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From the erosion of state legitimacy in Lebanon to the use of smartphones in Kyrgyzstan, from a Polish suburb to the music scene in Azerbaijan, this volume attempts to explain why, in a variety of world regions, a substantial number of people tend to ignore or act...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book provides an extensive analysis and discussion of the transnational mobilization of citizens and youth, alongside the production of creative, imaginative, and constructive solutions to the European crisis. The volume provides a variety of interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book looks broadly at how the contentious relationships between the media and US President Lyndon B. Johnson affected the national consciousness during the turbulent period of his leadership. Johnson had to deal with a particularly difficult and divisive period in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts:...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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China and Globalization
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Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit den langfristigen sozialstrukturellen Auswirkungen von Gewaltkonflikten in Postkonfliktgesellschaften, eines der aktuellsten Forschungsthemen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Basierend auf empirischer Forschung in verschiedenen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book offers critical insights into the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from an EU perspective. It analyzes the political, cultural, and diplomatic effectiveness of Xi's efforts to expand socio-cultural ties and build new trade corridors between Europe and...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech. Unlike most theories that justify free speech on single grounds, this book argues for a justification; namely the double grounded...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This book focuses on how to improve the quality management of official statistics in China. Official statistics help to build an overview of China’s social and economic development and play an important role in policymaking for government as well as in decision-making...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-01
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New Zealand often plays leading roles in implementing progressive ideas. This book investigates what explanatory factors facilitated the country to become such a relevant normative actor.New Zealand’s case suggests that democratic institutions, skilled bureaucracy, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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This two-volume book examines the most important global problem—the recovery of the social-economic crises due to the COVID-19 pandemic.This economic crisis has its own basis and differs from others by the lockdown of most businesses on the decision of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-01
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Passion and compassion for low income women of color is not an issue of lacking empathy, scientific or medical care. It is a social issue. Health care providers do their best to support, encourage, treat, and motivate those living with cancer; but many do not have the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-31
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In the third decade of the 21st century, Europe is facing several serious challenges to its prosperity and freedom. Those include economic, financial and productive decline compared to the rest of the world, demographic stagnation, the effects of climate change, energy...
Editeur :
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution :
2021-12-27
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More than twenty years after the peace agreement signed in Belfast on 10 April 1998, an assessment is overdue, particularly given the current political context in Northern Ireland. A serious political crisis led to the suspension of the regional institutions from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-12-27
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Capitalist Economics introduces and explains the basic economic forces that shape the present and structure the future of capitalist societies today. Rejecting the idea that economics is a universal science of "choice" or the "efficient allocation of scarce resources,"...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-23
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An insightful, persuasive, and honest defense of immigration as central to the United States' economic power and national security.
America was built by immigrants, yet there has long been strong political opposition to immigration. In recent years, the hostility...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-21
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The universe of actors involved in international cybersecurity includes both state actors and semi- and non-state actors, including technology companies, state-sponsored hackers, and cybercriminals. Among these are semi-state actors--actors in a close relationship with...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-12-20
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Why do people in some societies tend to follow rules and obey the laws more than those in other societies? Is the difference institutional, or is 'culture' a better explanation? These are the central questions confronted in this book.
This study explores these...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-20
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Why do people in some societies tend to follow rules and obey the laws more than those in other societies? Is the difference institutional, or is 'culture' a better explanation? These are the central questions confronted in this book.
This study explores these...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-20
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
In a democracy, a constitutional...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2021-12-17
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