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The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states, going far beyond that found anywhere else in the world. On the other,...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-12
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A practical how-to guide for more effective planningthrough multi-actor modelling Careful planning is the cornerstone of a successful initiative, and any plan, policy, or business strategy can only be successful if it has the support of different actors. These actors...
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Wiley
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2018-01-12
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This book examines employee welfare in British and German companies from the 19th century through to the present day. Tracing the history of employee welfare, this comparative study reveals new issues beyond the dominant focus on the welfare state, showing that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-12
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This book delves into the diffuse relationship between states, citizens, and non-citizens. It explores the theoretical heritage of human security and identifies practical responses to the (re)negotiated relationships between states and citizens, responsibility and...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-01-11
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Using the conceptual framework of populism as discourse, Ritchie Savage provides a comparative analysis of U.S. and Latin American speeches and articles covering Betancourt’s Acción Democrática, Chávez, McCarthyism, and the Tea Party. In so doing, he reveals an...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-01-11
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Through a rhetorical analysis, this book explores how the parties in a coalition government create a united public front while preserving their distinct identities. After proposing an original framework based on the ‘new rhetoric’ of Kenneth Burke, the author charts the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-11
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International organizations (IOs) matter. This book uncovers the regular working world of IOs, examining whether, to what extent, and how these 'global governing bodies' can act independently of the will of states. This book explores this issue by asking who or what...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-01-11
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This collaborative volume? discusses the One Belt One Road, or the New Silk Road, initiative of Chinese President Xi Jinping from the perspectives of the Belt and Road countries.This initiative has been viewed as a re-globalization drive by China in the backdrop of...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-01-10
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This book – through a collection of case studies covering Southern and East Africa, China, India, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia – offers insights into the nature of social exchanges between Africa and Asia. In the age of the ‘Rise of the South’, it documents the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-10
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This book offers a post-representational approach to a range of fiction and non-fiction films that deal with labour migration from Turkey to Germany. Engaging with materialist philosophies of process, it offers analyses of films by Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-10
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Just Security in an Undergoverned World examines how humankind can manage global problems to achieve both security and justice in an age of antithesis. Global connectivity is increasing, visibly and invisiblyin trade, finance, culture, and informationhelping to spur...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-01-10
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This book presents a theory of information justice that subsumes the question of control and relates it to other issues that influence just social outcomes. ?Data does not exist by nature. Bureaucratic societies must provide standardized inputs for governing algorithms,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-01-09
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This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-09
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This book offers an analytical account of the consensus and contestations of the politics of Chinese media at both institutional and discursive levels. It considers the formal politics of how the Chinese state manages political communication internally and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-09
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What happens when enemies work to advance similar goals? Who wins, who loses, and why? In Frenemies, Nancy Whittier addresses this question through a study of feminist and conservative opposition to pornography, campaigns against child sexual abuse, and engagement on...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-09
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This volume explores the challenges to diversification in Gulf countries, which can no longer rely on profits from hydrocarbons to fund national expenditures. It elaborates on the problem of weak institutions, lack of coordination between policy makers and executors,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-09
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This volume presents an academic proposal, developed by a joint research group of leading scholars in the social and natural sciences from universities affected by global-scale mega disasters occurring in Asia in recent decades. These include Kobe University, which...
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Springer
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2018-01-08
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Building, largely, on insights from India, and case studies in Brazil, China, and South Africa, this book provides insights into the contested topic of ‘governance and governed’ from a state–society inter-relationship perspective. It argues that the centrality of an...
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Springer
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2018-01-08
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Dominic Pakull unternimmt die erste systematische Analyse des Einflusses von nationalen Wahlen auf den Ausgang der ordentlichen Gesetzgebung der EU. Der Autor folgt dabei einem Mixed-Methods-Design und weist am Beispiel der drei größten Mitgliedstaaten nach, dass die...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-08
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This book tells the story of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, an emblematic grassroots social movement of peasant farmers, who unusually declared themselves ‘neutral’ to Colombia’s internal armed conflict, in the north-west region of Urabá. It reveals two...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-08
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