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How do the environments, in which businesses operate, condition their success or failure? Such questions have long been of interest in the fields of business, economics and politics. This book thoroughly examines the main claims of the most important contribution - the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-31
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The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy provides a detailed analysis of how post-apartheid South Africa has participated in multilateral diplomacy in a variety of sub-regional, regional and international settings during the last decade.The book will interest...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-05-10
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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This book provides the first comparative treatment of the roles of informal ad hoc groupings of states within selected conflict settings and their effects on governance in and out of the UN Security Council.
Since the 1990s, informal institutions such as groups of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-04-27
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This book provides a critical engagement between contending historical materialist approaches that have played a crucial role in shaping post-positivist International Relations theory. It analyzes globalization as a process of state formation and argues that its fate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-26
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This book seeks to comprehend the evolving nature of the European Union following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the failure of the European Constitution. Its prime focus is the last wave of enlargement that has profoundly transformed the EU. Although there are many...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-04-07
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A dense web of private associations drawn from multiple social classes, interest groups and value communities makes for a firm foundation for strong democracy. In Latin America today, will civil society improve the quality of democracy or will it foster political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-04-03
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The book examines the rise of the amalgam of economic and political ideas we know as neo-liberalism and how these became the defining orthodoxy of our times. It investigates the inexorable global spread of market economies and how neo-liberal agendas are accommodated or...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-03-28
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This edited volume brings together leading scholars to debate the promises of poststructural politics within the study of the International Political Economy (IPE). The volume offers a sustained theoretical dialogue on the meaning of discourse, identity, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-03-14
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes of their militancy. In order to solve this puzzle, the authors look across International Relations, political...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-02-28
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This study explores a range of dynamics in state-society relations which are crucial to an understanding of the contemporary world: processes of state formation, collapse and restructuring, all strongly influenced by globalization in its various respects. Particular...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-02-24
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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There are few issues more urgently in need of intelligent analysis both in the UK and elsewhere than those relating to displacement, asylum, and migration. In this volume, based on the 2004 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, major figures in philosophy, political science, law,...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-02-16
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Gary Hart has long been one of the nation's foremost experts on national security, combining a deep knowledge of national security policy with first-hand experience of the political realities that influence how America safeguards itself and its interests. In his new...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2006-02-16
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How do European states adjust to international markets? Why do French governments of both left and right face a public confidence crisis? In this book, leading experts on France chart the dramatic changes that have taken place in its polity, economy and society since...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-01-27
Collection :
French Politics, Society and Culture
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This comprehensive, in-depth assessment of the German foreign policy record under the Red-Green government of Gerhard Schröder and Joschka Fischer from 1998 to 2005, produced by a team of German and international experts, explores the idea of continuity and the sources,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-01-26
Collection :
New Perspectives in German Political Studies
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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of deprivation and injustice? What is it like to live on the wrong side of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2006-01-26
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This study examines the record of French and EU interactions with China, Japan and Vietnam in the areas of economic exchanges, political security relations and human rights to establish if there has been a trend of converging 'European' politics and collective European...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-16
Collection :
French Politics, Society and Culture
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The apparent success of a 'new' variant of social democracy has created considerable interest in the Third Way. This book synthesizes a core economic strategy from the most significant Third Way administrations. It explores the theoretical foundations to Third Way...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-16
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Maswood examines the trade and regulatory structures that inhibit the capacity of developing countries to improve their economic conditions. In particular, the book looks at institutional structures of the WTO and examines the Doha Round negotiations to assess their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-12-16
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Globalization processes are propelling a transformation of governance. As political problems become more transnational, public as well as private actors increasingly perform governance activities beyond the level of individual states. This book examines the wide variety...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-30
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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State sovereignty is the foundation of international relations. This thought-provoking book explores the gap between seeing sovereignty as either absolute or relative. It argues that state sovereignty is both factual and judicial and that the 'loss' of sovereignty...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-26
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