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Formulating a strategy involves complex interactions between politicians, strategic commanders and generals in the field. The authors explore the strategic decisions made during NATO missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-02-10
Collection :
New Security Challenges
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Werden private Sicherheits- und Militärfirmen (PSMCs) in Zukunft vermehrt in internationale Friedensmissionen eingebunden? Dieser Frage geht die vorliegende Studie nach und verbindet zwei Phänomene miteinander, die seit den 1990er- Jahren an Aktualität gewonnen haben....
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-01-31
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There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem. If we fail to regulate greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, or use alternative strategies for addressing the problem, the damages could be significant, and perhaps catastrophic....
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OUP Oxford
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2012-01-26
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Indispensable for students of diplomacy and junior members of diplomatic services, this dictionary not only covers diplomacy's jargon but also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organizations, e-Diplomacy, and major figures who have...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-25
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Friesen demonstrates how transnational CSOs and NGOs can influence the context in which international political decisions are made. She shows how, by reframing the issues, the transnational campaign for the cancellation of third world debt altered the dominant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-25
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The resolution of the civil war in El Salvador coincided with the end of the Cold War. After two years of negotiations and a decade-long effort to implement the peace accords, this work examines how peace was made and whether it has endured.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-17
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Citizens in our deeply, angrily divided world desperately need peaceful and productive ways of relating to each other. Rooted in four decades of intense experience in deep-seated human conflicts, Saunders presents a peaceful way of transforming destructive relationships...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-01-02
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Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods. Feil highlights the discrepancies between political and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2011-12-02
Collection :
Global Issues
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In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate governance and regulatory supervision failures, Laura Horn investigates one of the defining questions in social power relations in contemporary capitalism: who controls the modern corporation, and why.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-22
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This is a collection of works which considers the many different facets of the EU’s increasingly important engagement with the world beyond its borders. The Treaty of Lisbon marked a change in the powers and competences endowed on the EU - the contributions to this...
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T.M.C. Asser Press
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2011-11-17
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Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-11-16
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This book examines the role of everyday action in accepting, resisting and reshaping interventions, and the unique forms of peace that emerge from the interactions between local and international actors. Building on critiques of liberal peace-building, it redefines...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-15
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Bringing together both contemporary and historical just war concepts, Peter Lee shows that Blair's illusion of morality evaporated quickly and irretrievably after the 2003 Iraqinvasion because the ideas Blair relied upon were taken out of their historical context and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-08
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This book looks at Chinese policy towards the South Pacific in the context of China's grand strategy. Analysts are divided on the implications of China's deepening involvement in the region and the study of Chinese involvement in the South Pacific is a part of the great...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-07
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Exploring the 'promise' and 'peril' associated with the opening two years of the presidency of Barack Obama, this book is a comparative look at the various aspects of his presidential strategy including the impact of his legislative agenda, his use of executive power,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-11-07
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To date, the Heath-Nixon years have been widely portrayed as marking a low-point in the history of Anglo-American relations – even the end of the 'special relationship'; using a wealth of archival material on both sides of the Atlantic, and examining a range of global...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-26
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The study of international relations now goes well beyond state-to-state politics and even regional politics. Technological forces are working their effects on the world as a whole, bringing state and non-state actors into contact with one another. Globalization,...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2011-10-26
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EU law consists of several thousand acts of which the overwhelming majority are made by the Commission. The Commission is controlled by comitology, a system of committees of member state representatives that are consulted when new acts are proposed. This book looks at...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-10-18
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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