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This edited volume seeks to understand and explain the pattern of varying national and regional success in post-communist political and economic transition across the post-communist world. Despite widespread hopes for the development of vigorous democratic political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-09
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Over the last four decades, members of Congress have increasingly embraced media relations as a way to influence national policymaking and politics. In 1977, nearly half of congressional members had no press secretary. Today, media relations is a central component of...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-02-09
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'A fresh, powerful portrait of Lenin' Anne Applebaum, author of Red Famine'Richly readable ... An enthralling but appalling story' Francis Wheen, author of Karl MarxThe cold, one-dimensional figure of Lenin the political fanatic is only a partial truth. Drawing on...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2017-02-09
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-02-09
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This book explores the crisis of the British state. Though it has been particularly apparent since the outcome of both the 2014 Scottish independence and 2016 ‘Brexit’ referendums, it stems from deep historical roots. The book traces the origins of the state to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-08
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War, nuclear weapons, and terrorism are all major threats to US security, but a new set of emerging threats are challenging the current threat response apparatus and our ability to come up with creative and effective solutions. This book considers new, 'non-traditional'...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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This second part of a two-volume series examines in detail the financing of America’s major wars from the Spanish-American War to the Vietnam War. It interweaves analyses of political policy, military strategy and operations, and war finance and economic mobilization...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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This volume chronicles the policy challenges and adaptations faced and made by the South Korean government during the post-industrialization and democratization period. Following the model set by the first volume in the series, which covered the economic and social...
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Springer
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2017-02-08
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This book marks a critical contribution in assessing and extending the evidence base on the causes and consequences of women’s homelessness. Drawing together work from Europe’s leading homelessness scholars, it presents a multidisciplinary and comparative analysis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-08
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Rome's wars delivered great wealth to the conquerors, but how did this affect politics and society on the home front? In Power and Public Finance at Rome, James Tan offers the first examination of the Roman Republic from the perspective of fiscal sociology and makes the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-02-08
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This edited volume critically assesses emerging trends in contemporary warfare and international interventionism as exemplified by the ‘local turn’ in counterinsurgent warfare. It asks how contemporary counterinsurgency approaches work and are legitimized; what...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-07
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For one hundred and forty two years The Statesman's Yearbook has been relied upon to provide accurate and comprehensive information on the current, political, economic and social status of every country in the world. The 2006 edition is fully updated and contains more...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The Statesman's Yearbook
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This book addresses the possibilities of analyzing the modern international through the thought of Michel Foucault. The broad range of authors brought together in this volume question four of the most self-evident characteristics of our contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-07
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This book studies systemic vulnerabilities and their impact on states and individual survival. The author theorizes that the structure of the international system is a product of the distribution of capabilities and vulnerabilities across states. States function or...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-07
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Die vorliegende Untersuchung befasst sich insbesondere mit folgenden Fragen: Welche Teuerungsklauseln werden in Lohnvereinbarungen verankert und wie funktionieren sie? Kann man durch solche Regelungen ein bestimmtes Realeinkommen bei Inflation ganz, teilweise oder...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-02-07
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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
Parution :
2017-02-07
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Now in its 152nd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-07
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The Statesman's Yearbook
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Jan Beermann addresses persistent research gaps in urban climate governance and North-South cooperation. He compares the form, processes and outcomes of four local climate protection projects conducted as part of German-Indian urban cooperation and explores the...
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Springer VS
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2017-02-06
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This book provides a comprehensive historical overview of US foreign policy in the Middle East using the theoretical framework of offensive realism and highlighting the role of geography and regional power distribution in guiding foreign policy. It argues that the US...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-02-06
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Sebastian Stier führt bislang isolierte Literaturen der politik- und kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Internetforschung zusammen und untersucht empirisch, inwiefern Autokratien in ihrer Netzpolitik und politischen Online-Kommunikation von Demokratien abweichen. Der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-02-06
Collection :
Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
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