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A broad yet distinctive analysis of the growing political, economic, and social gap existing between the world’s northern and southern hemispheres. Featuring papers selected by the ISA President from the 2006 annual meeting, this upper-level volume examines the genesis...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-26
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"A very good overview. Covers the key topics well and in an accessible and engaging style."
- Dr Daniel Hammett, Department of Geography, Sheffield University
This is a revised and updated edition of a core undergraduate resource for political geography. Focusing on...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2009-02-06
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As European integration continues, the future of EMU becomes ever more important. Can EMU help create an integrated European community, or will it prove a hindrance to the EU project? This book brings together the experts in the area to provide an interdisciplinary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-15
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This collection brings together a diverse range of analyses to interrogate policy changes and to grapple with the on-going transformations of neoliberalism in both North America and various Latin American states.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-15
Collection :
International Political Economy Series
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We are all familiar with the popular and academic analyses of the ongoing and future ascent of China. Two of the associated questions are whether and when China might succeed the United States as the lead state in the world system. These are interesting questions,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-01-05
Collection :
Evolutionary Processes in World Politics
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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...
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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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