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This book explores how modern Egyptians understand the Mamluks and reveals the ways in which that historical memory is utilized for political and ideological purposes. It specifically examines the representations of the Mamluks from two historical periods: the Mamluk...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book shows that escalating climate destruction today is not the product of public indifference, but of the blocked democratic freedoms of peoples across the world to resist unwanted degrees of capitalist interference with their ecological fate or capacity to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book provides a contemporary account of the linkages between the academic field of conflict resolution and the practice of military peacekeeping, through the lens of pre-deployment training for military personnel about to embark on UN peacekeeping operations....
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Springer
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2016-11-25
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This book offers an original analysis of the long-term impact of western and Chinese economic and development cooperation policies in Africa. It argues that western Official Development Assistance (ODA) has failed to create viable and autonomous economies in beneficiary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book examines public oath taking as an anti-corruption strategy that has been implemented with successful results in Nigeria and that has applications for other countries struggling with similar problems. The author of the book is the founder of Association of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization. The author emphasizes the horizontal interactions between local...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-25
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Zum Anlass des 10-jährigen Bestandsjubiläums der Abteilung „unikid & unicare – universitäre Anlaufstelle für Vereinbarkeit“ der Universität Graz wurde der vorliegende Sammelband zusammengestellt. Die Autorinnen sind Studentinnen, Absolventinnen, wissenschaftliche...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2016-11-25
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This edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict. The expansion of knowledge across disciplines and the increasingly blurred boundaries in the real world...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics? Taylor explores these questions, and how these media affect political knowledge, trust, efficacy, tolerance, policy attitudes, and political behaviors. Using...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book shows how political inaction has shaped the politics, economy and society we recognize today, despite the fact that policymakers are incentivised to act and to be seen to act decisively. Politicians make decisions which affect our lives every day but in our...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-24
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The Oxford Handbook of French Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the French political system through the lens of political science.
The Handbook is organized into three parts: the first part identifies foundational concepts for the French...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book is a broad and detailed case study of how journalists in more than 20 countries worldwide covered the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment (AR5) reports on the state of scientific knowledge relevant to climate change. Journalism,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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The re-emergence of the city from the long shadow of the state in the late-twentieth century was facilitated by the state itself.The unprecedented size and scale of today's global cities and mega cities owe their conditions of possibility to a fundamental shift in the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book explains the increasingly turbulent Sino–Japanese relations since the 2000s by innovatively investigating the formation mechanism of mutual misperception deeply rooted in China-Japan-U.S. trilateral structural dynamics. The political and security relationship...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-24
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This book analyzes the implementation of Law 975 in Colombia, known as the Justice and Peace Law, and proposes a critical view of the transitional scenario in Colombia from 2005 onwards. The author analyzes three aspects of the law: 1) The process of negotiation with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book responds to an increasingly pluricentric, reflexive, and flexible society as a result of globalization and economic liberation from the bureaucratic-political system. The third industrial revolution saw citizens, companies, and the economy acting in functional...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This highly original work considers the rhetoric of political actors and commentators who identify digital media as the means to a new era of politics and democracy. Placing this rhetoric in a historical and intellectual context, it provides a compelling explanation of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This volume surveys the interplay between state and non-state actors in Latin American foreign policies and attitudes towards the Middle East in the twenty-first century. How will domestic instability and international tensions affect the choices and behavior of Latin...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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Based on a constructivist approach, this book offers a comparative analysis into the causes of nationalist populist politics in each of the five Nordic independent nation states. Behind the social liberal façade of the economically successful, welfare-orientated Nordic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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