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The book focuses on analyzing the turbulent situation in the Indian Ocean from the political, economic and security perspectives. It discusses topics ranging from the major powers’ great game in the Indo-Pacific and China’s countermeasures, to China and India’s...
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Springer
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2017-08-12
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Dieses essential interpretiert und erklärt den Bundestagswahlkampf 2017. ?Nach einleitenden Überlegungen, die sich einerseits auf frühere Wahlen beziehen und andererseits die spezifische Relevanz der Bundestagswahl 2017 herausstellen, folgen die Hauptkapitel...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-11
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This book provides an overview of the sudden ascendancy of Islamism in post-Mubarak Egypt and a detailed history of the power grab by the Muslim Brotherhood. The author argues that liberals and Copts are minor factions, and that the Islamists, the military and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-11
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Direkte Demokratie und Bürgerbeteiligung stehen hoch im Kurs. In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurden zu diesen Beteiligungsformaten genügend kommunale Erfahrungen gesammelt. Dieses Buch fasst die neueren politikwissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zu diesen Demokratie(re)formen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-08-11
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This book brings together a team of specialists to explore why some left-wing politicians are able to communicate their message effectively, whereas others struggle to connect with the public. To address this question, it analyses the rhetoric and narratives employed by...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-10
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This book examines how property rights are linked to socio-economic progress and development. It also provides a theoretical analysis, an economic/social analysis of planning, case studies of the implementation of planning and regulation instruments, practices related...
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Springer
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2017-08-10
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Dieses Buch behandelt die Interaktion, Kooperation und Fusion von neuen Akteuren, Strategien, Taktiken und Mitteln des islamistischen Terrorismus und der transnationalen organisierten Kriminalität. Diese müssen als vitale Bedrohungen sowohl für die...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-10
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This book presents a critical reflection on how the presence of «culture» in theory and practice of international relations is reflected in International Relations as a research field. The authors analyze culture in International Relations scholarship and evaluate...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2017-08-10
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This title offers an in-depth analysis of the psychological causes and consequences of, and proposed interventions for over-eating. The author examines the history of obesity and its distribution by social class and geography, the environmental effects of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-09
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This edited volume examines contemporary relations between Europe and Asia through the prism of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). ASEM is an informal forum for dialogue and cooperation between 53 partners from both regions. Having started in 1996, ASEM aims to enhance...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-09
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This book offers an overview of social media usage in Japan and describes its role in society during mid-level disruptions by natural disasters. Conceived during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake that devastated large portions of the north-eastern area of Japan,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-08-09
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Ina Peters analyzes how collective identities and collective action frames have contributed to the persistence and eventual fragmentation of the collective action against the Belo Monte Dam. Reconstructing the rationale of the conflict,Ina Peters addresses theoretical...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-09
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This work explores the processes of creation and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi. Mapping the landscape of discrimination in Delhi’s neighbourhoods, Jamil tries to see how such fractured geographies are created. We come across people whose sense of...
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OUP India
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2017-08-09
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How effective is the Indian polity in making laws and policies to address changing ground realities?How do its gears work? Which stakeholder groups are more successful in bringing about policy change, through what methods, and in what contexts? Seeking to answer these...
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OUP India
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2017-08-09
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Konstantin Witschel untersucht am Beispiel des Konfliktes im Osten der Demokratischen Republik Kongo die Diskrepanz zwischen akteursinhärenten Attributen und Erfolg in bewaffneten Konflikten. Mittels einer Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse und einer Prozessanalyse soll...
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Springer VS
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2017-08-09
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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As with many spheres of public life, public diplomatic communication is being transformed by the boom of social media. More than 165 foreign governmental organisations in China have embarked on the use of Weibo (a hybrid of Facebook and Twitter in China) to engage with...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2017-08-09
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This book focuses on Jürgen Habermas’ theorising on law, rights and democracy in light of the modern critique of law. The latter tradition, which goes back to Hegel and Marx, has addressed the limitations of rights as vocabulary of emancipation and law as language of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-08
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This book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought. Using a discourse perspective, this work brings...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-08-08
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The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown. Is it possible that the second largest economy in the world could collapse and drag the rest...
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Polity
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2017-08-08
Collection :
The Future of Capitalism
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Some analysts have called distrust the biggest governmental crisis of our time. It is unquestionably a huge problem, undermining confidence in our elected institutions, shrinking social capital, slowing innovation, and raising existential questions for democratic...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-08-07
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