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Tony Blair's decision to back George W. Bush in his attack on Iraq will go down as a defining moment for Britain. First as Ambassador to the UN, and then as Special Envoy for Iraq, the UK’s highest authority on the ground, Sir Jeremy Greenstock was centre stage in the...
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Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This book analyzes shifting international taxation strategies in pursuit of tax nomads, individuals and companies who minimize their tax obligations among multiple countries. Focusing on the efforts of the United States, the collective endeavours of the European Union...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-02
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This book examines the puzzle of why genetically modified organisms continue to be controversial despite scientific evidence declaring them safe for humans and the environment. What explains the sustained levels of resistance? Clancy analyzes the trans-Atlantic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-02
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Bringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. But what happens when those negotiations falter and conflict resolution fails? Is everything lost or are there prospects for meaningful change in even the most intractable of conflicts? ...
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Polity
Parution :
2016-11-02
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Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin’s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way. In this incisive...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-11-02
Collection :
Global Futures
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This volume honors the lifetime achievements of the distinguished activist and scholar Elise Boulding (1920–2010) on the occasion of her 95th birthday. Known as the “matriarch” of the twentieth century peace research movement, she made significant contributions in the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-02
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This book accounts for transformations in the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP)during fifteen years of operations (2001-2016), and argues that the EU evolved into a softer and more civilian security provider, rather than a military one.This learning process...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-01
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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Conventional wisdom says that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) functions as the de facto international lender of last resort (ILLR) for the global financial system. However, that premise is incomplete. Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? explores how the U.S. has for...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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When international agreements fail to solve global problems like climate change, transnational networks attempt to address them by implementing "global ideas" -- policies and best practices negotiated at the global level-locally around the world. Grassroots Global...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This book is a study into how immigration is transforming the EU and its member-states. Kostas Maronitis contends that immigration creates utopian and dystopian visions of the European project. These visions can be found in the immigration detention centers and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-01
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No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the specter of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. As the Levant has imploded and millenarian radicals claim to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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No topic has captured the public imagination of late quite so dramatically as the specter of global jihadism. While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. As the Levant has imploded and millenarian radicals claim to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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Dieses Buch führt in das britische Regierungssystem ein, welches zu den „Klassikern“ der vergleichenden Regierungslehre zählt. Das „Westminster Modell“ des Regierens hat sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten weitgehend verändert. Wie und auf welchen Feldern kann hier in einem...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-01
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While various democratic theorists have looked at particular instances of recent social movements (Occupy or the Arab Spring, for example), none have yet attempted a more general theoretical take on what it is that relates all of these movements and what that running...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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Grains - particularly maize, rice, and wheat - are the central component of most people’s diets, but we rarely stop to think about the wider role they play in national and international policy-making, as well as global issues like food security, biotechnology, and even...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-11-01
Collection :
Resources
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This book presents revealing reflections on historical, socio-political, and legal aspects, as well as their contexts, in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. Further, it includes theoretical and empirical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-11-01
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No book was more accessible or familiar to the American founders than the Bible, and no book was more frequently alluded to or quoted from in the political discourse of the age. How and for what purposes did the founding generation use the Bible? How did the Bible...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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There is a widespread assumption that the American food system after World War II was transformed-toward an increasingly industrialized production of crops, more processed foods, and diets higher in fat, sugar, and calories-as part of a unified system. In this book,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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As the world shifts away from the unquestioned American hegemony that followed in the wake of the Cold War, the United States is likely to face new kinds of threats and sharper resource constraints than it has in the past. However, the country's alliances, military...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-01
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This book explores the forces that shape Latino political preferences, arguing that social identities are at the center of Latino partisanship. Despite hopes of the Republican Party for bringing in Latinos through religious and moral issues, Latinos in America...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-31
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