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This book comprehensively addresses the economic and social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. In each chapter of the book, the effects of the pandemic on different economic and financial sectors are discussed.The book tackles many topics and issues that are of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-19
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Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of work under...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-01-19
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This book offers a critical analysis of current challenges and developments of the State immunity regime through three dimensions: it looks at State immunity from a comparative perspective; it discusses the major trends relating to the interplay between State immunity...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-19
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This book analyses the emergence of the Indian Ocean as security complex and a strategic space of central importance and also looks at its prospective future. As well as US-China rivalry, the India-China rivalry is now the defining factor in the Indian Ocean –...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-18
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This book argues for computer-aided collaborative country research based on the science of complex and dynamic systems. It provides an in-depth discussion of systems and computer science, concluding that proper understanding of a country is only possible if a genuinely...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-01-18
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This book shows how regional cooperation and integration have increased massively in scale and scope in recent years, as developing countries seek new ways to shield themselves from economic turbulence and to kick-start their economies in the face of stagnant global...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-18
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Security assistance has become the largest component of international peacebuilding and stabilization efforts, and a primary tool for responding to civil war and insurgency. Donors and peacekeepers not only train and equip military and police forces, they also seek to...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-18
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This book looks at how the language of the law has changed over time, and how this has empowered judges. In particular it looks at how this has empowered judges to rule against governments.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-17
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This book addresses the question of what socialism is according to fundamental values rather than institutions. Arguing that Marxist socialism is not only more gradual but also more radical than how it is usually understood, this book shows that socialism extends...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-15
Collection :
Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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This book explores how China's political system responds to crisis. A crisis is an episode whose impact cannot be controlled merely by astute on-the-ground incident management, particularly in cases involving widespread doubt about the legitimacy of established policy...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This Open Access book deals with the pressing question of how to achieve transformational change that reconciles development with environmental sustainability. It particularly focuses on the role of evaluation in finding sustainable solutions. Environment and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-13
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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The current coronavirus pandemic fundamentally reshapes existing debates and processes in international development.The unprecedented (and rapidly evolving) crisis is generating a number of substantial challenges for developing economies. Governments in low-income...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book is a critical reflection on the life and career of the late legendary Zimbabwean music icon, Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi, and his contribution towards the reconstruction of Zimbabwe, Africa and the globe at large. Mtukudzi was a musician, philosopher, and human...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-13
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Modern social and political life is characterized not only by a passion for freedom and a desire for human contact, but also by the urge to shut down, to refuse freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, to barter it away in return for our security: this is the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-01-13
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African American candidates for state and federal office in the United States face unique challenges, given the nation's complicated racial dynamics. To date, there have been only two electedAfrican American governors in the country, the first elected in Virginia in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the dynamics of commitment in U.S.-Southeast Asia strategy. Drawing on cases including the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam and Washington’s pivot to Asia amid China’s growing regional role, it constructs an original balance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book examines the factors that facilitate the inclusion of women on high courts, while recognizing that many courts have a long way to go before reaching gender parity. Why did women start appearing on high courts when they did? Where have women made the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book examines the factors that facilitate the inclusion of women on high courts, while recognizing that many courts have a long way to go before reaching gender parity. Why did women start appearing on high courts when they did? Where have women made the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-01-13
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This book introduces a new approach to understanding security in the Mediterranean and explores current challenges at the European Union (EU) Mediterranean borders. It investigates the intertwined area at the South of the EU that we call the ‘Mediterranean Global South’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-12
Collection :
Critical Security Studies in the Global South
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This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the world’s remaining rainforests.Indigenous peoples are...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-12
Collection :
Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
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