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This open access volume focuses on the various processes of state formation and the significant role that organization, citizens, and institutions are coming to play in forming policy in the resource-rich Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. As rentier states, they...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-12-27
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In 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed resolution 1325, which addressed, for the first time, the experience of women and girls during conflict and the need to consider gender in peacebuilding. From this landmark resolution, a groundbreaking Women, Peace and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-24
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The end of the Cold War gave way to a fundamental shift in the structure of the international system. It was an era characterized above all by liberal triumphalism in which Western politicians and policymakers turned to international organizations (IOs) to spread and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-12-23
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Against the backdrop of rising authoritarianism, this open access edited volume investigates how states—small and large, strong and weak—silence critics across borders. This focus on transnational authoritarianism is underexplored in scholarship, and even...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-23
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Proud and Angry addresses the question of what drove two million Hongkongers to the streets in 2019 in the largest ever protest in this post-colonial society. It answers this question by examining Hong Kong's unique post-colonial political culture where the former...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-22
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Discover the future of governance at the 6th Borobudur Conference on Public Administration.This essential conference track within the Borobudur International Symposium explores the critical intersection of public administration with...
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Atlantis Press
Parution :
2025-12-22
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When the world is in crisis, having a clear moral compass and unwavering values is crucial, but so too is a willingness to listen to others. Feminist entrepreneur and policy expert Kristina Lunz argues that empathy and resistance are indispensable for defining our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-12-22
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The Case Against Political Parties questions the widespread belief that political parties are essential to democracy. This open access book argues that parties often undermine rational deliberation, fair representation, and government accountability.
While parties offer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-19
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The European Union's small, balanced budget is commonly considered to be one of the most important constraints on the Union's powers. However, the EU has always borrowed, and it is now borrowing on the scale of a large state to aid member states' economic recovery from...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-18
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The European Union's small, balanced budget is commonly considered to be one of the most important constraints on the Union's powers. However, the EU has always borrowed, and it is now borrowing on the scale of a large state to aid member states' economic recovery from...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-18
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At its zenith, the Islamic State was one of the most developed and powerful of the various militant organisations that have emerged within the Middle East in recent decades. Not limiting its objectives to organising mass casualty attacks, it constructed a complex system...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-18
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Do military alliances deter or provoke conflict? This book explores this critical question by examining the often-overlooked phase of alliance implementation, a complex and prolonged process that occurs before an alliance's deterrent benefits are realized. Brett V....
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-17
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This is an Open access book. It provides a comparative and multidisciplinary analysis of public participation in local governance. The volume stands out with three essential features. First, the comparative research reflected in the volume has a global geographical...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-12-17
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Public data shapes what we know and how we live together. It is often digital, freely available and related to matters of shared concern, from global warming graphs to collaborative spreadsheets documenting mass layoffs.Public Data Cultures explores the practices and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-12-17
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The is an Open access book. It provides a comparative and multidisciplinary analysis of how structural issues of local governments and their relations with other government levels are dealt with globally.The volume stands out with three essential features. First, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2025-12-16
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Polarisation seems to fix people in antagonistic us/them camps. But, around the world, there are groups of citizens who refuse to give up on the democratic promise of a larger ‘we’. Challenging received prejudices and resisting tribal appeals from political leaders and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2025-12-15
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This volume challenges dominant narratives about Southeast Asia's development by bridging a long-standing intellectual divide. On the one hand, liberal thinkers rarely engage with the developmental histories and practices of the non-Western world. On the other, Asian...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-12-15
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Climate change adaptation has become the new mantra worldwide as the set of strategies, practices, and measures for coping with climate change and building resilient societies. Accompanying its rise on the international agenda, especially since the Paris Agreement, is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-13
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This book presents a thorough examination of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social life across four major European countries—France, Germany, Italy, and the UK. Drawing on high-quality longitudinal data, it investigates how personal, work, and political lives...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-12
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