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This innovative and thought-provoking study puts forth a compelling analysis of the constitutive nexus at the heart of the European refugee conundrum. It maps and historically contextualises some of the distinctive challenges that pervasive ethnic and cultural pluralism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-12
Collection :
Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series
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A new theory of market power politics that explains when and why states will delay cooperation or even fight wars in pursuit of this elusive goal.
How are the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the Russian incursions into Ukraine and Georgia, and China's occupation of islands...
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Oxford University Press
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2021-01-12
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This book presents new research results on the challenges of local politics in different European countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries and Switzerland, together with theoretical considerations on the further development and strengthening...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-12
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Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can...
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PublicAffairs
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2021-01-12
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This book offers the first detailed scholarly examination of the nation-wide land occupations which spread across the Zimbabwean countryside from the year 2000, and led to the state’s fast track land reform programme. In an innovative way, it highlights the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-11
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This volume concerns the role and nature of translation in global politics. Through the establishment of trade routes, the encounter with the ‘New World’, and the circulation of concepts and norms across global space, meaning making and social connections have unfolded...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-09
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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The EU’s interest in and engagement with North East Asia has grown massively over the last three decades, the shaping and implementation of its policy influenced heavily by the UK and its historical links with East Asia. Brexit therefore raises questions about the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-09
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This book explores the connections between the processes of social structuring and sensibilities in contemporary cities. The transformations of capitalism on a global scale imply reconfigurations both in the way of planning and organizing cities, and in the ways of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-09
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This book introduces the four principal sets of institutions that engage in bringing peace and relief to societies mired in violent conflicts and humanitarian crises—the United Nations and other international bodies; non-governmental organizations; civilian government...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-08
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The Chinese government has more control over more wealth than any other government in world history. With the Communist Party controlling the "commanding heights" of the world's second-largest economy, China appears ideally structured to pursue economic statecraft,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-08
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The American dream of equal opportunity is in peril. America's economic inequality is shocking, poverty threatens to become a heritable condition, and our healthcare system is crumbling despite ever increasing costs.
In this thought-provoking book, Edward D....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-08
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It is often assumed that modern democratic government has a special link with Christianity or was made possible due to Christianity. As a challenge to this belief and echoing a long-held assumption in the republican tradition, Hannah Arendt once remarked that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-01-08
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Contemporary fears of rogue state nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism pose unique challenges for the global community. This book offers a unique approach by examining why states that have the military capability to severely damage a proliferating state’s nuclear...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-07
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Medienskepsis ist in demokratischen Gesellschaften weit verbreitet. In allen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen finden sich Personen mit einer skeptischen Haltung gegenüber Medien. Das Buch zeichnet vorwiegend auf der Basis von qualitativen Interviews ein Profil von...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-01-07
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Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to the meaning and experience of poverty in the contemporary world. The book opens...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2021-01-07
Collection :
Key Concepts
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Kim Philby's life and career has inspired an entire literary genre: the spy novel of betrayal. He was one of the leaders of the British counter-intelligence efforts, first against the Nazis, then against the Soviet Union. He was also the KGB's most valuable...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2021-01-07
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Die Kontingenz von Politik stellt die Politikwissenschaft und Policy-Forschung vor empirische und theoretische Herausforderungen. Mit den explorativen Überlegungen zu einem Policy-Making in Möglichkeitsräumen entwickelt der Autor in diesem Buch einen neuen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2021-01-06
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This book discusses the role of women in jihadi organizations. It explores the critical puzzle of why, despite the traditional restrictive views of Islamic jurisprudence on women’s social activities, the level of women’s incorporation into some jihadi organizations is...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-06
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This book presents a varied and multi-dimensional view of challenges of governance in Southeast Asia and ASEAN through the variety of disciplines and nationalities involved. In light of 50 years of regional collaboration and integration as the member states of ASEAN...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-05
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This book asks, ‘what are the implications of blurring genres for the discipline of Political Science, and for Area Studies?’ It argues novelists and playwrights provide a better guide for political scientists than the work of physicists. It restates the intrinsic value...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2021-01-05
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