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What is Realpolitik? How did the concept come about, and what does it stand for? This book explores the origins and meaning of a core precept of international history and politics. Statesmen, diplomats, and analysts alike deploy the term as if it were a timeless label....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-21
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This book discusses experiences of women leaders in decentralised government structure in India and their participation in governance. The book also examines contribution of women leaders to the development of local area and economy through improved delivery of public...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-21
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This edited volume includes original essays by prominent researchers and practitioners in the field of postal and delivery economics, originally presented at the 31st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Gdansk, Poland, May 24-26, 2023. The book primarily...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-21
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This book argues that ethical reasoning should be adopted into policy processes in order to improve environmental regulations. It considers how public administrators and civil servants play key roles in policy making and implementation, and demonstrates how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-21
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Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This sixth volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-20
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This book explores how to identify and understand moral emotions—shame, guilt, pride, and hubris—in political messages and news media. Recognizing these emotions is crucial for assessing morality's role in public discourse, particularly as moral debates have deepened...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-19
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The second edition of this book (updated to February 24, 2024) presents a comprehensive evaluation of the strategy implemented by China to manage its modernization process.The author evaluates to what extent the economy has been developed, whether the imbalances due to...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-19
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This book offers a theory of those formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience – a project resembling Aristotle’s in the Poetics, where he analysed structures in tragedies that condition the “peculiar pleasure” of tragedy. However, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-18
Collection :
Rhetoric, Politics and Society
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This book explores vulnerability in many forms and among diverse understudied vulnerable populations worldwide from different perspectives, particularly from non-western contexts. It examines characteristics and profiles of vulnerable populations, intervention...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-18
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This book seeks to develop an understanding of the changes in contemporary forms of government and explores the nature and structure of the various corrupt, undemocratic, oppressive, and abusive governments that continue to emerge around the globe. While proceeding from...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-17
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«Bidyut Chakrabarty’s Nationalizing India constitutes exactly what the subtitle states: ‘a creative blending of derivative and indigenous traditions.’ In this context, two central themes are developed: first, that Indian nationalist thinkers redefined the entire concept...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Democratic political systems are often thought to be preferable to all others for supporting liberty. Around the world, nations that are more democratic tend to be freer across various aspects of life and human experience. This book undertakes a social scientific...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-17
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"Shortlisted for the 2025 BREAD & ROSES AWARD*Can the state deliver justice when the state itself is the perpetrator?'A fierce, uncompromising testament to love and resistance.' Jacqueline CrooksChristopher Alder had been left to die on the floor of Queen's Gardens...
Editeur :
Dialogue Books
Parution :
2024-10-17
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Examining state behavior, this book sheds light on the often-overlooked role of information production and diffusion in international law and relations. Most theories of public international law and state behavior rely on a certain degree of international law-related...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-16
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
After more than a decade of...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-16
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
21st-century liberalism is being contested on...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-10-16
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A key figure in French Africa, Robert Bourgi, for the first time ever in a book, discusses his life, his relationship with his mentor Jacques Foccart and all the "missions" he undertook over almost forty years, on behalf of African and French presidents, including the...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2024-10-16
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The energy sector is undergoing unprecedented change. Twenty years ago, the main concern was having enough oil and gas, whereas today, political leaders are faced with the need to reduce the CO2 emissions produced by still-dominant fossil fuels, without being able to...
Editeur :
Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2024-10-15
Collection :
ISTE Invoiced
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Soziale Sicherung im globalen Süden weist gegenüber dem Norden einige Besonderheiten auf: sie deckt einen kleineren Teil der Bevölkerung ab, bietet nur ein moderates Ersatzeinkommen und schließt Arbeitnehmer im meist noch dominanten informellen Sektor aus und weist auch...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-10-15
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This monograph is designed to provide a comprehensive and accessible reference to Net Zero efforts globally. Firstly, the book explains the basics of Net Zero, Greenhouse Gas Emissions (GHG), and the global climate change struggle. A chapter on Environmental, Social,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-10-15
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