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This book builds upon an inter-disciplinary body of literature to detail the centrality of European colonialism and imperialism in the constitution of modern international relations. A critical historical analysis that challenges conventional assumptions about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-25
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Das vorliegende Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Aufarbeitung der sogenannten Pädophiliedebatte in der Partei Die Grünen. Im Jahr 2013 wurde die Partei geradezu unvermittelt damit konfrontiert, dass sie in Teilen in den 1980er Jahren, sexuelle Kontakte zwischen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This book provides an intimate picture of Lebanon, exploring the impacts of the Arab uprisings of 2011 which are deeply affecting Lebanese politics and society. The book examines Lebanon’s current issues and its deep sectarian divisions, as well as the ways in which it...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This volume examines philanthropic practices against the backdrop of the continuities, disruptions and changes in twentieth century German socio-political relations. It presents a differentiated understanding of the relationship between philanthropy and...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-25
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The subject of a New York Times best-selling biography and a Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, interest in Alexander Hamilton is at an all-time high. This carefully curated collection of Hamilton's writings gives the reader an intimate glimpse into the mind of our most...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
2016-10-25
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This book is a valuable work of reference for the study of sea power, especially in China. It analyzes the challenges and problems facing China’s sea power and offers a complete set of solutions known as ‘sea exploitation.’ In this context, it discusses five aspects of...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-25
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Ausgehend von einer Analyse der politischen und geistesgeschichtlichen Wurzeln der Trennung von Staat und Kirche in Frankreich beleuchtet Dimitri Almeida die unterschiedlichen Deutungen des Laizitätsprinzips und die Konflikte, die sich beispielsweise in der Frage der...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-24
Collection :
Politik und Religion
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This book offers a novel, refreshing and politically engaged way to think about public policy. Instead of treating policy as simply the government’s best efforts to address problems, it offers a way to question critically how policies produce “problems” as particular...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-10-24
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The Annual Report objectively reflects the year’s developments in terms of politics, the economy, society, culture, the environment, innovation and reform, and describes the problems, challenges and countermeasures in both traditional and new special economic zones. It...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-24
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Katrin Praprotnik analysiert die Wahlversprechen der Parteien in Österreich zwischen 1990 und 2013. Sie betrachtet das politische Angebot von Parteien im Wahlkampf, das inhaltliche Ergebnis von Koalitionsverhandlungen sowie die politische Bilanz von Regierungen. Die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-21
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Taking its departure in the concept of strategic culture, this book answers the question of why European countries decide either to participate or not in international military operations. This volume examines strategic culture and its relation to justifications of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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A stellar collection of contributors consider each British post-war Prime Minister and examine how they have dealt with Britain's changing role, domestic and overseas, since the end of WWII. Even at the start of the 21st century, Britain remains in a state of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This edited volume offers different theories useful for understanding and explaining European Union cooperation on internal security matters. Cooperation on such matters has not only flourished over the past two decades, but - more recently - has also become one of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-20
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This revised and expanded edition of A World History of Ancient Political Thought examines the political thought of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, Iran, India, China, Greece, Rome and early Christianity, from prehistory to c.300 CE. The book explores the earliest...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-10-20
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In this book, the authors explore the apparent decline in youth civic engagement through research studies conducted in seven societies/nations with varied experiences with democracy. This work is framed within a youth civic engagement model. Each subsequent...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This book is a historical sociological examination of the formulation and institutionalization of Turkish nationhood during the early Republic (1920-1938). Focusing on the language, education, and citizenship policies advanced during the period, it looks at how the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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This book engages with the Chinese mediation of wars and conflicts in the global environment.Proposing a new cascading media and conflict model, it applies this to the studyof war correspondents from six levels: media-policy relations, journalistic objectivity,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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At a time of change in the international system, this book examines how non-traditional leading nations from the Global South have fared to date and what the chances are of their rise to continue. In the second decade of the twenty-first century, the enthusiasm of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-10-19
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