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This book introduces the theory of resource misallocation and its applications in the context of energy transition. Technological advancement is often regarded as the primary driver of energy transition and, ultimately, the achievement of net-zero emissions. However,...
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Springer
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2025-07-31
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This book provides a comprehensive examination of three key water reforms in China. By leveraging unique natural experiments and employing state-of-the-art applied microeconometric methods, this book offers robust insights into the causal links between water reforms and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-30
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This book offers an interesting synthesis of Social Movements Studies and International Relations (IR) focusing on emotions. The holistic scope and the different conceptualizations of emotions in environmental movements will bring a new perspective that expands the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-29
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In Monopoly Politics, Erik Peinert provides a macro-historical explanation for why American and international markets are today monopolized by an ever-narrowing group of companies.
Using original archival evidence from the United States and France, and borrowing...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-29
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This book sheds light on the achievements of the Old European civilization, also known as the Danube civilization, which flourished between 6000 and 3000 BCE. Contrary to popular belief, many elements attributed to Greek origins stem from this pre-Greek culture. Modern...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-28
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This book explores the U.S. federal government’s need for binding budget targets to recover fiscal sustainability and boost economic growth. It details the flaws in past balanced budget amendment proposals, outlines the features of a promising new approach with...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-28
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The book offers a collection of essays that reinterpret and reimagine Michael Walzer’s classic work Spheres of Justice as an important contribution to political theorizing about justice in the 2020s. It highlights the social-democratic nature of Walzer’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-28
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Scholars have described the delegation of power from politics to administration with the help of the principal-agent theory. This framework examines challenges in the constellation of a superior, i.e. principal, and their subordinate, i.e. agent. Recruitment is a major...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2025-07-28
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The book explores the challenges which policymakers and organizations face while learning from ideas and policies implemented elsewhere. Drawing on empirical evidence from Greece, Spain and Italy in the context of EU soft law, it demonstrates how administrative,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-28
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This edited volume explores the complex relationship between AI, media and international security, focusing on key criteria. First, identifying AI applications like automated content and deepfakes. Second, evaluating security risks, including AI-driven information and...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-26
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This book seeks to serve as a short primer to students and individuals seeking to understand criminal organizations in Latin America.This work examines who are the major criminal actors in numerous countries across the region, including Mexico, Colombia, Honduras, El...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-26
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This book delves into the innovative thinking, new and key agendas, and practical evolution of China's diplomacy in the new era. As the world has entered a new epoch, the once-in-a-century world transformation is accelerating, and great power rivalry becomes...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-25
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Every year, the United States authorizes dozens of bureaucracies to craft and implement foreign policy. This fragmentation of authority can result in chaos and infighting when agencies fail to communicate or outright undermine each other. Conventional wisdom considers...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-25
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This edited volume discusses civil-military relations in Latin America. Written by regional experts, the chapters take a multifaceted approach, combining a general overview of the situation in the region, a historical analysis of its evolution and its causes, and an...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-25
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This open access book provides a comparative analysis of the deployment of the military in domestic operations, the use of the armed forces during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of that deployment on civil-military relations in 26 countries worldwide. The book...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-24
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Released shortly after the 2024 European Parliament elections, this book gathers contributions that analyze the elections from various perspectives. The main objective is to offer a timely assessment of different facets such as electoral systems, electoral campaigns,...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-24
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This book is, primarily, a historical study that investigates why Mao’s thought took root in Italy, how it developed, and its emergence in opposition to the Italian Communist Party, with a focus on the years 1956–1976. The book also prompts reflection on how dissent has...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-07-24
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Set against the rapid aging of the world's population, Human Rights and the Care of Older People explores the potential for the rule against torture and ill-treatment in international human rights law to better protect older people from care-related mistreatment. The...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-24
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This book demonstrates that premodern elite and royal women were critical to the geopolitical success of late medieval territorial monarchies, the progenitors of early modern states. It aims to communicate the 'un-exceptionality' of female political influence in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-23
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Based on the Datawar research program developed by three French academic institutions, this book seeks to explore the following research question: how do social practices of data collection and analysis in quantitative conflict studies influence researchers’ and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-07-23
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