This book offers a case study in foreign policy change: It examines why the Bush administration suddenly redirected its nuclear nonproliferation policy toward North Korea in the aftermath of North Korea’s first nuclear test in October 2006, abandoning its former...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2011-02-03

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Pariah Politics breaks new ground in examining the issue of western Islamist extremism from the perspective of government. It links underlying causes to the capacity of governments to respond directly and to influence others. The book contains four main...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-12-02

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Pariah Politics breaks new ground in examining the issue of western Islamist extremism from the perspective of government. It links underlying causes to the capacity of governments to respond directly and to influence others. The book contains four main...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-12-02

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A growing number of political philosophers favour a view called liberal perfectionism. According to this view, liberal political morality is characterised by a commitment to helping individuals lead autonomous lives and making other valuable choices. In this book...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-12-02

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Nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg entspann sich zwischen Deutschland und Polen ein Konflikt um den Besitz Oberschlesiens, wo sich schließlich deutsche und polnische paramilitärische Formationen einander gegenüberstanden. Weder die Volksabstimmung von 1921 noch die Teilung des...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2010-11-23

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The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of Niccolo Machiavelli's influential masterpiece,The Prince, Jonathan Powell - Tony Blair's Chief of Staff from 1994 - 2007 - recounts the inside...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Broad agreement exists among politicians and policymakers that the family is a critical institution of American life. Yet the role that the state should play with respect to family ties among citizens remains deeply contested. This controversy over the state's role...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-10-15

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There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction explores these...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-23

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There are many debates about utopia - What constitutes a utopia? Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? This Very Short Introduction explores these...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-09-23

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The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics.The author argues that human rights have only...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-07-08

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The Politics of Human Rights provides a systematic introductory overview of the nature and development of human rights. At the same time it offers an engaging argument about human rights and their relationship with politics.The author argues that human rights have only...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-07-08

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In all societies, past and present, many persons and groups have been subject to domination. Properly understood, domination is a great evil, the suffering of which ought to be minimized so far as possible. Surprisingly, however, political and social theorists have...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-05-13

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Representation is more than a matter of elections and parties. This book offers a radical new perspective on the subject. Representation, it argues, is all around us, a dynamic practise across societies rather than simply a fixed feature of government. At the heart of...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-05-13

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In all societies, past and present, many persons and groups have been subject to domination. Properly understood, domination is a great evil, the suffering of which ought to be minimized so far as possible. Surprisingly, however, political and social theorists have...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-05-13

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Based on a rich array of sources that capture the voices of both political leaders and ordinary Americans, Uncle Sam Wants You offers a vivid and provocative new interpretation of American political history, revealing how the tensions of mass mobilization during World...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-04-12

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This book explores the theoretical issues, empirical evidence, and normative debates elicited by the concept of multi-level governance (MLG). The concept is a useful descriptor of decision-making processes that involve the simultaneous mobilization of public authorities...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-02-25

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John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. InJohn Adams:...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-02-09

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Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. Here is a riveting account that captures Washington...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-02-04

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Derek Hastings here illuminates an important and largely overlooked aspect of early Nazi history, going back to the years after World War I--when National Socialism first emerged--to reveal its close early ties with Catholicism. Although an antagonistic relationship...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2009-12-18

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Tariq Ramadan is very much a public figure, named one of Time magazine's most important innovators of the twenty-first century. He is among the leading Islamic thinkers in the West, with a large following around the world. But he has also been a lightning rod for...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2009-10-06

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