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This book examines the changing dynamics of political parties in Nigeria's Fourth Republic. It is a comprehensively study of these parties' development, character and systems in relation to everything from ideology, funding and crises to leadership, civil society,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
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This book focuses on gig work and organising among gig workers in the Indonesian online transport service, situated within the context of widespread precaritisation and digitalisation in today’s world of work. It addresses the challenges experienced by precarious gig...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
Collection :
Contestations in Contemporary Southeast Asia
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This handbook comprehensively covers topics in international relations, with a specific focus on China-Europe-Africa relations.This triangular relationship brings substantial contribution for the formation of an emergent new international order. With China being the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-09
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This edited collection of studies brings together a number of internationally distinguished scholars to provide a comprehensive and detailed examination of the usage and function of quotations and citations in political rhetoric in a variety of countries around the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-08
Collection :
The Language of Politics
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The Hand Behind Unmanned tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, and beliefs that led to the contemporary American unmanned arsenal. It takes an expansive look at automated and autonomous technologies, from mines and torpedoes, to guided bombs and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-08
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This open access book documents the critical thinking and political actions that generated one of the world’s most progressive national constitutions, presented to the Chilean public in 2022. Although that text was ultimately rejected in a national referendum, it drew...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-08
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The aim of the book is to reevaluate inner dymamics of, and tensions between, individuals who are active in the political process as members of interest groups. To that end, the author creates a model for the individual reasoning, preferences, and motivations made...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2025-01-08
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With the rise of ‘identity politics’ both in right-wing extremism as well as in activist academia, arts and feuilleton, major differences between the traditional left and the right have become blurred. This book addresses the ideological shifts from a vantage point of...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Abhandlungen zur Medien- und Kulturwissenschaft
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This important and timely book assembles expert scientists from both sides of the debate to discuss Earth-based and space-based climate intervention technologies including the scale, deployment, risk management, and moral philosophy behind these technologies. The role...
Editeur :
Wiley-Scrivener
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Astrobiology Perspectives on Life in the Universe
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This book argues that not only has the present international relations (IR) paradigm failed to preserve global peace in our time, it has also proved to be an obstacle in this regard, and for this reason a paradigm shift is urgently required. With a view to demonstrating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-07
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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This book weaves theoretical-empirical threads beyond pragmatic philosophy, quantum cosmology and world affairs. It offers a “quantum-social” approach to inquire solidarity configurations among transnational movements. The first part of the book develops an integrative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-06
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As the crisis of democratic capitalism sweeps the globe, The Great Retreat makes the controversial argument that what democracies require most are stronger political parties that serve as intermediaries between citizens and governments.
Once a centralizing force of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-06
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In 1997, the smooth handover of Hong Kong between China and the United Kingdom defied pessimistic predictions about Hong Kong's future. The successful resolution of the Hong Kong issue was the result of 18 years of diplomatic exchanges between Chinese and British...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-01-04
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This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the developments in the modern Chinese history since the Opium War in 1840, by reflecting on the history of the Communist Party of China, the history of China since 1949, the history of the economic reform and opening...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-03
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Numerous publications have examined the challenges faced by non-native (often Western) academics conducting research in repressive countries. However, discussions of the unique security risks experienced by native scholars seem to be largely absent. While native...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-03
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Despite their untold human suffering, widespread destruction and loss, and far-reaching destabilization, the fires of many of the world's most violent civil wars continue to burn. In light of their devastating effects, how can we explain the intractability of costly and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-01-02
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This book examines the strategies adopted by local governments to obtain excess construction land quotas in the face of the central government’s strict land management system. It applies game theory, principal-agent theory, collective action theory, and competition and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-02
Collection :
Urban Sustainability
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Journalism in a Fractured World addresses the fractured nature of journalism as it has developed online. Engaging with theories from journalism studies and politics, it bases its findings on the study of peripheral journalistic media from the US, UK, and Netherlands. It...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2025-01-02
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This open access book aims to review the history, achievements, and challenges of trilateral cooperation among China, Japan, and South Korea in a systematic way. It offers numerous perspectives to explain the emergence of trilateral institution-building processes and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-01-01
Collection :
The University of Tokyo Studies on Asia
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the history, nature, and purposes of peace museums, comprising twenty-one essays by a leading authority in the field. It presents a powerful argument for the need for this new kind of museum that informs and inspires...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-12-31
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