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This collection emphasizes a cross-disciplinary approach to the problem of scale, with essays ranging in subject matter from literature to film, architecture, the plastic arts, philosophy, and scientific and political writing. Its contributors consider a variety of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-06
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Das Buch behandelt die Fragilität der Finanzmärkte, die unterschiedliche Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Eurostaaten, die Reform- und Sparprogramme, den Wandel vom Steuer- zum Schuldenstaat und die staatlichen Bankenhilfen. Die Politik der Bewältigung der Schuldenkrise wird...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-06
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This book argues that the design of built spaces influences civic attitudes, including prospects for social equality and integration, in America. Key American architects and planners—including Frederick Law Olmsted, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, and the New...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-06
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This multidisciplinary book examines the diverse ways in which environmental disasters with compounding impacts are being governed as they traverse sovereign territories across rapidly urbanising societies in Asia and the Pacific. Combining theoretical advances with...
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Springer
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2017-12-06
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A New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal Bestseller, this book offers the ultimate behind-the-scenes account of how Donald Trump, an extraordinary candidate, became President of the United States and why that matters today. Donald Trump’s startling rise...
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Center Street
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2017-12-05
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How earnest hippies, frightened parents, suffering patients, and other ordinary Americans went to war over marijuana In the last five years, eight states have legalized recreational marijuana. To many, continued progress seems certain. But pot was on a similar...
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Basic Books
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2017-12-05
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The book offers a critical evaluation of Qatar’s path from oil- and gas-based industries to a knowledge-based economy. This book gives basic information about the region and the country, including the geographic and demographic data, the culture, the politics and the...
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Springer
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2017-12-05
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This edited volume is the first to discuss the methodological implications of the ‘emotional turn’ in International Relations. While emotions have become of increasing interest to IR theory, methodological challenges have yet to receive proper attention....
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-05
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This book provides the first detailed comparative analysis of the unusual partnership between the main European neutral states and NATO. Neutrality and alliance membership are fundamentally incompatible, but through the vehicle of NATO’s post-Cold War partnerships the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-05
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This open access book offers a synthetic reflection on the authors’ fieldwork experiences in seven countries within the framework of ‘Authoritarianism in a Global Age’, a major comparative research project. It responds to the demand for increased attention to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-05
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This book provides a comprehensive explanation of human well-being outcomes by analyzing the role of domestic and international political factors. The well-being outcomes under study are the building blocks of development, and play a crucial developmental role in the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-05
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This book begins from a critical account of the final months of the Sri Lankan civil war, tracing themes of nationalism, discourse and conflict memory through this period of immense violence and into its aftermath. Using these themes to explore state crime, atrocity and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-05
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
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This book offers the first comprehensive introduction to one of the most significant Arab thinkers of the late 20th century and the early 21st century: the Moroccan philosopher and social theorist Mohammed Abed al-Jabri. With his intellectual and political engagement,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-12-05
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Over the last 25 years, India's explosive economic growth has vaulted it into the ranks of the world's emerging major powers. India's middle class has grown by leaps and bounds, and the country's sheer scale-possessing what will very soon be the world's largest...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-12-05
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'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectualWhat kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How...
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Penguin
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2017-12-05
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This volume examines the impact of the Trump presidency on development aid. It starts out by describing the rise of national populism, the political landscape and the reasons for rejection of the political establishment, both under Trump and internationally. Next, it...
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Springer
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2017-12-04
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This collection elucidates the complexity of living politics in the 21st century, considering how self-help groups draw on shared regional traditions, and how they adapt their actions to the diverse formal political environments in which they operate. It considers the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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Karina Hohl widmet sich in diesem Buch dem Entstehungsprozess von Tagesordnungen in Parlamenten und nimmt dabei die Rolle von Oppositionsakteuren und die Mikropolitik des Opponierens in den Blick. Unter dem Begriff Agenda Politics analysiert die Autorin das Themen- und...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-04
Collection :
Studien der NRW School of Governance
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Sandra Brunsbach untersucht, in welcher Weise der demographische Wandel und die damit einhergehende Alterung der Wählerschaft in der Programmatik deutscher und britischer Parteien ihren Niederschlag finden. Im Rahmen der theoretischen Auseinandersetzung erfolgt erstmals...
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Springer VS
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2017-12-04
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This book collects some of the most influential scholars in international relations who focus on Asia globally in exploring the challenges of diplomacy faced in Asia as US policy drastically changes. The president-elect has suggested policies which, if implemented,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-12-04
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