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Karina Strübbe untersucht einen bisher kaum erforschten Bereich der politischen Kommunikation: die politische Entschuldigung. Sie fragt danach, was es bedeutet, wenn sich ein Politiker entschuldigt und arbeitet die Funktionen von Entschuldigungen heraus. Dazu entwickelt...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-06
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This book shows how research in linguistic pragmatics, philosophy of language, and rhetoric can be connected through argumentation to analyze a recognizably common strategy used in political and everyday conversation, namely the distortion of another’s words in an...
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Springer
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2017-09-06
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This book examines a crucial question about small states and their governments’ influence in the European Union (EU) decision-making processes. - Are EU small member state governments influential in EU decision-making processes? In other words, do they exercise...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-06
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Sascha Kristin Futh untersucht anhand von drei zeitgeschichtlich bedeutenden Kampagnen zum ersten Mal vergleichend die strategische Kommunikation von Gewerkschaften. Sie analysiert die Bedingungen, unter denen die Gewerkschaften ihren Einfluss über...
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Springer VS
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2017-09-06
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This new collection examines the paradox of Sino-Japanese relations and the rising diplomatic antagonism between both countries despite deepening economic interdependency. Offering a unique perspective on the history of bilateral ties since diplomatic normalization in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-05
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The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the neoliberal credo,...
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Polity
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2017-09-05
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A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold War We think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad...
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Basic Books
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2017-09-05
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With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order?...
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Polity
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2017-09-05
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This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads. It examines nuclear arms policy via an interconnected framework involving the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-04
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This book explains how advanced democracies and welfare states can achieve welfare-enhancing, liberal institutional reform. It develops a general theory based on an extended comparative case study of Sweden and Australia over the last 25 years, and offers an in-depth...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-04
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This book examines how European issues have played out in Serbian and Croatian party politics since 2000, in the context of significant challenges brought by European integration of the Western Balkans. It provides a comprehensive analysis of how political parties in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-09-04
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This edited volume examines the implications for international development actors of new kinds of terrorism taking place in civil conflicts. The threat from terrorism and violent extremism has never been greater – at least in the global South where the vast majority of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-04
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This book questions the common understanding of party political behaviour, explaining some of the sharp differences in political behaviour through a focused case study—drawing systematically on primary and archival research—of the Australian Labor Party’s political and...
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Springer
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2017-09-02
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This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-09-01
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The Art of Creating Power explores the intellectual thought and wider impact -- on military affairs, politics and the universities -- of Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on strategy, conflict and international politics. In this...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-01
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Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona.
Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people...
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Hurst
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2017-09-01
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Saying that political and social oppression is a deeply unjust and widespread condition of life is not a terribly controversial statement. Likewise, theorists of justice frequently consider our obligation to not turn a blind eye to oppression. But what is our...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-01
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Every year the EU Commission issues thousands of rules based on powers delegated by the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament. But delegation is carefully controlled. Traditionally, control has been exerted through a system of committees of member state...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-01
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Despite the central role of policy preferences in the subsequent behaviour of legislators, preferences at the level of the individual legislator have been almost entirely neglected in the study of parliaments and legislative behaviour. The main reason for this is the...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-09-01
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This book is a rethinking of ethics and socio-political life through the ideas of Watsuji Tetsurô. Can we build a systematic philosophy of morality, society, and politics, not on the basis of identity and ego, but rather on the basis of selflessness?This book explores...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-31
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