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This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics and argues that the processes of globalization have led us to widen our understanding of the semi-periphery, through a range of case studies as well as theoretical chapters.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-08-14
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Nemir Kirdar has lived Iraq's history. From the country of his youth - a stable and vibrant land of great promise, to the 1958 coup that plunged Iraq into a period of terror and destruction, foreign occupation, and the fall of Saddam Hussein, he's been uniquely placed...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2009-07-23
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Eminent scholars investigate the sharp contrast between the acute and multi-dimensional scale of the challenges to global health governance and the contradictory and ineffective responses to them. They draw on a wide range of disciplines to uncover the critical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-07-23
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Sir Norman Angell, pioneer both of international relations as a distinct discipline and of the theory of globalization, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and one of the twentieth century's leading internationalist campaigners on both sides of the Atlantic, lived the...
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OUP Oxford
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2009-07-16
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Using real-world examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics systematically applies International Relations theory to explore the international politics of forced migration. Provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-08
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Using real-world examples and in-depth case studies, Forced Migration and Global Politics systematically applies International Relations theory to explore the international politics of forced migration. Provides an accessible and thought-provoking introduction to the...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-07-08
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Despite abundant scepticism about their economic benefits, Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated at a rapid pace. Policy diffusion models explain how different sets of preferential trade agreements are interconnected and establish under what conditions FTAs can...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-08
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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Presenting capitalisms as open, system-like configurations, this book argues four ideal-typical varieties (liberal, statist, corporatist, meso-communitarian) and analyzes the socio-economic performances of advanced capitalisms.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-08
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Diego Garcia is a pivotal US base for all Middle East operations. This book describes its evolution from a secret US-UK bilateral deal in 1966 and the deportation of the native population in the 70s to its new role in Guantánamo-style 'renditions' and the impact of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-07-06
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China has now taken Great Britain's place as Africa's third largest business partner. Where others only see chaos, the Chinese see opportunities. With no colonial past and no political preconditions,China is bringing investment and needed infrastructure to a continent...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
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2009-06-30
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'Editors Landman and Robinson have compiled an excellent tour d'horizon of comparative politics. Distinguished contributors explore theoretical and methodological issues as well as examine the critical substantive domains that animate today's comparativists. Graduate...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-06-30
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This book provides an analysis of the European Neighbourhood Policy by focusing on the impact of norms of justice and home affairs on EU external relations. Drawing on the literature of 'new governance' it designs a framework for analysis which clarifies the contents,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-25
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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This book explores the determinants of forced migration and its political implications from an economic perspective. It describes the distribution of burdens from forced migration across countries, and analyzes the strategic interaction of national refugee policies to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-25
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This book demonstrates how housing systems are built from political struggles over the distribution of welfare and wealth. The contributors analyze varieties of residential capitalism through a range of international case studies, as well as investigating the links...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-25
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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The collapse of US global hegemony means that the future of global relations will be defined by an integrated and mutually co-operative world order of regions in which there are multiple centres of power. These centres will continue to mature under the ideology of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-22
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Although much ink has been used debating China's rise and its implications for Asia and beyond, few have considered how its neighbors have been living with a rising China. This book fills that vacuum.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-22
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No country in the world has more political battles, military conflicts, and ethnic complexity per person and per square mile than does Lebanon. This book explains the issues, events, and personalities involved in one of the globe's most dramatic and important stories.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-22
Collection :
Middle East in Focus
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Two decades of neoliberalism in Latin America have left legacies of uneven growth, inequity and lackluster democracy. This book offers an original and grounded discussion of what governance after neoliberalism means in Latin America and examines how states are pursuing...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-22
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
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This book uses an analysis of the garment industry in South Asia to uphold the predictions of neo-classical economic trade theory, but suggest that there is little to learn from it about business, structural, and institutional practices or critical linkages and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-06-08
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For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-05-27
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