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This book seeks to demystify the persistence of the Anglo-American Special Relationship (AASR) in the post-Cold War era by constructing a new theory of alliance persistence. This theory of alliance persistence not only has stronger explanatory power than the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-05
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This book presents the first full and systematic account of Iran’s nuclear program from 1979 to 2015. Throughout this time, foreign policy makers, intelligence experts, and scholars on the subject have repeatedly failed to understand the internal dynamics behind Iran's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-05
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The world economy has, over the past half century, become increasingly intertwined, and countries mutually dependent.The convergence of emerging market economies (EMEs) with the advanced, richer ones has led to dramatic transformation—where the former have sustained...
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OUP India
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2017-01-05
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This book discusses the impact of China's rise on regional order at three levels: Sino-US relations, East Asia’s contested sub regions and regional institutions. Sino-US relations provide a framework to examine macro-regional relations. In East Asia’s contested sub...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-05
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This book presents a cogent but comprehensive review of Taiwan’s socio-economic transformation from a Japanese colony to a thriving East Asian mini-state. Since the 1980’s, Taiwan has primarily been viewed as a thriving economic model. Though certainly true, this...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-04
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This book examines the effectiveness and consistency of EU democracy promotion in its Eastern neighbourhood between 1991 and 2014. It concludes that the EU’s democratization role in this region was, not surprisingly, weak within this time period. However, this weak...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-04
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This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia. It addresses the question of whether Surakarta’s strategy for handling the city’s informal sector and marginal settlements shows evidence of sustainability and good...
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Springer
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2017-01-04
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This book discusses the current tendencies in women’s representation and their role in politics in Latin American countries from three different perspectives. Firstly, the authors examine cultural, political-partisan and organizational obstacles that women face in and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2017-01-04
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Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-04
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Melanie Müller untersucht die Folgen der Integration der verschiedenen Weltregionen in das System der Vereinten Nationen für soziale Bewegungen. Am Fallbeispiel Südafrika zeigt sie, dass internationale Konferenzen als ‚transformatives Ereignis‘ charakterisiert werden...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-03
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Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie
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The definitive modern primer on the US Constitution, “an eloquent testament to the Constitution as a covenant across generations” (National Review). From freedom of speech to gun ownership, religious liberty to abortion, practically every aspect of...
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Basic Books
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2017-01-03
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Today's Turkey little resembles that of recent decades. Newfound economic prosperity has had many unexpected social and political repercussions, most notably the rise of the AKP party and President Erdogan. Despite unprecedented electoral popularity, the conduct of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-03
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In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-03
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick" Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as a great power. It was the right sentiment, perhaps, in an age of imperial rivalry but today many Americans doubt the utility of their global military...
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Basic Books
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2017-01-03
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Der Autor untersucht das Kräftefeld, das Selbstverständnis und die Handlungspraxis von Agenturen, Beratungsunternehmen, Einzelberatern, Rechtsanwaltskanzleien und „anderen Dienstleistern“, die in der „Berliner Republik“ Lobbying und Public Affairs-Management als...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-02
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einer politiktheoretischen und empirischen Perspektive. Konkret sind Arcana Imperii die Geheimnisse der Herrschafteiner Politik, die sich hinter verschlossenen Türen abspielt. Geheimdiplomatie, Geheimverträge und Geheimdienste kennzeichnen die dunkle Seite der Macht....
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Springer VS
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2017-01-02
Collection :
Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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When Pakistan emerged as an independent state in 1947, it sought to provide a new homeland and safe harbor for South Asia's Muslims, the largest religious minority in the subcontinent at the time. Yet this project was not exclusive. Taking its name from Pakstan, an...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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Vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmend disparat verlaufenden Finanzlage der deutschen Kommunen begibt sich Marc Seuberlich mithilfe quantitativer und qualitativer Daten auf die Suche nach den möglichen Ursachen dieser Entwicklung. Forschungsleitend wird von der These...
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Springer VS
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2017-01-02
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How do societies negotiate the apparently competing agendas of environmental protection and social justice? Why do some countries perform much better than others on this front?
Democracy in the Woods addresses these question by examining land rights conflicts-and the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-02
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When India and Pakistan held nuclear tests in 1998, they restarted the clock on a competition that had begun half a century earlier. Nuclear weapons restored strategic parity, erasing the advantage of India's much larger size and conventional military superiority. Yet...
Editeur :
Hurst
Parution :
2017-01-01
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