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Cultural diversity, because it is perceived to have significant security, developmental, and social implications, is fast becoming one of the major political issues of the day. At the international level, it overlaps with the now extensive debates on multiculturalism...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2014-04-16
Collection :
Culture and Religion in International Relations
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Exchange programs are often considered to create goodwill for host countries among foreign citizens - yet is this the case? Drawing on a wealth of research with participants and alumni of exchange programs, Iain Wilson shows that the pursuit of goodwill receives little...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-16
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ÔEven if bilateral trade between India and China goes beyond $100 billion in the coming years, ChinaÕs posture towards India is adversarial and will perhaps remain so in the future, with Beijing viewing New Delhi through the prism of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan...
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Hachette India
Parution :
2014-04-15
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The lifestyle, economic basis and political affiliations of the British upper class are the focus of this exciting new textbook. Combining a review of existing sociological theory on class and capitalism with material drawn from a great variety of sources it is likely...
Editeur :
Polity
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2014-04-03
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This edited volume addresses the challenges and opportunities facing NATO post-2014, applying an original approach to strategy that will produce fresh insights into this hot topic within the international security community.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-04-02
Collection :
Governance, Security and Development
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China's commitments in Central Asia illustrate how regional foreign policy works and how long-standing principles of Chinese foreign policy might be revised in the near future.China's rise has 'moved' Asia, which is why it seems that what we have traditionally regarded...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-03-21
Collection :
Politics and Development of Contemporary China
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This Handbook brings together 30 state-of-the-art essays covering the essential aspects of global security research and practice for the 21st century. Embraces a broad definition of security that extends beyond the threat of foreign military attack to cover new risks...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-03-20
Collection :
Handbooks of Global Policy
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In 1989, Francis Fukuyama famously announced the "end of history." The Berlin Wall had fallen; liberal democracy had won out. But what of illiberal democracy--the idea that popular majorities, working through the democratic process, might reject gender equality,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-03-17
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This book provides an important study of a short-lived government making foreign policy in the shadow of an impending general election. It considers Britain's relations with the United States, Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-03-07
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Forging a Discipline analyses the growth of the academic discipline of politics and international relations at Oxford University over the last hundred years. This century marked the maturation and professionalization of social science disciplines such as political...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-27
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The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor. It follows the refugee agency through some of the past two decades' major conflict-induced humanitarian...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-02-20
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Spain is at the epicentre of a crisis that threatens the future of the Eurozone. This book explains the deep historical and structural roots of the current crisis in Spain. It analyses the nexus between European circuits of financial capital, urbanisation, and the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-18
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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With the stagnation of the Doha Round of multilateral talks, trade liberalisation is increasingly undertaken through free trade agreements. Gabriel Siles-Brügge examines the EU's decision following the 2006 'Global Europe' strategy to negotiate such agreements with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-18
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Intellectual property is one of the most valuable forms of property in the modern world. From the perspective of companies producing knowledge-intensive goods, it encourages technological innovations for the benefit of humanity. For consumers of technology, it can be...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-02-12
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The importance of international politics in Niccolò Machiavelli's thought cannot be denied. Although the familiar ideas expressed in the Prince and the Discourses are obviously relevant, the Art of War, the History of Florence, the dispatches that he wrote during his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-01-30
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Eirikur Bergmann explains the exceptional case of Iceland's fantastical boom, bust and rapid recovery after the Crash of 2008 and explores the lessons for the wider EU crisis and for over-reaching economies that over-rely on financial markets.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-30
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Laurence Pope describes the contemporary dysfunction of the State Department and its Foreign Service. He contends that in the information age diplomacy is more important than ever, and that, as President Obama has stressed, without a "change of thinking" the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-01-29
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Sara Konoe looks into the politics of financial regulatory developments in the United States, Japan, and Germany. These case studies highlight systemic interaction between institutions and political contexts, and provide broader implications for global financial...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-28
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Against the backdrop of China’s increasingly influential role in the international financial architecture, this book seeks to characterize and evaluate China’s financial power potential. It does so by analyzing the relationship between domestic financial repression and...
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Springer
Parution :
2014-01-27
Collection :
Global Power Shift
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The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-01-21
Collection :
Global Issues
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