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‘Engaging and highly entertaining’ Sunday Times The dramatic confrontation between the two 'mighty opposites' of the Victorian age, brilliantly recreated by a talented young historian. Gladstone and Disraeli were the fiercest political rivals of the modern age. Their...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-05-31
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Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we're governed to the news we're...
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Transworld Digital
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2012-05-10
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Die Lehren, die aus den Erfahrungen des größtenteils friedlichen Übergangs zur Demokratie in Südafrika gezogen werden können, sind zweifellos für alle anderen Staaten auf der Welt interessant, die sich in einem ähnlichen politischen Prozess befinden.Die Bedeutung, die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-25
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In the context of European integration, the relative opening of state borders offers new opportunities for border cities and regions no longer necessarily confined to the boundaries of national territories. The development of cross-border relations at the local and...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2012-04-17
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In der Regierungszeit des amerikanischen Präsidenten Bill Clinton von 1993 bis 2001 ist das zentrale Afrika aus den Fugen geraten. Die amerikanische Politik hat dazu beigetragen. Auslöser für eine Kettenreaktion von Katastrophen (Ruanda-Krieg 1994 und die beiden...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-04-10
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Unter dem Begriff des Westlichen Balkans werden heute die Länder des ehemaligen Jugoslawiens (Kroatien, Serbien, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Montenegro, Mazedonien und Kosovo) sowie Albanien zusammengefasst. Trotz der fortschreitenden Annährung dieser Länder an die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-03-30
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Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative, focused on not harming them? Are any of the former positive duties, duties of justice that respond to enforceable rights? Is their scope global? Should we aim for global equality...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-03-29
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Capitalism has become the universal social and economic order of our time. The capitalism of today, however, differs from that of previous eras; with intensifying globalisation, flexible organisations, and new forms of class divisions. Globalisation brings new...
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Vintage Digital
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2012-01-31
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The role of race in politics, citizenship, and the state is one of the most perplexing puzzles of modernity. While political thought has been slow to take up this puzzle, Diego von Vacano suggests that the tradition of Latin American and Hispanic political thought,...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-18
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Why should states matter and how do relations between fellow-citizens affect what is owed to distant strangers? How, if at all, can demanding egalitarian principles inform political action in the real world? This book proposes a novel solution through the concept of...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-12-22
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Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to.Zoopolis shifts the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-11-25
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Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to.Zoopolis shifts the...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-11-24
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In Europe and throughout the world, competence in English is spreading at a speed never achieved by any language in human history. This apparently irresistible growing dominance of English is frequently perceived and sometimes indignantly denounced as being grossly...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-09-30
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Als Belgien, Polen und die Niederlande während des Zweiten Weltkrieges besetzt wurden, kollaborierten Teile der politischen Elite und der Bevölkerung mit den Besatzern. Wie mit diesen Kollaborateuren nach dem Krieg verfahren wurde, und welche Folgen dies für das...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-25
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Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?
In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient,...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-06-23
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Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?
In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient,...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-06-23
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Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British Columbia, the Netherlands, and Ontario. Groups of randomly selected ordinary citizens were asked to independently design...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-06-09
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At a time of widespread popular cynicism and profound international unease, the need for clarity over the basic concepts of politics has never been greater. The forces of Fundamentalism endanger our Liberty and Security, while government responses to it may pose a basic...
Editeur :
Greenfinch
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2011-04-28
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50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
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With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-03-03
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With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-03-03
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