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China's military has entered a new era. It has acquired modern weapons to rival the world’s finest, undergone a massive restructuring under Xi Jinping, and been on the frontlines of territorial disputes with Japan, India, Vietnam, and the Philippines. It is readying...
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Polity
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2024-12-20
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What do convicted terrorists really believe when they say they committed their acts in the name of a higher authority? Combining oral history, social psychology, and historical research, Beatrice de Graaf explores the belief systems that underlie acts of religious...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
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This book analyzes major human security threats in the MENA region, including food, water, energy, climate, and health security. It also examines sectarian conflict, terrorism, and poverty in the region. The author highlights the relationship between human security...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-20
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Global Security
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Progressive political organizing faces a chicken-and-egg predicament. On the one hand, those who are most impacted by a circumstance should be the ones identifying problems and developing solutions. On the other hand, simply being a worker does not make one a unionist...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-12-20
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The discourse surrounding freedom of religion and expression in Muslim-majority countries is complex and multifaceted, shaped by a myriad of factors including cultural, political, and legal dynamics. This volume examines the complex interplay of these factors...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-19
Collection :
Political Economy of Islam
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This book analyses political leadership, addressing key questions central to the ongoing debate on the transformation of contemporary democracies. What exactly is political leadership? How does the relationship between leadership and power shape democratic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-19
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This book presents a comprehensive view of governance reforms, changes, and developments in the structure, process, and cultures of governments and public administration systems around the world since the 1980s. The focus of this book is on the last forty years of...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-19
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This book explores how different Chinese social groups portray or discuss the European Union. The authors engage with issues such as trade, populism, EU crises, systemic rivalry and the Chinese media’s representation of European integration and Brexit. They use...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-18
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Dominic Ongwen was abducted in 1987 when he was 8 or 9 years old by the Lord’s Resistance Army (‘LRA’) in Northern Uganda and trafficked as a child soldier; he made multiple unsuccessful attempts to escape, and finally succeeded in late 2014. ...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-18
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This open access volume offers a unique interdisciplinary analysis of the current structure of global governance on tax, trade, and investment. It explores the interplay between actors, critiques current norm-making procedures, and proposes concrete solutions for...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-12-18
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The book analyzes the environmental regulation of upstream marine exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbons, at the international, regional MERCOSUR and Argentine national level. It uses the concept of normative integration as a methodological approach, critically...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-17
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Maritime Politics and Security
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This open access book offers a new approach to understandings of welfare in modern Britain. Foregrounding the agency individuals and groups claimed through experiential expertise, it traces deep connections between personal experience, welfare, and activism across...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-17
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This book uncovers the elusive phenomenon of football fan identities by using a combination of comparative analysis and triangulation of data obtained through discourse analysis of online message boards and survey research in four European country/league contexts...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-16
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There is no political representation without performance. When politicians, protesters, and even celebrities appear in public, they make or constitute political representation by performing it, shaping how we view roles and institutions and imagine society. Building...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-16
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The book takes a hard look at libertarian foreign policy doctrines, especially those of non-intervention, interstate federalism, and non-aggression, and applies new insights to these old doctrines. Classical liberal thinkers such as Vincent Ostrom, James Madison, and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-16
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
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Perpetrators within? provides the first ethnographic account of the experiences of military families of the Argentine dictatorship (1976-83). At the crossover of multiple disciplines, this groundbreaking study brings advancements in the fields of military and conflict...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-14
Collection :
Rethinking Political Violence
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the voting criteria of selectors in Greek political parties’ leadership elections, focusing on open and semi-open primaries. It examines seven multi-candidate leadership contests organised by the centre-left PASOK, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-13
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«Compelling, informative, essential»(Senator George Mitchell)
«Durkan was Hume’s closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-12-13
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This book describes and analyzes the choices that Canada, as a Middle Power, has regarding the strategic rivalry between the United States and China. The administrations of Republican Donald Trump and his successor Democrat Joe Biden have taken a hardline stance...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-13
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of China’s drive for common prosperity from an insider’s perspective. While philosophers and economists have long debated issues of inequality and growth, and societies have evolved from industrial to post-industrial information...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-12
Collection :
IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China’s Public Policy
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