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This book evaluates the potential for the transformative mediation framework to be adopted in a non-western context. Inspired by the premise that mediator ideology exists and has deep impact on process, Robert A. Baruch Bush and Joseph P. Folger articulated the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-28
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This book explores how public organizations and not-for-profit organizations (NPO) can be more collaborative, innovative and effective in solving social issues in both developing and developed countries. “Social innovation,” led by social entrepreneurs and/or social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-28
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This book evaluates the impact of the 2001 central government reforms on effective foreign policy making in Japan. It puts a special focus on the evolution of the domestic institutional factors and decision-making processes behind Japan’s foreign policy, while also...
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Springer
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2017-08-28
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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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2017-08-25
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There is a mounting body of evidence pointing towards rising levels of public dissatisfaction with the formal political process. Depoliticization refers to a more discrete range of contemporary strategies that add to this growing trend towards anti-politics by either...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-08-25
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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
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2017-08-25
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This book is a critical comparative reflection of the post-colonial conflict Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) of ex-combatants in Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa. It offers an up-to-date comparative analysis of how specific analytical elements that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-24
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This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in security cooperation in Africa. Drawing on leading and emerging scholars in the field, the volume uses a combination of analytical insights and case studies to unpack the complexity of security challenges...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-24
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This book explores the application of Scalia’s textualism and originalism to education law and reflects upon Scalia’s teachings and his pedagogy. Education law may seem to be an odd vehicle for considering Scalia’s constitutional approach, but thinking about schools...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-24
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This book recapitulates and extends Ned Lebow’s decades’ long research on conflict management and resolution. It updates his critique of conventional and nuclear deterrence, analysis of reassurance, and the conditions in which international conflicts may be amenable to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-23
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Christiana Gransow untersucht anhand von zehn Rundfunksystemen die Implementierungen des Public-Value-Tests. Der Vergleich zeigt, sobald ein Regulierungsmechanismus besteht, der die Angebote der öffentlichen Medienanbieter auf deren Beitrag zur Erbringung des...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-23
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Networks are omnipresent in our natural and social world, and they are at the heart of politics. Relationships of many types drive political institutions, processes, and decision-making. Therefore, it is imperative for the study of politics to include network...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-08-23
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This book explores the Canadian relationship with its portion of the Arctic region which revolves around the dramatic split between the appearance of absent-minded governance, bordering on indifference toward the region, and the raging nationalism during moments of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-22
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This book investigates the ways in which the particular nature and character of the state can impact upon the effectiveness of counter-terrorism efforts, and on the trajectory of violent conflicts. Here, McConaghy not only analyses historical campaigns of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-22
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Mit dem Amtsantritt Matteo Renzis im Februar 2014 waren in Italien große Hoffnungen verbunden. Dem jungen Ministerpräsidenten gelang es zunächst tatsächlich, eine Aufbruchsstimmung zu erzeugen, die dem krisen- und skandalgeschüttelten Land einen tiefgreifenden Wandel...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-21
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The book presents a novel analytical perspective on Indonesia’s security policies during its transition to democracy. Kurniawan's analysis revolves around extraordinary measures and normal politics in response to the existential threat to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-21
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This book offers a normative reconceptualization of a modern Islamic governed state. First, Joseph Kaminski surveys the historical context of the trajectory of Islamic thought, and offers a unique discursive framework for reconceptualizing an Islamic governed state that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-21
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Michael Oswald untersucht anhand vorliegender Studie die Tea Party als eine strategische Bewegung, mit der ein konservatives Netzwerk einen massiven Einfluss auf die Politik in den USA erzeugen konnte. Hinter der Kommunikationsstruktur der Tea Party sieht der Autor die...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-21
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This book considers how public sector institutions can be transformed to better support sustainable development by exploring the concept of green inside activism and its importance for institutional change. The phenomenon of inside activism has been shown to be crucial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-21
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This book analyses the World Bank’s provision of technical assistance from 1946 to the present day. It argues that the relational dynamics between technical assistance provider and recipient affects the legitimacy of policy norms travelling from the ‘international’ to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-20
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