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A pressing question at the forefront of current global political debates is: how can we salvage the democratic project in the context of 'globalization'? In recent years political activists have mounted high-profile campaigns for the democratization of powerful...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-07
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Mass Hate explores why the brutality of humankind erupted and flowed more expansively in the twentieth century than ever before. Psychologist Neil Kressel recommends specific steps to help stem this bloody global tide of slaughter, terror and genocide. In his...
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Basic Books
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2008-08-04
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In its comparison of two major emerging nations, India and Brazil, this book approaches the subject through an innovative theoretical combination of developmental states theory and theories of the changing nature of global capitalism.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-08-01
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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In a lively critique of how international and comparative political economy misjudge the relationship between global markets and states, this book demonstrates the central place of the American state in today's world of globalized finance. The contributors set aside...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-07-24
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-17
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One path towards development taken by a number of small jurisdictions is the establishment of an offshore financial centre. This text analyses the actual economic contribution for several small Caribbean economies and the impact to continued operation arising from an...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-07-11
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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While diplomacy is a well-established topic for study, global governance is a relatively new arrival to the conceptual landscape of international relations. At first glance the two exist in separate worlds. This book examines the relationship between these two concepts...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-10
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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Following the launch in China of economic reforms and the 'open door policy', a new era of economic growth and global integration dawned. In 2008, the thirtieth anniversary year, China completes three decades of broad-based market-oriented macroeconomic reforms and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-07-10
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In this unique and dramatic account of the rise of neoliberalism Howard and King consider the major features of historical materialism, the factors which resulted in 19th and 20th century thinkers incorrectly predicting the long-term decline of the market, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-06-24
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As India's attempts to carve out a foreign policy that is in sync with the irrising international stature,they are having to deal with a range of issues that are controversial but central to the future of an Indian global strategy. This book examines these issues and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-06-23
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Benefiting from a truly Pan-American perspective, these essays evaluate the economics and politics of the new patterns of North-South integration in the particular context of the Americas, questioning if regional and bilateral trade agreements like NAFTA, CAFTA or the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-06-23
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
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Global politics is a crowded stage of players competing for power and authority. Who is in charge of what? How do they stay in charge and what are the effects? This volume raises these questions in case studies on regimes of torture and surveillance in women's rights,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-06-09
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In the decade following the Asian financial crisis, the East Asian political economy has experienced a radical transformation. This book thus investigates the responses of Japanese automotive makers to the processes of regionalism and regionalization by locating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-05-30
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This book examines humanitarian interventions in the post-Cold War era in the context of the development of global capitalism. It argues that it is often our duty to use force to uphold human rights, but that attempts to promote and protect these rights can...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-05-30
Collection :
Global Ethics
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From its antecedents in the 1950s, successive forms of European integration were intended to be leaderless. They have succeeded only too well in demonstrating that much can be achieved without sustained leadership. The attachment to national sovereignty of most of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-29
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This book examines commodity consumption both as an ongoing problem for capital and a complex mediator of the post-Cold War political economy. Comor assesses consumption as a core but contradictory nodal point in contemporary world (dis)order developments arguing that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-05-29
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book takes a look at the world of accounting and examines business's relationship with the state. It compares the accounting regulations in Germany, the UK and the US to provide evidence that privatization and convergence must be used with caution, at least in the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-05-29
Collection :
Transformations of the State
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Almost three years after the first voluntary handover of power in Russian history, this book examines Putin's management of this complex agenda, and considers how Moscow's current approach to international relations resembles and differs from that under Yeltsin. ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-30
Collection :
Chatham House Papers
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This book critically investigates the conditions facing the warring parties during the implementation of peace agreements in Mozambique, Angola and Liberia, as successes and failures in these countries highlight incentives for the international community to keep peace...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-28
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At the crossroads of Northeast Asia, South Korea provides a critical vantage point for viewing changes in the region. This comprehensive review of the past quarter century covers its strategic thinking in regard to China, Japan, Russia, regionalism, and reunification.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-04-28
Collection :
Strategic Thought in Northeast Asia
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