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What does it mean to win a moral victory? Ideals of just and decisive triumphs often colour the call to war, yet victory is an increasingly dubious proposition in modern conflict, where negotiated settlements and festering violence have replaced formal surrenders. In...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-11-17
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Dieses Buch analysiert den Rechtspopulismus als aktuelles Phänomen postmoderner Parteiensysteme in Europa und den USA. Der Autor kommt dabei zu dem Ergebnis, dass rechtspopulistische Parteien wie z.B. die AfD in Deutschland nicht nur Ausdruck, sondern auch Lösung für...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-16
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The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies. It covers the broad spectrum of the democratic electoral process. This project is a synthesis of the author’s practical knowledge and experience in the management of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
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This volume brings together leading gender and politics scholars to assess how women’s political empowerment can best be conceptualized and measured on a global scale. It argues that women’s political empowerment is a fundamental process of transformation for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-16
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This volume takes readers beneath the surface of the South China Sea by exploring critical but under-researched issues related to the maritime territorial disputes. It draws attention to the importance of private sector, civil society, and subnational actors’ roles in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-16
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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This book addresses the obesity epidemic from a political, economic and social perspective. Examining the populations that suffer the greatest from political and economic decision-making associated with obesity prevalence, this book utilizes a contemporary framework to...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-11-16
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This book discusses the historical transformation of the destiny of Chinese peasants under the contemporary political economic conditions, and tries to explore the institutional mechanism behind the formation and maintenance of these conditions. The analysis focuses on...
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Springer
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2017-11-16
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This book examines the twin critical processes of state-building and nation-building in Africa and the confluence of major domestic and global issues that shape them. The book covers topics such as the expansive role of non-governmental organizations, the growing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-16
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This book aims to understand the “texture” of the post-Soviet region, where waves of de-integration and re-integration have been resonating at different times and through diverse manifestations over the last quarter of century. The post-Soviet states have been evolving...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-15
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This book is a critical and multidisciplinary IPE of the unequal structures of South American development and uneven insertions in the global order following the decline of the commodities boom. The work explores the extent to which regional development issues are...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-15
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This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas. Energy is too important to be neglected by political scientists. Yet, within the mainstream of the discipline...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-15
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Tribes and Politics in Yemen tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the West the Houthi conflict, which erupted in 2004, is often defined through the lenses of either the Iranian-Saudi proxy war...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-15
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This book challenges the common perception that global politics is making progress on indigenous issues and argues that the current global care for indigeneity is, in effect, violent in nature. Examining the inclusion of indigenous peoples in the United Nations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-15
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Dieses essential will die politische Logik des bedingungslosen Grundeinkommens bzw. Bürgergeldes offenlegen. Daneben erörtert es Zwecke und Wirkungsmöglichkeiten des Bürgergeldes, die in der öffentlichen Diskussion bisher nicht aufgegriffen wurden. Aus beidem ergeben...
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Springer VS
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2017-11-15
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This edited volume assesses the quality of democracy in the Republic of Korea three decades after its formal democratization in 1987. It has been argued that Korea’s two subsequent power turnovers prove that its democracy has been successfully consolidated, despite its...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-15
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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The topic of this book deals with a highly relevant empirical issue: East asian security and the dynamics of the respective governance structure or architecture are not only of regional but of global concern. Since the pivot of the American pivot to East Asia and other...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-11-14
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This book is about European IR theoretical traditions, their origins, and key figures. Theorizing is among the most important activities that take place within scientific disciplines. Scholars therefore routinely talk/debate about the discipline of IR and its theories,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-11-14
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This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders. Using a systematic and coherent approach to cover a range of EU activities, environmental issues, and geographical areas, it charts the EU’s attempts to shape environmental...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-11-14
Collection :
The European Union in International Affairs
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Following up on Donna Starr-Deelen's previous book Presidential Policies on Terrorism: From Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama (Palgrave, 2014), this book compares and contrasts the approach of the Obama administration with the Trump administration regarding national...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-11-14
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Discover the final book from one of Europe's cultural giants.In this entertaining collection of essays about the modern world the celebrated author of The Name of the Rose explores everything from unbridled individualism to mobile phones.'He brilliantly exposes all that...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-11-14
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