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The book provides a comprehensive sociological and cultural explanation of Israel's politics toward the Palestinians, covering the period of the Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada and focusing on the concept of a 'new war' that is an outgrowth of internal relations...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-08
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This book examines the careers of Liao Chengzhi and Takasaki Tatsunosuke, who were not only the architects of Sino-Japanese economic relations, but also pioneers of contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. Their visions and initiatives offer many insights into the current...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-08-06
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This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body of literature on diplomacy it explores the evolution of diplomatic discourse around a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-31
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There are many histories of how wars have begun, but very few which discuss how they have ended. This book fills that gap. Beginning with the Stone Age and ending with globalized terrorism, it addresses the specific issue of surrender, rather than the subsequent...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-07-26
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Molloy depicts a relationship between Canada and the US based on envy, rivalry, and misunderstanding. Drawing on a range of disciplines including sociology, international relations, and cultural studies, she examines contentious events in Canada/US relations and their...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-25
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Cohn lays out a new strategy of how states can produce economic development in poor nations – by considering barber shops, beauty parlours, hotels and restaurants in Brazil.Cohn considers the case of nations with budgetary limits that cannot afford to follow the East...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-07-24
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International Political Economy Series
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From human trafficking to the smuggling of small arms to the looting of antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order. So why is it so difficult to establish international cooperation against illicit trade? Governing Guns, Preventing...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-07-19
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Dedicated to the empirical analysis of data from the world of international relations, SSIP scholars tend to focus on interstate conflicts, civil wars, and conflict management. The range of perspectives in this edited volume provide a comprehensive introduction to SSIP...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2012-07-17
Collection :
Guides to International Studies
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The book seeks to understand China's evolving political and economic role in Africa and assesses what impacts Chinese aid, trade and investment have on the politics of specific African countries, and the extent to which it excites geopolitical competition.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-17
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Explaining how the price of aggression is low enough that governments do not avoid conflicts, this book uses examples drawn from recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf to examine many dimensions of costs incurred by warfare and proposes a private sector solution to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-07-03
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Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful states in the international system have failed to attain their primary political objective in almost 40% of their military operations against weak state and non-state targets since 1945. Why are states...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-06-15
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This book carefully develops the perspective of nonprofit organizations as social capital assets and agents of public policy within a principal-agent framework. It shows the practical as well as managerial and marketing advantages of such an approach, one that can lead...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-14
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The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-05-31
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The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-05-31
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In light of the events of 2011, Real-Time Diplomacy examines how diplomacy has evolved as media have gradually reduced the time available to policy makers. It analyzes the workings of real-time diplomacy and the opportunities for media-centered diplomacy programs that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-05-14
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Thalakada argues that the principal purpose of US alliances have shifted since the end of the Cold War from containing communist expansionism (balance of power) to preserving and exercising US power (management of power).He also looks across all US alliances...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-05-04
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Der Zerfall der Sowjetunion gilt als zentrales politisches Ereignis der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Selbst der letzte Präsident Michail Gorbatschow folgerte im Nachhinein, dass er niemals mit einem so plötzlichen Zusammenbruch gerechnet hätte. Im Mittelpunkt...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-05-04
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How do state parties react to the challenge of peripheral parties demanding political power to be devolved to their culturally distinct territories? Is devolution the best response to these demands? Why do national governments implement devolution given the high risk...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2012-04-26
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