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This volume examines Lebanon’s post-2011 security dilemmas and the tenuous civil-military relations. The Syrian civil war has strained the Lebanese Armed Forces’ (LAF) cohesion and threatens its neutrality – its most valued assets in a divided society. The spill-over...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-31
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Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed, a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about intelligence gathering and analysis: what should be allowed? What boundaries,...
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Polity
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2017-08-31
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Wolfgang Schroeder untersucht den Einfluss, den die zumeist weiblichen Beschäftigten auf ihre Arbeitsbedingungen haben. Mittels umfassender Befragungen zeigt er empirisch gesichert auf, wie schwach deren Selbstorganisation bisher ausgeprägt ist. Diskutiert werden die...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-30
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This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of ‘Eurocrats’,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-30
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This book examines how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attempted to bolster its nationalist legitimacy through the utilisation of Chinese history. The authors identify two different modes of nationalism - aggressive and consensual - both of which are linked to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-30
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This book analyzes George Orwell’s politics and their reception across both sides of the Atlantic. It considers Orwell’s place in the politics of his native Britain and his reception in the USA, where he has had some of his most fervent emulators, exegetists, and...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-08-30
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Dieses Buch handelt von den Atombomben in Deutschland, denn kein Land war so sehr als atomares Schlachtfeld vorgesehen, keines so vollgestopft mit nuklearen Sprengköpfen wie das geteilte Deutschland im Kalten Krieg. Und der Albtraum ist nicht vorbei: noch immer...
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Springer
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2017-08-30
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Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into following policies it...
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Polity
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2017-08-30
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Trotz des Bestehens zahlreicher internationaler Gerichte werden internationale Verbrechen aus Kapazitätsgründen nach wie vor überwiegend von nationalen Gerichten verfolgt. Die Formel «aut dedere aut iudicare» bezeichnet dabei die Verpflichtung eines Zufluchtstaates...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-30
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This text provides a cutting edge analysis of the increasingly central role think tanks play in societies worldwide. Examining their control of global resources both in economic and political policy fields and their inroads into structures of power, it addresses key...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-30
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This collection of articles is the result of the research project «The Polish local society in the process of European integration – a decade of experience», financed by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN). The aim was to investigate the process of integration in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-30
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Dieses Buch vereint aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Feld des Politischen Journalismus. Gegenüber dem enger ressortgebundenen Politikjournalismus bietet diese breitere Perspektive die Möglichkeit der Auseinandersetzung mit Aspekten des Politischen auch jenseits...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-29
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Hendrik Lange untersucht basierend auf Theorien relativer Deprivation, allgemeiner Lebenszufriedenheit und sozialen Kapitals, den Zusammenhang zwischen Gehaltsniveau und Demokratiefeindlichkeit. Er kann zeigen, dass demokratiefeindliche Handlungen erst ab einem sehr...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-29
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Politische Kultur in den neuen Demokratien Europas
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines the policies and practices of rising powers on peacebuilding. It analyzes how and why their approaches differ from those of traditional donors and multilateral institutions. The policies of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-29
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This edited volume provides scholars and practitioners with an in-depth examination of the role of civil-military cooperation in addressing hybrid threats. As they combine the simultaneous employment of conventional and non-conventional tools and target not only...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-29
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This book critically examines the study of International Relations in Poland, looking at the pre-academic origins of the discipline, its development after WWII, under communism, and after the transformation of 1989. Apart from bringing a broad political and intellectual...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-28
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Die empirische Studie von Inken Heldt verdeutlicht Innovationspotentiale der Menschenrechtsbildung ausgehend von den subjektiven Vorstellungswelten von Schülerinnen und Schülern. Eine Typologie macht gängige Denkmuster über Menschenrechte für die Bildungspraxis greifbar...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-28
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Bürgerbewusstsein
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This volume examines recent examples of Argentine literature, film, theatre and visual art from the children of the disappeared. By exploring their creative narration of childhood memories and the controversial use of parody, humour and fantasy, Maguire considers how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-28
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This book is dedicated to a fundamental conflict in modern states: those persons holding public office are no more than ordinary citizens. Therefore, their activities must – as a matter of principle – be subject to full judicial control. But at the same time,...
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Springer
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2017-08-28
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“This remarkable book does the unusual: it embeds its focus in a larger complex operational space. The migrant, the refugee, the citizen, all emerge from that larger context. The focus is not the usual detailed examination of the subject herself, but that larger world...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-28
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