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Do we need the United Nations? Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN’s member states and staff performed better?These fundamental questions are explored by the leading analyst of UN...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-02-20
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“Clever images of dissent are not a recent phenomenon in the United States. . . . [Signs of Resistance is] visually fascinating. . . . [and] there is bigly wit here, too.”—The Washington Post In hundreds of iconic, smart, angry, clever, unforgettable...
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Artisan
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2018-02-20
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This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change. It draws on cross-country case studies. The focus on ‘agency’ has been an important development, enabling researchers to better reveal the causal mechanisms generating institutional change (i.e.,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-19
Collection :
Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
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While the discussions among Brexiters mainly focus on the referendum of 2016 or David Cameron’s “great miscalculation” and its repercussions, this book looks at the Brexit as a process that began decades earlier. It analyses EU-UK relations from a new perspective,...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-02-19
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Some American intellectual traditions, although pristine in appearance, are racist at their core. This book reveals the racism inherent in those Platonist and Enlightenment moral traditions that motivate much contemporary rhetoric. Part One contains five chapters...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-02-17
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While much has been written on environmental politics on the one hand, and animal ethics and welfare on the other, animal politics is underexamined. There are key political implications in the increase of animal protection laws, the rights of nature, and political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-17
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Seeking to extend the debate on the diversity of democracy, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive account of how two different global actors, the European Union and the World Social Forum respond to the challenges of globalization with various models of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-16
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This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration. By starting out from a broad concept of mistakes as “something...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-16
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This book provides a unique in-depth comparative and evaluative analysis based upon primary sources. Therefore, it does not only provide a more complete understanding of the subject compared to other publications but, because it provides a full perspective, can also...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-02-16
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The rise of China will undoubtedly be one of the great spectacles of the twenty-first century. More than a dramatic symbol of the redistribution of global wealth, the event has marked the end of the unipolar international system and the arrival of a new era in world...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-16
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While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political...
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OUP India
Parution :
2018-02-16
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Examining the relationship between sedition and liberal democracies, particularly in India, this book looks at the biography of sedition laws, its contradictory position against free speech, and democratic ethics. Recent sedition cases registered in India show that the...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-02-16
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This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China’s negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria’s first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Western constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing their tenuous relationship, this book presents a passionate plea to create new frameworks for describing contemporary Indian...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Interrogating the cultural roots of contemporary Malayali middle classes, especially the upper caste Nambudiri community, The Fall of Gods is based on a decade-long ethnography and historico-sociological analyses of the interconnections between colonial history, family...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-02-15
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Often called ‘Mini-India’, the Andaman Islands have been a crucial site of encounter between different regimes, subjects, castes, creeds, languages, and ethnicities. Since 1858, subaltern convicts, refugees, repatriates, and labourers from South and Southeast Asia have...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2018-02-15
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This collection investigates modern imperialist practices and their management of hunger through its punctuated distribution amongst asymmetrically related marginal populations. Drawing on relevant material from Egypt, Ireland, India, Ukraine, and other regions of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-14
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Stephanie Opitz geht der Frage nach, welche „Typen“ von Dienstleistern in Deutschland Dienstleistungen rund um Wahlkampf, politische PR und Public Affairs erbringen, wie sie arbeiten und wie sie sich voneinander unterscheiden. Ihre Studie beruht auf rund 50...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-02-14
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This book describes the main contradictions in China’s actions on the world stage—peaceful vs. assertive—through a culturally informed framework that takes into account China’s historical memory and political culture. The author analyzes nine cases, including the Asian...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-14
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This book explores the IMF's role within the politics of austerity by providing a path-breaking comprehensive analysis of how the IMF approach to fiscal policy has evolved since 2008, and how the IMF worked to alter advanced economy policy responses to the global...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-14
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