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Andreas Beyer geht der Frage nach, weshalb sowohl die USA als auch die Volksrepublik China trotz massivem Einsatz von Finanzmitteln und politischem Kapital nur geringe Fortschritte bei ihren Bemühungen zur Reduktion ihrer Treibhausgase vorzuweisen haben. Der Autor...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-11
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Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection
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The book considers some of the solutions proposed by Muslim activists and thinkers in their attempts to renew (tajdid) their ways of life and thought in accord with the demands of the age in which they lived.The two ways of reacting are studied – the movements led by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-10
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This edited volume provides a fresh analysis for researcher and practitioners regarding United Nations Security Council resolution 1540, the status of its implementation, and its future by providing an original evaluation of progress in implementation and challenges...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-04-10
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This book contributes to how we conceptualize and investigate the role and influence of knowledge production by international organizations within the field of global education reform. After elaborating on what it means to approach the intersection of these issues from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-10
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War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals. The protection of civilians, one of the most fundamental norms in the laws of war, appears to have weakened despite almost universal international...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-04-10
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This book examines how the perception of terrorism threat erodes civil liberties, sows doubt about the loyalties of immigrants, and heightens the left-right ideological divide. The book presents original analysis of survey data and experiments conducted in Australia,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-10
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This book explores speeches by American presidents. Domestic public presidential speechmaking helps us understand the pressures, priorities, and targeted audiences of different presidencies. Many administrations generally work to reinforce already existing support...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-10
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This book presents the first analytical study of the levels of professionalism of campaigns in the 2012 Egyptian presidential elections. It considers the extent to which the election was professionalised and how far the levels of professionalism impacted the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-09
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This book investigates the European involvement in managing the nuclear dispute with Iran, shedding new light on EU foreign policy-making. The author focuses on the peculiar format through which the EU managed Iran’s nuclear issue: a ‘lead group’ consisting of France,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-09
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The present crisis of capitalism has a history. A history of the private accumulation of wealth through property regimes which allow increasing commodification and the privatisation of resources: from land to knowledge and even to life itself. Understanding that history...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2018-04-09
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Offering a unique picture of recent developments in a range of non-conventional theoretical approaches in economics, this book introduces readers to the study of Analytical Political Economy and the changes within the subject. Includes a wide range of topics and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2018-04-09
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Surveys of Recent Research in Economics
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What are the causes of war? Wars are generally begun by a revisionist state seeking to take territory. The psychological root of revisionism is the yearning for glory, honor and power. Human nature is the primary cause of war, but political regimes can temper or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-07
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Kristina Kurze untersucht im Rahmen einer umfassenden Diskursanalyse, wie eine Einigung auf die verbindliche ‚Energiepolitik für Europa’ trotz divergierender Interessen in der EU möglich wurde. Mit Rückgriff auf konstruktivistische und diskursive Ansätze argumentiert...
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Springer VS
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2018-04-07
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Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung
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This book focuses on current key issues of international security from an actor-centered approach. The volume is divided into 3 sections: the first part analyses an array of security issues in Europe, the second one explores how those security issues play out in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-06
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This book introduces a new methodology to assess the way in which journalists today operate within a new sphere of communicative ‘public’ interdependence across global digital communities by focusing on climate change debates. The authors propose a framework of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-06
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This book addresses the under-researched discourse of the evolution of Chinese nuclear posture, and in particular, explains the absence from this evolution of a coherent and well-defined operational doctrine. Using a neoclassical realist framework, the book explains why...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-04-06
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An illuminating overview of Marx's intellectual influence from a leading historian of socialismWhy was Marx so successful as a thinker? Did he have a system and if so, what does it consist of? How did Marxism develop in the twentieth century and what does it mean...
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Pelican
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2018-04-05
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The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline? In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately...
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Penguin
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2018-04-05
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This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-05
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This book analyzes the combined consequences of Brexit and of the new US foreign policy under President Trump on the geopolitical situation of Eastern Europe. It perceives the evolution of the East European regional security complex as a struggle between the European...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-04-05
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