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This book explores the nature of challenges facing agriculture, emphasizing the need to rethink how markets are organized in food production. Describing markets as institutions, Anthony Pahnke investigates the meaning and nature of the dynamic overlap of politics with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-05
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International Relations and History were once academic fields sharing a common concern with the affairs of empires, states, and nations. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, they drifted apart.International Relations largely retained the focus on the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-07-04
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After the brief respite that followed the fall of the USSR, geopolitics and major wars are back, affecting everyone everywhere. In a world transitioning to multipolarity Great Powers jostle for supremacy, regional powers feel emboldened to act on their own ambitions,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-07-01
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In Africa, the emergence of the first unrecognised/de facto states isintricately linked to colonial legacy and subsequent decolonisation.This legacy maintained the newly formed African states within theartificial boundaries established on the continent by European...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-28
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This book explores the multilateral control of agro-economic spaces in West African developing countries through international trade, spearheaded by the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Agriculture. Responding to growing food insecurity in the region, Ichimi here...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2024-06-25
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States do not only strive for wealth and security, but international status too. A burgeoning body of research has documented that states of all sizes spend considerable time, energy, and even blood and treasure when seeking status on the world stage. Yet, for all...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-06-24
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States face multiple ongoing and emerging challenges, from climate change to global disease, mass atrocities to forced displacement, humanitarian crises to entrenched global poverty, and are constrained by material and political limits to the amount of resources that...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-24
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This volume offers a unique interdisciplinary and comparative perspective on contemporary processes of othering by state institutions in relation to dynamics of racism, xenophobia, sexism, homo-transphobia, as well as ethnic- and class-based discriminations. It focuses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-17
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The book examines the problems of local self-government reform in Ukraine during the period of martial law.The internal focus is on the process of decentralization, which includes all levels of implementation of governmental powers and public initiatives.The external...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2024-06-12
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The volume delves into the intricate web of contemporary permacrisis rooted in the strategic imperatives of nation-states. Through a historical lens, it navigates the evolving landscape of international politics, tracing the transition of power dynamics from purely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-11
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This book is based on Stephen Hill’s direct experience working in the United Nations for many years as consultant and over a decade as full time Member of Staff—based in Indonesia and part-time in Paris, serving as United Nations Regional Director for Science for Asia...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-05
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Asaf Siniver provides a systematic and comparative analysis of the role of international arbitration in the settlement of interstate territorial disputes. He engages with International Relations (IR) and International Law (IL) scholarships to locate the unique...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-06-05
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'As an exploration of the social fabric of Afghan life, this book takes some beating' Daily Telegraph'A valuable addition to the canon of literature on Afghanistan ... [Seierstad] manages to achieve a rare intimacy' New York Times'Åsne Seierstad is one of the greatest,...
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Virago
Parution :
2024-05-28
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International Relations and History were once academic fields sharing a common concern with the affairs of empires, states, and nations. Over the course of the twentieth century, however, they drifted apart.International Relations largely retained the focus on the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-28
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The Oxford Handbook of Nuclear Security provides a comprehensive examination of efforts to secure sensitive nuclear assets and mitigate the risk of nuclear terrorism and other non-state actor threats. It aims to provide the reader with a holistic understanding of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-28
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Kofi Annan was the most significant and influential Secretary-General of the United Nations.Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations is a study of how Annan conceived his role as Secretary-General and exercised global leadership at a turbulent period in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-23
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This open access book aims to promote ecological and emotional research and education for sustainability by cultivating values and behaviours consistent with how nature makes us feel connected and nurtured. Built upon the intersection of ecological literacy and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-22
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This book explores the political, economic, defence, and cultural relations of Poland with South Asia—Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—since the late 1940s to the present. It examines how Polish preoccupation with gaining...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-18
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Why did the Euro soccer tournament follow in the footsteps of European integration? What confrontations are impossible between certain countries, such as those between Russia and Ukraine, or Armenia and Azerbaijan? Which matches have gone beyond sporting stakes to...
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Max Milo Editions
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2024-05-17
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