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A recent National Security Strategy report singles out nuclear proliferation as one of the gravest threats to the United States. Much of this fear is focused on North Korea and Iran, two "rogue states" that have violated nonproliferation rules and engaged in provocative...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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Macro-regional strategies seek to improve the interplay of the EU with existing regimes and institutions, and foster coherence of transnational policies. Drawing on macro-regional governance and Europeanization, this edited volume provides an overview of processes of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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Eleonora Poli analyses how ideas and material interests have come to determine the evolution of antitrust policies in the USA, EU, Japan and BRICS. She argues that three major economic crises together with market globalisation have changed governments' perceptions of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-10-19
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Widely recognized as one of the most important theorists of warfare, important strands of Carl von Clausewitz's thinking on the subject are not widely known. In the English-speaking world, few are familiar with anything other than his major, though unfinished and...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-15
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Today, international economic sanctions are imposed in response to virtually every serious international crisis, whether to promote regime change and democratisation, punish armed aggression, or check nuclear proliferation. But how exactly is the economic pain inflicted...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-15
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In diesem Essential geht es um die Entstehungsgeschichte der Schuldenbremse. Der Autor stellt dar, warum die Schuldenbremse das Staatsschuldenrecht verkompliziert und die Parlamente entmündigt. Als das Wirtschaftswachstum in den 1970er Jahren nachließ, stand die Politik...
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Springer VS
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2015-10-07
Collection :
essentials
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Can coercive foreign policy destabilize autocratic regimes?Can democracy be promoted from abroad? This book examines how foreign policy tools such as aid, economic sanctions, human rights shaming and prosecutions, and military intervention influence the survival of...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-09-17
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This book seeks to explain why weak states exist within the international system. Using the cases of Armenia, St. Kitts and Nevis, Lebanon, and Cambodia, the author argues that, if a state is weak and vulnerable, then it can practice an unexpected degree of relative...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-09-01
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Among the constitutive elements of the responsibility to protect (R2P), prevention has been deemed by many as the most important. Drawing on contributions from an international group of academics and practitioners, this book seeks to improve our knowledge of how to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-08-20
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This book questions whether the institutions and practices of the emerging EU diplomatic system conform to established standards of the state-centric diplomatic order; or whether practice is paving the way for innovative, even revolutionary, forms of diplomatic...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-18
Collection :
The European Union in International Affairs
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Scholars and policymakers in EU foreign policy lament the EU's inability to assert itself on the world stage. This book explains this weakness by arguing that EU foreign policy is burdened by various internal functions, and systemizes the analysis of internal...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-16
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This study provides up-to-date coverage of the most important domestic and external political and economic influences on Japanese trade policy, as well as the evolutionary dynamics of that policy in the post-war period.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-11
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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Axel Heck erarbeitet eine innovative Forschungsheuristik, um die sozialen Praktiken in der Herausbildung des transatlantischen Machtverhältnisses aufzudecken. Empirisch wird das Krisenjahr 1989 untersucht und durch eine rekonstruktive Analyse gezeigt, wie zwischen den...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-08-10
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The author analyses the implementation of the agricultural and industrial parts of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Following a sectoral approach to assess the implementation of the ENP, he investigates which interest groups win and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-08-06
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Europäisierung fördert die konstruktive Konfliktregelung – so die Prämisse der vorliegenden Publikation. Doch gilt dies auch für Staaten an der Grenze zur EU? Während in der Forschung bislang zumeist Mitgliedsstaaten im Fokus stehen, wendet sich die Autorin hier der...
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Springer VS
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2015-08-05
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The contributors investigate how the large scale structures of capitalism and the local social relations of workplaces and organizations shape each other. They argue for a new integration of political economy and the sociology of work and organizations.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-08-05
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Since 2001, Western forces have been involved in a series of major military campaigns, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in Africa. For all the sophistication of the contemporary Western way of war with its digital technologies and precision weapons, infantry...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-07-30
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The contributors argue that rare earths are essential to the information technology revolution on which humans have come to depend for communication, commerce, and, increasingly, engage in conflict. They demonstrate that rare earths are a strategic commodity over which...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-28
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book brings together twelve scholars six Americans and six Chinese to explore the ways America and China think about international order. The book shows how each country's traditions, historical experiences, and ideologies influence current global dialogues.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-22
Collection :
Asia Today
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This book presents the first multidimensional investigation of KIE in the context of low-tech industries and gives insights in paradox conditions and specific mechanisms, using the example of the German textile industry. Therefore, the author solves conceptual...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2015-07-22
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