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This book focuses on the question of whether and how civil society may contribute to policy innovation. As the focus of civil society research is often more on the constraints on civil society by the state and less on the agency and effects of civil society...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-29
Collection :
The Nottingham China Policy Institute Series
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Wo bislang eine schwimmende Eisschicht das Meer der Arktis zwischen Sibirien, Alaska, Kanada, Grönland und dem Norden Skandinaviens ganzjährig bedeckte, werden sich in absehbarer Zukunft neue Seewege für den Welthandel öffnen und der Zugriff auf bislang unerreichbare...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-04-21
Collection :
essentials
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The book analyzes Brazil's Africa engagement as a rising power's strategy to gain global recognition, linking it to Brazil's broader foreign policy objectives and shedding light on the mechanisms of Brazilian status-seeking in Africa.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-16
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In the past generation, Brazil has risen to become the seventh largest economy and fourth largest democracy in the world. Yet its rise challenges the conventional wisdom that capitalist democracies will necessarily converge to become faithful adherents of a US-led...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-15
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This study examines the history and politics of Turkey-EU relations since 1959, exploring the complex interaction of geostrategic and normative concerns which have resulted in the current lack of accession progress and Turkey's slide to authoritarianism.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-08
Collection :
New Security Challenges
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The world of trade is changing rapidly, from the 'rise of the South' to the growth of unconventional projects like fair trade and carbon trading. Beyond Free Trade advances alternative ways for understanding these new dynamics, based on historical, political, or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-08
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book reveals the mechanisms underlying the convergence of car fuel economy regulations in Europe, Japan and the US by drawing upon a constructivist theory of International Relations and law that focuses on business competition and environmental regulations. It...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-04-08
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This volume brings emerging research on religion and development into conversation with politics. Deploying innovative conceptual frameworks, and drawing on empirical research from across contemporary Asia, this collection makes an incisive contribution to the analysis...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-07
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The author examines the rise of the BRICs and the supposed decline of the United States. Focusing on the boom years from 1992 to 2007, and the crisis years after 2008, he argues that there are limits to the rise of the former and that the extent of US decline has been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-04-07
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book presents the theoretical-historical-comparative political framework needed to fully grasp the truly dynamic nature of 21st century global affairs. The author provides a realistic assessment of the shift from U.S predominance to a new mix of counterbalancing...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2015-04-02
Collection :
Global Power Shift
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Au sortir de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, des millions d’étrangers se trouvent sur le sol allemand : anciens travailleurs forcés, rescapés des camps nazis ou déracinés aux profils multiples. La plupart d’entre eux sont rapatriés après la capitulation allemande, mais...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2015-03-31
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?This edited volume discusses critically the social implications of current structural transformations in Europe within the broader context of the global financial crisis. Experts from across Europe and the US discuss challenges and solutions to political and economic...
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Springer
Parution :
2015-03-26
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The Oxford Handbook of Transnational Feminist Movements explores the historical, political, economic and social contexts in which transnational feminist movements have emerged and spread, and the contributions they have made to global knowledge, power and social change...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-25
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China?s ambition is to rise peacefully. Avoiding fierce conflicts with its Asian neighbors is essential to this goal. Jonathan Holslag makes a brilliant case for the geopolitical dilemma facing the rising China, and his argument that China will likely enter into major...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-17
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This study looks at the underlying foundations of global order, putting aside mainstream institutionalist approaches in showing how China and the US are engaged in an intense process of contestation and renegotiation of an institutionalized order that has long been...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-17
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Now that the 'Varieties of Capitalism' hype has passed, students of capitalist diversity are searching for new directions. This book presents the first sustained dialogue between institutionalist 'post-VoC' and more critical, global approaches, thus contributing to the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-17
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new...
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Polity
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2015-03-06
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For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War between the two...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2015-03-05
Collection :
Global Futures
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Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. In every aspect of international affairs,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-03-02
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Examining how leading developing countries are increasingly shaping international economic negotiations, this book uses the case studies of India and South Africa to demonstrate the ability of states to exert diplomatic influence through different bargaining strategies...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-01
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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