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This book provides a detailed analysis of the complicated relations between Iran and its Arab neighbours. Arab perceptions of Iran, its regional policies and role in the Arab region, have never been more complicated than today. How is one to make sense of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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What does US aid “buy” in the Middle East? Drawing on extensive primary source research, this book examines the role and consequences of US aid to three countries in the Middle East. The author argues that the political survival strategies of incumbent leaders in Egypt,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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This book is a systematic consideration of the link between the extreme right and the discourse about developments in regard to gender issues within different national states. The contributors analyze right-wing extremist tendencies in Europe under the specific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-20
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India is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world. Yet health is not a part of our ambitious development story. In fact, India’s disproportionately stingy healthcare budget makes some of the poorer nations look better in comparison. Statistics, however, speak...
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OUP India
Parution :
2016-12-20
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Understanding the Life Course provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to the entire life course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining important insights from sociology and psychology, the book presents the concept?s theoretical underpinnings in an accessible...
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Polity
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2016-12-20
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This book addresses two general questions that have arisen as a result of the uneven rise of the various Asian economies in contemporary times. First, to lift people out of poverty and to improve the quality of their lives, how do we institute policies that will ensure...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-12-20
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This book explores Eleanor Roosevelt’s involvement in the global campaign for nuclear disarmament. Based on an extensive multi-archival research, it assesses her overall contribution to the global anti-nuclear campaign of the early cold war and shows how she...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-19
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This book brings together new perspectives on collective memory in the modern Muslim world. It discusses how memory cultures are established and used at national levels – in official history writing, through the erection of monuments, the fashioning of educational...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-19
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The book focusses on transitional justice policies implemented in Ukraine since the beginning of 2014.The author covers investigations and trials, vetting, historical justice, as well as two issues that only partially refer to the «transitional justice toolbox»:...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-19
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Das Buch untersucht, wie sich Südafrikas politisches System seit der Transition ab Mitte der 1990er Jahre entfaltet hat. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf den grundlegenden institutionellen, wirtschaftlichen und rechtlichen Strukturen. Durch eine tiefgreifende Analyse einzelner...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-12-18
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This book outlines the foreign and security policy of the European Union as envisaged under the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). Since establishing the CFSP in the 1990s, the European Union (EU) has showed its enthusiasm for global leadership, empowering...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-17
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This book addresses one of the most relevant challenges to the sustainability of the European Union (EU) as a political project: the deficit of citizens’ support. It identifies missing elements of popular legitimacy and makes proposals for their formal inclusion in a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-16
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Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's "near abroad" - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-16
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This book is about Japan-China power politics in the military, economic and propaganda domains. The post-2012 standoff over the disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands has unveiled the antagonistic quality to Sino-Japanese relations, with an important addition: a massive...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-16
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This book addresses the problem of World Regional Studies and its components: regional complexes, regional subsystems and global regions. With an increasingly complex international system and the emergence of new actors, it is clear that the conceptual framing within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-16
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The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globalization. Taking in the cultural, political and economic dimensions of globalization, the book provides a thorough...
Editeur :
Polity
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2016-12-16
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In times of climate change and public debt, a concern for intergenerational justice should lead us to have a closer look at theories of intergenerational justice. It should also press us to provide institutional design proposals to change the decision-making world that...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-15
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Die 15. Entwicklungspolitischen Hochschulwochen, die Südwind Salzburg in Kooperation mit der Universität Salzburg durchführte, nahmen das «Europäische Jahr für Entwicklung» (2015) zum Anlass, die Herausforderung «Entwicklung» aufzugreifen und einer interdisziplinären...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-12-15
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The question of toleration matters more than ever.The politics of the twenty-first century is replete with both the successes and, all too often, the failures of toleration. Yet a growing number of thinkers and practitioners have argued against toleration. Some believe...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-12-15
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