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Russia has been embroiled in bitter disputes with major Western powers over high-profile military interventions - over Kosovo (1999), Iraq (2003), Georgia (2008), and even Libya (2011) which had a UN Security Council mandate. Moscow and the West reached much more...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-05-09
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The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
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Wars throughout history have been fought in the name of ideology, religion and the pursuit of peace. Our thinking about war – when it is justified, how it should be fought and how it is perceived – has changed dramatically over time. Whereas in the past war has been...
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Polity
Parution :
2013-05-08
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A norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organisations including the WTO. Within the WTO evidence of the institutionalization of the norm can be found both in the agreements and legal documents and the way in which the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The US, China, and Japan form a 'troubled triangle,' with each country negotiating its foreign policy toward the other two in response to economic and security pressures that operate as an interrelated duality. Written by international relations experts, this book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-05-07
Collection :
Asia Today
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The book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes. By assessing a wide range of such state-centred work, Youngs identifies the challenges we...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-02
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In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-05-02
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This introductory textbook examines the role of the Third World and the processes of development from the study of international politics and argues that in an increasingly globalized world development can no longer be seen as an isolated practice.
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Polity
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2013-05-02
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Der Arabische Frühling in Ägypten und Tunesien hat die EU sichtlich überrascht, die trotz milliardenschwerer Demokratisierungsprogramme keine Erfolge in der Demokratisierung der Länder aufweisen konnte. In der Arbeit wird folglich der Frage nachgegangen, ob die von der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Die EU-Grenz- und Migrationspolitik haben seit 1999 eine neue Dimension erreicht. Eine «gemeinsame» Außengrenze ist entstanden.Die Koordination, Harmonisierung und Weiterentwicklung des Grenzmanagements wird seit 2005 von der Agentur FRONTEX vorangetrieben, die sich als...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Seit der Unabhängigkeit vor über 200 Jahren waren die bilateralen Beziehungen zwischen Lateinamerika und Europa stets geprägt von einem asymmetrischen Abhängigkeitsverhältnis zugunsten Europas. Trotz historisch enger Verbundenheit und gemeinsamer kultureller und...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Thema dieser Arbeit ist das Polenbild und die Polenpolitik der Jahre 1916 bis 1922. Stellvertretend für die deutsche Gesellschaft werden die Parteien SPD, DDP und das Zentrum in den Fokus genommen. Zur Diskussion steht hier der Einfluss, den Polenstereotypen und der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-05-02
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Gorbachev’s Gamble offers a new and more convincing answer to this question by providing the missing link between the internal and external aspects ofGorbachev’s perestroika. Andrei Grachev shows that the radical transformation of Soviet foreign policy during the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-30
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The range of global human rights institutions which have been created over the past half century is a remarkable achievement. Yet, their establishment and proliferation raises important questions. Why do states create such institutions and what do they want them to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-30
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Is it is justifiable to make any basic moral distinction between 'insiders and outsiders'? Do we have substantive duties of 'justice' to all human beings or merely Humanitarian duties of aid and assistance? These are two of the most crucial questions confronting world...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-30
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The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative of Realist international relations theory in the last century and his work remains hugely influential in the field. In...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-30
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Is China always defensive about its sovereignty issues? Does China see sovereignty essentially as 'absolute,' 'Victorian,' or 'Westphalian?' Sow Keat Tok suggests that Beijing has a more nuanced and flexible policy towards 'sovereignty' than previously assumed. By...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-04-30
Collection :
Critical Studies of the Asia-Pacific
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The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-29
Collection :
War and Conflict in the Modern World
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The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative of Realist international relations theory in the last century and his work remains hugely influential in the field. In...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-29
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The multi-billion dollar business of the international conventional arms trade involves virtually every country in the world. Around the globe, people's lives are being irrevocably changed by the effects of guns, tanks, and missiles. These weapons have the potential to...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-29
Collection :
War and Conflict in the Modern World
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