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The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Judicial Behavior offers readers a comprehensive introduction and analysis of research regarding decision making by judges serving on federal and state courts in the U.S. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the ...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-08
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This book reveals the nature of Sino-US strategic competition by examining the influence exerted by major secondary stakeholders, e.g. Japan, Russia, India, the Koreas, and ASEAN, on the two powers, USA and its rival China, who consider each other as a source of...
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Springer
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2017-06-07
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In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness and profound scholarship, Bobbio unfolds the elements for a general theory of politics. Bobbio's...
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Polity
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2017-06-06
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Die Beiträge des Buches basieren auf einer experimentell angelegten, mehrwelligen Studie im Kontext des TV-Duells zwischen Angela Merkel und Peer Steinbrück sowie des Dreikampfes zwischen Rainer Brüderle, Gregor Gysi und Jürgen Trittin im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl...
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Springer VS
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2017-06-05
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Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move.Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining...
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Polity
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2017-06-05
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Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we...
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Polity
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2017-06-05
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Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society was published in 1977. Forty years on, it is considered one of the classic texts in International Relations. It does not, however, address many world political issues that now concern us deeply, such as terrorism, global financial...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-06-03
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Terrorist use of the Internet has become a focus of media, policy, and scholarly attention in recent years. Terrorists use the Internet in a variety of ways, the most important being for propaganda purposes and operations-related content, but it is also potentially a...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-06-02
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With the passage of the Social Security Act in 1935, the US government ushered in a new era of social welfare policies, to counteract the devastation of The Great Depression. While political philosophers generally view the welfare state to be built on values of equality...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-02
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Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society was published in 1977. Forty years on, it is considered one of the classic texts in International Relations. It does not, however, address many world political issues that now concern us deeply, such as terrorism, global financial...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-06-02
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This book analyses Chile’s “truth and justice” policies implemented between 1990 and 2013. The book’s central assumption is that human rights policies are a form of public policy and consequently they are the product of compromises among different political actors....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-01
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This book offers a novel interpretation of Russian contemporary discourse on Islam and its influence on Russian state policies. It shifts the analytical perspective from the discussion about Russia's Islam as a potential security threat to a more comprehensive view of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-06-01
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Rafiq Hariri was Lebanon's Silvio Berlusconi: a 'self-made' billionaire who became prime minister and shaped postwar reconstruction. His assassination in February 2005 almost tipped the country into civil strife. Yet Hariri was neither a militia leader nor from a...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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Within recent years a new body of literature has emerged within international relations on transnationalism and foreign policy. This literature has thus far focused on the strategic relationship between home states and their ethnic lobbies abroad, often with regard to...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-06-01
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This book focuses on international relations in the Indian Ocean region and covers many policy aspects of Modi’s India. Written by leading scholars of international and Indian Ocean studies, this annual report includes both a strategic review and the major events and...
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Springer
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2017-06-01
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This book brings together the established field of political communication and the emerging field of critical event studies to develop new questions and approaches. Using this combined framework, it reflects upon how we should understand the expression of democratic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-05-31
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Bringing together eminent Australian, European and Russian experts and practitioners, this volume makes an important contribution to the crucial debates on climate change and energy that will have a profound impact on all our futures. The problems faced by business,...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2017-05-31
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Ulrich Heisterkamp untersucht aus vergleichender Perspektive das Potential und die Leistungsprofile der deutschen politischen Stiftungen als Think Tanks. Er leistet damit einen wichtigen Beitrag nicht nur zum Verständnis der parteinahen Stiftungen als Besonderheit des...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-31
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This book investigates the geopolitics and strategic dimensions of US-American foreign policy during George W. Bush's and Barack Obama's presidential terms. Based on a vast amount of empirical and historical sources, the author offers deep insights into the recent...
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Springer
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2017-05-30
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