encourage citizens to participate in political decision-making and the planning of large-scale public sector projects. It argues that success is based on a personal concern with the project and a belief in the influence on...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-04-17
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Some pundits claim cyber weaponry is the most important military innovation in decades, a transformative new technology that promises a paralyzing first-strike advantage difficult for opponents to deter. Yet, what is cyber strategy? How do actors use cyber capabilities...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-04-17
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By shedding light on EULEX - the EU mission to Kosovo – this open access book investigates the EU’s peacebuilding activities in that country, in the light of the normative power theory in the post-conflict setting and peacebuilding theory. Ten years after the massive...
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Springer
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2018-04-17
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SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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Martin Pfafferott untersucht die Rationalität und Logik von Minderheitsregierungen. Dazu entwirft er das Bild einer ‚idealen Minderheitsregierung‘ und skizziert anhand von Beispielen aus Sachsen-Anhalt und Nordrhein-Westfalen, welche parteienstrategischen Motive und...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-17
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This book seeks to address the relation of political philosophy and Donald Trump as a political phenomenon through the notions of patriotism, cosmopolitanism, and civic virtue. Political philosophers have been prescient in explaining trends that may explain our...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-16
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In the 1950s, most of the American public opposed diplomatic and trade relations with Communist China; traditional historiography blames this widespread hostility for the tensions between China and the United States during Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidency.In this book,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-16
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Popular depictions of campaigns for women’s suffrage in films and literature have invariably focused on Western suffrage movements. The fact that Indian women built up a vibrant suffrage movement in the twentieth century has been largely neglected. The Indian...
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OUP India
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2018-04-16
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Recent years have seen an intensification of discussion on the issue of Britain's political class. The question of who our politicians are is front and centre. Do they represent us? Are all politicians just in it for themselves? Are they disconnected from the lives of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-14
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Dieses Buch würdigt das Lebenswerk von Werner J. Patzelt, der in der Ausübung seines Berufs die in seiner populären “Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft” umrissenen Wirkungsbereiche einer nach gesellschaftlicher Relevanz strebenden Politikwissenschaft immer faktisch...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-13
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This book examines what we can gain from a critical reading of Marx's final manuscript and his conclusion of the "systematic presentation" of his critique, which was the basis for Engels's construction of the third volume of his infamous 'Capital'. The...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-13
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This book re-examines the Nixon administration’s attitude and approach to the European integration project. The formulation of US policy towards European integration in the Nixon presidential years (1969-1974) was conditioned by the perceived relative decline of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-13
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This book explores the various economic and institutional factors that explain why huge investments are made in unworthy transportation mega-projects in the US and other countries. It is based on research, the general literature, economic analyses, and results from a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-13
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Europe's political landscapes are in turmoil, and new radical parties challenge the established political order. This book locatesEurope's contemporary challenges within the longer economic and political trajectories of its 'welfare democracies'. The book argues that it...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-13
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Recent years have seen an intensification of discussion on the issue of Britain's political class. The question of who our politicians are is front and centre. Do they represent us? Are all politicians just in it for themselves? Are they disconnected from the lives of...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-04-13
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The book analyses the two decades of the brutal civil war of northern Uganda.The author modified Lederach's peacebuilding framework to include peacemaking to bring out the argument that women and men make significant contributions to the peace processes and point out...
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Springer
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2018-04-12
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This book explores the challenges of combating terrorism from a policing perspective using the example of the Royal Ulster Constabulary GC (RUC) in Northern Ireland. The RUC was in the frontline of counter-terrorism work for thirty years of conflict during which time it...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-12
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Der Sammelband beleuchtet unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf zivilgesellschaftliche Akteure in der europäischen Wirtschafts- und Finanzkrise und ordnet diese theoretisch ein. Dabei geht der Blick auf zivilgesellschaftliche Aspekte in seiner ganzen Breite. Er betrachtet...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-11
Collection :
Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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This book contributes to the current knowledge and research on conflict and cross-cultural dialogue, emphasizing how respect, tolerance and dialogue may be quite effective tools for bridging the diverse cultures and, consequently, for solving many of the conflicts of...
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Springer
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2018-04-11
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