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What do City speculators, Gulf oil sheikhs, Chinese entrepreneurs, big-name financiers like George Soros and industry titans like Richard Branson buy when they go shopping? Land. Parcels the size of Wales are being snapped up across the plains of Africa, the paddy...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-05-24
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In light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy makers. It analyzes the workings of real-time diplomacy and the opportunities for media-centered diplomacy programs that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-05-14
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Thalakada argues that the principal purpose of US alliances have shifted since the end of the Cold War from containing communist expansionism (balance of power) to preserving and exercising US power (management of power).He also looks across all US alliances...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-05-04
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Der Zerfall der Sowjetunion gilt als zentrales politisches Ereignis der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Selbst der letzte Präsident Michail Gorbatschow folgerte im Nachhinein, dass er niemals mit einem so plötzlichen Zusammenbruch gerechnet hätte. Im Mittelpunkt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-05-04
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How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories? Is devolution the best response to these demands? Why do national governments implement devolution given the high risk...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-04-26
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Heo conceptualizes reconciliation in International Relations theory and fills a gap by building a theoretical framework for interstate reconciliation. Combining historical and political scientific approaches, she analyses case studies from Europe, the Middle East, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-04-24
Collection :
International Relations and Development Series
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This book provides the first full account of America's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran from Jimmy Carter's presidency to Barack Obama's. It discusses all major facets of Iranian policy of interest to the United States: nuclear proliferation, revolutionary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-04-23
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At a time when momentous changes are taking place in the Middle East, this volume provides a timely and critical assessment of the European Union (EU) foreign policy towards the region. The book collects revised and updated versions of the papers presented at the third...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-04-17
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This is the eighteenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-04-11
Collection :
World Economy Special Issues
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An in-depth look at the Chinese car industry that sheds new light on the delicate nature of China's planned economy China's unprecedented growth over the last three decades, along with the recent financial crisis in the West, has raised questions about the superiority...
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Wiley
Parution :
2012-04-02
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This book examines the outlook for Latin American entrepreneurs in the new global environment. Using case studies from across the region, the book highlights liberalization measures nations are adopting to facilitate small and medium size enterprise (SME) creation and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-04-02
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Using the cases of Northern Cyprus and Transdniestria, the author examines state-building as practiced by informal states. Exploring symbolic and economic dimensions of state-building projects and using insights from political sociology, she investigates how they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-20
Collection :
Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
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The TRIPS Agreement (Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights), signed on April 15, 1994, introduced intellectual property protection into the World Trade Organization's multilateral trading system, and it remains the most comprehensive...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-15
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Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid. The book begins with the modern concept of progress in the Scottish Enlightenment, follows the development of this concept in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century economics and anthropology, describes its...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-03-15
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During the first decade of the twenty-first century, the United States increasingly has relaxed its regulatory posture in the face of critical challenges to public health and the environment. This is true for regulation of recycling of end-of-life products, including...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-12
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The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" explores the rapidly growing literature on the rise and fall of the United States.The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most dominant power the world has seen and that it has successfully met the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-08
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The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire" explores the rapidly growing literature on the rise and fall of the United States.The author argues that after 1945 the US has definitely been the most dominant power the world has seen and that it has successfully met the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-03-08
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A growing interest in the oeuvre of Hans J. Morgenthau and in re-readings of 'classical realism' increases the significance of his European, pre-emigration writings in order to understand the work of one of the founding figures of IR. This book is the first English...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-06
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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Hardie investigates the link between the financialization – defined as the ability to trade risk – and the capacity of emerging market governments to borrow from private markets. He considers the government bond markets in Brazil, Lebanon and Turkey and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-05
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Experts from academia, governments, think tanks, NGOs, trade unions, and business investigate whether the public should play a greater role in foreign policy making by analysing their current role in the Iraq war (USA), Post-Apartheid (South Africa), trade relations...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-03-02
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