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Jihadist narratives have evolved dramatically over the past five years, driven by momentous events in the Middle East and beyond; the death of bin Laden; the rise and ultimate failure of the Arab Spring; and most notably, the rise of the so-called Islamic State. For...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book offers a series of original arguments on the relationships that Western interest groups have with the Chinese state. It details their lobbying strategies and the leverage it gives them in policy-making in China's political system. Analysis is provided in a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
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This book explains when and how interest groups are influential in the European Parliament, which has become one of the most important lobbying venues in the EU. Yet we know little about the many ways in which interest groups and lobbyists influence parliamentary...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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This study provides a conceptual framework for analysing Results-Based Approaches to improving public sector effectiveness and efficiency according to their actor constellation and shared characteristics. Though the importance of functioning public sector agencies and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book explores the traces of the passage of time on the protracted and intractable conflict of Western Sahara. The authors offer a multilevel analysis of recent developments from the global to the local scenes, including the collapse of the architecture of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book offers a novel approach to understanding violence and violent conflict using complexity and network theories, borrowed from the natural sciences, together with social network analysis. Because violence is both a universal and central component of human...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies, this research...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-30
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This handbook provides an authoritative study of European decentralisation, taking into account, from a territorial perspective, the different political and administrative traditions in Europe (Continental, Anglo-Saxon and Ex-communist States) and the cleavages...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-29
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Caritas und Diakonie zählen zu den zentralen Akteuren im deutschen Sozialstaat. Sie stellen einen großen Anteil der sozialstaatlichen Leistungen bereit und haben diese im Laufe der Zeit stetig ausgeweitet und ausdifferenziert. In neuerer Zeit müssen sie sich im...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-29
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This book examines the distinctive contribution that the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer make to democratic theory. Walhof argues that Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy enlarges our perspective by shifting our view away from individual citizens to what exists between...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-29
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This unique handbook brings together a team of leading scholars and practitioners in order to map, synthesize and assess key perspectives on cooperation and rivalry between regional and global organizations in world politics. For the first time, a variety of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-29
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Australia has long been a reliable ally of the United States. But has it become too reliable? Sixty-five years after the signing of the ANZUS treaty, and at a time of great strategic change caused by the rise of China, it is time for a fresh look at the...
Editeur :
E-Penguin
Parution :
2016-11-28
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This book explores the daily mobilities and immobilities of children and young people in sub-Saharan Africa. The authors draw on findings from rural and urban field research extending over many years, culminating in a 24-site study across three African countries: Ghana,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-26
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This book undertakes the first systematic, multi-country investigation into how regimes of place equality, consisting of multilevel policies, institutions and governance at multiple scales, influence spatial inequality in metropolitan regions. Extended, diversified...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-26
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This book compares the performances of four key non-state actors in the Arab-Israeli conflict ecosystem: the PLO, Hamas, Hizbullah, and Amal. It argues that it is not the assets a militant group has, but rather how it acquired them that matters in explaining the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-26
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Der Band untersucht wichtige Stationen des Wandels politisch-religiöser Ideen im Christentum und im Islam als ideelle Anpassungsleistungen an die sich stetig verändernden gesellschaftlichen Rahmenbedingungen bzw. auch als Gestaltungsversuche des Politischen auf Basis...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-26
Collection :
Politik und Religion
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This book investigates the economic, political and cultural factors that influence regional economic integration processes as well as international political cooperation in the area of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The authors analyze market integration...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-26
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The contributors to this book critically examine the performance of new modes of governance in areas of limited statehood, drawing on a range of in-depth case studies on issues of climate change, biodiversity, and health. The Paris Agreement for Climate Change...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
Collection :
Governance and Limited Statehood
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This book addresses core questions about the nature and structure of contemporary capitalism and the social dynamics and countervailing forces that shape modern life. From a robust and self-consciously sociological framework, it analyzes and interrogates such issues as...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book considers the radical effects the emergence of social media and digital politics have had on the way that advocacy organisations mobilise and organise citizens into political participation. It argues that these changes are due not only to technological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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