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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
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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...
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Palgrave Pivot
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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.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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
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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.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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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
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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
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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
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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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Based on document analysis, and on the evaluations, perceptions and judgments of people involved in framing, making, and applying foreign policy in both countries as foreign affairs officials, law makers, or think tanks' associates, this book presents the differing...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2013-11-06
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Drawing evidence from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors illustrate that even within the common framework of economic globalization, the ways in which the interests of state actors and the agency of migrants intersects...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-01
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Using first-hand interview data, Yang Jiang reveals the key trends of China's trade and financial politics after its WTO accession. In particular, she highlights the influence of competing domestic interests, government agencies and different ideas on China's foreign...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-11-01
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The South Asian diaspora is a diverse group who settled in different parts of the world, often concentrated in developed countries. This volume explores how transnational politics overlap with religious ideologies, media and culture amongst the diaspora, contributing to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-31
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The contributors provide a comparative analysis of the modern economic development of Japan and China that are often explained in frameworks of East Asian developmentalism, varies of capitalism or world economic system, and explore their broader significances for the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-29
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations between underground and overground dynamics all over the globe. It aims to provide a new take on the dark side of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-29
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book explores the interplay between formal rules and real world differences, questioning to what extent size-related capacities between states matters for the dynamics and outcomes of negotiations taking place in the United Nations General Assembly, an institution...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-24
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Through personal experience and a lively narrative, this book examines the difficulty of communicating in adversarial environments like Iraq and Afghanistan, the complexity of multi-linguistic communications, and the importance of directing American cultural power in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-24
Collection :
Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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This volume scrutinizes new developments in contemporary mobility and migration politics and shows that they are based on a mix of traditional coercive interventions and less repressive and indirect practices.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-18
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Updating the papers from the 2011 Asan Conference to cover the end of 2011, this book reflects the state of analysis on the eve of the important 2012-13 transition to China's fifth-generation leaders.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-16
Collection :
Asan-Palgrave Macmillan Series
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When regions like Canada, the US and the EU have disagreed over the legitimacy of risk perceptions they have placed science at the centre of international trade conflict. By looking across cases disputed and informally resolved, David Hornsby offers to deepen...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-10-16
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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