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Dieser Band bündelt Analysen zu den Präsidentschafts- und Kongresswahlen 2016 in den USA, die durch teilweise unerwartete Ereignisse überraschten. Während in der Wahl um die Präsidentschaft mit harten Bandagen gekämpft wurde und kaum eine populistische Rhetorik...
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Springer VS
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2018-01-08
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This book presents an analysis of how metaphors are essential elements in the study of international relations. It acknowledges the fact that theory and practice in international relations often rest on common metaphorical concepts which have implications for the ways...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-08
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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
Parution :
2018-01-05
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In the past thirty years, women's representation and gender equality has developed unevenly in Latin America. Some countries have experienced large increases in gender equality in political offices, whereas others have not, and even within countries, some political...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-04
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This book addresses and explains the divergent economic and political outcomes of the financial crisis in the eight European Union member states which needed a bailout program: Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, Romania and Spain. Looking at crisis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-03
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The book traces the past decade of dynamic interactions among the concerned states involved in the Six-Party Talks on North Korean nuclear programs. Unlike existing studies which usually dissect incidents of the talks, the book provides a comprehensive systemic analysis...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-01-03
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In the post-World War II era, the emergence of 'area studies' marked a signal development in the social sciences. As the social sciences evolved methodologically, however, many dismissed area studies as favoring narrow description over general theory. Still, area...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-01-03
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This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
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Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers of these changes struggle to understand the consequences of an Islamic resurgence in a democratizing world. Will democratic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-02
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Why Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-01-01
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This book examines how Russia, the world’s most complicated country, is governed. As it resumes its place at the centre of global affairs, the book explores Russia’s overarching strategies, and how it organizes itself (or not) in policy areas ranging from foreign policy...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-30
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This book is open access under a CC BY license.This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-12-29
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The twenty-first century has witnessed the rise of India as a major media producer and consumer market increasingly engaged with the global economy. Aided by rising incomes, technological remediation, regulatory strategies, and a shifting political terrain, the business...
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OUP India
Parution :
2017-12-29
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Constituting Freedom focuses on the question at the heart of Machiavelli's thinking, that is 'in what mode a free state, if there is one, can be maintained in corrupt cities; or, if there is not, in what mode to order it?'
The book analyses the different solutions...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-12-29
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Jumpstarting South Asia focuses on the slowing pace of economic growth and makes the case for a two-pronged
strategy to jumpstart South Asian economies. South Asian countries should complete the economic reform
process that they had begun in the 1980s and the early...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2017-12-28
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This book collects high-quality papers on issues related to the rebalancing strategy in China, new clean cities as “hubs’’, liability management, and involving the private sector, including through PPPs, with specific examples from Guangdong. Guangdong has been at the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-12-28
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From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-27
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Grand strategies can be thought of as overall survival strategies of all states. Great powers seek survival against other great powers seeking to undermine their power and position, determining prestige-seeking behavior as psychotic and destructive. Weak states suffer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-26
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This book examines what role regions play in European (dis)integration and European identity building. Filling a glaring gap in our understanding of regions, the book considers what the scope and objectives of these regions’ respective European policies and programmes...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-22
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• Explains how the interaction between local and international peacebuilding actors contributes to success and failure of peacebuilding• Offers an in-depth analysis of how local and international peacebuilding actors in Ituri...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-22
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