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In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, the regulation of the world's enormous derivatives markets assumed center stage on the international public policy agenda. Critics argued that loose regulation had contributed to the momentous crisis, but lasting reform...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-07
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This book is a researched study of land issues in American Samoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-06
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This book focuses on Prime Minister Abe’s policy toward international peace and security proposed in 2013 under the basic principle of ‘proactive contribution to peace’. To this end, this book investigates Prime Minister Abe’s policy-making process of the Peace and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-06
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The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built. In this fascinating book, investigative reporter Yasha Levine uncovers the secret origins of the internet, tracing it back to a Pentagon counterinsurgency surveillance project. A visionary...
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PublicAffairs
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2018-02-06
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This book offers an exceptionally well informed and well documented study of the processes by which a Treaty is not only created, but managed and adapted as a living organism, responding to changing political and economic circumstances throughout its life. Bermuda...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-05
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This handbook aims to challenge ‘gender blindness’ in the historical study of high politics, power, authority and government, by bringing together a group of scholars at the forefront of current historical research into the relationship between masculinity and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-02-02
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This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese-Russian bilateral relationship, grounded in a historical perspective, and discusses the implications of the burgeoning 'strategic partnership' between these two major powers for world order and global...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-02
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This book provides the first cross-regional study of an increasingly important form of politics: coalitional presidentialism. Drawing on original research of minority presidents in the democratising and hybrid regimes of Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-02
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In the 1980s, health was a marginal issue on the international political agenda, and it barely figured into donor states' foreign aid allocation. Within a generation, health had developed a robust set of governance structures that drive significant global political...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-02
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Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-02-02
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Contemporary Western war is represented as enacting the West's ability and responsibility to help make the world a better place for others, in particular to protect them from oppression and serious human rights abuses. That is, war has become permissible again, indeed...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-02-02
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Winner of the the National Book Critics Circle Award for Non-Fiction'Spellbinding ... a magisterial account of the great tragedy of our age ... it is a classic' Evening Standard'In the finest traditions of American investigative journalism' The Times'Spectacular ......
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2018-02-01
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The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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How and why U.S. employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics--and what such recruitment means for American democracy and public policy.
Employers are increasingly recruiting their workers into politics to change elections and public...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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Finance is the evil we cannot live without. It governs almost every aspect of our lives and has the power to liberate as well as enslave. With the world's total financial assets--valued at a staggering $300 trillion--being four times larger than the combined output of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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The contradictory trends of the 'post-Arab Spring' landscape form both the backdrop to, and the focus of, this volume on the changing security dynamics of the Persian Gulf, defined as the six GCC states plus Iraq and Iran.The political and economic upheaval triggered by...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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This book defines China’s road towards modernization with Chinese characteristics by systematically examining a typical Chinese political process – the National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC), during which diverse opinions are collected and a unified...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-02-01
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Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the assessment of hundreds of original source...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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The year 2020 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment giving many women in the United States the right to vote.The struggle for suffrage lasted over six decades and involved more than a million women; yet, even at the moment of the amendment's...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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China's reform era is ending. Core factors that characterized it-political stability, ideological openness, and rapid economic growth-are unraveling. Since the 1990s, Beijing's leaders have firmly rejected any fundamental reform of their authoritarian one-party...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-02-01
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