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Leaders, Rules, and Personalist Politics addresses the common view that many personalist leaders, often called dictators, concentrate decision-making power in their own person and usually act in an arbitrary and unconstrained fashion. It argues that, rather than being...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-20
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Leaders, Rules, and Personalist Politics addresses the common view that many personalist leaders, often called dictators, concentrate decision-making power in their own person and usually act in an arbitrary and unconstrained fashion. It argues that, rather than being...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-20
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This open access book offers a critical examination of large-scale, state-led green industrial policies, with a particular focus on the European Union. Drawing on empirical evidence from sectors such as ethanol, hydrogen, wind power, and biogas, it reveals how...
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Springer
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2026-02-20
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Dieses Buch untersucht den komplexen Prozess der Anpassung der deutschen Außenpolitik an eine sich wandelnde globale Landschaft, insbesondere im Hinblick auf den Aufstieg neuer Mächte. Es richtet sich an ein wissenschaftliches Publikum und beleuchtet die...
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Springer VS
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2026-02-19
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This book presents the first comprehensive study of Mohammad Zahir Shah’s forty-year reign, uncovering how conservative governance sustained the longest period of political stability in modern Afghan history. Challenging dominant narratives that portray...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-18
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This book offers a critical examination of the collaborative turn unfolding across the Nordic welfare states. Focusing on co-production—partnerships between citizens, public authorities, and civil society—the volume explores how this approach is reshaping...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-02-18
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This volume challenges dominant narratives about Southeast Asia's development by bridging a long-standing intellectual divide. On the one hand, liberal thinkers rarely engage with the developmental histories and practices of the non-Western world. On the other, Asian...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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The Enduring Power of Communism explores why communist dictatorships in Asia and Latin America have been so durable, despite being relatively weak when they came to power.The book encompasses a comparative historical analysis of all seven non-European communist regimes:...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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The Turkic Republics are increasingly recognized as key contributors to global development. Endowed with abundant natural resources and strategically located along major trade corridors, they have recently united under the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-02-18
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Falsehoods can gravely endanger democratic societies. When disinformation circulates widely, it can alter the outcome of elections, erode trust in democratic institutions, undermine support for critically important policies, or even incite violence. It is therefore...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-02-18
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This second edition of Palestinian Activism in Israel deepens the exploration of Bedouin women’s leadership in the Naqab through the intergenerational activist biographies of three women from the Al-Sana lineage. Building on the first edition’s focus on Amal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-18
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This volume examines how elections and reform across West Asia and North Africa function less as routes to alternation than as instruments of control. Anchored by an integrative introduction and a concluding synthesis, it gathers original studies showing how rules,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-17
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For most Americans the terms 'torture' and 'terrorism' evoke barbaric regimes and savage enemies, not liberal democracies dedicated to human rights and freedom, as the United States claims to be. American Torture and American Terrorism demonstrates the falsity of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-02-17
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Why Wendell Berry, Michael Pollan, and other slow-food-loving locavores are wrong about food in America—and why Waffle House can save us all. “This book is sustenance for your mind as it imagines more democratic and delightful ways we can all fill our...
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Basic Books
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2026-02-17
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This open access book explores how socialist and post-colonial states envisioned and practised democracy for themselves after the Second World War. While scholarship on democracy has tended to focus on Western political traditions, this book demonstrates that the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-16
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The purpose of this monograph is to study the collective actions carried out by the networks of pro-migrant activism, in order to understand if these networks use migrant issues to reach purely political objectives, or they organize conventional or non-conventional...
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Mimesis International
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2026-02-16
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This transdisciplinary book examines social movements in contemporary North Africa, namely Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It focuses on nationalist, democratic, women’s, Islamist, Berber (Amazigh), and youth movements since 1912 through the post-Arab Spring era....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-02-16
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Labour shapes contemporary life not only as an activity or institution, but as a mode of thought — a framework that organises time, structures society, and defines value. This book examines labour as a political force that produces subjectivity and sustains social...
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Mimesis International
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2026-02-16
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This open access book analyses Latin American countries’ state capacity based on these countries’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The causes and consequences of uneven state capacity have been a popular academic debate in social welfare provision during...
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Springer
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2026-02-16
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Dieses Buch zeigt, dass das kommunale Fördermittelmanagement heute ein unverzichtbares strategisches Instrument für die zukunftsorientierte Kommunalentwicklung ist. Angesichts enormer Investitionsrückstände, Klimawandel, Digitalisierung und...
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Springer Gabler
Parution :
2026-02-16
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