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Many debates in interstate conflict and peace research address an important yet complex question: how, and to what degree, are the behavior of states and their relationships among one another fundamentally changing? The period after 1945 has seen a significant decline...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-08-02
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Kofi Annan was the most significant and influential Secretary-General of the United Nations.Kofi Annan and Global Leadership at the United Nations is a study of how Annan conceived his role as Secretary-General and exercised global leadership at a turbulent period in...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-08-02
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Gibt es eine ostdeutsche Identität? Bezeichnet „ostdeutsch“ analytisch treffend spezifische Lebensumstände oder ist sie eine politische Erfindung? Der Band informiert hierzu aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht. Politikwissenschaftliche, soziologische, wirtschafts- und...
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Springer VS
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2024-08-01
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Dieses Buch versetzt Analystinnen und Analysten in Regierung, Privatwirtschaft und Think Tanks in die Lage, globale Risiken und Chancen systematisch zu bewerten, informierte Entscheidungen zu treffen und Unvorhergesehenes zu antizipieren. Die Autoren beleuchten die...
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Springer
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2024-08-01
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Sicherheit, Strategie & Innovation
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This book explores how the United Nations (UN) attempts to stabilise and justify an ambivalent meaning of protection and its socio-political roles in the Protection of Civilians agenda. Negotiating between different notions of translation, the research takes the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-01
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“[I]f humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenica—to gross and systematic violations of human rights that offend every precept of our common humanity?” – Kofi Annan
This question asked...
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Springer
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2024-08-01
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This Open Access volume assembles experts from the United States and India to examine six issues essential to the safety and security of nuclear facilities, technologies, and materials: insider threats, organizational culture, emergency response, physical protection,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-01
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This book explores the news media’s coverage of Indigenous-settler reconciliation following the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC). Using a comparative case study research design, the book examines news coverage of three significant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-31
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This volume illustrates and analyses the stereotypes and prejudices underlying the social representation of violence against women as it is narrated and described in Italy by the press and by court judgements. After a theoretical reflection on the role of culture...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-31
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Parlamentarische Herrschaft selbst lässt sich durch gerichtliche Verwaltungskontrolle soweit brechen und wird zugleich justiziell derart übertroffen, dass Demokratie insgesamt gestört wird, lautet die Ausgangsvermutung dieser Studie. Das Buch enthält wesentlich drei...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-31
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This open access book assesses the consequences of contemporary economic and political crises for intergovernmental relations in Europe. Focusing on the crises arising from the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, surges in migration, and the resurgence of regional...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-31
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The book draws from regulation theory to explain urban planning policies and outcomes in Southeast Asia as a function of governance structures and processes. A considerable portion of the book is spent re-tracing the historical roots of planning dispositives, including...
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Springer
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2024-07-30
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This book provides an updated analysis of political developments in a sample of overseas territories of France, the United States, China, Denmark, the Netherlands, Russia, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Spain and New Zealand. Ranging from Guam, Diego Garcia or New...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-30
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This book provides a detailed theoretical and practical analysis of a key concept in cooperation, namely mutual trust, in the EU and ASEAN regions. It particularly looks at the issue of counterterrorism. It analyses the differences in the legalistic approach of the EU...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-29
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Verkehr prägt unsere Lebensweise in modernen Gesellschaften. Gleichzeitig trägt er aber auch in wachsendem Maße dazu bei, die Lebensqualität aller Menschen zu beeinträchtigen und ihre Lebensgrundlagen im globalen Maßstab zu zerstören. Oliver Schwedes widmet sich in...
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Springer
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2024-07-29
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Das Open-Access-Buch untersucht, wie die organisationale Gestaltung von Forschungseinrichtungen ihre inhaltliche und methodische Ausrichtung beeinflusst und wie sich Disziplinen und Forschungsfelder im Laufe der Zeit gewandelt und an neue institutionelle Kontexte...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2024-07-29
Collection :
Organization & Public Management
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This book provides an accessible introduction to Marx’s seminal work Capital and explores the core ideas of Marxian political economy relevant for modern day economies. The first part gives an overview of Capital based on the authors’ original thinking in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-29
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This open access book offers a groundbreaking examination of the profound and lasting impacts of COVID-19 on U.S.-China relations. It covers areas such as public health, trade and supply chain challenges, people-to-people connections, shifts in public opinion, rising...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-29
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This edited volume explores the media and political discourses during the COVID-19 crisis across thirteen nations. Despite warnings that a global pandemic was a matter of if rather than when, the virus caught governments worldwide unaware. The nature, extent and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-27
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Was versteht man unter dem Begriff Volksabstimmung und welche Mechanismen verbergen sich dahinter? In einer Zeit, in der das Vertrauen in die repräsentative Demokratie hinterfragt wird, analysiert dieses Buch verschiedene Formen von Volksabstimmungen...
Editeur :
Springer Gabler
Parution :
2024-07-26
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