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The question if states should intervene in massive humanitarian emergencies without a legal right to do so, is still object of an important debate in the theory and practice of international relations. This situation has not changed with the emergence of the...
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Springer VS
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2020-12-02
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The global, regional, and local energy landscape has changed dramatically in the twenty-first century. Many factors have affected what we know about energy: a consensus among scientists on climate change and related support for renewable energy, evolving energy and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-12-02
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This book examines leading Supreme Court decisions involving the powers of the Court, the president, and Congress, as well as cases addressing American federalism and Americans’ economic rights. By analyzing both the Court’s opinions and voting patterns from 1791...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-12-01
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Kommunale Selbstverwaltung lässt sich allein weder institutionen-affin noch wettbewerbswirtschaftlich-freiheitlich oder kritisch-emanzipatorisch verwirklichen. Der Band analysiert ausgewählte Verfahren und Prozesse in der kommunalen Bau-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik...
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Springer VS
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2020-12-01
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Die Globalisierung, begleitet von der De- und Transnationalisierung von Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft, Politik und Kultur, schreitet weiter kontinuierlich voran. Der daraus resultierende Bedeutungsverlust des Nationalstaates wirft die Frage auf, welche Rolle...
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Springer VS
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2020-12-01
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This book assesses the claim that peacebuilding is a moribund international practice. Its contributors trace the origins of peacebuilding, bring back to memory its moments of triumph, and reflect on the reports of its decline. The story of peacebuilding parallels the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-12-01
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This book explores violence against the environment within the broad scope of transnational environmental crime (TEC): its extent, perpetrators, and responses. TEC has become one of the greatest threats to environmental and human security today, as well as a lucrative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-12-01
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This book offers a re-evaluation of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the prominent Italian Renaissance philosopher and prince of Concord. It argues that Pico is part of a history of attempted concordance between philosophy and theology, reason and faith. His contribution...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-12-01
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Critical Political Theory and Radical Practice
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This book uses the body to peel back the layers of time and taken-for-granted ideas about the two defining political forms of modernity, the state and the subject of rights. It traces, under the lens of the body, how the state and the subject mutually constituted each...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-12-01
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This book explores the thirty-year border conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, specifically around the former autonomous republic of Nagorno Karabakh, and shows how Russia is the only winner in this conflict: fighting on both sides, supplying arms to both sides, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This open access handbook analyses the role of development cooperation in achieving the 2030 Agenda in a global context of ‘contested cooperation’. Development actors, including governments providing aid or South-South Cooperation, developing countries, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book argues that the defeat of the main French Centre Right party in the 2017 presidential and legislative elections, and its subsequent disintegration, were the result of a failure to respond effectively to the challenges posed by a continuing realignment of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book explores how feminist movements in the Nordic region challenge the increasing gender, race and class inequalities following the global economic crisis, neoliberal capitalism and austerity politics, and how they position themselves in the face of the rise of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book breaks down the outcomes of stabilization operations including those related to establishing or enhancing safety and security, institutions of governance, rule of law, social well-being, economic development, access to education and health care, infrastructure...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-30
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In this open access publication it is shown, that sustainable low carbon development is a transformative process that constitutes the shifting from the initially chosen or taken pathway to another pathway as goals have been re-visited and revised to enable the...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-11-30
Collection :
Globale Gesellschaft und internationale Beziehungen
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With recent advances and investment in artificial intelligence, are we on the verge of introducing virtual public servants? Governments around the world are rapidly deploying robots and virtual agents in healthcare, education, local government, social care, and criminal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book provides a wealth of empirical material to understand key aspects of EU governance including its plurality of actors and policy making modes and its functioning during crisis management. Authored by legal scholars and political scientists, it presents new...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book analyzes the progress of the MSRI, highlights the political and economic factors affecting its realization, and offers insights into the political and economic implications of China’s endeavor. It focuses specifically on countries within Africa and the Middle...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2020-11-30
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Festschrift für Christoph ZöpelDieses Buch untersucht in einem Querschnitt durch aktuelle und künftig zu erwartende Herausforderungen für Politik, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft (Finanzen, Digitales, Kultur, Stadtentwicklung, Wohnen, Verkehr, Bildung, usw.), ob und unter...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book explores the growing importance of subnational diplomacy by examining the state of California. As the fifth largest economy in the world, California’s tribes, counties, cities and the state itself are changing the shape of diplomatic theory and practice and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-30
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