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The volume takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to recent trends in European identities, social exclusion and poverty on the one hand, and social rights and equality legislation and policies in the European Union on the other. It examines whether legal...
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Springer
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2025-07-14
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This is a book about justice, but not as we know it. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos argues that justice is always hydrojustice – that is, always defined in relation to water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and nonhuman. Hence justice is...
Editeur :
Polity
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2025-07-14
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Theory Redux
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Over the past decades, capitalism has undeniably brought about tremendous prosperity. So why—this being the central question of the book—is capitalism repeatedly called into question, and in some cases, even fiercely opposed? Critics argue that capitalism is the root...
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Springer
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2025-07-14
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This volume offers a critical evaluation of China’s programs and projects on the African continent, zooming in on: (a) whether China is preying on states and societies on the continent or, if indeed, she is a benevolent partner on the continent; (b) whether many...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-14
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This book provides an in-depth and very lively analysis of relations between China and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1949 to 1989. It is the first and only comprehensive and detailed analysis of East German-Chinese ties and interactions in English....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-13
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The 2025 edition of the African Economic Report continues in the spirit of previous versions. It presents a broad overview of the continent’s economic evolution and offers insights into Africa’s relationship with the rest of the world. In other words, it explores how...
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Policy Center for the New South
Parution :
2025-07-13
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This open access book explores the shifting dynamics of global power, highlighting Asia's resurgence. For centuries before the Western colonial era, China and India dominated the world economy. Now, Asia is reclaiming its historical prominence. China presents a...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-12
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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of Africa's emergence as an epicentre for global terrorism, delving into the critical factors shaping security threats and vulnerabilities across the continent. With a rich historical and empirical foundation, the book...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-12
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Warum scheitern ambitionierte Nachhaltigkeitsgesetze oft an den politischen und ökonomischen Realitäten?
Und welche Handlungsspielräume bleiben für eine gerechtere und umweltfreundlichere Wirtschaft?
Dieser Sammelband zeigt strukturelle Grenzen...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This book is an examination of the confluence of social, political, and communicative forces animating recent teachers’ uprisings, beginning with the accession of a militant slate to the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in 2011 and continuing with myriad strikes,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This book seeks to analyze the subject of populist leaders from a comparative perspective. Each chapter focuses on a specific country in central and Eastern Europe and adopts a common template for exploring the political landscape and leadership dynamics in each....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-11
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As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of...
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Polity
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This book offers an in-depth look at the development, social significance, and role of graffiti in China’s local culture. By examining the graffiti phenomenon in Xiamen University's Furong Tunnel, it uncovers the multifaceted contexts and meanings behind graffiti as a...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This open access book maps and compares national social policies of socialist and post-socialist countries, examining designs, implementation, and outcomes. It analyses how the generosity of social policies – understood as the combination of their inclusiveness...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-11
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This book analyzes the issue of peripheral security governance from the perspective of the European Union. It reviews the different stages of the EU’s peripheral security governance since the end of the Cold War, based on the criteria for successful security governance....
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-09
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When, and how, might crises force institutions to change? Crisis management prompts expectations of exceptional behaviour, leaders raising their 'game', and of being empowered. The Greek crisis of 2009-18 was severe: threatening bankruptcy and Greece's exit from the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-09
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Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century examines whether the liberalism of fear - the negative and cautionary vein of liberal thinking, most famously articulated by Judith Shklar, which urges us to prioritize the avoidance of public...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-09
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Since 2012, scoring algorithms created to manage risks in the United States penal system have been adopted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agencies across the United States. First developed as a mechanism to reduce anti-immigrant biases and to ensure the...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-08
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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A well-paced, thorough and often (darkly) humorous account of the two-year campaign season that began when Donald Trump announced he was running for president again . . . Thrilling.' New York TimesThe most definitive, deeply...
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Penguin
Parution :
2025-07-08
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A global leader in hi-tech, and one of the pioneers of unmanned aircraft, cyber security, medical imaging and drip irrigation, Israel is a country where start-ups and innovation flourish. Numerous multinationals, from Intel and IBM to Microsoft, HP, Nvidia, Cisco,...
Editeur :
Hermann
Parution :
2025-07-08
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HORS COLLECTION
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