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This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unanticipated crises, and general turmoil in the twenty-first century. These disruptions are occurring against the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-11
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This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways that politics and financial markets impact one another. In this relationship, politics is the ultimate controlling force. The kinds and prices of financial instruments that get traded and the individuals and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-11
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This book analyses the role of social networks in the process of migration. Based on stories of Polish Jews who migrated between Poland and Palestine in the 1920s, the author presents all stages of the journey and shows how networks of friends and families spread in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-11-11
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This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal. Despite the many shifts Chilean economics and politics have undergone over the past...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-11
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This book explores the transformation of the Tunisian space of mobility after the Arab Uprisings, looking at the country’s emerging profile as a migratory “destination” and focusing on refugees from Syria, Libya, and Sub-Saharan countries; Tunisian migrants in Europe...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-11-10
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Through insightful, high-paced commentary this book directs attention south, towards Argentina. Current events, political debates, and the cultural production of artists, authors and public figures, including César Aira, María Moreno, Naty Menstrual and Copi, among...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-10
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First published in 1988, The Yellow Wind is Israeli novelist David Grossman’s impassioned account of what he observed on the West Bank in early 1987: not only the misery of the Palestinian refugees and their deep-seated hatred of the Israelis, but also the moral cost of...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2016-11-10
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This book considers the principal challenges facing the European Union, which has been buffeted by a series of profound crises, both internal and external. These range from the future of Ukraine, the Union’s reactions to China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ initiative, how to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-10
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This book investigates theoretically and empirically whether and (if so) how state weakness influences the way in which national civil societies constitute themselves, using Bangladesh and the Philippines as case studies. A vibrant civil society is usually perceived...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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The Handbook provides a comprehensive range of contributions on the relations between the EU and Asia - two regions undergoing significant changes internally yet also developing stronger relations in the context of an emerging multi-polar world. It collates some 40...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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Britain is at a cross-roads; from the economy, to the education system, to social mobility,Britain must learn the rules of the 21st century, or face a slide into mediocrity. Brittania Unchained travels around the world, exploring the nations that are triumphing in this...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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Der Sammelband analysiert, ob der Regierungswechsel hin zu Grün-Rot in Baden-Württemberg auch zu einem entsprechend rapiden Politikwechsel im Bundesland geführt hat. Nach 57 Jahren Regierungsbeteiligung der CDU kam mit der von Winfried Kretschmann geführten...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book examines the continuities and substantial transformations in Greek foreign policy before the beginning and during the unfolding of the economic crisis. Although up until now, significant attention has been cast on the rise of the neo-Nazi movement, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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Der Band untersucht die Perspektiven sozialer Demokratie in der Postdemokratie anhand zweier Leitfragen: Stellt Postdemokratie wirklich eine stabile Ordnung dar oder doch nur einen Zwischenzustand zu einer autoritären Überwindung der politischen Demokratie? Welche...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-09
Collection :
Staat – Souveränität – Nation
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This book focuses on the recent political trajectories within the Baltic Sea Region from one of the success stories of regionalism in Europe to a potential area of military confrontation between Russia and NATO. The authors closely examine the following issues:...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This book documents and highlights the Deobandi dimension of extremism and its implications for faith-based violence and terrorism.This dimension of radical Islam remains largely ignored or misunderstood in mainstream media and academic scholarship. The book addresses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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Tina Asdecker führt Berechnungen durch, die zeigen, dass im gesamten Gesundheitswesen eine Quersubventionierung der Privaten Krankenversicherung zulasten der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung in Höhe von aktuell rund 2 Mrd. Euro vorliegt. Im speziellen Fall der...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2016-11-09
Collection :
BestMasters
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This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century. It contests the consensus view that Ireland, like other Anglophone countries, has historically operated a liberal welfare regime which forces households to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This volume examines how local actors respond to Africa’s high dependence on donor health funds. It focuses on the large infusion of donor money to address HIV and AIDS into Malawi and Zambia and the subsequent slow-down in that funding after 2009. How do local people...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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This edited volume considers the extent to which the Obama presidency matched the promises of hope and change that were held out in the 2008 election. Contributors assess the character of “change” and, within this context, survey the extent to which there was enduring...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-09
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