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With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be Russia and China who now define the rules of global politics? From Syria to the South China Sea, each has become much more assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a...
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E-Penguin
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2017-04-03
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China's spectacular growth and expanding global role have led to visions of the 21st century being dominated by the last major state on earth ruled by a Communist Party. In this new edition of his widely acclaimed book, renowned China expert Jonathan Fenby shows why...
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Polity
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2017-03-27
Collection :
Global Futures
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Angesichts des Aufstiegs von Staaten wie Brasilien, Indien und China zu neuen Wissensmächten fragt das Buch nach den Konsequenzen, die diese Dynamik für die globale Regulierung geistiger Eigentumsrechte mit sich bringen könnte und prüft entlang des Fallbeispiels...
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Springer VS
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2017-03-24
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Brazil has risen. Its economic might and international activism are remarkable, but the limitations to its capacity and will to turn potential power into concrete international influence are equally significant. This book assesses the real impact of the rise ofBrazil on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-22
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This book examines changes in Taiwan’s policies toward Mainland China under former Republic of China (ROC) President Ma Ying-jeou (2008-16) and considers their implications for US policy toward the Taiwan Strait. In recent years, the People’s Republic of China...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-21
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This book, which brings together scholars from the developed and developing world, explores one of the most salient features of contemporary international relations: South-South cooperation. It builds on existing empirical evidence and offers a comparative analytical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-14
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This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-03-03
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The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective. In this timely book,...
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Polity
Parution :
2017-02-27
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As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance,...
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Polity
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2017-02-27
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The author narrates the end of the European crisis from the June 2012 European Council summit through the bailout of Cyprus. Paying particular attention to political developments in Italy, the book shows the fragility of market confidence and the waving attitudes of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2017-02-24
Collection :
Global Reordering
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This book examines Western military technological innovation through the lens of developments in small arms during the twentieth century. These weapons have existed for centuries, appear to have matured only incrementally and might seem unlikely technologies for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-15
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NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, prominent actors in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally affect women from the global South. FeministNGOs andNGOs focusing on women's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-14
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NGOs headquartered in the North have been, for some time, prominent actors in attempts to address the poverty, lack of political representation, and labor exploitation that disproportionally affect women from the global South. FeministNGOs andNGOs focusing on women's...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-14
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Can multilateral treaties succeed in transforming conduct when they are rejected by the most powerful states in the international system? In the past two decades, coalitions of middle-power states and transnational civil society groups have negotiated binding legal...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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This edited volume is an outcome of the first major collaborative project between Japanese economists and political scientists, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The authors of the individual chapters show that Asian states play games of...
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Springer
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2017-02-07
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Untreue als Wirtschaftsstraftat beschäftigt Justiz und Wissenschaft in den letzten Jahren in hohem Maße; einige spektakuläre Fälle waren monatelang Thema auch der Tagespresse. Aus dem Gesamtspektrum möglicher Untreuetaten stellt die „Untreue im Konzern“ nur einen...
Editeur :
Centaurus Verlag & Media
Parution :
2017-01-27
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In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have "the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid." At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States seemed...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-23
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Der Band entfaltet eine Herrschaftsperspektive auf die internationalen Beziehungen und diskutiert verschiedene Formen, die Herrschaft im internationalen System annehmen kann, das Verhältnis von Herrschaft und Widerstand und die Konsequenzen, die sich aus einer...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-01-23
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Praised in the New York Times Book Review for its "Herculean power of synthesis," George C. Herring's 2008 From Colony to Superpower has won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike. Years of Peril and Ambition: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1776-1921 is the first volume...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-01-20
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