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This book explores key factors long-term care recipients have identified as impacting their quality of life and offers programmatic and policy recommendations to enhance well-being within long-term care communities. Leadership and staff who work in nursing homes and...
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Springer
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2022-06-06
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In the last decades, violent non-state actors (VNSAs) such as rebel and terrorist organizations have proved their capacity to break international law. The international community, particularly the United Nations (UN), has reacted to this development by redirecting its...
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Springer VS
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2022-06-06
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This book explores the establishment process, mechanism design, and role orientation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) under the new background of global economic governance. After the international financial crisis in 2008, the process of economic...
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Springer
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2022-06-06
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This edited book brings together humanities and social sciences scholars from the various disciplines at the nexus of discourse studies and ethnography to reflect on questions of institutional practices and their political concerns. Institutional order plays an...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
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With cost-benefit analysis, economic sciences cultivate a specific decision-making procedure, which has also been partially adopted in politics. Although economists do not experience the approach as normative, on closer examination the approach can be identified as an...
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Springer
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2022-06-02
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Environmental Humanities: Transformation, Governance, Ethics, Law
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This Open Access book aims to find out how and why states in various regions and of diverse cultural backgrounds fail in their gender equality laws and policies. In doing this, the book maps out states’ failures in their legal systems and unpacks the clashes between...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-02
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This book explores how taxation is related to the role of the state and its relationship with its constituents, the concept of private property rights, the concepts of societal fairness and justice, and the battle between the individual and the collective.This book...
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Springer
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2022-06-02
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A comparative exploration of Western and Chinese understandings of justice and their possible use to reframe Sino-American relations and international governance.
The concept of justice is central to politics: it justifies the ordering of society and the distribution...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-06-01
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This book discusses issues of geoecological (GER) and geopolitical (GPR) risks due to hydrocarbon development of the Arctic. The authors explain the ethical and philosophical foundations of understanding environmental equity and justice in relation to the development of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-01
Collection :
Environmental Pollution
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This book evaluates China’s energy diplomacy across the globe and how it transcends the barriers to maintain both its security and its Chinese characteristics. How China graduated from 'self-sufficiency' to 'Go out' policy. How will China’s energy security evolve within...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-31
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An extensive investigation of the rally-round-the-flag phenomenon of public opinion in the United States during wars and security crises.
The "rally-round-the-flag" phenomenon in the United States is characterized by a sudden and sharp increase in the public...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-31
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This book discusses the interaction between and the impact of overlapping actions by regional organizations while dealing with critical events. It compares all the sub-regions in South America and Africa from this perspective and creates new knowledge through...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-31
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This open access book bridges the divide between political science and public health, whilst simultaneously embracing the complexities and differences of both. Although public health is inherently political, the tools and insights of political science are often ignored...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-30
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During the last three decades, there has been a growing interest in systems that combine elements of parliamentarism and presidentialism. Despite the fact that much attention has been directed towards the semi-presidential form of government in particular, it is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-29
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This open access edited volume introduces the concept of causal mechanisms to explore new ways of explaining the global dynamics of social policy, and shows that a mechanism-based approach provides several advantages over established approaches for studying social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-28
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This book analyses international relations between the USA, China, and Russia and provides an overview of how the US-China-Russia triangle has evolved over time. Based on a forensic examination of primary documentation from US archives, the author illustrates how the US...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-28
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An estimated forty million people in the United States regularly practice yoga, and as an industry it generates over nine billion dollars annually. A major reason for its popularity is its promise of mental and physical well-being: yoga and meditation are thought to be...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-27
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This book examines the evolution of the EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) from its inception in 1998 to the present day. Using the theoretical framework of historical institutionalism, it examines both the successes and failures of the CSDP. Drawing on a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This book implements a new approach to the study of manipulative tactics in selected Congressional debates in the early history of the United States, highlighting the ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. The identification and analysis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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This book investigates the relation between left-wing populism and feminist politics by analysing three specific aspects. First, whether left-wing populist parties promote gender equality policies, against charges of a general inconsistency between both political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-26
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