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Developments across the millennia suggest that, even though democracies and free market economies are continuously challenged by crises and disturbances, such as natural disasters, wars, or technological revolutions, in the countries where they take roots civil...
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Springer
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2013-02-01
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Given the weaknesses of mainstream democratisation since the 1980s, the authors present a cutting edge examination of dynamics of political change in the direction of more substantive democracy. While focusing on the Global South, they also draw...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-29
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International Political Economy Series
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This book comprises of a range of case studies of military strategy, based on UN documents, observing and concluding the effectiveness of each individual case. Edstrom and Gyllensporre analyse the UN's military strategy, its consequences and its potential to fulfil...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-23
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New Security Challenges
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An analysis of Cuba's history from a British diplomatic perspective during the period of US political and economic domination, from 1898 to 1964. It investigates how Britain attempted to protect its trade and other interests in the island, whilst always sensitive to the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-11
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Using archival research and recorded interviews, this book charts the development of American Studies in Europe during the early Cold War. It demonstrates how negotiations took place through a network of relationships and draws lessons for public diplomacy in an age...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-01-07
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Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy
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Dispelling the myth of decline, Stuart Brown argues that the US continues to enjoy the economic, political, cultural and military underpinnings befitting a pre-eminent global power. He provides an analytical tour through the major domestic and foreign policy issues that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-14
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International Political Economy Series
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European integration confuses citizens and scholars alike. It appears to transfer power away from national capitals towards Brussels yet a close study of the EU reveals the absence of any real leap towards supranationalism. The EU is dominated by cooperation between...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-13
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Questions of power are central to understanding global trade politics and no account of the World Trade Organization (WTO) can afford to avoid at least an acknowledgment of the concept. A closer examination of power can help us to explain why the structures and rules of...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-13
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In International Relations Since the End of the Cold War many of the world's leading historians and historically oriented political scientists deal with the Cold War legacy and many of the new issues that have emerged since the end of the Cold War. Stewart Patrick sums...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-12-06
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Depicting NAFTA to be but a stepping stone rather than final product of regional economic integrative efforts, a chapter-specific 15-year assessment conveys the upsides and downsides of North America's Camelot moment.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-12-05
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Ausgezeichnet mit dem Preis des Fördervereins Geschichte an der Universität Tübingen für die beste Abschlussarbeit im akademischen Jahr 2010/11. Strukturwandel, globale ökonomische Krisenphänomene und nationale Streikwellen ließen den Briten die 1970er Jahre als Periode...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-12-05
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Die Arbeit untersucht den seitens der UNESCO initiierten Technologietransfer. Nach der Einordnung des Technologietransfers in die verschiedenen Tätigkeitsbereiche der UNESCO und der Erarbeitung wichtiger thematischer Grundlagen und Zusammenhänge kommt der Analyse der...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-11-07
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This volume bridges the gap between the global promotion of the Green Economy and the manifestation of this new development strategy at the urban level. Green cities are an imperative solution, not only in meeting global environmental challenges but also in helping to...
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Springer
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2012-11-06
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Local Sustainability
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Toward a North American Legal System is a collection of scholarship that looks at a timely issue in public policy. Two decades after NAFTA, the team assembled by James T. McHugh works through both philosophical and practical questions related to a possibly more...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-31
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By engaging in an ethnography of the social text of German, European and USA monetary affairs, this book introduces a new analytical framework that will enable practitioners and academics, particularly within sociology, economics, political economy, and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-31
Collection :
Cultural Sociology
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Taking a comparative approach and bringing together perspectives from Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan, this volume considers former Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's 1995 apology statement, the height of Japan's post-war apology, and examines its implications...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2012-10-30
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In Understanding Social Action, Promoting Human Rights, editors Ryan Goodman, Derek Jinks, and Andrew K. Woods bring together a stellar group of contributors from across the social sciences to apply a broad yet conceptually unified array of advanced social science...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-10-30
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This innovative teaching text on United States foreign policy interprets the foreign policy decision-making process through the lens of political debate and exchange. It introduces historical developments and theories of U.S. foreign policy and engages students in the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-10-25
Collection :
Principles of Political Science
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This innovative teaching text on United States foreign policy interprets the foreign policy decision-making process through the lens of political debate and exchange. It introduces historical developments and theories of U.S. foreign policy and engages students in the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2012-10-25
Collection :
Principles of Political Science
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A critical analysis of Australia's neoliberal state and role in the American imperial project in Asia. In exposing the causal mechanisms for violence and prospects for more wars it argues for emancipatory alternatives to the existing dominant and anti-democratic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-10-23
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