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Most observers who follow nuclear history agree on one major aspect regarding Israel's famous policy of nuclear ambiguity; mainly that it is an exception. More specifically, it is largely accepted that the 1969 Nixon-Meir understanding, which formally established...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-01
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The European Community (EC) has taken on an outward-looking dimension over the years since its first establishment, developing structures and tools which are unprecedented in the history of international relations.The original signatories of the Treaty of Rome accepted...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2014-04-29
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All over the world, the practice of peacebuilding is beset with common dilemmas: peace versus justice, religious versus secular approaches, individual versus structural justice, reconciliation versus retribution, and the harmonization of the sheer number of practices...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-04-17
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Europe's trade policies matter in global politics. Despite the recent focus on Brazil, India, and particularly China, the European Union remains the world's largest market and trader. Despite its recent economic troubles, Europe remains in a powerful position to shape...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-04-17
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Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day. At the international level, it overlaps with the now extensive debates on multiculturalism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-16
Collection :
Culture and Religion in International Relations
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Exchange programs are often considered to create goodwill for host countries among foreign citizens - yet is this the case? Drawing on a wealth of research with participants and alumni of exchange programs, Iain Wilson shows that the pursuit of goodwill receives little...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-16
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ÔEven if bilateral trade between India and China goes beyond $100 billion in the coming years, ChinaÕs posture towards India is adversarial and will perhaps remain so in the future, with Beijing viewing New Delhi through the prism of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2014-04-15
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The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of existing sociological theory on class and capitalism with material drawn from a great variety of sources it is likely...
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Polity
Parution :
2014-04-03
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This edited volume addresses the challenges and opportunities facing NATO post-2014, applying an original approach to strategy that will produce fresh insights into this hot topic within the international security community.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-02
Collection :
Governance, Security and Development
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China's commitments in Central Asia illustrate how regional foreign policy works and how long-standing principles of Chinese foreign policy might be revised in the near future.China's rise has 'moved' Asia, which is why it seems that what we have traditionally regarded...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-03-21
Collection :
Politics and Development of Contemporary China
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This Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century. Embraces a broad definition of security that extends beyond the threat of foreign military attack to cover new risks...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-20
Collection :
Handbooks of Global Policy
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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-03-17
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This book provides an important study of a short-lived government making foreign policy in the shadow of an impending general election. It considers Britain's relations with the United States, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-03-07
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Forging a Discipline analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last hundred years. This century marked the maturation and professionalization of social science disciplines such as political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-27
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The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor. It follows the refugee agency through some of the past two decades' major conflict-induced humanitarian...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-20
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Spain is at the epicentre of a crisis that threatens the future of the Eurozone. This book explains the deep historical and structural roots of the current crisis in Spain. It analyses the nexus between European circuits of financial capital, urbanisation, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-18
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-18
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Intellectual property is one of the most valuable forms of property in the modern world. From the perspective of companies producing knowledge-intensive goods, it encourages technological innovations for the benefit of humanity. For consumers of technology, it can be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-12
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The importance of international politics in Niccolò Machiavelli's thought cannot be denied. Although the familiar ideas expressed in the Prince and the Discourses are obviously relevant, the Art of War, the History of Florence, the dispatches that he wrote during his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-30
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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