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The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the twentieth century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the minimum...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2003-02-13
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L'Asie du Sud est devenue une région d'une grande importance stratégique: le conflit indo-pakistanais, le rôle du Pakistan dans la lutte contre le terrorisme, l'influence de l'islamisme dans les décisions publiques, etc. Cepednant, les problèmes environnementaux...
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Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2003-01-01
Collection :
Environnement et sécurité
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Recent years have seen a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy. While this has brought many positive changes in women's rights and political representation, in much of the world these advances were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-11-07
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Recent years have seen a shift in the international development agenda in the direction of a greater emphasis on rights and democracy. While this has brought many positive changes in women's rights and political representation, in much of the world these advances were...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-11-07
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`A unique and indispensible work that serves both as a basic introduction to the disarmament scene and a reference book for experts' - Disarmament Times
`This compendium of the history and achievements of arms control and disarmament efforts is unique in its kind and...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2002-09-24
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Not since the Roman Empire has any nation had as much economic, cultural, and military power as the United States does today. Yet, as has become all too evident through the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the impending threat of the acquisition of nuclear...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2002-03-07
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This book assesses European Union policies aimed at encouraging democratization in East Asia and the North African and Middle Eastern States within the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership - these two regions being the source of some of the strongest conceptual challenges to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2002-01-03
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Strategic decisions to reduce the size, scope, or ambitions of organizations - including states - in order to enhance future prospects, are among the most difficult and least well-understood choices made in collective life. This volume makes a bold effort to identify...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-11-22
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The Federal Vision is about the complex and changing relationship between levels of governance within the United States and the European Union. Based on a transatlantic dialogue between scholars concerned about modes of governance on both sides, it is a collective...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-11-01
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Written by a leading group of scholars in the field, this unique volume examines post-Agreement Northern Ireland. It shatters the myth that Northern Ireland is 'a place apart' - its conflict the result of peculiarly local circumstances. Northern Ireland is compared with...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-07-26
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Globalization and European integration are sometimes seen as the enemies of nationalism, sweeping away particularisms and imposing a single economic, cultural and political order. The book argues on the contrary that, by challenging the 'nation-state' as the sole basis...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-06-14
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Over fifty years ago governments established the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to protect the world's refugees. The UNHCR was created to be a human rights and advocacy organization. But governments also created the agency to promote...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2001-05-25
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- What impact does gender difference make to political decision-making?
- Will the political empowerment of women contribute to a more peaceful world?
The role of gender has been increasingly recognized as central to the study and analysis of the traditionally male...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2001-02-01
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With the introduction of a single currency in 1999 and the negotiations for the fifth enlargement in 2000, the European Union is at a major crossroads in its history. While the adoption of EMU and the entrance of new member states hold the promise of creating an 'ever...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-12-21
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The war in Kosovo was a turning point: NATO deployed its armed forces in war for the first time, and placed the controversial doctrine of 'humanitarian intervention' squarely in the world's eye. It was an armed intervention for the purpose of implementing Security...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-10-19
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Over the five decades since the establishment of the UN Charter and Universal Declaration of Human Rights, human rights issues have become a dominant feature of the international system, embracing new actors, eroding the traditional Westphalian concept of sovereignty,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-09-21
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The extent to which humanitarian intervention has become a legitimate practice in post-cold war international society is the subject of this book. It maps the changing legitimacy of humanitarian intervention by comparing the international response to cases of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-09-08
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Why does the United States promote democracy? How successful has it been? And why do critics often attack it for doing so? These are at least three of the questions examined in this wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2000-08-31
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