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After 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-11-22
Collection :
Studies in Diplomacy and International Relations
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Johnston argues that the preemptive first-use of nuclear weapons, long the foundation of American nuclear strategy, was not the carefully reasoned response to a growing Soviet conventional threat. Instead, it was part of a process of cultural 'socialization', by which...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-11-18
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This book provides an overview of what has happened to NATO from the closing stages of the Cold War to the new era of international terrorism. However, it is more than that. It also argues that NATO has travelled a course that contradicts the prevailing image of an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-11-18
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The essays in this collection seek to reflect on global governance and to provide a better critical understanding of the various practices that fall under its rubric.The first part challenges the concept of global governance, the second part focuses on organizational...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-11-18
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The recent controversy over Iran's nuclear programme represents an early and important test for a distinctively European approach to addressing concerns about suspected programmes for the development of weapons of mass destruction. Against this background, the report...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-11-17
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This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a broad process of convergence taking place around the politics of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2005-11-16
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Economic sanctions: panacea, symbolic but ineffectual, or useless and counterproductive? While these questions have framed much the existing debate, Drury digs deeper to why foreign policy leaders, and especially the president, choose sanctions, of which type, whether...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-11-04
Collection :
Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis
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The extraordinary changes in world society at the beginning of the 21st century have involved religion to a degree that would have amazed earlier observers of modernity. Within the past decade religion has been associated with some of the world's most strident forms of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2005-11-03
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The voices in this book belong to parliamentarians, city councillors, doctors and engineers, a few professors, lawyers and social workers, owners of small businesses, translators, and community activists. They are also all Muslims, who have decided to become engaged in...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-10-27
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The book features eight studies related to governance and risk. It provides a critical evaluation of Basel II, and questions the significance of corruption in country risk analysis and investors' decision making. It offers a reliable model of early warning credit...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-10-19
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This book engages the question, hotly debated among theorists and policymakers alike, of how a developing country's pursuit of foreign direct investment (FDI) affects its development prospects in a globalized world. Can small latecomers to economic development use...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-10-13
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Sport studies has become one of the largest and fastest growing international industries. This collection of essays from a range of international contributors analyzes all aspects of the political economy of this industry, including media sports production, urban growth...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-09-27
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The United Nations: Reality and Ideal examines the structure, operation and history of the United Nations. It explains the historical roots of the UN system and its legal and organizational structures and sets out what the organization and its partners do in relation to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-09-09
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This volume brings together some of the most influential scholars in development economics to explore how to improve the well-being of the poor, how to design effective structures and institutions for poverty reduction and what the role of economic, political and social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-09-08
Collection :
Studies in Development Economics and Policy
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The financial liberalization thesis emerged in the 1970s and has been of considerable importance ever since, not merely in terms of its theoretical influence but, perhaps more importantly, in terms of its impact on policy makers and policy debates. Although it has...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-09-08
Collection :
International Papers in Political Economy
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Myconos explores the ways in which organized labour has globalized since 1945. Using two 'touchstone' indicators - the extent of cross-border integration, and the autonomy vis-à-vis the state - the book reveals a counterintuitive process: network globalization involves...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-09-06
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One of the most important issues in comparative politics is the relationship between the state and society and the implications of different relationships for long-term social and economic development. Exploring the contribution states can make to overcoming collective...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-14
Collection :
Political Evolution and Institutional Change
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This book outlines an idea of world politics as an activity of thinking and speaking about the conditions of world order. World order is understood not as an arrangement of entities but a complex of variously situated activities conducted by individuals as members of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-11
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Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in twenty years to examine the dynamics of the entire American-West European relationship since 1945.
The relationship between the United States and Western Europe has always been...
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OUP Oxford
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2005-08-11
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In this timely work, the author analyzes the use of private military firms and international interventions of the military. Outsourcing to the private sector takes missions away from the military, but the shift towards international intervention adds new, wider...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2005-08-05
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