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This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the impact of the government of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers' Party on Brazilian economy and society, as he begins his second four-year term.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-05
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This study offers a comparative analysis of Latin American and Middle Eastern corporatism by looking at Egypt and Mexico's differing experiences with privatization and showing that how the working class was attached to the regime during the period of state-building...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-22
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This volume outlines the methods appropriate to an English School understanding of international relations and their assumptions about how knowledge of the social is gained. It makes clear what is involved in 'an English School approach' and what such an approach...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-19
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in International Relations
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Why does political decentralization seem reduce intrastate conflict more in some countries than in others? This question constitutes the central focus of Peace by Design. Brancati argues that the ability of decentralization to reduce intrastate conflict hinges on the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-12-18
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European governments have re-discovered labour migration, but are eager to be perceived as controlling unsolicited forms of migration, especially through asylum and family reunion. The emerging paradigm of managed migration combines the construction of more permissive...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-12-18
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This book looks at Africa's involvement in contemporary neoliberal globalization, paying particular attention to the social, economic, political, and cultural cost of the unbalanced structure of global wealth and power between Africa and the rest of the world.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-08
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This volume gathers contributors from both the US and UK to provide a comparative examination of federalism in the Bush era, a period of huge change in national politics, but also one of significant shifts in US federalism in relation to social and socioeconomic issues.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-12-08
Collection :
Studies of the Americas
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This book presents an original approach to understanding the relationship between official aid agencies and aid-receiving African governments. The first part provides a challenge to the hazy official claims of aid donors that they have stopped trying to force African...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-27
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This books analyzes international financial markets and environmental problems as typical examples of transnational common goods and considers the factors affecting the strategic constellations of countries in common goods provision, in particular the strategic effects...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-24
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This book represents one of the first comparative studies of international treaty ratification processes in multiple issue areas. The study sets out to fill a gap in political science scholarship by investigating the role that international and domestic political actors...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-11-20
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Drawing on the Latin American political economy, this book brings to the fore empirical questions on different patterns of involvement of IFIs in pursuing politically-sensitive reforms, the capacity of local actors to influence outcomes, the context in which they...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-12
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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This book seeks to provide the most comprehensive and sustained engagement and critique of neo-Gramscian analyses available in the literature. In examining neo-Gramscian analyses in IR/IPE, the book engages with two fundamental concerns in international relations: (i)...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-10
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This edited volume seeks to provide a critical and technical look at international political economic indices (PEIs). It examines measurement issues, relates PEIs to economic theory, and suggests better measures than those currently used.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-10
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Covering the period from the 1920s, when international tax policy was solely about avoiding double taxation, to the present era of international tax competition, Rixen investigates the fate of 'the power to tax' in an era of globalization, illustrating that tax...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-11-03
Collection :
Transformations of the State
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With the launch of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, its Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) emerged as a symbol of coercion in international economic relations. In the decade that followed, intellectual property became...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-10-30
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In this edited volume, distinguished scholars and policy analysts explore how China's rise has brought great opportunities for cooperation as well as great challenges for geo-political competition between the United States and China.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-27
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Post-conflict reconstruction stretches the capacities of international institutions and they turn to NGOs to answer the challenge. This book explores how the interactions between international public institutions and NGOs have affected peacebuilding in the post-conflict...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-27
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A study of the actors and institutions that shaped decision-making on privatization in the Russian oil industry between 1992 and 2006. The book analyses the origins of privatization as a policy on a macro, industry-wide level, as well as presenting three in-depth case...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-24
Collection :
St Antony's Series
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Much more than a simple examination of EU-Asia relations, this book examines the idea that the EU may constitute a 'model' for East Asian regionalism. It challenges specialists on the EU to understand the EU's impact on Asia and Asia's impact on the EU whilst...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-23
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics
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This book examines the intersections between international law and national policies, and nuclear proliferation and disarmament, offering a way out if policy makers of leading countries can summon the vision and political will to move away from the nuclear precipice...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-10-13
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