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This book addresses a conundrum for the international development community: The law of development cooperation poses major constraints on delivering aid where it is needed most. The existence of a state with an effective government is a basic condition for the transfer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-14
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This book is based on a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo. ZPRA was the...
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Springer
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2017-12-14
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Die EU und die europäische Politik rücken ins Zentrum von öffentlichen Diskussionen und parteipolitischem Wettbewerb. Der Band widmet sich dieser Politisierung der Europäischen Union und fokussiert Parteien als zentrale Politisierungsagenten. Ihr Handeln an der...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-12-13
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Over the last few decades, drug trafficking organizations in Latin America became infamous for their shocking public crimes, from narcoterrorist assaults on the Colombian political system in the 1980s to the more recent wave of beheadings in Mexico. However, while these...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-12-13
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The extent of Islamicity, or what Islam demands, is measured to confirm that self-declared Muslim countries have not adopted foundational Islamic teachings for rule-compliant Muslim communities. Western countries, on the other hand, are demonstrated to have better...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-13
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This book offers a critical analysis of the rise of the US to global hegemony against a background of increased erosion of democracy and rule of law, and a rising linear pattern of near-absolute capitalist development. The author argues that the significant shrinkage of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book describes the problems of intelligence sharing among peacekeeping partners, mainly due to security concerns and a lack of policies and resources. The study posits that the current emphasis on violent extremism as a driver of conflict is misplaced, as TOC is a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book presents numerous discussions of specific aspects of democratic politics, showing how ‘democracy’ can be projected as a model of deliberate imperfection – a model that tolerates various loose ends in the system – and how democracy recognizes a multiplicity of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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?Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the 2017 presidential elections represents one of the most important disruptions to French political life since the establishment of the Fifth Republic. This book analyses the political opportunities enabling a neophyte to conquer the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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Does the burgeoning Indian Information Technology (IT) sector represent a deviation from the historical arc of caste inequality or has it become yet another site of discrimination? Those who claim that the sector is caste-free believe that IT is an equal opportunity...
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OUP India
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration interchangeably to argue that the tasks of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book sets out to discuss what kind of ‘middle power’ Australia is, and whether its identity as a middle power negatively influences its relationship with Asia. It looks at the history of the middle power concept, develops three concepts of middle power status and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This collection provides a comparative analysis of care arrangements in relation to issues of gender and transnational migration, social policy and labour migration in East Asia. Bridging the key topics of migration and gendered cared work through cross country ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-12
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions The first hundred days of FDR's presidency are justly famous, often viewed as a period of political action without...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2017-12-12
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This book constitutes a critical intervention in the theoretical discussion over the political relationship between democracy and communism. Shedding light on the philosophical origins of the democracy debate, it draws a clear demarcation line between liberalism and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-10
Collection :
Political Philosophy and Public Purpose
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Dieses Buch analysiert theoretisch und empirisch, warum einige alleinerziehende Mütter weniger benachteiligt sind als andere. Es wird argumentiert, dass Alleinerziehen mit unterschiedlichen Risiken verbunden ist, je nachdem an welchem Abschnitt im Lebensverlauf es...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-12-08
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The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-12-08
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This book analyses trends and changes in the European Union’s (EU) humanitarian aid policy, by focusing on the performance of Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs). NGOs have developed strong relationships with international institutions but have also maintained direct...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-07
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This book offers a critical review of higher education and post-conflict recovery. It provides the first systematic study with a global scope that investigates the role of higher education systems in conflict-affected contexts. The first part of the book analyses the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-07
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The Arab Uprisings were unexpected events of rare intensity in Middle Eastern history – mass, popular and largely non-violent revolts which threatened and in some cases toppled apparently stable autocracies. This volume provides in-depth analyses of how people perceived...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-06
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