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The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable society. Using fair trade as a case study of the shift toward non-state forms of governance, they focus on its role not only as a regulatory tool, but...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-25
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Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-03-22
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The book examines the correlation between Intellectual Property Law – notably copyright – on the one hand and social and economic development on the other.The main focus of the initial overview is on historical, legal, economic and cultural aspects. Building on that,...
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Springer
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2013-03-15
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This book presents latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The focus is on innovative topics such as an institutional analysis based on case studies; the...
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Springer
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2013-03-14
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No scholar better exemplifies the intellectual challenges foisted on the Neorealist school of international relations than prominent scholar Stephen Krasner (Graham H. Stuart Professor of International Studies, the Senior Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, School...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-03-13
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An international and interdisciplinary group of experts shed light upon the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict today, how it evolved and likely scenarios. Taking into account a changed political landscape, including the EU's new foreign policy instruments, they also make...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-03-05
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As regionalisation becomes an increasingly hot topic, the authors explain why regionalism has been most successful in Latin America and analyse current processes and opinions of possible future developments in the region, including the Caribbean, Central America,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-03-05
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The financial crisis of 2008-09 took an unexpected turn upon challenging a core symbol of Europe's integration project, the Euro. In this volume, leading experts tackle questions on the capacity of the EU to respond, the manner discontent electorates will hold their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-27
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How do small groups of combat soldiers maintain their cohesion under fire? This question has long intrigued social scientists, military historians, and philosophers. Based on extensive research and drawing on graphic analysis of close quarter combat from the Somme to...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-02-21
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Mark Findlay's treatment of regulatory sociability charts the anticipated and even inevitable transition to mutual interest which is the essence of taking communities from shared risk to shared fate. In the context of today's global crises, he explains that for the sake...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-21
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The authors investigate the exceptional political economy of the ten inhabited islands whose territory is divided amongst two or more countries: that are unitary geographical spaces but fragmented polities.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-21
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International Political Economy Series
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The book provides a novel analytical perspective on regional multilateralism in South Asia and its neighbouring regions and covers the genesis, evolution and status quo of the four major regional organizations.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-02-07
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Northeast Asian steel industries have developed global production networks, but by spanning multiple national spaces, these networks unite many national economies while belonging exclusively to none. Who, therefore, is in control? Jeffrey D. Wilson examines how states...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-02-04
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In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-02-01
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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
Parution :
2013-01-29
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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
Parution :
2013-01-23
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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
Parution :
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
Parution :
2013-01-07
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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...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-12-14
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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