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Laurence Pope describes the contemporary dysfunction of the State Department and its Foreign Service. He contends that in the information age diplomacy is more important than ever, and that, as President Obama has stressed, without a "change of thinking" the...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-01-29
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Sara Konoe looks into the politics of financial regulatory developments in the United States, Japan, and Germany. These case studies highlight systemic interaction between institutions and political contexts, and provide broader implications for global financial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-01-28
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Against the backdrop of China’s increasingly influential role in the international financial architecture, this book seeks to characterize and evaluate China’s financial power potential. It does so by analyzing the relationship between domestic financial repression and...
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Springer
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2014-01-27
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Global Power Shift
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The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-01-21
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Global Issues
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The notion of counter-insurgency has become a dominant paradigm in American and British thinking about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This volume brings together international academics and practitioners to evaluate the broader theoretical and historical factors that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-01-21
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Rethinking Political Violence
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What has gone wrong with economics? Economists now routinely devise highly sophisticated abstract models that score top marks for theoretical rigour but are clearly divorced from observable activities in the current economy. This creates an 'uneconomic economics', where...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2014-01-17
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Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
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'As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By that I mean the love - there is no other word for it - I came to feel for the troops, and the overwhelming sense of personal responsibility I developed for them. So much so that it would shape some...
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Virgin Digital
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2014-01-14
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An interdisciplinary group of scholars from the global North and South critically explore the global deepening of market economy models. In case studies including Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, they examine the associated tensions of livelihood and ecology in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-01
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International Political Economy Series
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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...
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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
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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...
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Polity
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2013-12-17
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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
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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
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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
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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
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2013-11-29
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