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This open access volume offers a timely and original contribution to scholarships in the Middle East and North Africa by focusing on governance and public policy in post-conflict contexts. Unlike works that center primarily on conflict and geopolitics, Governance...
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Springer
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2026-01-03
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This book offers a range of critical narratives on the interplay between constitutional polycrisis and emergency constitutionalism. They are integrated by the desire to both expose cracks in the current schemes for taming conflict, crisis, and non-normalcy and to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-03
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The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), a theoretical framework originally formulated to study US public policy, has been widely applied to western countries and has advanced policy process scholarship over the past three decades. However, there are far fewer systematic...
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OUP Oxford
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2026-01-03
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For three decades the philanthropist and billionaire investor George Soros has played a prominent role in promoting a vision of ‘Open Society’ in Central Eastern Europe (CEE), promoting the transition from communist statism to liberal democracy through his...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-03
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Not long after the 1944 creation of the core Bretton Woods institutions--the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund--another international organization emerged to address the growing issue of sovereign debt: the Paris Club. The creditor-led international...
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Oxford University Press
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2026-01-02
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This book shows how four feminist mobilizations in the early 2020s in Mexico expressed widespread rejection of harassment, sexual violence, and femicide. It discusses the cultural environment in Mexico that has allowed violence and femicides to be interpreted as a...
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Springer
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2026-01-02
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This book offers a comprehensive account of the Italian party Fratelli d’Italia (Brothers of Italy), covering the period from its foundation in December 2012 to the summer of 2025, marking almost three years of the Meloni government. It examines the factors that...
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Springer
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2026-01-02
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This open access book analyses whether and to what extent fiscal transfers from central to local governments affect democracy at sub-national level. Fiscal transfers are often perceived to undermine democracy, as politicians utilise them to build patronage networks,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-02
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This book examines how algorithms are reshaping security and criminal justice, revealing their profound social and political implications. From intelligence agencies and police forces to courtrooms, tools like facial recognition are redefining how security is imagined...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-02
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This book provides an in-depth examination of Operation 1027, in the dynamic landscape of Myanmar's protracted conflicts.This book examines the historical trajectory of the Three Brotherhood Alliance, shedding light on the interconnections and relationships that bind...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the new developments in China’s energy cooperation with Asian and African countries under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) over the past decade. It seeks to analyze the driving forces, new progress, and main challenges...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book explores the strategic use of narratives by Qatari policymakers and how these narratives have driven significant shifts in Qatar’s foreign policy roles and directions. By examining Qatar’s foreign policy from 1995 to 2022, the book uses role theory...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book explores the complexities of globalization, examining its evolving role in a world characterized by increasing interdependence and tension. Globalization has enabled the free flow of people, capital, information, and trade, driving economic prosperity....
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book focuses on the politics of participation in urban communities during the pandemic using the cases of two urban communities in Wuhan, China and Quezon City, Philippines. It is primarily concerned with the theory of political participation.
Rooted on the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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This book is a compelling and urgent exploration of one of the most pressing human rights issues of our time. Through a comprehensive examination of the subject, the book serves as a rallying cry for individuals, organisations, and governments to confront and combat...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book defines media subimperialism through three key characteristics: resistance and collaboration with imperial media, regional dominance despite partial domination by imperial systems, and reliance on imperial media for technology and content. Here,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2026-01-01
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The Glory Trap offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary analysis of how political actors—ranging from populist leaders to authoritarian regimes—exploit collective memory to mobilize domestic support, reshape identity, and challenge international...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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Drawing upon family and individual interviews conducted in six major cities in Turkey, this study examines the family as a social field through Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework, with a particular focus on his concepts of doxa (taken-for-granted assumptions)...
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Springer VS
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2026-01-01
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Romania is the sixth-largest country in the European Union by population. However, after decades of democratization and integration into the Euro-Atlantic organizations, many Romanian voters now seem willing to abandon this path of development. Does this change of...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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Development cooperation has long been a subject of controversy. Which approaches produce lasting results? Where do persistent challenges remain? And when must we acknowledge outright failure? Such questions are plentiful, yet reliable answers remain scarce. This book...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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