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Public housing was once an important strand in western housing policies, but is seldom seen as a mainstream policy instrument for the future. In contrast, in many East Asian countries large public housing programs are underway. Behind these generalizations, there are...
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Springer
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2013-12-26
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Geopolitics and Expertise is an in-depth exploration of how expert knowledge is created and exercised in the external relations machinery of the European Union. Provides a rare, full-length work on transnational diplomatic practice Based on a rigorous and empirical...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2013-12-24
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RGS-IBG Book Series
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America and China are the two most powerful players in global affairs, and no relationship is more consequential. How they choose to cooperate and compete affects billions of lives. But U.S.-China relations are complex and often delicate, featuring a multitude of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-18
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The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises.The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of devastating inter-state and inter-communal conflicts, including civil wars.The second is an economic crisis, evidenced by...
Editeur :
Polity
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2013-12-17
Collection :
Hot Spots in Global Politics
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This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Samuel Huntington predicted, but because it is adopting Western institutions. The emerging global order offers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-17
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Most EU-scholars conceive of the EU as a multilevel polity with strong powers to regulate economic policy externalities among the member states but little power to intervene in, let alone assume, core functions of sovereign government ('core state powers') such as...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-12-13
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Der Sammelband liefert einen Überblick der deutschsprachigen Diskussion der Internationalen Politischen Ökonomie und wirft die Frage auf, ob sich durch die Weltfinanzkrise theoretisch-konzeptionelle, regionale und themenfeldspezifische einschneidende Veränderungen für...
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Springer VS
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2013-12-13
Collection :
Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik – Sonderhefte
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This book proposes a new approach to studying the effectiveness of peace operations. It asks not whether peace operations work or why, but how: when a peace operation achieves its goals, what causal processes are at work?
By discovering how peace operations work, this...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-12
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This book focuses on a central concept that “Theory is History”, as the theory of capitalism can only be formulated on the basis of an analysis of its history. In contrast, bourgeois thinking replaces the analysis of historical capitalism with an abstract theory without...
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Springer
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2013-12-12
Collection :
SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice
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Far-reaching changes in the global distribution of wealth over the last few decades have led scholars of regional integration to recognise a need to examine the regional level as an arena of social policy formation and implementation. This development has long been an...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-12-04
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?Substantial disparities across different Chinese regions are one of the most prominent features in China’s development process. This book investigates the mechanisms through which openness affects regional economic growth and interregional disparities in China. Based...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-29
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Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-26
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In historical terms, the Old Diplomacy is not really that old many of its concepts and methods date to the mid-nineteenth century while the practices of New Diplomacy emerged only a couple of generations later. Moreover, "Diplomacy 2.0" and other variants of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2013-11-21
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Academics, policy-makers and practitioners from Africa and beyond document new ways of thinking about issues concerning governance and revenue flows in mining activities in Ghana, Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-21
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book investigates the causes of inequalities that have developed in the European Union, analyzes their social and economic consequences, and assesses the political measures taken to address these issues – also on the basis of public survey results.The detailed...
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Springer
Parution :
2013-11-19
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This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the existing literature that emphasizes the importance of electoral rules as determinative of political party systems.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-18
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Wer heute über die deutsch-französischen Beziehungen nach 1945 spricht, denkt in der Regel an den Élysée-Vertrag, das Deutsch-Französische Jugendwerk und die (bundes)deutsch-französische Aussöhnung. Vergessen wird dabei häufig, dass auch die DDR bis zu ihrem Ende 1990...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2013-11-15
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Surmounting the Global Crisis critiques the impact of NATO enlargement and the US 'pivot to Asia' on both the Russia and China and examines how these dual US-backed policies may influence key countries in the Euro-Atlantic, wider Middle East, and Indo-Pacific regions in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-12
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This book is about the status of political equality under global political conditions. If political equality generally is considered a core feature of democracy, it has received little attention among theorists concerned with global governance. Given the enormous...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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This book analyzes the origins of conflicts and wars in the Persian Gulf, assesses the common factor(s) that have been their essential fuel, determines their fallout for the political, economic, and human development of the region, and provides insight into how they may...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-07
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