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Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises – the euro crisis, the migration/refugee...
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Polity
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2018-03-16
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By the mid-nineteenth century, Britain celebrated its possession of a unique "empire of liberty" that propagated the rule of private property, free trade, and free labor across the globe. The British also knew that their empire had been built by conquering overseas...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-03-16
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This book ventures into the world beyond Lampedusa: the crisis belt that stretches from Kashmir across Pakistan and Afghanistan to the Arab world and beyond, to the borders and coasts of Europe. Celebrated author Navid Kermani reports from a region which is our...
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Polity
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2018-03-16
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With many predicting the end of US hegemony, Russia and China's growing cooperation in a number of key strategic areas looks set to have a major impact on global power dynamics. But what lies behind this Sino-Russian rapprochement? Is it simply the result of...
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Polity
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2018-03-16
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The age of Western hegemony is over. Whether or not America itself declines or thrives under President Trump's leadership, the post-war liberal international order underpinned by US military, economic and ideological primacy and supported by global institutions serving...
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Polity
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2018-03-16
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The United Nations Secretary-General and the United Nations Security Council spend significant amounts of time on their relationship with each other. They rely on each other for such important activities as peacekeeping, international mediation, and the formulation and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-03-16
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This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that ‘civil war represents development in reverse’. While some civil wars may have adverse economic effects, Civil War and Uncivil Development posits that not all...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-15
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This book focuses on the Mediterranean/MENA migration crisis and explores the human security implications for migrants and refugees in this troubled region. Since the Arab uprisings of 2010/2011, the Middle East and North Africa region has experienced major political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-15
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This book examines the culture of the French diplomatic corps from 1789 to 1799. It analyzes how the French revolutionaries attempted, albeit unsuccessfully, to transform the diplomatic culture of the old regime, notably in etiquette, language and dress and how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-03-15
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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This book discusses the ethical dilemmas of migration in the era of globalization. Centered on the recent influx of large numbers of migrants and refugees to the United States and Europe and viewed through the lens of the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit and the United...
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Springer
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2018-03-15
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No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long after--they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters' preferences...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-03-15
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Esther Mikuszies untersucht, wie politische Rechte von Migranten offiziell ausgehandelt und von politisch aktiven Migranten erlebt werden. Am Beispiel von ecuadorianischen und marokkanischen Migranten in Spanien nimmt sie politische Bürgerschaft als multilokales...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-03-15
Collection :
Studien zur Migrations- und Integrationspolitik
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Environmentalism has relentlessly warned about the dire consequences of abusing and exploiting the planet's natural resources, imagining future wastelands of ecological depletion and social chaos. But it has also generated rich new ideas about how humans might live...
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Polity
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2018-03-15
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This book discusses sustainable forest management from the perspectives of sociology, anthropology, politics, economics and policy. It examines the roles of governments, private sectors, NGOs, academics and local communities in implementing sustainable plantation...
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Springer
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2018-03-15
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Das Buch thematisiert die Öffentliche Sicherheitsverwaltung als einen zentralen Teil von Staatlichkeit. Ausgehend vom staatlichen Gewaltmonopol verfügt sie über die Möglichkeit, umfassend in die Rechte der Bürgerinnen und Bürger einzugreifen. Folglich unterliegt ihr...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-14
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Katharina Sophia Burlafinger geht der Frage nach, was europäische Stiftungen erreichen können, um den Einfluss der Europäischen Union auf ihre Nachbarschaft zu erhöhen. Dazu analysiert die Autorin die Lebens- und Gedankenwelt zivilgesellschaftlicher Aktivisten in der...
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Springer VS
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2018-03-14
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This book explores the complexity of the only widely-acclaimed successful democratic transition following the Arab uprisings of 2010-2011 – the Tunisian one. The country’s transformation, in terms of state-society relations across several analytical dimensions...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-03-14
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This book explores the transforming political climate of several emerging powers—Turkey, China, and India—and the key role think tanks play in that transformation. With case studies from three think tanks, the authors uncover the unique challenges that emerging power...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-03-13
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„Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland?“ Diese berühmten, im Jahre 1813 von Ernst Moritz Arndt geschriebenen Worte werfen eine Frage auf, die im ganzen 19. Jahrhundert wie ein Leitmotiv wiederaufgenommen wird. Was ist Deutschland? Welche sind seine Grenzen? Wer kann es...
Editeur :
Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle via OpenEdition
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2018-03-13
Collection :
Monde germanophone
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'Åsne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radicalised but an unsparing portrait of our own society - of its failings and its joys' Luke HardingOn 17 October 2013,...
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Virago
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2018-03-13
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