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Israel is surrounded by an array of ever-changing threats. But what if its most serious challenge comes from within? There was once a national consensus in Israeli society: politics was split between left and right, but its people were broadly secular and liberal. Over...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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Featuring a new foreword that brings the book up to date
Rare earths are elements that are found in the Earth's crust, and are vital ingredients for the production of a wide variety of high tech, defense, and green technologies-everything from iPhones and medical...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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During the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, dictatorships in Latin America hastened the outward movement of intellectuals, academics, artists, and political and social activists to other countries. Following the coups that toppled democratically elected...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-11-01
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In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-11-01
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This book contends that the Chinese economic reform inaugurated since 1978 has been a top-down passive revolution, in Gramsci’s term, and that after three decades of reform the role of the Chinese state has been changing from steering the passive revolution through...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-31
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This book pinpoints continuities and changes in U.S. foreign economic policy from the fixed exchange rate system of the 1960s through to the period between the two oil crises of the 1970s. Chapters pay close attention to the interconnectedness between the long lasting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-31
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Goetz Herrmann untersucht die theoretischen Implikationen und begrifflichen Voraussetzungen der derzeit dominierenden Verständnisse von Bedrohung und Sicherheit in der EU und deren Auswirkungen für die Bestimmung von Funktion und Aufgabe von Grenzen in und um Europa....
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-31
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This edited collection makes a unique contribution to analyses of the changing nature and challenges of mediated political communication, through a distinctive comparative discourse analytical approach. The book explores how politics is performed and discursively...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe. Using findings from qualitative studies, it explores the governance processes at the level of the European Union as a supranational institution, and the level...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book examines a new type of state formation evoked by the rise of transnational rule, what Schia calls franchised states. Drawing on anthropological studying-through fieldwork within the UN organization, he demonstrates how peacebuilding activities turned...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-10-30
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Andreas Stifel befasst sich mit der politikwissenschaftlichen Analyse einer durch Widersprüche gekennzeichneten Partei und schließt die Erklärungslücke zwischen dem vielfach attestierten Scheitern der sozialen Bewegung und der gleichzeitigen erfolgreichen Etablierung...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book discusses John Stuart Mill’s intellectual activity from about 1827 to 1848, namely between his recovery from his so-called ‘Mental Crisis’ and the publication of Principles of Political Economy. During this period, along with deepening his understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-30
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This book addresses the potential and limitations of the European Union Neighbourhood Policy in sustaining the expansion of the European security community towards the South Caucasus. The Caucasus’ complex regional security dynamics are a hard test for regional security...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-10-28
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Das Buch analysiert die Auswirkungen der digitalen Medien auf Legitimität, Öffentlichkeit, Transparenz sowie Willensbildung und Partizipation in der repräsentativen Demokratie. Die aktuellen Probleme und Herausforderungen in der digitalen politischen Kommunikation...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Medienkulturen im digitalen Zeitalter
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In diesem Grundlagenband zur Familienwissenschaft beschäftigen sich Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler mit dem Thema Familie aus der Sicht ihrer jeweiligen Disziplin und führen in die zentralen Konzepte und Begriffe der Familienwissenschaft ein. Damit bietet das...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Voters and Voting in Context investigates the role of context in affecting political opinion formation and voting behaviour. Building on a model of contextual effects on individual-level voter behaviour, the chapters of this volume explore contextual effects in Germany...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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This book offers an assessment of China’s assertive foreign policy behavior with a special focus on Chinese policies in the South China Sea (SCS). By providing a detailed account of the events in the SCS and by analyzing power dynamics in the region, it identifies the...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Increasingly, international legal arrangements imagine future worlds or create space for experts to articulate how the future can be conceptualized and managed. With the increased specialization of international law, a series of functional regimes and sub-regimes has...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-10-27
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Historically, technological change has had significant effect on the locus of administrative activity, cost of carrying out administrative tasks, the skill sets needed by officials to effectively function, rules and regulations, and the types of interactions citizens...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-10-26
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